The Jeff Davis 8
Loretta Chaisson (aka Loretta Chaisson-Lewis): Jeff Davis 8 victim #1, slain in May of 2005.
Ernestine Patterson: Jeff Davis 8 victim #2, slain in June of 2005.
Kristen Lopez (aka Kristen Gary Lopez): Jeff Davis 8 victim #3, slain in early March of 2007; cousin of Jeff Davis 8 victim #6, Brittney Gary.
Whitnei Dubois: Jeff Davis 8 victim #4, slain in May of 2007.
Laconia “Muggy” Brown: Jeff Davis 8 victim #5, slain in May of 2008.
Crystal Zeno (aka Crystal Shay Benoit Zeno): Jeff Davis 8 victim #6, slain in late August/early September of 2008.
Brittney Gary: Jeff Davis 8 victim #7, slain in November of 2008; cousin of Jeff Davis 8 victim #3, Kristen Gary Lopez.
Necole Guillory: Jeff Davis 8 victim #8, slain in August of 2009.
Suspects
Tracee Chaisson (pronounced SHA-sohn): Longtime associate of Frankie Richard; cousin of Jeff Davis 8 victim Loretta Chaisson; charged as accessory after the fact to second-degree murder in slaying of Jeff Davis 8 victim Kristen Gary Lopez; charges later dropped.
Billy Conner, Sr.: Brother of Frankie Richard, father of Hannah Conner; suspected of assisting Richard in running his drug operation; deceased.
Hannah Conner: Niece of Frankie Richard; charged with second-degree murder in slaying of Kristen Gary Lopez; charges later dropped.
Kenneth Patrick Drake: Forty-four-year-old man from Welsh, Louisiana, who attacked Jeff Davis 8 victim Crystal Benoit Zeno with a metal pipe in the late summer of 2008, just before she was murdered; deceased.
Eugene “Dog” Ivory: Longtime associate of Frankie Richard; charged in 2007 rape of Elizabeth Clemens; charges later dropped.
Byron Chad Jones: Charged in 2005 killing of Ernestine Patterson, Jeff Davis 8 victim #2; charges later dropped.
Lawrence Nixon: Cousin of Jeff Davis 8 victim Laconia “Muggy” Brown; charged in 2005 killing of Jeff Davis 8 victim Ernestine Patterson; charges later dropped; charged in 2005 with rape of investigator Kirk Menard’s daughter, Rosalyn Breaux; charges later dropped.
Frankie Richard (pronounced REE-shard): Former pimp and drug dealer in Jennings; briefly charged in 2007 with the murder of Kristen Gary Lopez, Jeff Davis 8 victim #3; charges were later dropped; charged, along with Eugene “Dog” Ivory, in 2007 rape of Elizabeth Clemens; charges later dropped.
Law Enforcement
Danny Barry: Former deputy with the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office; frequent client of the Jeff Davis 8; died in 2010.
Dallas Cormier (pronounced COR-mee-yay): Jefferson Davis Parish sheriff, 1980–92; indicted by the feds for using public funds for private purchases; plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice.
Ramby Cormier: Detective with the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office; serves on the Jeff Davis 8 Taskforce; former detective with the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Donald “Lucky” DeLouche: Former investigator with the VCTF (Violent Crimes Task Force) in Calcasieu Parish during the 1990s; chief of Jennings Police Department from late 1990s to the early 2000s.
Ricky Edwards: Jefferson Davis Parish sheriff, 1992–2012.
Warren Gary: Former chief investigator/chief of detectives of the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office; in 2007 purchased a truck from a female inmate that had allegedly been used to transport the body of Jeff Davis 8 victim Kristen Gary Lopez.
Terrie Guillory: Former warden of the Jefferson Davis Parish jail; also formerly with the Jennings Police Department; currently with Lake Arthur, Louisiana, Police Department.
Mark Ivory: Jailer under former Jefferson Davis Parish warden Terrie Guillory; defendant in a 2007 federal civil rights lawsuit for alleged sexual assault of female inmate Lisa Allen; committed suicide in the fall of 2007.
Phil Karam: Officer with the Jennings Police Department; in February 2000, killed fellow officer Kenneth Guidry and his wife, Christine; during an ensuing standoff, also killed Officer Burt LeBlanc; deceased.
Wayne McElveen: Former sheriff of Calcasieu Parish; son Richard McElveen was implicated—but never charged—in two murder cases in Calcasieu Parish during the 1990s.
Raymond Mott: Former detective with both the Jennings Police Department and the Lake Arthur Police Department; claims that he was instructed by Terrie Guillory not to arrest drug dealers in town; terminated by Lake Arthur PD after photo emerged of him at KKK rally.
Ivy Woods: Jefferson Davis Parish sheriff since 2012.
Other Victims
Rosalyn Breaux: Daughter of private investigator Kirk Menard, who is investigating Jeff Davis 8 case; in 2005, allegedly lured to home in South Jennings by Jeff Davis 8 victim Laconia “Muggy” Brown and raped by a group of men, including Lawrence Nixon, Brown’s cousin, who was briefly charged in the murder of Jeff Davis 8 victim Ernestine Patterson.
Harvey Lee “Bird Dog” Burleigh: Prescription-pill dealer; his home at 610 Gallup Street in Jennings was raided by law enforcement on April 20, 2005; Leonard Crochet killed during raid; associate of Jeff Davis 8 victim Whitnei Dubois’s brother, Mike; stabbed to death in Jennings in the summer of 2007. His murder remains unsolved.
Sheila Comeaux: Informant beaten to death in Jennings in 1998; her murder remains unsolved.
Leonard Crochet: Killed by law enforcement on April 20, 2005, drug raid at 610 Gallup Street in Jennings; murder witnessed by Jeff Davis 8 victim Kristen Gary Lopez.
David “Bowlegs” Deshotel: Former boyfriend of Jeff Davis 8 victims Brittney Gary and Necole Guillory; his murder in July of 2011 remains unsolved.
Eric Ellender: One-half of Calcasieu Parish couple murdered in 1991.
Pam Ellender: One-half of Calcasieu Parish couple murdered in 1991.
Lacie Fontenot: Twenty-seven-year-old woman from Lake Arthur, Louisiana, found dead by drowning from hypothermia in a ditch in that town on January 31, 2014; dated Alvin “Bootsy” Lewis, a former boyfriend of Jeff Davis 8 victim Whitnei Dubois’s and father of a child with Dubois; associate of longtime Frankie Richard cohort Eugene “Dog” Ivory’s.
Steven Gunter: Lake Arthur, Louisiana, man shot to death by Terrie Guillory of the Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office on June 9, 2007.
Christopher Prudhomme: Suspect in 1991 killing of Eric and Pam Ellender; found dead in Calcasieu Parish jail weeks later, allegedly by suicide.
Whistle-Blowers
Jesse Ewing: Former detective with the Jennings Police Department who in December of 2007 took statements from two female inmates who claimed that high-ranking members of law enforcement—including Chief Criminal Investigator Warren Gary—conspired with Frankie Richard to destroy physical evidence in the murder of Jeff Davis 8 victim Kristen Gary Lopez.
Nina Ravey: Jail nurse under Jefferson Davis Parish warden Terrie Guillory; in 2007, filed internal reports regarding sexual assaults at the jail by jailer Mark Ivory; then charged with falsifying medical documents; charges later dropped.
Jeff Davis 8 Milieu
Roxanne “Mama” Alexander: Housed most—if not all—of the Jeff Davis 8 at her home on the north side of Jennings.
Mike Dubois: Brother of Jeff Davis 8 victim Whitnei Dubois; associate of slain Jennings street hustler Harvey “Bird Dog” Burleigh.
Jared Sauble: Informant for Jennings Police Department whose tips led to April 20, 2005, raid on 610 Gallup Street, the home of Harvey “Bird Dog” Burleigh; Leonard Crochet killed by law enforcement during the raid.