Host Anne-Marie Green and CBS News National Correspondent Vladimir Duthiers discuss the 1987 murder of Selonia Reed that went unsolved for over thirty years. They discuss how Selonia's son, Reggie Jr., grappled with learning his father, Reginald, was the prime suspect years later, the life insurance policies Reginald took out on Selonia leading up to her death, and the twins with identical DNA who complicated the investigation. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome back to 48 Hours Postmortem. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green. And today we're talking to CBS News national correspondent, Vladimir Dutier, about the murder of Salonia Reed in Hammond, Louisiana, in 1987. Salonia's husband, Reginald, said that she went out to a local bar with a girlfriend and that she never came back home.
Reginald filed a missing persons report the next day and gave a description of the car that she drove. Well, shortly after that, a patrol officer discovered Salonia's car parked at a nearby grocery store. Inside, they found her body. She had been stabbed 16 times. Salonia's son, Reggie Jr., was only six years old at the time, and for over three decades, her murder went unsolved.
And then in 2012, 25 years after the murder, Reggie was shocked to learn that his own father was a prime suspect in the case. So, Vlad, thanks for joining us today.
It's great to be here. Thanks, Anne-Marie.
We want to remind everyone that if you haven't checked out this episode of 48 Hours, head on over to the podcast feed and look right before this, and you'll see the episode. Go over and listen, and then come on back, and we're going to talk a little bit more about it. All right, Vlad, let's get into this. Back in 1987—
There were actually already a couple of pieces of evidence that pointed to Reginald Sr., right? There was a witness. A witness that came forward spotted Reginald and spotted his friend, Jimmy Ray Barnes, at the crime scene that night that she was murdered. The witness wrote down his license plate.
Investigators also discovered that Reginald had taken out several life insurance policies on her leading up to the murder. If you watch 48 Hours, you know, life insurance policies like that's always, you know, that's always a little suspect. That's a red flag. Why wasn't he charged in the very beginning?
It's probably one of the most confounding questions of this investigation that we did. First of all, the DA from back in 1987 has died. So we can't understand or know why he didn't charge Reginald. But we do know that Lieutenant Barry Ward, who helped solve the case... admits that even with the evidence that you just cited, there was really no smoking gun back in 1987.
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