Editing Belle Chasse, Louisiana (section)

==Belle Chasse John Doe==
On February 14, 1975, the body of an unidentified teenage boy was found hanging from a [[persimmon]] tree near Belle Chasse.<ref name="Lakeland Ledger">{{cite web | title=Mom's Nightmare Ends | website=Lakeland Ledger | date=1975-04-03 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PI4sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C_sDAAAAIBAJ&dq=belle+chasse&pg=4934,492898&hl=en | access-date=2024-02-28}}</ref> The teenager had written a lengthy suicide note addressed "to Mom and Dad" in which he stated that he "cannot tolerate the false and empty existence I have created".<ref name="Post-Crescent">{{cite web | title=Philosophical youth's suicide a puzzle  | website=The Post-Crescent | date=1975-03-27 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-crescent/104805610/ | access-date=2024-02-28}}</ref> Though the case received national coverage and over 300 parents of missing sons contacted the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's office, a four-month effort to identify the body failed.<ref name="Lakeland Ledger II">{{cite web | title=John Doe Buried After 4 Months | website=Lakeland Ledger | date=1975-06-22 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19750622&id=Ta8wAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1PoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3499,5595134&hl=en | access-date=2024-02-28}}</ref><ref name="Evening Independent">{{cite web | title=The Valentine Suicide | website=The Evening Independent | date=1975-06-17 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IPgLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RVgDAAAAIBAJ&dq=plaquemines+suicide+1975&pg=6722,250276&hl=en | access-date=2024-02-28}}</ref> He was buried in [[Gretna, Louisiana]]<ref name="The Town Talk">{{cite web | title=Officials End Bid to Identify Dead 'John Doe' | website=The Town Talk | date=1975-06-17 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-town-talk-plaquemines-parish-john-do/28590750/ | access-date=2024-02-28}}</ref> and remains unidentified as of 2025.<ref name="LSU">{{cite web | title=Case #22-05 | website=LA Repository for Unidentified & Missing People | date=1975-02-14 | url=http://identifyla.lsu.edu/profile.php?id=1110 | access-date=2024-02-28}}</ref><ref name="Doe Network">{{cite web | title=3832UMLA | website=The Doe Network | date=1975-02-14 | url=https://doenetwork.org/cases/3832umla.html | access-date=2024-02-28}}</ref>