There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

Some people aren't meant to protect and serve.

On April 30, 1971, a young woman was born who had dreams of becoming a police

officer. Dreams she achieved, but then used to commit a truly terrible crime. So if you like your

coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

Antoinette, Renee Frank, born April 30th, 1971, was said to have a troubled childhood from the time

she was small. However, despite all that she was put through and dealt with, the young girl dreamed

of becoming a police officer.

Something she was able to make into a reality in early 1993 when she applied to the New Orleans

Police Department. Now, according to author Chuck Hustmeyer, Antoinette, in order to secure her

long-held dream, lied on several sections of her employment application, was caught, and failed two standard psychiatric evaluations with the psychiatrist advising against her hiring.

Though this knocked her out of the running the first go-around, Antoinette got a second chance to apply and was officially hired on February 7, 1993, and graduated from the Academy on the 28th.

You might be wondering how someone deemed unfit for hiring managed to get a job.

Well, you see, at this time, the NOPD was chronically short-handed,

and officers were paid less than in similar-sized cities. This, understandably, caused many

officers to leave their job, and the department found itself losing employees faster than they

could replace them. Then several arrests for murder and drug activity decimated their ranks, and many who

wished to join the force were barred from doing so due to a requirement that all officers

be residents of New Orleans, a rule that didn't change until 2014.

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