Lafourche Parish, LA (WOKI) A suspect in a nearly 40-year-old Louisiana cold case has been arrested in East Tennessee.
Officials with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office say deputies helped Louisiana authorities Wednesday arrest Judith “Judy” Weiser.
Weiser and Russell Lee are charged in the murder of 22-year-old Paula Boudreaux back in 1986. Her remains were found a few years later outside of New Orleans; she was unidentified until last year.
Lee was taken into custody in Missouri on Tuesday.
According to the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, once Boudreaux’s remains were identified, Lee and Weiser became persons of interest after detectives revealed Lee was in relationships with both Boudreaux and Weiser at the time of the murder.
Investigators determined that Lee and Weiser killed Boudreaux, dismembered her body and dumped the remains in Slidell, a town of less than 30,000 outside of New Orleans, according to the sheriff’s office.
Both Lee and Weiser were charged with second-degree murder and obstruction of justice with bail set at $1.1 million each. Police in Louisiana said they will be taken and booked into the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex.
