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A 25-year-old Golden Meadow man was released from custody by the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office on Friday and the murder charges he faced were dropped.
Cameron Sands was released by authorities yesterday after an investigation yielded that he had no involvement in the death of 64-year-old Wayne Matherne.
Sands was arrested on Nov. 6, 2016 and charged with second-degree murder.
The investigation started on Nov. 4, 2016, when a meal-delivery worker arrived at Matherne’s residence and found him unresponsive. Emergency workers were called to the scene and Matherne was later pronounced dead. His body had severe head trauma.
Authorities later questioned Sands, and he confessed to a role in the killing, which led to his arrest.
A day later, authorities investigated the murder of 78-year-old Stanley Gisclair, and in that investigation, authorities developed Dayton Duet, 20, as a suspect.
During questioning, Duet allegedly confessed to killing both Gisclair and Matherne.
As the investigation continued, authorities were able to prove that Sands was not involved in Matherne’s murder, which negated his confession.
They found no physical evidence, nor any evidence at all to support his being at the crime scenes during the incidents.
So this week, authorities dropped the charges against Sands and released him from the Lafourche Parish Detention Center.
Duet remains in jail on second-degree murder charges in Matherne’s death and first-degree murder charges in Gisclair’s death.
