14-year-old Houma Girl Found In Ponchatoula Woods Died By Homicide, Sheriff Says

Tangipahoa Parish investigators have dominated the June dying of a 14-year-old lady whose physique was discovered dumped in a secluded part of North Shore woods a murder.

Detectives within the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Workplace started investigating the dying of Taysia Lynn Folse, of Houma, on June 30 after a driver noticed her physique in a swampy and wooded space exterior of Ponchatoula. The preliminary investigation wrapped on Aug. 12, with investigators figuring out she had died by murder, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned Wednesday.

{The teenager} had been lacking since February of 2021, in keeping with news reports, when she ran away from the Raintree Household Companies Heart in New Orleans. Investigators haven’t made public her reason behind dying, and the investigation stays lively.

Pictures launched by the sheriff’s workplace present a tattoo on Folse’s left arm of what gave the impression to be a clown, with the phrases “smile now, cry later.” Anybody who acknowledges the tattoo ought to contact investigators within the sheriff’s workplace, officers mentioned.

An obituary printed in July within the Houma Occasions remembered Folse as “a humorous, candy, loving youngster and was deeply cherished by all who knew her.”

The dying blindsided her household.

“We didn’t know we had been going to get her again in a bag, ? We thought she was going to nonetheless have air in her lungs,” Heather Folse, Taysia’s mom, told a New Orleans news station in July.

James Finn writes for The Advocate as a Report For America corps member. E mail him at [email protected] or observe him on Twitter @RJamesFinn.

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