![]() He brought up the iron and hit him again. He brought it up quickly and slammed it into the side of Oliver LeBanks’s head. Reaching down to the floorboards, he felt the cold metal of the tire iron in his strong hand. And he had prepared for just such an eventuality. ![]() It was an intoxicating combination of fear and retribution. The ridicule, the stone glances from his family, and now just thinking someone was about to violate him again made him want, finally, to do something about it. He’d had enough, and he’d been forced to put up with too much to stop there. The excerpt below describes one of Dominique's first killings-that of Oliver LeBlank, a man he picked up at a gay bar-and introduces one of the detectives who brought Dominique to justice. Only years later, after DNA evidence linked him to the crimes, was he finally put behind bars.ĭominique's little-known but staggering murder spree is examined in Fred Rosen's book, The Bayou Strangler. With the promise of paid sex, Dominique would lure these men into his car before raping and then strangling them to death. Likewise, his victims-primarily gay African American men-lived on the fringes of society. No one suspected that Dominique-an overweight and balding 30-something-was capable of murder. So how did a vindictive killer evade the police for nearly a decade? Dominique’s success can be attributed to two factors: As a pizza delivery man, he maintained a low profile in his Louisiana town. ![]() In fact, his body count makes him one of the most prolific killers in American history: 23 men died at Dominique’s hands between 19. But while Dominique-who was later given the moniker "the Bayou Strangler"-never gained the notoriety of the Dahmers and Gacys of the world, his crimes were no less heinous. When we think of serial killers, the name Ronald Joseph Dominique doesn’t necessarily come to mind.
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