Audrey and Hotard were having a secret affair. Audrey had other secrets too: she’d told her family she adopted a baby girl, Jacqueline, after a mental breakdown in Missouri, but Jacqueline was actually her biological daughter, and Audrey had been living nearby all along.

Two weeks later, Audrey’s grandmother received a phone call from someone claiming to be Audrey, saying she was in trouble. Witnesses saw a woman matching Audrey’s description in New Orleans around that time.

Police investigated several leads. Edmond Duhe, who helped search for Audrey, was arrested for a similar crime (shooting a woman through a car window) and had Audrey’s missing purse in his car. He denied involvement in Audrey’s disappearance and Hotard’s murder, but failed lie detector tests. Years later, someone claimed their father confessed to killing both Audrey and Hotard, but this story didn’t match the evidence.

Audrey’s disappearance remains unsolved. Her body has never been found, and Hotard’s killer was never identified, though foul play is strongly suspected.