Two years after Samuel “Saint” Easterling vanished from the Bywater neighborhood, his family says the investigation is stuck and new leads have mostly dried up. The Lafayette-born photographer was last seen on Aug. 29, 2024, after leaving a neighborhood bar, and he still has not been found, leaving relatives and friends with the same unanswered questions.
Cold-case unit followed tips into Bayou Sauvage and Mississippi woods
According to The Times-Picayune | NOLA.com, the New Orleans Police Department’s cold-case homicide unit took over the investigation in April and chased down tips that sent detectives into Bayou Sauvage and a forest in Mississippi. Those hunches did not pan out. Detectives told reporters the probe remains active, but big gaps in…..