MANY, La. — A $200,000 bond has been set for a Mississippi man accused within the 1984 demise of a person whose skeletal stays had been present in an deserted properly in Sabine Parish.
Sabine District Court docket Choose Stephen Beasley set bond for Delwin Avard Sibley, 74, Monday morning.
Sibley was extradited from Biloxi, Miss., Saturday and booked into the Sabine Parish Detention Heart on a cost of second-degree homicide. Sibley is accused within the demise of Lester Rome, 58, of Grand Isle, who was a enterprise affiliate. Rome was final seen at Rome’s Lounge in Grand Isle on Jan. 9, 1984.
Sibley was arrested at his house in Biloxi Thursday. Sabine sheriff’s Det. Chris Abrahams acquired an arrest warrant for him after engaged on the chilly case for the previous 10 months.
The thriller of what is been referred to as the “man within the properly” case started in 1986 when a Sabine landowner discovered skeletal stays in an outdated properly. Although the case would get periodic critiques from detectives, it wasn’t till 2013 {that a} potential connection was made matching the recovered stays to Rome. The skeletal stays present in 1986 had shotgun pellets embedded within the pelvic space. Rome had been shot within the stomach space with a shotgun some years previous to when he went lacking.
Then in December, Ted DeLarcerda, a retired regulation enforcement officer and retired investigator for the District Lawyer’s Workplace, handed on his years of analysis on the case to the Sabine Sheriff’s Workplace.
Within the spring, Sabine detectives with assist from Central Sabine Hearth Division’s confined house entry staff personnel, recovered much more skeletal stays and different undisclosed objects of proof from contained in the properly.
That data was important in confirming Rome’s id two weeks in the past.
