Ronald Dominique Louisiana Department of Corrections HOUMA, LA After 10 years, innumerable sexual assaults, and confessing to 23 confirmed murders, justice came at last for Ronald Dominique on Septemeven it was only partial.
As with the many other serial killers he has covered, including Jeffrey Dahmer (the Milwaukee Cannibal) and Dennis Rader (the BTK Killer), Rosen provides a horrifying and fascinating account of the lengths to which a bloodthirsty monster will go to lure and brutalize his victims. Ronald Dominique: The Bayou Serial Killer Who Decimated Gay Louisiana. But who was Ronald Dominique and what led him to commit such heinous crimes' With direct access to the investigation, Dominique's confession, and all of the killer's body dump sites in throughout the state, author Fred Rosen enters the warped mind of a murderer and captures a troubled, disturbing, and broken life.
In 2006, DNA evidence finally linked the murders to a suspect: the unassuming Ronald Joseph Dominique, who had lived under the radar for years, working as a pizza deliveryman and meter reader. Then, Detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came together as task force partners, indefatigable in their decade-long effort to track down the killer.
The murders continued, leaving southeast Louisiana's gay community rattled and authorities desperate for a break in the case. The victims'many of them transient street hustlers'had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer's identity. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique's ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down.