Authorities Search For Clues in Boy's Murder

Authorities Search for Clues in Boy’s Murder, Crowley Post Signal
Thursday, November 13, 1975

CROWLEY, La. - Authorities from the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Department and the Crowley City Police are continuing their investigation into the bludgeoning death of Ricky Dale Mire, 16, a student at Crowley High School whose body was found in an irrigation canal south of Crowley.

Investigators from the two departments continued their search today for clues into the incident which reportedly occurred at about 5 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. The young man was last seen at a local drive-in at approximately 4:15 p.m. The fatal beating took place on a country road about two miles southeast of town.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in the Geesey-Ferguson Chapel with burial to follow in the Ebenezer Cemetery.
Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brown of Crowley; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gladue Mire of Crowley; four brothers, Harold Mire, Michael Mire and Walter Brown, Jr., all of Crowley, and Lawrence Mire of Rayne; five sisters, Brenda Gayle Trahan of Crowley, Mary J. Duhon of Crowley, Nordine Mire of New Orleans, Rose Brown and Michelle Brown, both of Crowley.