LAFAYETTE PARISH — At 20 years old, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot sat down with her father to hear the story of his grandfather, Aubrey LaHaye. In 1983, Aubrey was abducted from his home in Mamou and murdered.

Jordan says that this part of her family history felt “kind of like a ghost story.”

“It felt like something that happened a really long time ago,” she said.

The crime left questions that still linger today.

“Collectively, there was this sense that there’s more to the story,” Jordan said. “Some people think that maybe the wrong person was convicted. Some people think that he did it, but that he didn’t do it alone. Some people think that the motive that was given in court doesn’t make any sense. A lot of people feel that way.”

When Jordan realized how much those questions continued to ha

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