A Massachusetts man already indicted for raping three Louisiana children 40 years ago is now a suspect in the 1978 kidnapping and murder of one of them.
72-year-old Jason Franklin is charged with raping Stephanie Hebert, but is not charged in the 5-year-old Waggaman girl's death. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Capt. Jason Rivarde says the JPSO identified Franklin as a suspect in the spring of 2018. Hebert's remains were found six months after she disappeared from her home in the West Bank suburb of New Orleans.
Franklin is accused of raping the young girl sometime between 1975 and 1977. Franklin is also charged with aggravated rapes of two other children, a boy and girl, during the same period in Jefferson Parish.