![]() ![]() If he was indeed the perpetrator of the New Orleans serial killings, Gant usually targeted prostitutes, whom he incapacitated by drugging them before killing them in a variety of ways, usually strangulation or suffocation. It should be noted that a sketch of the killer was drawn in 1992 after the first six murders the sketch depicted a large, muscular African-American man in his 30's, which matched Gant's physical description. At this point, nothing has been disclosed of Gant's fate afterward whether or not there was a DNA match to the two aforementioned murders and/or the other 22 victims of the serial killer is unknown. However, he was not charged and remained at a desk job on the force, though he had submitted blood and tissue samples to police detectives. At that time, Gant had been listed as a suspect in the murders of two of the victims, Robinson and a friend of hers, 30-year-old prostitute Karen Iverster, both of whom were found in a swamp near Interstate 55 on April 30. For a year, the police department had been aware of the killings but didn't alert the local media until they requested assistance from the public in 1995. On 1991, a serial killer began murdering people, mostly prostitutes, in the Algiers and Treme neighborhoods, eventually claiming 24 victims. ![]() ![]() What is known is that he was born sometime around 1962 of African-American descent, got a job at the New Orleans Police Department sometime around 1980, and started dating a woman named Sharon Robinson, who worked as a coin changer at Harrah's Casino. Very little information has been disclosed about Gant's early life.
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