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On September 23, 2008, Dominique was sentenced to eight life sentences after confessing to raping and killing his male victims over a ten-year period. The most recent victim, Christoper Sutterfield, had died about two months earlier. He was investigated following a police report by a man who refused to let Dominique tie him up.
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In his confession, Dominique, who is reportedly gay, said he frequented area gay bars and targeted men he thought would be willing to have sex for money. Dominique is suspected of killing 23 men. He has been charged with multiple cases of rape and first-degree murder. Ronald Joseph Dominique (born 1964) is an American serial killer from the Bayou Blue area of Houma, which is in Terrebonne Parish in southeastern Louisiana.įollowing his arrest on December 1, 2006, Dominique confessed to the rape and murder of at least 23 men over a ten-year period beginning in 1997, in Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish, Iberville Parish and Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans. Sentenced to eight life sentences in prison on September 23, 2008 Method of murder: Strangulation - Suffocation Victims profile: Kenneth Randolph / Michael Barnett / Leon Lirette / August Watkins / Kurt Cunningham / Alonzo Hogan / Chris Deville / Wayne Smith / Nicholas Pellegrin (men aged between 16 to 46 years AKA "The Bayou serial killer" Classification: Serial killerĬharacteristics: Rape - He did not want to return to jail after raping the men If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) As with the many other serial killers he has covered, including Jeffrey Dahmer (the Milwaukee Cannibal) and Dennis Rader (the BTK Killer), Rosen provides a horrifying and fascinating account of the lengths to which a bloodthirsty monster will go to lure and brutalize his victims. With direct access to the investigation, Dominique’s confession, and all of the killer’s body dump sites in throughout the state, author Fred Rosen enters the warped mind of a murderer and captures a troubled, disturbing, and broken life. But who was Ronald Dominique and what led him to commit such heinous crimes? In 2006, DNA evidence finally linked the murders to a suspect: the unassuming Ronald Joseph Dominique, who had lived under the radar for years, working as a pizza deliveryman and meter reader. Then, Detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came together as task force partners, indefatigable in their decade-long effort to track down the killer. The murders continued, leaving southeast Louisiana’s gay community rattled and authorities desperate for a break in the case. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer’s identity. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans.
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The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique’s ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down.