Audrey H. Trapp
May 5, 2008Houma man found dead
May 7, 2008
Accused serial killer Ronald Dominque was back in Terrebonne District Court last week as attorneys were scheduled to argue a motion requiring additional blood and saliva samples.
The motion was postponed, however, and Assistant District Attorney Mark Rhodes has yet to set a new date to argue the motion.
Dominique, 44, was arrested in December 2006 and allegedly confessed to local authorities that he had solicited sex from nearly two-dozen men and then killed them. The Bayou Blue man’s murder spree reportedly stretched over a decade. Authorities recovered the bodies of Dominique’s alleged victims near bayous and cane fields as far away as Orleans and Iberia parishes.
According to court documents, the prosecution’s motion is seeking new samples from Dominique for “the purpose of conducting scientific matching tests with items taken into evidence in connection with this matter.”
Richard Goorley, Dominique’s attorney and a defender with the Louisiana Capital Assistance Project, filed a motion arguing the state has not sought a required warrant for the blood and saliva.
During last Tuesday’s hearing, representatives of the Lafourche and Jefferson parish sheriff’s offices and the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office exchanged stacks of evidence, including interview transcripts, crime scene photographs and autopsy reports from several of the murders.
