Obscura: A True Crime Podcast · Justin Drown

SERIAL KILLER: The Bayou Strangler (Part 1 of 2) | Houma, LA 1997-2006

March 3, 2026·1 hr 1 min·5 clips

Part 1 of 2 in the story of Ronald Dominique, the Bayou Strangler — a gay man from Thibodaux, Louisiana who targeted marginalized young men across six southern Louisiana parishes between 1997 and 2006. The episode traces Dominique's troubled upbringing, his prior arrests for rape that failed to result in conviction, and the gradual accumulation of victims whose deaths went largely unnoticed by law enforcement and media due to their race, poverty, drug use, and LGBTQ identities. The podcast frames the case through the academic lens of 'legitimate victimization,' arguing that societal indifference to 'undeserving' victims allowed Dominique to kill for nearly a decade before arrest.

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