The death of 94 year old Ida Mayfield Wood in 1932 represented more than the passing of a famous socialite, but the beginning of a startling mystery, a tale more strange than anyone imagined, all amid literally piles of cash.
On Louisiana highway 1, just south of the leeway bridge in Jefferson parish, not far from where the road ends, is a marker for the Cheniere Caminada cemetery, all that remains of a once thriving town that disappeared virtually overnight.