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Tegna’s Vault Studios is back with a new unsolved mystery in season two of the series, titled Beyond Bardstown: Lacombe. This season Vault partners with WWL-TV in New Orleans and heads to the small community of Lacombe, Louisiana to ask: who killed Nanette Krentel?
On July 14, 2017, the St. Tammany Parish Fire Department responded to a blaze at the home Krentel shared with her husband, then Acting Chief of St. Tammany Fire District 12. In the ashes, Nanette Krentel’s body was burned so badly that DNA evidence was used to identify her remains. Yet the next day, the coroner’s autopsy revealed a shocking discovery: Nanette Krentel had been shot in the head and was dead before someone intentionally started the fire in her home.
The podcast is hosted by Katie Moore, a six-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and anchor at WWL-TV. Moore has an in-depth knowledge of the case and has produced several investigative reports for WWL.