Real True Detective Solves Roxanne Sharp Cold Case Murder! 4 ARRESTED!
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The body of 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp was found near the Covington Fairgrounds in Louisiana's St Tammany Parish in February 1982. The teen had been violently raped and murdered, her clothing ripped off her body and tossed aside creating a trail through the woods to her broken body. The murder shocked the state, but with little evidence and nobody talking, the case went cold, but not forgotten. Louisiana State Police Investigator Stephan Ferguson reached out to local broadcaster Charles Dowdy and created a podcast to tell Roxanne's story in hopes of getting new information 40 plus years after the murder. It worked. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack go back over the evidence from 1982 and explain how investigators were able to arrest four men, DECADES after the murder of Roxanne Sharp.
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00:00.00 Introduction - Louisiana
02:27.24 1982 Rape and Murder of Roxanne Sharp
05:21.08 Dixie Trailriders find body while looking for firewood
10:09.62 Cold Case investigation in 2020
14:52.82 Triangulation of evidence of crime scene
20:08.47 Roxanne's body made a trail to her body
25:05.72 Roxanne's was hit on the bridge of the nose with an object
30:50.62 Roxanne was tiny, 5'1" tall,
34:26.62 Arrest Warrants for four men
39:49.24 Two of the four suspects already in prison
42:52.95 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Quality Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:10.1 | Being from Louisiana, there's been, I don't know, in the last two decades, there's been kind of a shift in South Louisiana, and specifically the New Orleans metro area. |
| 0:22.8 | That shift has been prompted by many things. |
| 0:27.0 | I think Katrina being number one and also the opportunities that might exist outside of Orleans Parish and, of course, the city of New Orleans. |
| 0:40.8 | That is, free from crime, opportunities financially. |
| 0:44.8 | And what I mean by that is that people in New Orleans have migrated to a location that still, while within the boundaries of the state of Louisiana |
| 0:57.2 | is not in Orleans Parish any longer. |
| 0:59.7 | They've gone to what's referred to as the North Shore. |
| 1:04.7 | And what that means is that huge body of water, Lake Pontchartrain, that separates New Orleans or Orleans Parish and Jefferson Parish |
| 1:14.6 | from their neighbors to the north stands between them. With that said, many people have migrated |
| 1:23.1 | to the north shore of Lake Pontch Train, but yet they've brought New Orleans sensibilities, |
| 1:29.4 | their unique accent, |
| 1:31.0 | which if you've ever heard a New Orleans accent, |
| 1:34.0 | it's different than anything else in the South. |
| 1:37.5 | But going back years and years, |
| 1:41.5 | it used to be said by New Orleans natives that if, in fact, you went to the |
| 1:48.2 | North Shore, you were going to the country. Well, let's take a trip back to 1982 in what |
| 1:57.4 | would be referred to as the country back then, |
| 2:02.8 | to a place called Covington, Louisiana, |
| 2:06.7 | where arguably one of the most brutal coal cases in that parish's history, St. Tammany, |
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