Going South: The Murder of Margaret Coon, Mandeville 1987 (new true crime podcast) (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

In February 1987, I was 13 years old. I lived in this neighborhood and I remember when it happened - but I wasn't old enough to be interested in the investigation and the relevant facts and players. I saw this and have started listening, as these sort of true crime mysteries seem really well suited for the serial podcast format.

The creator and producer is Jed Lipinski, former crime writer at the Times Picayune, who has gone on to produce other documentary style movies and series:

Cadence13’s documentary division C13Originals is teaming up with Jed Lipinski, the Emmy-and-Peabody Award-nominated producer and journalist behind Hulu’s Fyre Fraud, Netflix’s The Pharmacist, and Paramount Network’s Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, to create a new investigative documentary franchise called Gone South.

The debut season of the podcast is set in a rural and corruption-plagued parish outside New Orleans. It explores the unsolved murder of a crusading sex crimes prosecutor named Margaret Coon. On the night of February 19, 1987, she was seen jogging with her dog through an exclusive subdivision in St. Tammany Parish, one of Louisiana’s safest and most affluent communities. The next morning, the 41-year old was found dead on the side of the road with a single stab wound in her back. Coon, a wealthy and sophisticated divorcee, was wearing $100,000 worth of jewelry at the time of her death, but none of it was taken. The autopsy revealed no signs of struggle or sexual assault. According to the security guard on duty, no non-residents had entered the grounds that night. Her condo was locked and undisturbed. Thirty-four years later, the crime remains unsolved.

Gone South | Podcast on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com › show

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I was just reading about this on another message board.. apparently the leading theory is that she had dirt on some higher-ups in city govt, one of whom recently went to prison finally …. Also, her murder had all the classic signs of a hit, since she had on $100k worth of jewelry that wasnt taken .. in 1987, $100k was actually a decent amount of money .


ETA I hadnt expanded on the link you posted, but just saw that they mention the jewelry.. interesting, , i saw that the murder occurred on my brother’s 1st birthday, but we hadnt yet moved to Mandeville.

 

[superchuck500]

I was just reading about this on another message board.. apparently the leading theory is that she had dirt on some higher-ups in city govt, one of whom recently went to prison finally …. Also, her murder had all the classic signs of a hit, since she had on $100k worth of jewelry that wasnt taken .. in 1987, $100k was actually a decent amount of money .

And there were all kinds of competence issues going on from the start. For example, she was jogging with her dog when it happened. After her body was reported on the side of the road (right across from the Beau Chene country club itself) her dog was aggressively defending her body from anyone getting near. The first to arrive were the Mandeville fire department, who came up with the idea of spraying the dog with fire extinguisher to get him away.

So they basically immediately contaminated the body and crime scene with fire extinguisher material.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

She was jogging wearing 100k worth of jewelry?

 

[superchuck500]

She was jogging wearing 100k worth of jewelry?

You don't?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

You don't?

No, I don’t jog

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

She was jogging wearing 100k worth of jewelry?

We know you keep more than that amount of jewelry on ur houseboat.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

We know you keep more than that amount of jewelry on ur houseboat.

Yeah, but which one?

 

[superchuck500]

We know you keep more than that amount of jewelry on ur houseboat.

Velour track suits and gold chains.




*track suits not jogged in

 

[Zack Lee]

Wonder if she ever crossed paths with Judge Bodenheimer.

 

[Devildog]

I was in 8th grade at OLL. I have never heard of this.

 

[superchuck500]

I was in 8th grade at OLL. I have never heard of this.

How did I not know that? Have we gone over this before?

 

[Devildog]

How did I not know that? Have we gone over this before?

I don't remember.

Old age, man.

 

[itztime]

Not to hijack but there is also another good podcast down the road in Lacombe regarding the unsolved murder of the Fire Chief's wife Nanette Krentel in Lacombe "Beyond Bardstown" by the WWL reporter Katie Moore.

Beyond Bardstown: Lacombe | An original true-crime podcast from WWL-TV

'Beyond Bardstown: Lacombe' explores why Nanette Krentel turned that home into a fortress, and ultimately, how that fortress failed to protect her.

www.wwltv.com

 

[efil4stnias]

I was in 8th grade at OLL. I have never heard of this.

OLL went to 8th?

dang. now just 7th