With direct access to the investigation, Dominique’s confession, and all of the killer’s body dump sites in throughout the state, author Fred Rosen enters the warped mind of a murderer and captures a troubled, disturbing, and broken life. But who was Ronald Dominique and what led him to commit such heinous crimes? In 2006, DNA evidence finally linked the murders to a suspect: the unassuming Ronald Joseph Dominique, who had lived under the radar for years, working as a pizza deliveryman and meter reader. Then, Detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came together as task force partners, indefatigable in their decade-long effort to track down the killer. The murders continued, leaving southeast Louisiana’s gay community rattled and authorities desperate for a break in the case. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer’s identity. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. He was charged with multiple cases of rape and first-degree murder.The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique’s ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. He murdered them to avoid being convicted and sentenced to prison for rape. He also lured straight men by setting up fake drug deals or showing men a picture of women and telling them that she was willing to pay for sex with a Black man. In his confession, Dominique, who is gay, said he frequented area gay bars and targeted men he thought would be willing to have sex for money. Charles and Jefferson parishes in suburban New Orleans.

He committed the crimes in Terrebonne, Lafourche, Iberville, St.

He was not married at the time of his confession.įollowing his arrest on December 1, 2006, Dominique confessed to the rape and murder of at least 23 men over a ten-year period beginning in 1997. Ronald Joseph Dominique (born January 9, 1964) is a prolific American serial killer and rapist from the Bayou Blue area of Houma, Louisiana. According to Astrologers, Ronald Dominique's zodiac sign is Capricorn. Serial killer who confessed to raping and murdering 23 men over a ten-year period. Ronald Dominique is a famous Criminal, who was born on Januin United States.

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