His daughter Clementine and son Zepherin both testified against Raymond, claiming he had returned home with bloodied clothes and boasting of the Andrus murders. He was released for insufficient evidence, but re-arrested months later and ultimately convicted of the Andrus murders. Raymond Barnabet, Clementine's father, was arrested on suspicion of murdering the four-person Andrus family, who had been killed in February 1911 in Lafayette, Louisiana. Only one person, Clementine Barnabet, was ever punished for any of these homicides.' All the murders occurred at night and an axe was used to fracture the skulls of the victims.

Professor Vance McLaughlin wrote: 'Between 19, 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. Barnabet's father reportedly abused his family. She had three brothers, one of them named Zepherin. Martinville, Louisiana, to Nina Porter and Raymond Barnabet. Early life Ĭlementine Barnabet is believed to have been born around 1894 in St. However, doubt has since been cast on her involvement. 1894) was an accused American serial killer who was convicted of killing one person and confessed to have killed as many as 35.

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