NEW ORLEANS — Decades have passed since the brutal slaying of a young mother whose story was buried by silence.

So, what really happened? And why was it forgotten?

A little boy, now a grown man, unexpectedly uncovered the secrets of his mother's cold case.

Here’s how he reopened the case.

Last year, former Saints QB Drew Brees said he wanted to meet the redheaded family he saw for years when he looked up at the scoreboard. Well, we found Saints mega fan Mike Lester from the Hammond area, and months later, we helped that introduction happen.

But during our interviews in his N’awlins Sports shop in the French Quarter, Mike revealed something shocking to me through a flood of emotions, that seeing these stories would make his mom proud, a mom who was murdered when he was only five years

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