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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Kent Native Pleads Not Guilty in Cold-Case Murder

Roosevelt grad Leila Mulla charged in murder of a Baton Rouge businessman

Leila Mulla, a 1983 Theodore Roosevelt High School graduate, has pleaded not guilty in the murder of a Baton Rouge, LA, businessman. Mulla, 47, of Astoria, N.Y., recently entered the plea in a Baton Rouge courtroom. She has been charged in the November 1984 murder of Gary Kergan, who was 29. She was arrested in December and extradited to Louisiana on the murder charge. Mulla was initially arrested in 1984 in the case but prosecutors did not prosecute due to a lack of evidence. Investigators reopened the case recently after retesting blood found in 1984 in an apartment shared by Mulla and her boyfriend, Ronald Dunnagan, 64, of Bossier City, LA, who also is facing charges in Kergan's death. Kergan’s brother, Ted, issued the following …

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Kent Native Charged in 1984 Cold-Case Murder

Leila Mulla imprisoned in Baton Rouge for crime she was first arrested for one year after graduating from Roosevelt.

A Kent native was recently arrested and charged with the murder of a Baton Rouge businessman nearly three decades ago – just one year after her 1983 graduation from Theodore Roosevelt High School. Leila Mulla, 47, was extradited Dec. 21 from her Astoria, NY, home to Louisiana and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, where she remains today. The registered nurse – daughter of a now-deceased prominent Kent obstetrician – is facing charges of first-degree murder, criminal conspiracy and simple robbery in connection with the November 1984 murder of Gary Kergan, who was 29. Facing identical charges for the crime is Mulla’s former boyfriend, Ronald Dunnagan, 64, of Bossier City, LA. He is being held in the same Baton Rouge prison as …

Jack Carter

7:58 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013

She don't look too positive now....   more ›

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