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Louisiana daughter says a medium led her to missing mother’s body as she accuses sheriff of botching investigation

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May 10, 2024

Louisiana daughter says a medium led her to missing mother’s body as she accuses sheriff of botching investigation

A Louisiana daughter has accused the local sheriff’s office of failing to fully investigate her mother’s death last year after a psychic medium led her to her mom’s half-clothed body in the woods.

The mother of three and grandmother of seven, Theresa Jones, was reported missing on Feb. 2, 2023.

Her oldest daughter Ashley Deese spent hours desperately searching for her 56-year-old mom that day and the next day the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office and a K9 unit spent more time searching for Jones, but she was nowhere to be found.

Three days after she vanished, Deese and her sister Brittany reached out to a psychic medium in Wisconsin who has a large following thanks to her success in helping to find missing people, KNOE reported.

The medium, Carolyn Clapper, talked to the sisters on the phone for 45 minutes, sharing step-by-step, detailed instructions on where to find their mom, Deese said.

“There would be a log, [Jones] kept showing me this pronounced log, a very big log in the woods. It wasn’t just little twigs and sticks, it was a log, a huge one, you know you hit this log is basically what she said, you get to this log and my body will be there. There’s water, I saw a creek,” Clapper told KNOE.

Deese set out into the woods near her mother’s house the next morning and spotted a large log.

“It’s like I envisioned what I had heard on the phone last night, that was the landmark, that was the log. So I immediately got ill, shaky, and sick, and started vomiting,” she said.

Jones was found face down and partially nude in Edmonds Creek. She only had a top on and no bottoms or underwear.

Deese called the sheriff who began investigating but never did a rape test or scraped the woman’s fingernails for possible DNA evidence.

“So there’s a woman deceased facedown in a creek, nude. All she had on was a top, no undergarments, nude. There was no rape kit, no scraping of the fingernails. I’m bothered by that,” Deese said.

Union Parish Sheriff Dusty Gates confirmed that neither test was done on Jones’ body in an interview with KNOE. He told the station that his office could have requested either test but he didn’t know if his office ever requested those tests.

The sheriff’s office reportedly told Deese that there were no signs of disturbance in the area where her mother’s body was found so investigators didn’t feel a rape kit or fingernail scraping was needed. The investigators believe her body was nude from the waist down because her bottoms were pulled off by the force of the water.

“This is an assumption or a guess, it might be a good guess, but nonetheless if there’s no clothes, shouldn’t we find the clothing shouldn’t we prove that, shouldn’t there be science behind these ideas,” Clapper said.

The medical examiner — who also didn’t do those tests — ruled that Jones’ death was accidental. She died drowning, with methamphetamine intoxication a contributing factor in her death, according to the autopsy.

Jones had a large amount of meth in her system at the time of her death but her daughter said she had been sober for 20 years after a cocaine addiction.

“It doesn’t line up, it doesn’t make sense. And if someone can make it make sense, I will sit down and listen,” Deese said.

The incident report says that Deese told deputies that her mom was back on meth and marijuana and suffered from mental illness, but “refuses to take her medication like she is supposed to.”

But Deese said she never said those things.

“I also feel that as soon as it was known that there was drugs involved, and even a history of drugs, I felt like the sobriety didn’t matter. And I feel like since there was drugs involved, it’s just one more off the street,” she said.

She also criticized the sheriff’s office for failing to speak to Clapper who has helped provide info to other law enforcement agencies that helped find missing people in the past. She said Clapper knew things about the condition of her mother’s body and toxicology report before each was revealed.

“Even if they don’t believe in psychics or they’re skeptical, you know, they still follow up on leads, so they’ll still question me if I know too much about a case and they can’t really explain how I would know the details that I know about a case, it’s their job to follow up,” the medium said.

Both she and Deese pleaded with the deputies to speak to Clapper repeatedly.

“For months, for months I tried getting in touch, for months Ashley tried following up with them, lending my name and my contact information. Months have gone by, nearly a year and a half now,” Clapper said.

Jones’ case was closed in August 2023.

But her daughter doesn’t believe her death was an accident.

“I do suspect foul play. I haven’t been proved that it wasn’t. And I will suspect that until I’m proved that it’s not,” Deeves said.

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Cagin’ the Cajuns: No. 3 Texas A&M Aggies Punch Ticket To Super Regionals With Win Over Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns

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June 3, 2024

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Cagin’ the Cajuns: No. 3 Texas A&M Aggies Punch Ticket To Super Regionals With Win Over Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns

What better way to get one step closer to glory than in front of your home crowd?

The No. 3 Texas A&M Aggies took down the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns 9-4 Sunday night to win the College Station Regional at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park, successfully defending their home turf with an undefeated record throughout the weekend.

The Aggies struck first in the third inning with an RBI single by Braden Montgomery scoring Travis Chestnut.

Louisiana would knot the game 1-1 the next half-inning, but home runs by Caden Sorrell and Montgomery in the top of the fourth inning essentially sealed the deal for the Maroon and White, giving them a 5-1 lead.

The lead was insured by a home run in the fifth inning by Hayden Schott, and a seventh inning bomb by Ali Camarillo set a new Aggie baseball record for most team home runs in a single season.

In the top of the ninth inning (the Aggies were designated the road team), Gavin Grahovac, the SEC Freshman of the Year, launched a ball into the right field seats to score two runs and take ownership of A&M’s rookie home run record, dethroning Jace LaViolette’s record set just last season.

In Louisiana’s half of the ninth, Louisiana mustered three runs off of base hits and a wild pitch, but the Aggies’ lead proved too great.

Shane Sdao captured a well-deserved win for Texas A&M pitching 5.1 innings, allowing six hits, one earned run, no walks and six strikeouts.

Following the win, outfielder Braden Montgomery was named the MVP of the College Station Regional as he went 2-6 with a home run, a single, and 4 RBI.

The Aggies will use this week to celebrate the weekend and await the Oregon Ducks, who will make a visit to College Station for the NCAA Super Regionals that will start on Friday. Texas A&M and Oregon will battle in a best-of-three series, with the winner moving on to Omaha for the Men’s College World Series.

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Louisiana baseball vs. Texas A&M score updates in NCAA regional bracket

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8 hours ago

June 2, 2024

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Louisiana baseball vs. Texas A&M score updates in NCAA regional bracket

Louisiana baseball is two wins away from a regional championship.

To do it, though, the Ragin’ Cajuns will have to upset one of the best teams in college baseball. UL will face the College Station Regional host Texas A&M Aggies, the third seed in the country.

What channel is Louisiana vs. Texas A&M on today?

Louisiana and Texas A&M will not be on traditional TV, but it can be streamed on ESPN+.

Louisiana vs. Texas A&M start time

Sunday night’s game will start at 7 p.m. Central time.

Louisiana vs. Texas prediction

You can check our predictions for Sunday’s game here.

Louisiana vs. Texas A&M location

Louisiana and Texas A&M will play all their regional games at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park in College Station, Texas.

Louisiana vs. Texas A&M lineups

Lineups will be posted here as soon as they’re announced.

Louisiana baseball schedule 2024

Louisiana enters Sunday’s game at 42-19. You can read the full Ragin’ Cajuns baseball schedule by clicking here.

Louisiana Ragin Cajuns pitcher David Christi (6) throws against Texas Longhorns infielder Jared Thomas (9) during the first round in the NCAA baseball College Station Regional May 31, 2024, at Olsen Field College Station.

Texas A&M baseball schedule 2024

Texas enters Sunday’s game at 46-13. You can read the full Aggies baseball schedule by clicking here.

Louisiana baseball roster

You can check out the Louisiana roster by clicking here.

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Texas A&M baseball roster

You can check out the Texas A&M roster by clicking here.

College Station Regional schedule

The College Station Regional started on Friday and runs through Sunday, with Monday available for an if-necessary game. For a full schedule, click here.

More Louisiana Baseball: Louisiana baseball: Get scouting reports for Ragin’ Cajuns regional opponents here

College Station Regional bracket

Texas A&M, Louisiana, Texas, and Grambling State are the four teams in the regional. For a full bracket, click here.

College Station Regional tickets

You can get tickets for the College Station Regional by clicking here.

2024 College World Series bracket

You can look at the 2024 NCAA baseball tournament bracket by clicking here.

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How to watch Texas vs. Louisiana in the College Station Regional

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June 2, 2024

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How to watch Texas vs. Louisiana in the College Station Regional

The No. 3 seed Texas Longhorns and No. 2 seed Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns meet for the second time in the College Station Regional and the third time in the last two postseasons with the loser heading home and the winner advancing to face the No. 3 national seed Texas A&M Aggies at 8 p.m. Central on Sunday evening, the first of two games the winner would need to secure against the Aggies to win the regional.

On Friday, Texas used a seven-run fifth inning to blow open a close game in the convincing 12-5 win against Louisiana that included a grand slam by Longhorns shortstop Jalin Flores. Louisiana bounced back in the early game on Saturday by beating Grambling 12-5, scoring four runs in the second and four more runs in the third to take control early against the No. 4 seed in the regional, quickly eliminated.

With the Horns using right-hander Andre Duplantier in the first two games and extending right-hander Gage Boehm to 76 pitches over four innings of Saturday’s 4-2 loss to A&M in 11 innings, Pierce may not have either available for the first game on Sunday, putting some extra pressure on left-hander Ace Whitehead (4-1, 4.33 ERA), named the starter by Pierce after Saturday’s defeat.

Louisiana head coach Matt Deggs will counter with left-hander Chase Morgan, the Sun Belt Freshman of the Year after posting a 4-3 record with a 3.29 ERA by holding opponents to a .207 batting average.

So getting past the Ragin’ Cajuns once again to set up the first of two potential rematches against the Aggies is going to be a difficult chore on Sunday afternoon.