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Grieving friends, supporters gather to remember Jaren Lockhart

On the same beach where her broken body was discovered, a solemn cross with roses now stands for Jaren Lockhart.

"We just wanted to do something to so our respect and support for her family," said Megan Morvant who organized a candle light vigil for Jaren.

Jaren's remains washed up in Bay St. Louis shortly after she went missing in New Orleans. Many of the people who gathered on the beach for the vigil didn't know Jaren personally, but they knew the sting of loss.

"It hit home. I felt like I was going through all of it again," said Morvant.

Morvant recently lost her cousin, Hillary Moulder, who was a coworker and friend of Jaren Lockhart. Both of the girls danced in New Orleans.

"Regardless of whether you knew her or not, it's something that's devastating," said Morvant.

Feeling a connection to Jaren and her family, Hillary's family organized the memorial.

"We're here for the justice for Jaren Lockhart, and to remember my daughter Hillary Jane Moulder. And yes, they danced on Bourbon Street, and they were there to make a living for their daughters and themselves," expressed Moulder's mother, Diana Sharp. "Do not ever judge someone in this world for the living they choose to make in this world."

"Jaren was a good person. She never did no body wrong. If you needed a place to stay she'd give you a place to stay. She would give you clothes off her back if you didn't have no clothes to wear," said a friend of Jaren, Elizabeth Kaehey.

Kaehey said she met Jaren shortly after moving to Louisiana. Both women had young girls and they would often let them play together. She said she couldn't believe the news of Jaren's death.

"I thought it was a joke," said Kaehey. "I thought, ‘That can't be Jaren.' But it was."

Jaren and Hillary both left behind young daughters. At the vigil, Hillary's six year old daughter prayed for peace under Jaren's cross, saying how much she loved her mother and missed her.

Through these two girls, families are connected and all are hoping justice will be brought for Jaren.

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Jaren Lockhart murder suspect has a substantial criminal history

06/15/2012 10:30 PM

Terry Speaks, a suspect in the recent murder and dismemberment of 22-year-old exotic dancer Jaren Lockhart, has a substantial criminal history, including convictions for having sex with a 14-year-old, assaulting a woman and domestic violence, records show. The convictions all occurred in Surry County, N.C. The most recent was the sex offense, of which Speaks was found guilty in 2003, when he was 31.

The violent crimes appear to have involved female family members, though the court documents do not make clear how the victims are related to Speaks.

Earlier this year, a grand jury in North Carolina indicted Speaks for failing to register as a sex offender as a result of his 2003 conviction. That charge landed him in front of a federal magistrate judge in New Orleans on Friday, who ordered him transferred to North Carolina for arraignment.

Glenn Grannan, chief investigator for the Hancock County, Miss., sheriff's office, the lead agency investigating Lockhart's death, said he does not believe Speaks' transfer to North Carolina will be immediate. Nor does he believe Speaks' move will affect Hancock County's investigation into Lockhart's death.

"If we charge him with anything, we'll just put him on a plane and fly him down to Mississippi," Grannan said.

Lockhart, who worked as a Bourbon Street dancer, went missing last week. Two days later, her dismembered torso washed ashore in Bay St. Louis, Miss. Two days after that, her head was found in Long Beach. Two pieces of her leg were found the same day in different locations in Pass Christian.

Lockhart's finance last saw her June 5 at the Tulane Avenue motel where they stayed. She worked as a dancer at Temptations in the 300 block of Bourbon Street that night. Her finance reported her missing when she never returned from that shift.

Video surveillance obtained by authorities showed Lockhart walking down the street with a couple, later identified by authorities as Speaks and Margaret Sanchez. Authorities initially labeled the pair "persons of interest," but named them suspects Thursday after they were arrested in Tangipahoa Parish, both sporting recently dyed hair -- his orange, hers blue.

Grannan said both Speaks and Sanchez have remained silent during questioning.

Grannan said Hancock County officials on Friday conducted tests using sonar equipment off the coast of Long Beach, Miss. They were looking for the hunting knife they believe was used to stab Lockhart in her chest and kill her.

"We knew the victim suffered a chest wound with some sort of hunting knife, so we were looking for something similar," Grannan said. "All we found was a crab trap."

While he awaits extradition to Mississippi, Grannan said Speaks is being held in a St. Tammany Parish jail being treated for injuries he sustained during his arrest. When authorities pulled him over in a traffic stop, he tried to flee, jumping a fence and running across a field and into a wooded area.

A woman who answered the phone Friday at Speaks' mother's house in North Carolina said that Speaks has done nothing wrong.

"He ain't done nothing wrong," said the woman, who declined to identify herself. "They're just going to have to call off the investigation."

WVUE-TV reported Thursday that Margaret Sanchez, of Kenner, refused to sign extradition papers that would send her from Amite to Hancock County.

During a court appearance Wednesday, WVUE-TV reported that Sanchez cried uncontrollably and repeatedly asked the judge to speak with her father. The judge decided she was unfit to make any decision and moved the hearing to Thursday. She maintained her composure in that appearance, the station reported.

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Mississippi investigators use sonar to search for..

Investigators in Hancock County, Mississippi use sonar to help them in the investigation of Jaren Lockhart's murder.

The search took place near the Long Beach pier, with divers looking for a possible murder weapon and even bodily remains Friday. They did not report finding any new evidence.

In the meantime, one of the suspects, 39-year-old Terry Speaks went before a federal judge Friday morning for failing to register as a sex offender in another state.

Speaks appeared before a judge in federal court in New Orleans to say he wants all legal proceedings on his federal charge, of failing to register as a sex offender, to happen in Surry County, North Carolina.

"He waived his right both to a detention hearing and to a hearing on removal, which is really the issue because he's currently in the Eastern District of Louisiana," said Loyola law professor Stephen Singer.

U.S. Marshals are responsible for transporting Speaks to North Carolina but as Singer explains, that may not be happening anytime soon.

"It's likely in a case like this, where you have multiple jurisdictions looking at the case and investigating far more serious charges than sex offender registration... my guess is it's likely he'll stay in Louisiana in the Eastern District for some period of time, to give a chance to the local prosecutors both in Mississippi and Louisiana to do further investigation," Singer explained.

Hancock County, Mississippi investigators say Speaks and 28-year-old Margaret Sanchez are suspects in the death of Jaren Lockhart. They were the last two people to see Lockhart alive, homicide detectives say.

Sanchez is being held in Tangipahoa Parish on a resisting arrest charge, but her public defender says Hancock County has also placed a hold on her, meaning she cannot post bond to get out of jail.

"In order to lodge a hold, they would actually have to get some sort of warrant for arrest. They could, I suppose, potentially get a material witness bond," Singer said.

But Sanchez's public defender, Allen Harvey, tells FOX 8 he doesn't know of any arrest warrant issued or anything signed by a judge that would keep her in jail. So, Harvey filed a petition Thursday with a judge in Tangipahoa Parish, stating that the hold is illegal.

At this point No charges have been filed against Sanchez or Speaks in Mississippi or having anything to do with Jaren Lockhart.

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Posted: Saturday, 16 June 2012 2:31PM

Suspect's transfer won't affect stripper's murder investigation

An investigator trying to solve the death and dismemberment of a French Quarter stripper says he's not worried that one suspect may soon be transferred to North Carolina.

Hancock County Mississippi investigator Glenn Grannon says the federal charge against 39-year-old Terry Christopher Speaks won't affect the investigation into the death of 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart.

Speaks went before a Federal Magistrate judge in New Orleans on Friday and waived his right to a detention hearing.

As Legal Analyst Chick Foret tells WWL-TV, that allows for his transfer back to North Carolina.

"He is presently in federal custody of the U.S. Marshall," says Foret. "Mr. Speaks was indicted some months in federal court in North Carolina for failing to register as a sex offender."

Besides the federal authorities, Hancock County is just one of the jurisdictions involved in the investigation. Foret says they also include Tangipahoa, St. Tammany, Kenner and New Orleans.

"As the evidence unfolds, I think the law enforcement aspect and the evidence

"As the evidence unfolds, I think the law enforcement aspect and the prosecutorial aspect of this case, will certainly find out, I anticipate, where the proper jurisdiction is for prosecution," said Foret.

Speaks and 28-year-old Margaret Sanchez of Kenner were arrested earlier this week in Tangipahoa Parish on charges unrelated to Lockhart's death. They have been named suspects but neither has been charged in her death.

Lockhart's body parts washed ashore in Mississippi last week.

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Posted: Sunday, 17 June 2012 1:20PM

Hunting knife sought in stripper's death

Mississippi authorities now believe a Bourbon Street exotic dancer whose body parts washed up on the Gulf Coast was stabbed in the chest with a hunting knife before she was decapitated and dismembered.

Hancock County sheriff's officials say a hunting knife has not been found, but forensic examination of a wound to 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart's chest indicates that is the type of weapon used in her stabbing.

Volunteers have been searching a field Terry Speaks ran through before he was caught last week Tangipahoa Parish, La.

"Right now, we're continuing the investigation. Numerous agencies are cooperating and working together to run down all the leads we're getting," said Hancock County Chief Deputy Don Bass

39-year-old Speaks and 28-year-old Margaret Sanchez were arrested in a traffic stop Tuesday night in Loranger. They were taken into custody on unrelated charges, but are now suspects in Lockhart's murder.

Bass says the FBI is continuing its analysis of items removed from their car and the Kenner home where the couple lived.

"They've finished processing the residence, to my understanding, and they're still in the process of processing the vehicle. We haven't got an update on either one yet. I'm sure they're going to take all their items and all their information and go through it," Bass said.

Speaks is being held without bond while waiting for federal marshals to arrange his transport to North Carolina, where he was wanted on a federal charge of failing to register as a sex offender and leaving that state. He will likely remain held in Louisiana a couple of weeks. Sanchez remains in custody on misdemeanor charges resulting from the traffic stop.

Lockhart, 22, was a dancer at Temptations, a gentlemen's club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. She was last seen leaving the club with Speaks and his girlfriend June 6. The next night, her torso was discovered on the beach in Bay St. Louis. Other body parts later surfaced on nearby beaches.

Bass says they continue to question others who knew the victim.

"We're interviewing some potential witnesses, people that may have information, people that worked with her...just different things like that. Any leads that we get, any calls that we get, we follow up on."

Bass said he doubts any new developments will come in the case over the weekend.

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Jaren Lockhart stripper murder probe won't be derailed by federal case in N.C., investigator says

June 18, 2012

NEW ORLEANS - An investigator says he's not worried that a suspect connected to the death and dismemberment of 22-year-old New Orleans stripper Jaren Lockhart may soon be transferred to North Carolina for a different crime.

Pictures: Bourbon St. dancer found dismembered

Hancock County Mississippi investigator Glenn Grannon said the federal charge against 39-year-old Terry Christopher Speaks won't affect the probe into the murder of Lockhart, whose body parts washed ashore in Mississippi last week.

Speaks opted not to fight detention or transfer to North Carolina, where he faces a federal charge of failing to register as a sex offender.

Speaks and 28-year-old Margaret Sanchez were arrested earlier last week in Louisiana's Tangipahoa Parish on charges unrelated to Lockhart's death. Both have been named suspects but neither has been charged in her death.

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New charge against suspect in N.O. woman's killing

Posted on June 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM Updated today at 7:19 PM

HAMMOND, La. -- Margaret Sanchez, a suspect in the murder of Jaren Lockhart, faces new charges connected to her relationship with Terry Speaks, the other suspect in the killing.

Sanchez was charged Monday with harboring a sex offender just as she was preparing to be shipped to a mental clinic for an evaluation.

Sanchez remained in the Tangiphoa Parish Jail Monday evening awaiting a court date on the new charge. Sanchez and Terry Speaks are suspects in the murder of Lockhart, whose dismembered body was found along beaches in Mississippi.

Sanchez and Speaks had been in custody in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on charges unrelated to the killing of Jaren Lockhart. Though some officials in Mississippi have referred to Speaks and Sanchez as suspects, neither has been charged with Lockhart's murder.

Speaks is now in federal custody for failing to properly register as a sex offender after committing a sex crime in North Carolina. He was convicted of three counts of indecent liberty with a minor in 2003.

Authorities said they were able to capture Speaks and Sanchez in Tangipohoa Parish because tips started pouring in after a surveillance video went out, showing the couple going into Temptations strip club on Bourbon Street, where Lockhart worked.

Authorities believe the three knew each other and all worked in the French Quarter.

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Lockhart murder suspect faces new charge

Amite, La. - One of the suspects in the murder of 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart faces a new criminal charge.

Margaret Sanchez remains in Tangipahoa Parish jail Monday evening. Tangipahoa authorities have filed a new charge of harboring a sex offender against Sanchez. She had been held on a single count of resisting arrest.

Technically, the charge is unrelated to Lockhart's slaying. Hancock County Sheriff's detectives say Sanchez and Terry Speaks are suspects in that murder. Pieces of Lockhart's body washed ashore in Mississippi earlier this month.

Neither Sanchez nor Speaks have been charged with any crime in Mississippi, but Hancock County has put a "hold" on Sanchez, meaning she is not eligible to post bond.

Speaks faces a federal charge in North Carolina of failing to register as a sex offender. Speaks went before a judge in federal court Friday morning to waive his right to a detention hearing, meaning he would not fight extradition to North Carolina.

Hancock County investigators were in New Orleans on Monday conducting interviews.

In another development Monday, Margaret Sanchez's public defender told FOX 8 that the woman was taken to the Rosenblum Mental Health Center in Hammond for a short time. But a spokesperson for the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office insists that Sanchez has not been moved from the jail.

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Jaren Lockhart Murder: Suspect Margaret Sanchez faces new charges for harboring sex offender Terry Speaks

June 19, 2012

Margaret Sanchez, 28, faces new charges connected to the death and dismemberment of 22-year-old New Orleans stripper Jaren Lockhart

HAMMOND, La. - Margaret Sanchez, a suspect connected to the death and dismemberment of 22-year-old New Orleans stripper Jaren Lockhart, now faces new charges connected to her relationship with Terry Speaks, the other suspect in the killing, CBS-affiliate WWLTV reports. Pictures: Bourbon St. dancer found dismembered

Sanchez, 28, was charged Monday with harboring a sex offender just as she was preparing to be shipped to a mental clinic for an evaluation. Speaks, 39, is now in federal custody for failing to properly register as a sex offender after committing a sex crime in North Carolina. He was convicted of three counts of indecent liberty with a minor in 2003.

Sanchez and Speaks were arrested earlier last week in Louisiana's Tangipahoa Parish Jail on charges unrelated to Lockhart's death, whose dismembered body was found along beaches in Mississippi. Both have been named suspects but neither has been charged in her death.

Sanchez remained in the Tangiphoa Parish Jail Monday evening awaiting a court date on the new charge.

Authorities said they captured Speaks and Sanchez in Tangipohoa Parish after tips started pouring in when a surveillance video went out, showing the couple going into Temptations strip club on Bourbon Street, where Lockhart worked. Authorities believe the three knew each other and all worked in the French Quarter.

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Report: Suspect in stripper's death held on $1M bond

06/19/2012 11:54 PM

A judge has increased the bond for Margaret Sanchez, one of two suspects in the death of Jaren Lockhart, to $1 million, according to a WLOX report.

Pieces of 22-year-old Lockhart's body were found on a Bay St. Louis beach earlier this month, according to Hancock County Sheriff's investigators. Her torso, head, and lower and upper portions of her leg were found on Mississippi beaches along with clothing, said Chief Investigator Glenn Grannan.

Terry Christopher Speaks and Sanchez were identified as supects after the two were seen on a video from the Temptations strip club on Bourbon Street where Lockhart worked. The couple left with Lockhart early June 6, according to investigators.

Speaks was in federal custody after U.S. Marshals arrested him on a North Carolina warrant accusing him of failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said.

A brief indictment from federal court in North Carolina's Middle District said he was accused in Surry County, North Carolina, of failing to register as a sex offender but does not describe the sex offense.

Sanchez, 28, was charged with harboring a sex offender and one count of resisting arrest. She will recieve an evaluation at a mental clinic.

Neither Speaks nor Sanchez has been charged in the death of Lockhart.

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Evidence in murder of Bourbon St. dancer moved to FBI

Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:51 PM Updated yesterday at 2:51 PM

Evidence in the murder of a Bourbon Street dancer was moved to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va., according to a Hancock County official, while a suspect in the death of Jaren Lockhart is now being held on a $1 million bond.

Sheriff Don Bass confirmed that evidence from the murder was sent to federal investigators in Virginia. Two suspects Margaret Sanchez and Terry Speaks remain in custody.

Our Biloxi, Miss., affiliate says a judge raised the bond for Sanchez one day after officials charged her with harboring a sex offender, Speaks.

Speaks awaits extradition to North Carolina, where he will face charges for failing to register as a sex offender.

Neither of the suspects is charged in connection with killing of Lockhart, whose dismembered body washed ashore in Mississippi two weeks ago.

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Funeral for Jaren Lockhart set for this evening in Hammond

Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:57 AM Updated today at 9:57 AM

The funeral for the murdered Bourbon Street dancer will take place tonight in Hammond, two weeks after her she first disappeared and was found washed ashore on a Mississippi beach.

Visitation for Jaren Lockhart, 23, will be from 5-7 p.m. with a service at 7 p.m. at the Brandon G. Thompson Funeral Home.

Lockhart’s family has requested that donations be made to Hancock Bank or Whitney Bank to the Jaren Lockhart Memorial Fund to help with funeral expenses.

On Wednesday, the Hancock Co. (Miss.) Sheriff’s Department said evidence in the murder investigation was moved to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va.

Meanwhile, one of the suspects in her death, Margaret Sanchez, is being held on a $1 million bond. The other suspect, Terry Speaks, was set for extradition back to North Carolina where he is being charged with failing to register as a sex offender.

Lockhart’s torso first washed ashore in Bay St. Louis, Miss., on June 7. A day later, her head and legs were found from Pass Christian, Miss., to Long Beach, Miss.

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Hold on Lockhart suspect lifted by judge Margaret Sanchez' bond set at $251,000

HAMMOND, La. - The woman held on unrelated charges who is being investigated in the death and disappearance of Jaren Lockhart had her hold lifted by a Tangipahoa judge on Thursday.

Margaret Sanchez and Terry Speaks were arrested last week on unrelated charges, but are being called suspects by investigators in the case.

Speaks and Sanchez were the last known people to have seen Lockhart alive after the three were spotted in surveillance video from the Temptations gentlemen's club where Lockhart worked.

In a hearing in Tangipahoa Parish, Sanchez' hold placed on her out of Mississippi was lifted, meaning she can now bond out of jail.

Her bond was reset on Thursday night from $1 million to $251,000. Officials said a judge thought Sanchez was going to be charged in Lockhart's death, but reduced it when the charge was found to be harboring a sex offender.

Speaks is awaiting extradition to North Carolina on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender.

Lockhart went missing on June 6. Her body parts washed ashore days later on a beach in Mississippi.

Family and friends attended Lockhart's funeral on Thursday in Hammond, La.

No one has been charged in her death.

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Suspect in Lockhart murder extradited

Jun 25, 2012 1:17 PM CST

U.S. Marshals have extradited a suspect in the murder of Bourbon Street dancer Jaren Lockhart.

Terry Speaks was extradited to Oklahoma City last week, according to a spokesman with the Hancock County Sheriff's Office.

Speaks was taken to Oklahoma before he eventually moves to North Carolina on the charge of failing to register as a sex offender.

Speaks and Margaret Sanchez both remain suspects in the murder.

Investigators in Hancock County are awaiting results from the FBI on evidence that was obtained from Sanchez's house in Kenner as well as their car. That evidence was shipped to Virginia for processing.

Meanwhile, Hancock County says they are continuing to conduct interviews and continuing to follow leads in the case.

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Judge reduces bond for suspect in murder

11:17 PM, Jun. 28, 2012

AMITE, LA. —A state judge has reduced the bond for a Kenner woman suspected but not charged in the death and dismembering of a New Orleans dancer whose body parts washed up on Mississippi beaches.

The Advocate reports Judge Ernest Drake reduced Margaret Sanchez's bond from $250,000 to $35,000 on Wednesday.

The counts against the 29-year-old Sanchez - failure to signal, resisting an officer by giving misinformation and harboring a sex offender - are not sufficient to warrant a bail that exceeds the 21st Judicial District's own guidelines even for defendants in a murder case, Judge Ernest Drake ruled.

The district's "bond schedule" calls for $150,000 bail in murder cases, Drake said during a hearing on a defense motion to reduce Sanchez's bail.

Charges related to sex crimes have bail recommendations ranging from $25,000 to $50,000, he said.

Noting that no listed criminal count calls for a bail as high as $250,000, Drake asked, "Is there anything so heinous about this case as to indicate a need to go higher than what's on the schedule?"

Assistant Public Defender Allen Harvey said Sanchez's bail should be set at $25,000, based on a catch-all provision for felonies not specifically listed on the schedule. Harboring a sex offender is an unlisted offense, he said.

Jaren Lockhart was reported missing June 6 after she did not return home from working at a Bourbon Street strip club.

Her partial remains and clothing later washed ashore on several Mississippi beaches, beginning June 7 in Hancock County.

Sanchez and Terry Speaks, 38, a convicted sex offender from North Carolina, were found and arrested in Tangipahoa Parish on June 12 after police received calls identifying the pair as the couple seen on a surveillance video leaving the club with Lockhart around 2 a.m. the day she was reported missing.

Neither Sanchez nor Speaks has been charged in Lockhart's death.

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Anonymous Couple Called FBI on Speaks, Sanchez

Jaren Lockhart Murder Suspects Stayed, Dyed Hair at Metairie Home Hours Before Arrest

METAIRIE— A Metairie husband and wife say they feel used, abused and unsafe after having an on-the-run couple suspected of Jaren Lockhart's murder in their house.

In an exclusive interview with WGNO News Wednesday, the anonymous Metairie couple said they housed Margaret Sanchez and her boyfriend, Terry Speaks the night before their June 12 arrest.

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Detectives: Lockhart Murder Suspects had Fake Bourbon Street Wedding

Sanchez Reportedly Sour After Learning She Wasn't Really Married

NEW ORLEANS —Hancock County investigators say while Terry Speaks and Margaret Sanchez aren't saying much during questioning, Sanchez did vent over a Bourbon Street wedding she said she had with Speaks, a marriage that turned out not to be legit.

Detectives tell us Sanchez said she and Speaks were married earlier this year by a minister who also works as a doorman in Bourbon's 300 block.

Cops who interviewed her said she was miffed when she later learned she wasn't legally married.

Sanchez complained about having to pay the minister $100 dollars for the middle of the street ceremony, deputies said.

According to investigators, the unofficial wedding took place in the same block where Jaren Lockhart worked.

Lockhart, Sanchez and Speaks were seen leaving Temptations night club last month days before Lockhart's body parts washed ashore on Mississippi beaches.

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Cops In Jaren Lockhart Murder Probe asking Network for all Margaret Sanchez Video and Interviews

NEW ORLEANS —Detectives in Hancock County say they are leaning on WGNO and ABC for key info in the Jaren Lockhart murder investigation.

It has to do with what aired Wednesday night and a suspect's network debut.

Murder suspect Margaret Sanchez appeared in a previously recorded interview with ABC's Final Witness, a crime show chronicling the 2006 killing and dismembering of Addie Hall, a French Quarter bartender, who was killed cut up and cooked by her boyfriend.

Detectives consider the episode part of the Jaren Lockhart murder investigation and have reached out to ABC and the show's independent production company for all the raw video and interviews connected to the program which aired Wednesday night on WGNO.

Investigators have also asked WGNO News for a recent story filed on the Lockhart's death.

Sanchez and her boyfriend, Terry Speaks are the prime suspects in the June murder and dismembering of the 23-year-old Lockhart.

As the two sit in jail suspected of murder--yet not formally charged with the Bourbon Street dancer's death--Hancock County, MS investigators were interviewed about the case Thursday by WGNO News.

Sheldon Fox: Would it be safe to say that members of this department were glued to the televison Wednesday night? Commander Glenn Grannan: It would be safe to say that.

Fox: How cooperative have they been? Commander Grannan: If you wanted to talk about the weather they were very cooperative.

Fox: We're almost a month removed from this murder and yet we still don't have any formal charges against either of these two for this murder. Is this case becoming a cold case? Commander Grannan: No. Not at all.

Fox: Do you think at some point you'll be able to charge Terry Speaks and Margaret Sanchez with murder? Commander Grannan: Absolutely. Yes, we'll get it done.

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Margaret Sanchez Talks About A Murdered, Dismembered Woman on WGNO

METAIRIE, LA— When you're making your Fourth of July plans, be sure to include the new ABC program Final Witness on your schedule. The program looks at real crimes but tells their story from the victims' perspectives. The show also interviews people close to the cases.

This week's episode focuses on the death and dismemberment of Addie Hall in New Orleans in 2006. You may remember, Hall's boyfriend killed her and then jumped to his own death from a French Quarter hotel.

It's a chilling story. But wait until you see who ABC interviews as part of the program. Margaret Sanchez! The same woman who is linked to the death and dismemberment of a French Quarter dancer.

The program airs July 4th at 9:00pm on WGNO-TV.

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WGNO Exclusive: Dismemberment Suspect Interviewed About Connection to Strikingly Similar Case

NEW ORLEANS— Wednesday on ABC the show "Final Witness" features Margaret Sanchez, a suspect in the death and dismemberment of French Quarter dancer Jaren Lockhart, whose body parts washed ashore on Mississippi beaches last month. However, the interview is about an entirely different victim, Addie Hall, who was murdered in a French Quarter apartment owned by Leo Watermeier 6 years ago, at the hands of her boyfriend Zack Bowen.

Watermeier says, "I was probably the last person to see Addie alive besides Zack because she came to me and got me to sign a lease with only her name on it and then once she had that lease she went to Zack and said leave, the lease is in my name."

Bowen and Hall gained recognition for refusing to evacuate the French Quarter during Hurricane Katrina. They moved into Watermeier's apartment just days before New Orleans police say Bowen strangled, dismembered and cooked Hall, then jumped to his death from the Omni Hotel.

According to NOPD Homicide Commander Lt Gary Marchese, "There was a note in his pocket directed to the police that said it wasn't an accident. He took his life to pay for the one he took and it has directions to send the detectives to the apartment where he said they'd find the dismembered body of his girlfriend."

Sanchez was not a suspect in the case. She was a friend of the victim, among a handful of others who will recreate her story on "Final Witness." The story of Bowen and Hall has been told by countless news stations and it's even been written up in a novel, but what's different about this version is that it's told from the perspective of the victim. "Addie shouldn't be neglected, shouldn't be overlooked in this because she's the ultimate victim," says Watermeier. "So I think it's good that they're gonna try to make sure she's not forgotten."

It's the last moments of life of a murder victim… remembered through the eyes of a murder suspect.

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Famous Painter of Dismembered People, "Leslie Rice," Used as Alias by Lockhart Murder Suspect

Terry Speaks Called Self "Leslie Rice"

July 6, 2012

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Famous Painter of Dismembered People, "Leslie Rice," Used as Alias by Lockhart Murder Suspect

New Orleans— What's in a name?

For one of Jaren Lockhart's suspected killers, an alias was either part of a con-job, or perhaps, something more monstrous.

Cops say before being arrested, suspect Terry Speaks used the alias "Leslie Rice", "Leslie Allen Rice"or "Allen Leslie Rice".

Leslie Rice also happens to be the name of an award-winning Australian artist, whose more famous works include paintings of decapitated and dismembered people. The paintings feature a decapitated head on a plate, body parts strewn about and morbid-looking works depicting death or pieces of human corpses.

It is not known whether this artist was the inspiration for Speaks' alias or whether the painter is known by Speaks at all.

WGNO Friday night emailed the images of the paintings to the head investigator in the Lockhart murder, Detective Steve Saucier of the Hancock County Sheriff's Office.

Saucier said the images are "undeniably intriguing", but that the sheriff's office learned Speaks stole the name from someone he knew in his home state of North Carolina to commit identity fraud.

Perhaps it's just another creepy coincidence.

Also, Jailed murder suspect Margaret Sanchez's TV interview on ABC's Final Witness this week has the attention of her interrogators.

Her previously recorded take on old New Orleans friend, Addie Hall, being killed and dismembered six years ago caused detectives to compare it to last month's murder of Lockhart , who was found in pieces last month on beaches in Mississippi after leaving the French Quarter strip club where she worked.

The last people seen with the 23-year-old dancer, Sanchez and Speaks aren't formally charged with murder but are prime suspects in her killing.

As for Sanchez's TV interview on her butchered friend in 2006, Saucier says the show is now part of Lockhart's murder investigation. He said Thursday that the sheriff's office had requested from ABC and independent producers all raw footage and interviews used to create the program which aired Wednesday on WGNO.

"We can't overlook these similarities as being a mere coincidence though it may be", Saucier said.

Speaks is in federal custody and is expected to be delivered to the Surry County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina on charges of failing to verify his sex offender status. He and Sanchez were arrested June 12th in Tangipahoa as suspects in Lockhart's murder. Sanchez remains jailed in Tangipahoa.

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Investigators track down phone records in Lockhart murder case

It's been about six weeks since Jaren Lockhart's body parts washed ashore in Hancock and Harrison Counties. Now, Hancock County Sheriff's investigators hope phone records will reveal some clues into her gruesome murder. They are tracking down hundreds of phone numbers belonging to the Louisiana woman and the two suspects.

Investigators say leads are still coming in, but not as many as the weeks after Lockhart's dismembered body washed up in South Mississippi. One of those leads is phone records. They're focusing on several days before and after June 6, the day the New Orleans woman disappeared.

"To see if the last point that we can definitively say that Jaren was okay at this time until after her disappearance, to see if the phone has been turned off, if anybody else is using her phone, to see if we can find her phone," said Steve Saucier, the lead investigator with the Hancock County Sheriff's Department.

Investigators are also trying to figure out who the numbers belong to, the people's relationship to Lockhart, and whether they were phone calls or text messages. Their starting point is the last number Lockhart contacted from her phone.

"We have to start at one number and work our way down. We can't just throw all of these numbers into a big data base and out it pops out all this information," said Saucier.

Investigators are still waiting for results of DNA and physical evidence collected from a vehicle and the home of two people last seen with Lockhart before she vanished, Margaret Sanchez and Terry Speaks. The evidence is being processed at the FBI's forensics department in Quantico, Virginia.

"We're hoping to find the magical piece of evidence that's going to tie everything in together," said Saucier.

The lead investigator said he hopes to interview Sanchez and Speaks, but he said right now, they're not talking.

"It's been a long, long process and we've still got a long way to go on it," said Saucier. "I feel that it's progressing well. I do feel confident that there will be a resolution to it."

Sanchez and Speaks are suspects, but they have not been charged with Lockhart's murder. They are being held in separate states on unrelated charges. If you have any information about the Lockhart case, contact the Hancock County Sheriff's Department at [phone] or Crimestoppers.

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Cops Still Seeking Show Footage in Jaren Lockhart Murder Probe

Crime Show Featuring Suspect Sanchez Still an Issue For Hancock Detectives

July 18, 2012

HANCOCK COUNTY, MS—Clues in the Jaren Lockhart murder case could come from a show that aired on two weeks ago, but the raw footage used to produce the program are what detectives say they really want but are having trouble getting.


Detectives from the Hancock County Sheriff's Office say they're dealing with "red tape" as they try to acquire unedited interviews and footage from a July 4th airing of "Final Witness," an ABC crime show, which featured interviews from Margaret Sanchez, one of two suspects in the June murder and dismemberment of Jaren Lockhart, the 23-year-old New Orleans exotic dancer who disappeared after a shift at the Bourbon Street strip club where she worked. Sanchez, 28, was featured on "Final Witness" as an interviewee on the 2006 murder and dismemberment of her friend Addie Hall.

Detectives say that Sanchez knew two women in the French Quarter murdered in such a similar way is a "coincidence" which "can't be ignored."

Hancock County chief deputy Don Bass says his sheriff's office has tried to subpoena the video, but learned the show's production company doesn't legally have to turn over their material.

Bass says Hancock County's District Attorney's office is working to get a New York state subpoena for the footage.

"I'm very interested," said Bass. "How many people know two people in their lives (who were) murdered, dismembered and decapitated?"

A voicemail message requesting comment from show representatives was left Wednesday night by WGNO News.

Sanchez and her boyfriend, Terry Speaks are the prime suspects in Lockhart's killing, and remain in custody of authorities on unrelated charges.

They have not been formally charged with the murder.

www.abc26.com/news/local/wgno_finalwitfolo-071812,0,6235155.story

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Suspect in Bourbon Street dancer murder case appears in court

Posted on July 24, 2012 at 5:38 PM
Updated Tuesday, Jul 24 at 5:41 PM

NEW ORLEANS -- The case against a woman suspected in the murder of a Bourbon Street dancer can move forward.

A Tangipahoa Parish judge ruled Tuesday that authorities have probable cause to pursue Margaret Sanchez for allegedly harboring a sex offender.

That sex offender is Terry Speaks, the other suspect in Jaren Lockhart's murder and dismemberment, though neither has been arrested in that case.

On Tuesday, Sanchez headed to court in Amite with her blue hair half grown out, braided and in pigtails. Both in the jail van and in the courtroom Sanchez appeared to be in a back-and-forth mood, sometimes laughing, other times crying.

Tangipahoa Parish Detective Mike Moore testified at the preliminary exam about the night Sanchez and Speaks were pulled over last month. It was days after Lockhart's body parts started washing ashore in Mississippi, and after a surveillance video of Sanchez and Speaks with Lockhart was plastered across the New Orleans area.

The detective said Speaks lied about his identity to authorities several times before running from the car Sanchez was driving. He also said Sanchez lied about the fact they were married.

However, Moore said Sanchez admitted to authorities she knew Speaks had a history in North Carolina, and that he may have a warrant there. The detective repeated to the court that Sanchez never indicated she knew Speaks was a sex offender.

Prosecutors argued Sanchez's lies to authorities meant she was trying to prevent Speaks from getting in trouble, and Judge Brenda Ricks agreed, saying the state showed probable cause for continuing with any charges against Sanchez for harboring a sex offender.

"The standard's very low in terms of what the court has to find to hold somebody over for trial. The judge listened to the evidence put on by the state, certainly we took a contrary position and the judge found probable cause," said Sanchez's Attorney, Allen Harvey.

Sanchez's father said, off camera, he had nothing to say that could help his daughter and he was surprised the judge couldn't see the case against Sanchez is weak.

The district attorney's office has yet to file the harboring charge, but has until the middle of August to do so.

The district attorney's office says it has yet to receive the charges from the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office. When it does, they will be reviewed before a decision is made on officially filing those charges. In the meantime, Sanchez remains in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on a $35,000 bond.

"If the District Attorney does not file a bill of information charging her with anything as a result of this arrest, then we'll file motions to have her released from jail, if the DA does file charges, then the case will proceed in normal fashion," Harvey said.

Sanchez has already pleaded no contest to a number of traffic-related charges from the June 13 stop, including resisting arrest.

Speaks is in federal custody facing a charge of failing to register as a sex offender in North Carolina.

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Judge holds probable cause hearing in N.O. dancer murder

AMITE, La. (AP) —A state district court judge has found probable cause to keep a woman —one of two suspects in the death and dismemberment of a New Orleans dancer —in custody on a count of harboring a sex offender.

Tangipahoa Parish sheriff's Detective Mike Moore testified during Tuesday's hearing that defendant Margaret Sanchez, 28, of Kenner, referred to alleged slaying accomplice Terry Christopher Speaks, 39, by two aliases the night of the couple's arrest in Tangipahoa Parish and told officers she knew Speaks had "a history or a warrant" in North Carolina.

The Public Defender's Office argued there was no proof Sanchez knew Speaks was a sex offender, but public defender Reggie McIntyre said afterward that state District Judge Brenda Bedsole Ricks "was kinda put into a spot where this was the only decision she could make."

Sanchez and Speaks were arrested June 12 following a traffic stop near Loranger, Moore said.

The couple had been identified in a surveillance video leaving the Bourbon Street club where dancer Jaren Lockhart, 22, worked around 2 a.m. June 6, the day Lockhart was reported missing, investigators said.

Lockhart's partial remains floated ashore on several Mississippi beaches, beginning June 7 in Hancock County.

After his capture, Speaks continued to misidentify himself for more than an hour, giving two phony Social Security numbers and a phony North Carolina driver's license number, until he finally admitted his real name and date of birth, Moore said.

Officers then identified Speaks by photograph as a sex offender wanted in North Carolina, California and by the U.S. Marshals Service for failure to register as a sex offender, Moore testified.

Speaks was booked with several counts, among them being a fugitive from the U.S. Marshals Service.

He later was transferred into federal custody and extradited to North Carolina, authorities said.

Sanchez was booked with failure to signal and resisting an officer by providing misinformation, and was held in Tangipahoa Parish Jail in lieu of $1,500 bail.

The harboring count was added June 18, and Sanchez's bail was raised to $250,000, then reduced to $35,000, court records show.

Sanchez pleaded no contest to the traffic and resisting counts July 12 and was given credit for time served, District Attorney Scott Perrilloux said.

Perrilloux has not formally charged Sanchez with the harboring count, but has until 60 days from the arrest, or Aug. 17, to do so, McIntyre said.

Defense attorneys are considering filing an appeal, McIntyre said.

Sanchez and Speaks remain the primary suspects in the slaying of Lockhart though neither has been arrested in that case, investigator Glenn Grannan, of the Hancock County, Miss., Sheriff's Office, has said.

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Authorities releasing woman linked to Jaren ..

Aug 10, 2012

Margaret Sanchez's public defender says his client is being released from the Tangipahoa Parish jail.

The 28-year-old woman was named a suspect in the murder of Bourbon Street dancer Jaren Lockhart. Sanchez has been behind bars in Tangipahoa Parish since June 12, the night she and fellow murder suspect Terry Speaks were arrested. Sanchez was charged with resisting arrest.

Sanchez was charged later with harboring a sex offender, a felony offense. Her bond has been set at $250,000.

But Friday, public defender Allen Harvey told FOX 8 News that the District Attorney's office had sent a "rejection letter" Friday, indicating Sanchez would not face the harboring charge, after all.

A spokesperson for the Tangipahoa Sheriff's Office says Sanchez was either released or in the process of being released.

Lockhart was murdered, dismembered and decapitated after leaving her job at Temptations night club on Bourbon street June 6. Her remains washed up on several beaches in Hancock County, Mississippi beginning in late June.

39-year-old Speaks remains in federal custody at last report, charged with failing to properly register as a sex offender. He was convicted of a sex crime in North Carolina in 2003.

Chief Deputy Don Bass of Hancock County Sheriff's Office, which is leading the murder investigation, says he's not surprised Sanchez was being released. But he says both Sanchez and Speaks remain suspects in Lockhart's slaying.

"My investigation is still active," Bass tells FOX 8 News.

Neither Sanchez nor Speaks currently face formal murder charges. Bass says his investigators are still waiting for results from forensic testing by the FBI, performed at Sanchez's Kenner home and car -- then, he tells us, they'll determine how to proceed.

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Suspect in dancer's killing pleads guilty to sex-offender charge

Published: September 13, 2012

HANCOCK COUNTY -- Terry Speaks' guilty plea to a crime unrelated to the killing of New Orleans dancer Jaren Lockhart means he will remain in custody until he's sentenced, while investigators try to solve the murder of the dismembered young woman.

Speaks pleaded guilty Sept. 4 to failing to register as a sex offender. He is being held for a Dec. 13 sentencing in federal court in Winston-Salem, N.C. Speaks, 39, faces up to 10 years in prison and could receive post-release supervision for five years to life.

"We anticipated that," said Glenn Grannan, chief investigator of the Hancock County Sheriff's Office.

Speaks and his girlfriend, Margaret Sanchez, 28, of Kenner, La., are still persons of interest in the killing of Lockhart, who disappeared after leaving her job at a Bourbon Street club June 6. Her body parts began to wash ashore here the next day.

Speaks and Sanchez are still "our primary suspects," Grannan said. The FBI crime lab last week said it would place a higher priority on processing items gathered as possible evidence in Lockhart's killing, he said.

Speaks and Sanchez were arrested on unrelated charges in a traffic stop, but detectives said they refused to talk about Lockhart.

Sanchez could not be reached for comment Thursday. A recorded message said her telephone number has been disconnected.

Speaks had been sought on a federal warrant on the sex-offender charge.

He was convicted April 17, 2006, of indecent liberties with a child in Surry County, N.C. Court papers show he signed a form in December 2008, before his release from prison, stating he was required to register as a sex offender for up to 10 years. A court document shows Speaks moved to Philadelphia and worked there from May 2011 until September 2011, but did not notify authorities.

How long he had lived in Louisiana isn't clear.

Lockhart, 23, was a single mother of a 3-year-old girl.

Speaks and Sanchez were linked to her murder after authorities said they found surveillance pictures of them leaving the Temptations club with Lockhart when she got off work June 6. Investigators said it was Speaks and Sanchez, who dyed their hair before their arrests.

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Detectives discuss challenges in case of slain French Quarter dancer

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Posted on October 17, 2012 at 10:21 PM Updated yesterday at 10:40 PM

NEW ORLEANS -- It’s been more than four months since Jaren Lockhart's dismembered body washed up along the beaches of Hancock County, Mississippi, and detectives there are still trying to find out who killed her, and why.

Investigator Steve Saucier, with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office, said his team has run into plenty of obstacles along the way.

"There's not a lot of people talking about this. There's not a lot of people that want to come forward, that want to speak to us, and we urge those people to come to us," he said.

Lockhart was last seen alive leaving Temptations, the nightclub on Bourbon Street where she worked, in the early morning hours of June 6.

Surveillance images showed her with a couple, identified by police as Terry Speaks and Margaret Sanchez. Authorities arrested the two on unrelated charges.

Sanchez was eventually released, while Speaks remains behind bars in North Carolina on charges of failing to register as a sex offender.

While both Speaks and Sanchez remain suspects, authorities are still trying to piece together clues.

"It's definitely been one of the most challenging cases I've ever worked on. It is without a doubt, the most heinous case I've ever worked on,” Saucier said.

Saucier said evidence has been hard to come by, but items have been collected through the course of the investigation.

That evidence, officials said, is still being processed by the FBI in Virginia.

As investigators chase some promising new leads, Saucier said he recently decided to visit Lockhart's mom.

"One of my main goals was to reassure her that this still was an active case, that it wasn't a cold case, that we were actively working on it," he said. "We don't want to leave any stone unturned. We don't want to leave any lead unfollowed."

Saucier believes his team is on the right track, and he says they’re more determined than ever to bring justice to Jaren’s family.

"Once we get to know who (Jaren) was -- the mother she was, the friend she was, the child she was -- it's very difficult at times, because you want some resolution and I will not stop until it is resolved," he said.

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If Miss. DA moves forward with Jaren Lockhart case, arrests could follow

Hancock County authorities to present Jaren Lockhart case to district attorney

Published 11:51 AM CDT Apr 12, 2013

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. —Officials with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office said that arrests could be made if the District Attorney’s Office decides to move forward in the case against two people named as suspects in the gruesome death of a Bourbon Street dancer.

The Hancock County Sheriff's Office told WDSU it plans to meet with the District Attorney's Office on Monday.

As WDSU first reported on Thursday, the Sheriff's Office had planned to meet with the DA on moving forward with the case, but a date on when that would happen wasn't initially clear.

The remains of 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart washed ashore in Hancock County, Miss., last June. She was reported missing days before her torso washed ashore on a beach.

Lockhart was last seen on surveillance video inside a French Quarter men's club days before her disappearance. She was seen on recordings accompanied by 28-year-old Margaret Sanchez and 39-year-old Terry Speaks.

The couple was taken into custody in Tangipahoa Parish on a traffic stop.

Sanchez was eventually released, and Speaks, who is a convicted sex offender, was extradited to North Carolina where he was wanted for violating rules related to his conviction. Speaks was eventually taken to a federal prison in New York.

Neither Sanchez nor Speaks were charged in connection with Lockhart's death.

However, if the district attorney’s office decides there is probable cause to move forward with a charge, arrests could follow. A grand jury would still decide whether to indict anyone on the charge.

Investigators said they feel they have enough evidence to move forward with a case, but it may not bring a charge of murder. It is possible, instead, that initial charges against Sanchez and Speaks could focus on desecration of a human corpse.


In Mississippi, all felony cases must go before a grand jury. Eighteen citizens will decide whether to bring charges -- whatever they are -- against Sanchez and Speaks. There is no timeline for when that could happen.


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Meeting between investigators, DA in Jaren Lockhart case postponed

No date set for meeting

UPDATED 12:24 PM CDT Apr 19, 2013


HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. —A planned meeting between Hancock County, Miss., investigators and the district attorney’s office about possible charges in the death and dismemberment of a Bourbon Street dancer has been postponed for a third time.

IMAGES: JAREN LOCKHART INVESTIGATION TIMELINE

Jaren Lockhart was reported missing on June 6. Her torso washed ashore on a beach in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and other parts of her severed body washed up days later. Authorities in Hancock County, Miss., are looking for her killer. This timeline follows the events of the investigation.

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MEETING WITH DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN JAREN LOCKHART CASE...

Investigators in Hancock County, Miss., said a meeting with the district attorney in the case surrounding the killing of Jaren Lockhart was rescheduled for Friday.

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Authorities were scheduled to meet this week to present their case in the homicide investigation of Jaren Lockhart.

Initially, they were set to meet on Monday, but that was postponed until Wednesday. Then, that meeting was rescheduled until Friday.

However, authorities told WDSU on Friday that scheduling conflicts has forced the meeting to be postponed again.

No date has been set.

Lockhart was reported missing in June 2012. Days later, her body parts washed ashore on beaches in Mississippi.

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Lockhart was last seen in surveillance video with two people at a gentlemen’s club in the French Quarter – Margaret Sanchez and Terry Speaks.

Speaks and Sanchez were eventually arrested in Tangipahoa Parish in a traffic stop and held on unrelated charges.

Speaks, a convicted sex offender, was extradited and eventually taken to a federal prison in New York on violations of failing to register as a sex offender. Sanchez was eventually released.

No one has been charged in Lockhart’s death.


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