Bar owner’s killers sentenced to life

A Morgan City couple is serving two consecutive life terms in the deaths of local bar owner and a local carpenter.

Greg Daigle, 29, and Angelica Sauce, 28, formerly of Onstead Street in Morgan City, are each serving two consecutive life terms without the benefit of probation, parole or suspension of sentence in the 2006 deaths of George “Tim” Thimmesch III and Glyn Meranto.

Thimmesch, 57, owned Timmy T’s, a favorite Morgan City watering hole. Meranto was a carpenter working in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged areas in New Orleans and Metairie.

Daigle and Sauce were indicted last October on two counts of first-degree murder. The two were sentenced in late March in the 16th Judicial District Court.

The couple robbed Timmy T’s and murdered Thimmesch in July 2006. Morgan City Police found his body in September 2006, stuffed inside a 33-gallon plastic trashcan and abandoned inside a shed near Front Street and Levee Road in Morgan City. The trashcan was originally located behind Thimmesch’s bar.

Meranto went missing in late August 2006 from Metairie. According to reports, he intended to hire Daigle and Sauce to help him with his business. The couple killed him in a cane field near Patterson.

Patterson Police along with St. Mary Parish deputies found Meranto’s remains in September 2006.

After killing Meranto, Daigle and Sauce took drove Meranto’s vehicle to Florida, where Panama City police arrested them.

Florida police had intervened after Morgan City Police launched a nationwide search for the two suspects, which was featured on the television show, “America’s Most Wanted.”