LAWTELL, La. (NEWS 15) — St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz reported that Louisiana State Police and other agencies are conducting a search in the Lawtell area related to a decades-old missing person case, but his office was not notified about it.
“This afternoon, it came to the attention of my office that a search was being conducted in the Lawtell area of a missing person from the Rayne area approximately 30 years ago,” Guidroz explained. “Elements of the Louisiana State Police and others chose to initiate a search on private property, without any notification to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.”
News 15 has learned the search is tied to the disappearance of Donna Marie Gonzales on a property along U.S. 190 outside of Lawtell. Gonzales disappeared in 1992 while working in Rayne. Louisiana State Police reported its detectives assisted the Lafayette Police Department with an investigation that led them to St. Landry Parish…