'Who Killed Roxanne' true-crime podcast leads to 4 arrests in decades-old cold case, police say

Four men have been arrested and charged in the 1982 rape and murder of 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp — a case that went cold for more than four decades before DNA testing and a true-crime podcast cracked it open

Four men have been arrested and charged in the 1982 rape and murder of 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp — a case that went cold for more than four decades before DNA testing and a true-crime podcast cracked it open.

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Sharp’s body was discovered on Feb. 12, 1982, dumped near the St. Tammany Parish Fairgrounds in Covington, Louisiana. She had been raped and strangled. Investigators had little physical evidence to work with, and for 43 years, her killers walked free.

In 2023, detectives with the Louisiana State Police’s Covington field office reinterviewed witnesses and potential suspects, conducted an extensive review of the case file, gathered additional evidence and resubmitted original evidence for DNA analysis.