Police link St. Gabriel man to burned gay hairdresser’s corpse through victim’s social media account
May 6, 2012 Leave a comment
This story was published in The Advocate on May 6, 2012.
East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux announced Thursday the arrest of a suspect in the slaying of a Baton
Rouge hairdresser whose burned body was discovered in the trunk of a car abandoned on the Mississippi River levee.
Gautreaux said events leading up to the murder began Sunday evening when the hairdresser, Roderick White, 33, drove himself to a mobile home in St. Gabriel to meet for the first time with Jason Mascarella, 34, a man he had been chatting with online.
The men had met on either Twitter or Facebook, said Todd Morris, a sheriff’s detective and lead investigator on the case. Read more of this post