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October 18, 2006Opening this Friday, Oct. 27
October 22, 2006LSU Anthropologist Mary Manheim identified a second set of human remains as those of Glyn Meranto of Morgan City, whom St. Mary Parish law enforcement suspect a Morgan City couple murdered shortly after they killed a local bar owner.
Meanwhile, as soon as Manheim delivered the positive identification on the second set of human remains, police say she went back to work on identifying
a third set of human remains, which a worker in the area discovered Thursday off Victoria Riverside Road in Patterson, St. Mary Parish Sheriff David Naquin said.
Manheim delivered the news on Meranto at the close of last week. The 56-year-old Morgan City’s man remains were found in September near the Patterson city limits, Naquin said.
Meranto, who was working as a carpenter in Jefferson Parish, remained missing for a number of weeks, the sheriff said.
Naquin said he has evidence linking a Morgan City couple, whom Florida police captured late last month, to Meranto’s death.
“…we have video which shows the couple and Meranto in Central St. Mary Parish near the time of Meranto’s disappearance,” Naquin said.
Greg Daigle, 28, and Angelica Sauce, 27, both formerly of Onstead Street in Morgan City, are accused of killing local bar owner Timothy Thimmesch, former owner of “Timmy T’s.”
Panama City Police caught Daigle and Sauce in a hotel there after they fled Louisiana.
Daigle and Sauce are accused of robbing Thimmesch of more than $2,000, and then killing him and stuffing his body in a 33-gallon trash container.
Police found Thimmesch’s remains in early September, near the corner of Levee Road and Front Streets in Morgan City.
The two are in jail in St. Mary Parish, and are awaiting an appearance before a grand jury, according to officials.
Naquin believes the two fled the state after killing Thimmesch and Meranto.
He said Florida police found Meranto’s truck in the couple’s possession at the time of their arrest.
As Naquin and other area law enforcement received the news from Manehim her positive identification of Meranto’s remains, they delivered a third set of human remains to her for an entirely new set of tests.
Patterson Police Chief Patrick LaSalle said an electrician working in a cane field off Victoria Riverside Road in Patterson found the set of human remains while working the area.
LaSalle, and Naquin, believe the remains are those of missing Patterson resident Leroy “Billy” Butler, 74, missing since the end of August.
LaSalle said Butler was last seen going for a walk over the Jennings Bridge at Red Cypress Road in the Patterson area.
LaSalle said Butler is believed to be an Alzheimer’s patient. He said the remains were found in “worse” condition than those of Meranto.
Questioned as to whether he believes Sauce and Daigle are involved in Butler’s disappearance, LaSalle said his immediate “gut feeling, is no, but nothing is being ruled out yet, as it’s too early at this stage.”
