Tammy Duplechin Smith was 37 when she was murdered on the evening of October 29, 1997, in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. She met John Peter Malveaux at a lounge in Opelousas that night, was lured away, and taken to a secluded area where she was raped and strangled. Her body was left at the scene and her Dodge Dynasty was taken.

Police located Malveaux asleep in Smith’s stolen vehicle on November 4, 1997, in Breaux Bridge. He confessed to Smith’s murder, gave investigators details only the killer could know, and implicated himself in several other slayings and an attempted murder. In November 1997 he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of first-degree murder and rape and accepted life sentences without parole.

If anyone knew Tammy, remembers her that night, or has information about her final movements, please come forward with what you know.