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Music is advised. There are questions about how the Washington Parish Sheriff's Office handled a death investigation

that has become a years-long unsolved case.

The family hopes new eyes on the case will help bring some closure.

A murder mystery hangs near the intersection of Washington and Main Streets in Franklin, Louisiana.

The sign on the brick wall with Donna Arsena's picture is only a few months old,

but the mystery surrounding

her death has hovered over this small town for years.

1158 p.m. 42nd, October 23, 2017. She told everybody, if anything

She told everybody, if anything ever happens to me, I want to them good.

I wasn't three minutes out when they called me and I got over there

and I said, there's already an attorney here.

The minute I went in the house, I felt just this overwhelming feeling of danger.

There was a couple blood drops I noticed outside of the bedroom, so why would that be there?

When we went to go clean the house out, there was still a big smear of blood on that back door.

Donna was a very beautiful, sexy woman.

Everybody had the hot spot.

What she did is her business. She didn't deserve to be killed.

If you want to commit murder and get away with it, the place to do it, watch the affairs.

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