Search as you will but no written records can be found of the ghastly secret of the old Le Pretre mansion in the New Orleans French Quarter.
There is a good reason to believe that New Orleans authorities decided it would be advisable to destroy the reports both of the police and Harbormaster, Armand Ravenal following the discovery of the several headless bodies. Nevertheless, the story which quickly sped throughout the French Quarter is well known to many present day residents, especially to Robert Pretre, the prosperous Creole merchant in whose home the multiple murders took place.
