Ida Bodreaux, a 78-year-old woman from LaPlace, Louisiana, died on February 12, 1980, after a fire that later became viewed through a darker lens than an ordinary house blaze. In the years that followed, the death was repeatedly described online as an arson killing, the kind of intimate violence that leaves a community with nothing solid to hold onto but ash, rumors, and the awful certainty that someone meant to do it.
For a long time, her name sat in the background of other people’s s
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