By Chuck Hustmyre
December 4, 2006
Houma, La. (Crime Library) — Police in this small, normally quiet city in south central Louisiana say they have captured a man they suspect may have committed as many as 23 murders, the earliest of which dates back nearly a decade.
Late Friday afternoon members of a special task force set up to catch the state's latest serial killer slipped into a homeless shelter on the east side of the city and arrested a heavyset man wearing a ball cap and a hooded sweatshirt.
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| Ronald Joseph Dominique |
For several days before his arrest, 42-year-old Ronald Joseph Dominique had been staying at the Bunkhouse homeless shelter, according to authorities. Before that, he spent the last several years living in a camper trailer next door to his mother at two locations in Terrebonne Parish.
By Friday night, task force investigators announced they were charging Dominique in connection with two of the 23 homicides they suspect are linked to the same killer. The charges against Dominique include the first-degree murder and aggravated rape of 19-year-old Manual Reed, found in a garbage dumpster in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner in 1999; and the second-degree murder of 27-year-old Oliver Lebanks, found just outside of New Orleans in 1998.
At the time their bodies were discovered, both men were only partially clothed. Both had been asphyxiated.
The first body in the string of nearly two dozen homicides the task force is investigating was found July 14, 1997. The last body was found Oct. 15, 2006.
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