KSLA
May 19, 2014
A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with the murders of two women in Bossier City last weekend.
26-year-old Brandan Santrell Butler of Bossier City was taken into custody shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday by authorities in Bogalusa, Louisiana and arrested on a warrant from Bossier City Police charging him with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of 24-year-old Jacqueline Darlene Beadle and 26-year old Karyl Ann Cox.
Bossier City spokesman Mark Natale says detectives with the Bossier City Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit secured the warrant overnight for Butler’s arrest after evidence they obtained in the course of their investigation linked Butler to the murders.
Residents in the area say they are glad someone is locked up. “Its difficult,” says one neighbor. “It’s been extremely difficult, knowing that not only did we lose two beautiful young women, everyone in the area lost their sense of security. We’re scared every night.” That fear lead this woman to ask us to not reveal her identity.
She told KSLA News 12 that Butler attended the victims’ memorial on Thursday. “The audacity to come to it knowing that… after you had done something like that, I wouldn’t be able to face myself after doing something like that much less the family and friends of the people I did it to. It’s horrible.”
According to Bogalusa Police Chief Joe Culpepper, a vehicle matching a description provided by Bossier City police was spotted outside a local eatery, where Butler was taken into custody without incident by his officers and Washington Parish deputies.
Culpepper says a weapon was also recovered, but it is not known if it is related to this case.