SEX IS DEATH. (Worse than homelessness)

I came to Carthage, where I found myself in the midst of a hissing cauldron of lusts. I had not yet fallen in love, but I was in love with the idea of it, and this feeling that something was missing made me despise myself for not being more anxious to satisfy the need. I began to look around for some object for my love, since I badly wanted to love something. —St. Augustine, Confessions


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It seems ineffective law enforcement and prosecution are death-enablers...

The Daily Comet: Dominique accused of rape before going on alleged killing spree
Ronald Dominique, a suspected serial killer indicted on nine counts of first-degree murder earlier this month, was accused of rape on two separate occasions before he allegedly killed his first victim, according to newspaper reports on Saturday.

In 1993, a Houma man told Thibodaux police that Dominique raped him, but officers chose not to make an arrest, the Daily Comet and the Courier newspapers reported. And in 1996, a Thibodaux man went to the same police officer with an almost identical account of rape at Dominique's hands. Dominique was arrested and jailed, but released three months later and never prosecuted.

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AP: Suspect in Louisiana serial deaths 'a nobody'

Well, he sure is somebody now.

Houma, Louisiana - Short, overweight and suffering from a heart condition, Ronald J. Dominique hardly seemed a threat, much less a serial killer.

A near-broke nobody who lived with his sister before moving into a homeless shelter, he went willingly, leaning heavily on a cane, when officers came to get him last week.

Even with a meek persona, investigators said, Dominique bound and strangled or smothered 23 men and teenage boys in south Louisiana in what the FBI considered its most urgent serial killing case.

Dominique apparently was able to charm his victims into accompanying him, said Les Bonano, director of investigations for the state attorney general's office.

"He'd meet them on the street, walking or riding their bikes, and just start talking to them. He'd offer them a ride or talk them into sex and they'd go with him," Bonano said Tuesday.

Once again, kiddies, we see that disordered sexual desire is death.

Dominique, 42, was arrested Friday at a homeless shelter in Houma and charged with two murders. On Monday, authorities filed nine more counts against him and said more charges were possible.

Dominique was being held without bond at the Terrebonne Parish jail pending a Jan. 17 arraignment. A message seeking comment was left with the parish public defender's office, which was assigned Tuesday to represent him.

Joseph Waitz, the Terrebonne district attorney, said he will seek the death penalty.

Death again. But this time it will be deserved. And he will have a luxury he did not grant his victims: an opportunity to repent and confess before he meets his soul's Judge.

Once investigators began interrogating him, Dominique eagerly claimed credit for the killings, Terrebonne Sheriff Jerry Larpenter said.

"We'd been talking to him just a short period of time and he just started giving it up," Larpenter said. "I don't know what prompted it. Maybe he just wanted to clear his conscience."

Dominique is believed to have raped his victims before killing them, Larpenter said.

"He's nothing on the street, a nobody. But here he had power. Once he got those ropes on them, they were his," he said.

Until the week of his arrest, Dominique was living with his sister in Bayou Blue, a rural area near Houma, a Cajun community of 32,000 surrounded by bayous and sugar cane fields, where many work in commercial fishing or the oil industry. His camper was parked behind a trailer covered by a broad, wood roof.

Dominique hit the shelter almost penniless. Phillip "Pappy" Breaux, who lives at the shelter, said Dominique told him he had enough money to pay for a room for five or six nights at $10 a night.

"If he hadn't been arrested he could have been here 20 years and nobody would have paid any attention to him," Breaux said. "He complained about his health some, but that was about it."

Investigators said Dominique was charged at least seven times and jailed twice over the years, mostly for minor offenses such as traffic violations, simple battery and disturbing the peace by offensive language.

But one case apparently planted the seed for his later crimes, according to Larpenter.

On Aug. 25, 1996, Dominique was arrested on a charge of forcible rape. He was booked into jail, but the case did not go to trial because the victim could not be found.

Larpenter said Dominique told investigators that brief brush with incarceration left him determined not to go back to jail.

"He said he killed them because he didn't want to get caught," Larpenter said. "But I would think he discovered somewhere on the way to killing 23 that it was not just because of that. I think he discovered he liked it."

Disordered thinking and disordered desire always lead to more (and more horrific) disorder.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Jim Bernazzani said FBI profilers felt this was the most significant current serial killer case in the country in terms of the number of victims and its time span — the killings took place from 1997 to 2005.

"A serial killer like this hides in plain sight," Bernazzani said. "They do not disturb people. That's why they are so effective.'"

All the victims were homeless males, ranging from 16 to 46, all were strangled or asphyxiated and all the bodies were bound. Their bodies were dumped in remote spots in seven parishes.

May God have mercy on their poor souls.

The break in the case came when an ex-con told his parole agent about getting away from a man who wanted to tie him up for sex, Larpenter said.

Dominique voluntarily gave investigators a DNA sample, which connected him two Jefferson Parish murders, Sheriff Harry Lee said.

"He went along with it, let us take a swab," Lee said. "He was no trouble at all."

May God have mercy on Mr. Dominique's soul. He will need it.

Part 1: SEX IS DEATH. (Stories for boys) is here.
Part 2: SEX IS DEATH. (Distaff death) is here.
Part 3: SEX IS DEATH. (Joyously dispensing death) is here.
Part 4: SEX IS DEATH. (Sex is depression) is here.
Part 5: SEX IS DEATH. (When self-pleasuring becomes self-destruction) is here.
Part 6: SEX IS DEATH. (Sex is theft) is here.
Part 7: SEX IS DEATH. (A review of Bareback Mountain) is here.
Part 8: SEX IS DEATH. (What is the ultimate penalty?) is here.
Part 9: SEX IS DEATH. (Haven from reality) is here.
Part 10: SEX IS DEATH. (Sin-redemption-reasons-reason) is here.
Part 11: SEX IS DEATH. (Mommy loves you) is here.
Part 12: SEX IS DEATH. (George Gilder offers a clue) is here.
Part 13: SEX IS DEATH. (Post-killem depression) is here.
Part 14: SEX IS DEATH. (Whither womanhood) is here.
Part 15: SEX IS DEATH. (Saving psychology 1) is here.
Part 16: SEX IS DEATH. (Saving psychology 2) is here.
Part 17: SEX IS DEATH. (Fear of the boomers) is here.
Part 18: SEX IS DEATH. (The battle continues apace) is here.
Part 19: SEX IS DEATH. (Hot for teacher) is here.
Part 20: SEX IS DEATH. (Kids do the darndest things) is here.
Part 21: SEX IS DEATH. (Defects) is here.
Part 22: SEX IS DEATH. (Privates' privacy) is here.
Part 23: SEX IS DEATH. (National Condom Week) is here.
Part 24: SEX IS DEATH. (Wegenics) is here.
Part 25: SEX IS DEATH. (White wedding) is here.
Part 26: SEX IS DEATH. (Literally) is here.
Part 27: SEX IS DEATH. (Can't get me no satisfaction) is here.
Part 28: SEX IS DEATH. (Wrestle with mania) is here.
Part 29: SEX IS DEATH. (Press one for death/Presione uno para la muerte) is here.
Part 30: SEX IS DEATH. (Raunch culture) is here.
Part 31: SEX IS DEATH. (Gimme some of that sweet zombie lovin') is here.
Part 32: SEX IS DEATH. (The devil made me eat my baby) is here.
Part 33: SEX IS DEATH. (Mind control = womb control) is here.
Part 34: SEX IS DEATH. (The expense of playing with yourself) is here.
Part 35: SEX IS DEATH. (You can't always get what you want) is here.
Part 36: SEX IS DEATH. (Whom does a master serve?) is here.
Part 37: SEX IS DEATH. (Shootin' 5 for 8) is here.
Part 38: SEX IS DEATH. (Being a never-wed mom of four and an illegal alien is no picnic either) is here.
Part 39: SEX IS DEATH. (Duane indulges himself then goes out in a blaze of cowardice) is here.
Part 40: SEX IS DEATH. (The line is not fine at all) is here.