Ethan’s article is definitely making the rounds and has generated a great deal of interest to other journalists. Below are links to two recent articles that discuss possible parallels with the new HBO series True Detective (which I have not watched yet).
From the New York Observer: Did the Jeff Davis 8 Inspire True Detective?
The similarities between this high-profile case and the otherwise overly-complicated weirdness of True Detective is no coincidence. Creator and sole writer Nic Pizzolatto grew up 30 minutes away from Jennings in Lake Charles, LA, where the cases were covered extensively by local media.
From uproxx.com: ‘True Detective,’ The Jeff Davis 8, And The 5 Horsemen Theory
Earlier this month, Medium published a very lengthy, fascinating, and engrossing piece by Ethan Brown on the Jeff Davis 8, the unsolved murders from 1995 to 2010 of 8 women from Jeff Davis Parish, crimes that have long been connected to a serial killer. Before the piece, there was some suggestion that Nic Pizzolatto had perhaps gotten inspiration for True Detective from the Jeff Davis 8, and as a huge twist emerged in the narrative of the real-life case, the connection it has to True Detective has picked up more steam.
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