In something out of a suspense movie, in 1970 a shooting on a nearly inaccessible ice island left a Navy research division desperately seeking answers- How do authorities deal with an alleged murder in one of the most remote places on the planet? The shocking Murder on Fletcher’s Ice Island deserves to be remembered.
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.