December 5, 2006
Serial-killer suspect confesses; Trysts led to rapes, strangling, cops told
By Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on December 05, 2006 at 1:08 PM, updated June 03, 2014 at 6:18 PM
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In a taped confession, Dominique recounted for detectives how he enticed his victims with offers of money for sex, tied them up, then raped and strangled them, Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said.
However, Dominique wasn't a fighter, Larpenter said. Each victim -- all males between the ages of 16 and 46, some of whom were involved in drugs or prostitution -- allowed himself to be restrained, expecting some type of sexual encounter. But it was all a deadly deceit, Larpenter said. "Once he got you tied up, you were his," he said of Dominique.
Dominique, 42, who lived in Houma and drifted through a series of odd jobs, has been booked with first-degree murder in nine of 23 homicides that authorities think were committed in Terrebonne Parish. He also is accused in Jefferson Parish of murdering two New Orleans men: Manuel Reed, 20, whose body was found in 1999 in Kenner, and Oliver "Boe" LeBanks, 27, whose body was found in 1998 in Metairie.
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December 2, 2006
Suspected serial killer arrested in Houma
By MIKA EDWARDS, LIZ HACKENBURG and ROBERT MORRIS
The Courier
Published: Saturday, December 2, 2006 at 6:01 a.m. - Last Modified: Saturday, December 2, 2006 at 1:14 a.m.
HOUMA -- The man possibly responsible for a decade-long series of more than 20 killings across southeast Louisiana was arrested Friday afternoon in Houma, where about a dozen possible victims connected to the investigation were last seen.
According to a number of people who either lived near or came into contact with him, Dominique was an unassuming man who was once involved with the Lions Club and used to spend time in west Houma’s Jim Bowie Park and gay bars in the city. He used to volunteer at a local nursing home and would often go to Marcel’s Supermarket in Bayou Blue with his mother, said an acquaintance who declined to give his name.
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All of the deaths, many of which were caused by asphyxiation, investigated by the task force shared certain similarities. The men, whose ages average in the mid-20s, were not found where they had been killed, but were dumped in remote areas.
Authorities have said half -- including Reed and Lebanks -- were found partially dressed or
lacking shoes. The transient lifestyles attributed to some of them included occasional arrests and drug habits sometimes supported by homosexual prostitution. Many of the men with ties to Terrebonne and Lafourche relied on bicycles for transportation.
September 24, 2008
Louisiana Serial Killer Gets Eight Life Terms for Eight Murders
Ronald Dominique, 44, shackled at the waist and feet, stood hunched over with his head bowed as state District Judge Randy Bethancourt read the sentences and names of the eight young men he raped and killed in the quiet bayou country of Terrebonne Parish during a decade-long spree.
Many of the bodies were found dumped in sugar cane fields and near bayous.
Many did not have shoes, a connection that helped police tie cases together.
