In the autumn of 2002, the body of 26-year-old Anoka Jones, a Black man, was found beneath a highway overpass in Boutte, Louisiana. Initial investigation produced few leads, and the discovery seemed at first like an isolated homicide that shook the quiet community.

As investigators continued, Jones’s death was recognized as part of a string of similar killings across southern Louisiana in which victims—often men from vulnerable populations—had been asphyxiated. The FBI joined local law enforcement to assist with profiling and linking the cases. Authorities later arrested Ronald Dominique, who confessed to multiple murders and specifically to meeting Jones on the streets of Houma on October 12, 2002, then attacking, raping, strangling and abandoning his body under the Boutte overpass.

Dominique pleaded guilty to numerous murders in a deal to avoid the death penalty and received consecutive life sentences without parole. Does anyone have information about Jones’s life in Houma or his movements in October 2002 that could add detail to the timeline?