Top Stories of 2013 - One of our own makes us proud

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SPD135 on here, Officer Mark Michaud just wouldn't quit until he helped this mother find her daughter. Mark, you make us proud. Thank you.

From the link:
Terrilyn Monette

No story seemed to captivate local attention – online, in print and on television – quite like when Terrilyn Monnette, a second-grade Jefferson Parish schoolteacher, didn’t return to her apartment one March night after leaving a Lakeview bar.

Monette was less than three miles from her apartment at the intersection of Robert E. Lee Boulevard and Paris Avenue when she left Parlay’s Dream Lounge on Harrison Avenue. But she wouldn’t make the short trek home. Her car may have been last seen on a traffic camera in City Park. In that short distance from her home, Monette, in a sense, vanished somewhere along the way.

During the three months of Monette’s disappearance, rumors and conspiracy theories ran wild and were fueled, in part, during the intensive searches by authorities, family, friends and concerned citizens that repeatedly came up empty to find the missing teacher and her Honda Accord. It was the tearful pleas for answers by Toni Enclade, Monette’s mother, who kept coming in from California to look for her daughter that gripped the New Orleans area.

A lot of the rumors were put to bed, though some questions still remain unanswered (How did such an extensive search miss her car in Bayou St. John for so long?) when Monette’s Honda was pulled from the shallow waters of Bayou St. John, with her body inside.

A volunteer diver from the Slidell Police Department, Officer Mark Michaud, spotted her car in Bayou St. John with sonar. On June 8, after picking up a signal from Monette’s car at Wisner and Harrison avenues, Michaud went into the murky water and verified the schoolteacher’s car by her license plate.