Judy's mom was friends with Ted Broussard. He was a police officer in Broussard. Judy, Laura and their mother lived in a shotgun house on his property. This was just after her father passed away.
507 E. Main St in Broussard, LA
This would have been around 1982 when Judy was 15 or 16 years old.
Baboy and Laura both remembered that when Judy went missing Ted came by to let Judy's mom know they found Judy’s shirt with a large flower on it and her jeans in a storm drain/culvert. They never heard anything more.
Chief Martin and Ted are good friends. When I heard this story I went to the police department to speak with the detective. The Chief was pulling in and I told him about what Baboy had said and asked him about Ted Broussard. Ted was the Assistant Chief of Police in Broussard for many years. The Chief immediately called him on speaker phone. Ted doesn't remember them finding her clothes but did remember Judy and her family.
I don’t think that as an LE officer having found Judy’s shirt and jeans in a culvert, or as an LE officer who’d been told that Judy’s shirt and jeans had been found in a culvert, it is something you would ever forget
This would seem to indicate that either Laura and her husband are mistaken (or lying) about what they remember about Ted coming by and what he said, or Ted is now lying about his earlier knowledge of the clothes and his visit to Judy’s mom to inform her
If Ted is lying, what motive would he have to do so? Is he still alive? Still LE? Any criminal record?
And it certainly makes one question the suggestion that Ted and Judy’s mom were friends.
Did the chief send Ted over to speak to Judy’s mom to kind of give her the impression that Judy was almost surely dead as her clothes had been found ? If so, why?
Did the chief ever have possession of Judy’s shirt and jeans? If so, how did he come to possess them? If they were “found”, who found them? And if they were found, we’re they ever part of the case file / evidence?
(The disappearance of the case file and evidence looks more and more suspicious the more I learn of the case (or think I have learned!)
Related questions:
-what day (when) did Ted supposedly come by to inform Judy’s mom that clothes had been found? How long after Judy’s disappearance?
- how would LE have even known what Judy’s shirt and jeans looked like? It seems they had been suggesting all along that she was just a wild runaway wife. Why would they have ever taken notes re: what she might have been wearing?
(and, who knew what she was wearing anyway? I guess Laura from having coffee?)
- if the account about Ted telling Judy about the clothes is true, why did St Martinsville LE (the chief) not immediately start an investigation into Judy’s disappearance (because it would've clearly been looking more like a poss. homicide at that point given that her clothes were found in a culvert)?
When were Judy, Laura, and their mom tenants of landlord Ted? (Is that the right way to put that?)
Was there ever a “relationship” between Judy and Ted, or Laura and Ted?
And Ted supposedly knew somebody out near where Eric’s parent’s lived (and the trailer where ER and Judy had at one time lived, near the cane fields?). (Please correct / clarify if my statement posed as a questions is not correct / logical)
When you told the horror story about Judy’s sister Mary Ann and Pierre H raping 3 of their daughters and basically sex trafficking them (along with, and to, their own son) and mentioned that there was speculation that some very well known individuals might have been part of that trafficking, would that include LE?
Where did Judy’s sister Mary Ann and Pierre H live?
I get confused sometimes by the two (or three?) “not in town” locations: where ER and Judy lived in a trailer near his parents and where Ray Sonnier and wife (and RJL?) lived apparently out near Isle Labbe Rd).
I’m still not convinced that Judy ever left her mom’s house of her own free will (but don’t want to detract from discussion if it is felt certain that she did).
But if she did, might not ER be considered a poi by some, and could ER and Judy’s old trailer have been a place where she was kept for a few days (which Ted, and/or the chief) might’ve known about)? I think I may be drifting to far from the shore…
Wish there was an eye witness account to her actually walking out the door and down the street.
All speculation, opinion, thinking out loud