In late summer 2020, shortly after Hurricane Laura, a family member checking on an elderly couple’s home on Thompson Avenue in Iowa, Louisiana, found 73-year-old Joan O’Brien and her 81-year-old husband Zoren dead from gunshot wounds. That discovery prompted a double homicide investigation by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators focused on 36-year-old Scot M. Kidd of Kinder, described as a longtime acquaintance who had stayed with the couple and hunted with Zoren. Kidd was arrested the day after the bodies were found on an unrelated warrant. Prosecutors later presented evidence at trial that Kidd’s blood was on a flashlight near the victims and that some of Joan O’Brien’s jewelry turned up with Kidd’s estranged girlfriend, alleging he broke in, shot the couple, and stole their belongings.

In October 2021 a jury convicted Kidd of two counts of first-degree murder and he received two life sentences; he testified at trial claiming he acted in self-defense but the jury rejected that account. Does anyone have information about the O’Brien family or that neighborhood from 2020 that could shed more light on this case?