A body found in a Bossier Parish wood on January 28, 1981, known for decades as Bossier Doe, was identified in March 2015 as 17-year-old Carol Ann Cole of Kalamazoo, Michigan. An autopsy showed the young white female had been stabbed at least eight times in the chest and neck and had been dead about four to seven weeks when discovered. Carol had run away from a girls’ home in Texas in 1980; the last contact her family had was a December 1980 collect call from Shreveport.

Early false confessions, including one by Henry Lee Lucas, complicated the inquiry. The man who reported finding the body while hunting, John Chesson Sr., later became a person of interest after his daughter Frances Aucoin said she believed he had picked up a hitchhiking Carol and then led his children to the body to stage the discovery. A grand jury declined to indict Chesson in 2015. Chesson died in prison in late 2016, and Carol’s murder remains unsolved.