True Crime Haunting: The LaLaurie Mansion

On April 10, 1834, a fire broke out at the lavish French Quarter mansion of Delphine and Dr. Louis LaLaurie. What rescuers found behind the locked doors of the upstairs servant's wing shocked and enraged the people of New Orleans. What drove a spoiled socialite and a mild-mannered physician to such depravity? In this episode, we cover the background of the two, the events leading up to the tragedy, and what became of them and their victims in the aftermath, as well as hauntings at the LaLaurie mansion.  
 
Madame Lalaurie: Mistress of the Haunted House, by Carolyn Morrow Long, University Press of Florida,  2012.

www.ghostcitytours.com

Journey Into Darkness: Ghosts & Vampires of New Orleans, by Kalila Katherina Smith

https://www.southernhomemagazine.com/2018/02/13/a-home-in-the-big-easy-with-a-breezy-attitude/

https://64parishes.org/mistress-haunted-house

https://www.neworleans.com/things-to-do/history/history-of-new-orleans-by-period/

https://journals.openedition.org/miranda/10597

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie

https://www.hancockcountyhistoricalsociety.com/history/new-evidence---jean-blanque

https://www.academia.edu/35351957/THE_MACARTY_PLANTATION_IN_NEW_ORLEANS_BYWATER_NEIGHBORHOOD

The McCarty Plantation in New Orleans’ Bywater Neighborhood, by Carolyn Morrow Long

Mad Madame LaLaurie, by Victoria Cosner Love & Lorelei Shannon

Proud winner of the Nobel "I Tried" Ribbon in Literature.

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