THE GRUESOME, TERRIFYING TALE OF LAFAYETTE SERIAL AXE MURDERER CLEMENTINE BARNABET

THE GRUESOME, TERRIFYING TALE OF LAFAYETTE SERIAL AXE MURDERER CLEMENTINE BARNABET

There is a little-known slice out of Lafayette and Acadiana's history that is so horrifying and gruesome, it makes the Charles Manson murders seem like The Mickey Mouse Club...seriously.

Lafayette serial killer Clementine Barnabet is believed to have violently murdered "at least" 35 people in the Acadiana area and Texas, but that's only a small part of her gruesome, terrifying local legacy.

was born in St. Martinville in 1884 to Nina Porter and Raymond Barnabet. The Barnabet family of seven moved to Lafayette in 1909 according to Wikipedia 

There is a little-known slice out of Lafayette and Acadiana's history that is so horrifying and gruesome, it makes the Charles Manson murders seem like The Mickey Mouse Club...seriously.

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Lafayette serial killer Clementine Barnabet is believed to have violently murdered "at least" 35 people in the Acadiana area and Texas, but that's only a small part of her gruesome, terrifying local legacy.

Clementine Barnabet

Clementine Barnabet was born in St. Martinville in 1884 to Nina Porter and Raymond Barnabet. The Barnabet family of seven moved to Lafayette in 1909 according to wikipedia.com.

Shortly after the Barnabets moved to Lafayette, a string of gruesome murders began in the Acadiana area.

Not only in Acadiana, but in East Texas as well.

All of the towns where the murders took place shared a commonality of being located along the Southern Pacific railroad line.

From wikipedia.com -

"Between 1911 and 1912, in towns along the Southern Pacific railroad line running through Louisiana and Texas, a minimum of twelve African-American families were murdered in their homes."

Location wasn't the only common thread authorities discovered investigating the murders. Reports show that all the murders occurred at night, and in every instance, an axe was used to fracture the skulls of the victims.

In some of the murders, authorities found buckets left at the scene that had been used to collect the victim's blood.

To make matters even more tragic, the murders, often referred to as "The Midnight Axe Murders", wiped out entire families. Parents, children, even newborn babies were heartlessly, gruesomely slaughtered with an axe.

Even more bizarre, in the investigation of the Broussard family of five killings in Lake Charles, authorities found the three children's fingers had been spread and held open with pieces of wood.

They also found a bible verse written in blood on a wall inside the home.

But, who could be responsible for such vile and violent murders?

Victims Of Clementine Barnabet

According to nydailynews.com "all the victims were mutilated. 'Heads and limbs would be separated from the torso and strewn all over the house,' reported the International News Service."

In all, Barnabet was responsible for 20 victims right here in Acadiana and South Louisiana.

It's believed Barnabet's victims ranged from Lafayette to as far West as San Antonio, Tx, but below are her reported Acadiana and Louisiana victims from bestofswla.com.

Feb. 11, 1910: Lake Charles. Minnie Hodge and her daughter were killed. The Hodges lived two blocks from the house where the Broussards would be killed two years later.

In 1911, Clementine Barnabet's father, Raymond Barnabet was arrested for the murder of the Andrus family in Lafayette.

Raymond Barnabet "was released for insufficient evidence, but re-arrested months later and ultimately convicted of the Andrus murders" according to wikipedia.com

Clementine, only 17 at the time, and her brother Zepherin reportedly testified against their father Raymond Barbanet "claiming he had returned home with bloodied clothes and boasting of the Andrus murders."

While Raymond was in prison, Norbert and Asima Randall and their four children were murdered in Lafayette, all six killed with an axe in a similar fashion to how the Andrus family was murdered.

Obviously, Raymond Barnabet couldn't have done it. He was in prison.

Reports show that Clementine lived only a few blocks away, and investigators discovered blood on the fence latch of her house and discovered bloody clothes found in her bedroom.

After becoming the prime suspects in the Randall family murders, Clementine and her brother Zepherinn were taken into custody.

While both were in police custody, the savage axe murders continued in Acadiana, leading authorities to question their involvement in the Randall murders.

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