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Who was she? Pregnant & stabbed to death
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I will preface this thread by saying that, while we know Wilson Chouest's identity, there is so much about him that we do not know.
Here's some introductory information to help start:
Wilson Chouest was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1951, and is currently 70 years old and incarcerated at Corcoran State. Sometime before 1977 (unclear when), he had moved to California, and in California was known to have kidnapped and raped several women, as well as committed robberies. He was incarcerated sometime after kidnapping and raping women in 1977 and was released in June 1980. He then killed Shirley Soosay in July 1980; Shirley was found murdered in Delano on July 15 and was last seen at a bar in Lemoore. Just three days after Shirley's body was discovered, 5 months pregnant Ventura County/Westlake Village Jane Doe was found murdered in Westlake Village in a high school parking lot. Both women had been violently raped and stabbed repeatedly, and Ventura County Jane Doe was also strangled. He kidnapped, robbed, and raped more women later in 1980 and was successfully charged with those and began serving a life sentence for the numerous abductions, robberies, and rapes he committed. In 2015, he was linked by DNA to the murders of Shirley Soosay (who was then still unidentified, only being identified in 2021) and the pregnant Ventura County/Westlake Village Jane Doe and was charged with those murders.
There is still a lot of information we have yet to discover about him and his whereabouts, as we know he is a Louisiana native but spent a substantial amount of time in California, and could have been anywhere before 1977. Perhaps this can serve partly as a research thread?
Here's some introductory information to help start:
Wilson Chouest was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1951, and is currently 70 years old and incarcerated at Corcoran State. Sometime before 1977 (unclear when), he had moved to California, and in California was known to have kidnapped and raped several women, as well as committed robberies. He was incarcerated sometime after kidnapping and raping women in 1977 and was released in June 1980. He then killed Shirley Soosay in July 1980; Shirley was found murdered in Delano on July 15 and was last seen at a bar in Lemoore. Just three days after Shirley's body was discovered, 5 months pregnant Ventura County/Westlake Village Jane Doe was found murdered in Westlake Village in a high school parking lot. Both women had been violently raped and stabbed repeatedly, and Ventura County Jane Doe was also strangled. He kidnapped, robbed, and raped more women later in 1980 and was successfully charged with those and began serving a life sentence for the numerous abductions, robberies, and rapes he committed. In 2015, he was linked by DNA to the murders of Shirley Soosay (who was then still unidentified, only being identified in 2021) and the pregnant Ventura County/Westlake Village Jane Doe and was charged with those murders.
There is still a lot of information we have yet to discover about him and his whereabouts, as we know he is a Louisiana native but spent a substantial amount of time in California, and could have been anywhere before 1977. Perhaps this can serve partly as a research thread?