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.
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On a cool, crisp day in November of 1975, sixteen year old Ricky Dale Mire was found bludgeoned to death in an irrigation canal south of Crowley, Louisiana.
Dead for almost 34 years, yet so alive to those of us from Crowley, who grew up with the story of Ricky's death in our minds.
Ricky was a friend to my family, he "babysat" me and my brother, that is how I knew him, I was six years old when he died yet thirty-four years later his memory remains and his death saddens.
Reconciliation? Closure? Or reverence to Ricky's memory? I believe it is in combinaton...all of these things that give rise to this "blog". It is preservation too, the preservation of those memories we ponder from the innocent crevices of our childhood minds.
Whatever information I have about his death now (trial transcripts, witness affidavits, polygraph results and Tommy Spell’s pardon submission), I will attempt to share here.
Anything that is learned or failed to be learned will not bring Ricky back. This exercise is for understanding alone.
Understanding for why death, lost youth, injustice and all those larger than life issues we think we know – make us dwell so long and so hard.
On a cool, crisp day in November of 1975, sixteen year old Ricky Dale Mire was found bludgeoned to death in an irrigation canal south of Crowley, Louisiana.
Dead for almost 34 years, yet so alive to those of us from Crowley, who grew up with the story of Ricky's death in our minds.
Ricky was a friend to my family, he "babysat" me and my brother, that is how I knew him, I was six years old when he died yet thirty-four years later his memory remains and his death saddens.
Reconciliation? Closure? Or reverence to Ricky's memory? I believe it is in combinaton...all of these things that give rise to this "blog". It is preservation too, the preservation of those memories we ponder from the innocent crevices of our childhood minds.
Whatever information I have about his death now (trial transcripts, witness affidavits, polygraph results and Tommy Spell’s pardon submission), I will attempt to share here.
Anything that is learned or failed to be learned will not bring Ricky back. This exercise is for understanding alone.
Understanding for why death, lost youth, injustice and all those larger than life issues we think we know – make us dwell so long and so hard.
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