The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office (TPSO) is asking the public to help identify a person of interest in the homicide investigation of a Baton Rouge man.
Detectives believe the individual seen in these store surveillance pictures is the last person known to have been driving 69-year-old William Nicholas Abraham’s vehicle.
The vehicle was located by Baton Rouge Police Monday afternoon. The driver of the vehicle, at the time, sped away from a traffic stop and ultimately ran away after crashing the car.
Abrahams’s body was found rolled in a tarp on the side of Highway 51 between Fluker and the Village of Tangipahoa Sunday morning. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff, Gerald Sticker says the man identified as 69-year-old William Nicholas Abraham was a victim of homicide by blunt force trauma…
“It was a very physical and violent death from what we have seen on our end.”
Sticker says they do not believe Abraham was killed where his body was found due to the way it was wrapped. He says they are working their way back from the discovery scene to determine where the heinous crime occurred and find those responsible.
“Cell phone records, vehicles that are registered to him. Just any avenue is what we’re looking at to try to determine his whereabouts leading up to his death.”
A passerby traveling along the highway first reported a suspicious looking rolled-up tarp on the side of a rural part of Hwy 51. Sticker says the highway parallels I-55 from Manchac to Mississippi but there are only a few houses and businesses near where Abraham was found…
“There mostly set off the road where there is no direct visibility from the scene, and I would imagine that’s why they picked that location to discard our victims body.”
Sticker encourages anyone with information about the person seen in these pictures to contact the Criminal Investigations Office at 985-902-2008.
If you’d prefer to share information anonymously, you can do so through Crime Stoppers of Tangipahoa’s tip line at 1-800-554-5245 or visit www.tangicrimestoppers.com and click on the P3 Tips icon or Submit A Tip!
You may be eligible for a cash reward.
