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Remains Of Bourbon Street Stripper Found Along Mississippi Beach BAY ST. LOUIS, MS – Last Thursday, a construction crew working on a beach in Bay St. Louis found the torso of a then unidentified white female.

According to police,  the body had a stab wound to the chest and was missing the head, legs and arms. Two days later, a calf was discovered on the beach. Shortly after, a thigh. Not 20 minutes later, a head. Then, lastly, fishermen found another calf and some women’s apparel.

Pathologists have now determined the body belongs to 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart of New Orleans. The mother of a 3-year-old girl was reported missing on Wednesday. Her boyfriend last saw her Tuesday night after she took a cab from a motel to Bourbon Street where she worked as a stripper. She was last seen on surveillance video leaving work early Wednesday morning.

A DNA match has not been made yet, but police are certain the remains belong to Lockhart after matching her tattoos to the remains. They also stated the clothes she is seen wearing in the video matches the items discovered at the beach.

Hancock County Lead Investigator Glenn Grannan said, “Our primary focus, up to this point, had been identifying the victim about midway last night into our investigation concerning that, we started to switch focus to try and determine who is responsible for this heinous act.”

They will also continue to look for more body parts and continue to review surveillance video from other nearby businesses. They have not revealed who she left work with, or if she was seen leaving with anyone at all.

“We have some information about who she may have been with last, but none of it is confirmed so we have a lot, a lot of work to do,” Grannan said.

Initially, some had assumed the body may belong to 19-year-old Brittney Wood, the teenager who went missing in Alabama on May 31st. She was seen heading to her uncle’s house. Her uncle committed suicide the day after she was supposed to meet him.

Brittany’s family spoke with investigators before the torso was identified as Lockhart’s, and learned piercings on the torso–two in the chest, one in the navel–did not match Brittany’s.

If you have any information about Lockhart’s murder, you are asked to call the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department immediately at 228-466-6910.

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  • CT

    Well, hell, Morbid.  I cannot even make a smart ass comment on this one.  Damn you.

  • neenaP

    It sounds personal for her body to be chopped up like that.  The killer must have known her.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XA4RDSRSUX3XRSCPRR7XNGSPUQ Joshua

    too early in the morning to joke about dead stripper torsos 

  • JGo555

    Right now, that picture of “taking your daughter to work day” demotivational poster in which a baby girl has tights & is trying to climb a stripper pole (ya’ll have seen it, right?) well that poster, pic whatever, it’s not looking very funny right now.

    It takes a special kind of evil, anger & disturbance to chop someoe up after killing them.

  • neenaP

    I dont really know why people have to focus on her job as of thats all she is.

  • Sam

    “piercings on the torso–two in the chest”
    ? What gives, Morbid – You had a chance to write boobies and didn’t take it? And you call yourself a man?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/7AAJ2TEEBCD2XMZ3YP4YGJ4GPE this is what i wear on vacatio

    This woman was just doing a legal job to support herself, and her family. Gentleman’s club entertainers always get a bad rap without any outcry. This woman was doing a dangerous job for NO respect from anyone. I would say it is more dangerous than a policeman mainly because most of them cannot carry a firearm. I will say that the industry attracts many that have various background records. Many are drug users(and why not they feel the stigma of their profession-they try to dull the pain as much as they can) A vast majority have very low self esteem and have abuse histories. I am just give them a little break and this woman did not deserve to die and be desecrated like this. If you are so inclined, say a little prayer for her and her daughter. Thank you.

  • Sam

    Yeah i don’t know why – we read about so many dead parents on here but for some reason this story and her being a 3 yo’s mum makes me really sad.

  • ViewerBeware

    Maybe she couldn’t take the stress of.being a mother and a stripper and just went to pieces.

  • JohnQknowitall

    I joke a lot about this kind of shit, but for someone to kill another person without it being self defense amazes me. How can people remove themselves that much from compassion to end another person’s life knowing the fear and damage that happens and is left behind?

  • http://www.facebook.com/ericagieras Erica Gieras

    Who cares if she was a stripper…dang no reason to end up in a bunch of scattered pieces. She was a mother and now that baby has to grow up without one.

  • HotReadingMama

    Meh, that isn’t necessarily so. A lot of time it is just because it is easier to dispose of pieces than a whole body. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/JaimeMConfer Jaime Confer

     It could of been dermal anchors.

  • HotReadingMama

    I must be missing where everyone is saying she deserved to die because she is a stripper. Forgive me if I am slow. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/lolabelle13 Rheana ‘Love’ Tarrants

    I worked as a dancer. It never, ever crossed my mind that I might end up chopped into pieces washing up onto the STL shore. The only thing her being a stripper has to do with it-she was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time (late at night/early morning). She was beautiful. So sad.

  • LeaveMeBe

    Then let’s be slow together. I kept having to reread to try and find where everyone was supposedly denouncing her for her job. I think some people just proceeded to try and stir the shit bucket with no product in it.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    That’s probably exactly what they are. I have one in my arm and in the back of my neck.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    ETA I don’t see anyone disrespecting her profession thus far.

    Original comment-

    Because people love to superior to others. Her being a stripper doesn’t matter to me, at least she’s working trying to take care of her daughter. But many will have something to say about it.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    I was about to ask the same thing after the 4th “who cares if she’s a stripper?” comment. Where are they at.

  • neenaP

    I agree but it seems to be brought up over and over for the sensationalism. I think it takes focus off the crime.

  • neenaP

    I want those on my back but my friend had them and they caused scarring ew no 

  • neenaP

    You personally know the vast majority of these girls? I personally know tons of women NOT in that profession that have abuse histories and have used drugs. Really shocking stories, not one is a dancer.

  • OutOfBubbleGum

    Keep awake.  We won’t let you sleep.  Dam you.  Dam your existence.  Who gave you the right to take a life?  Why, again, I ask why are you so messed up?
     
    Killer, we are after you?  And dude, when we find you, we will inflict pain, slowly and forever, unstoppable pain.  Keep looking over your shoulder.

  • neenaP

     My friend was murdered and chopped up by her ex and his new wife while dropping off her kids after visitation, thats not late at night or at the wrong place. Women are victims no matter who or what they are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lolabelle13 Rheana ‘Love’ Tarrants

    I didn’t imply she wasn’t a victim… what does that even mean? Yes, people are unfortunately murdered all times of day, in many different places.

  • LeaveMeBe

    What? I didn’t see JGo focusing on her job at all. She made a reference to a well known demotivational poster and stated it wasn’t funny right now. Then she referred to the heinousness of the crime. Get off her ass and quit trying to start shit. You seem to be the one obsessed about her job, not us.

  • LeaveMeBe

    They are the ones who are focusing on her job choice and defending it when there is no need for it. No one else here gives a crap what her job was but does care about how she died and how horrible it is for a mother to be taken from her child in such a gruesome manner.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    People are evil – that is all.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     I agree – plus Ced happens to like strippers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Yes,I would have to really strongly dislike someone to do this sort of thing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     ?

  • EveryVillainIsLemons

    I feel sorry for her daughter.  Her mother was murdered gruesomely, and the police don’t have a suspect yet.  I hope they catch the fuckhead who did this ASAP and put him or her away for life.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Most likely there is a strong connection to her occupation,and the fact that she was murdered – separating the two things in that light would not make much sense.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Maybe the tats were on her chest,but not on her boobies at all.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    Wasn’t sure what you guys were talking about – had to look it up:

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     I don’t agree with some of your comment,however I do like and support the next to last sentence.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     I have known a lot of Strippers,dated a few too – some of what “this is what i wear on vacatio” states is 100 % true from my experience;I know a lot of them do in fact have criminal history,and drug use is common,as is alcohol addiction.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    Kinda funny,kinda cruel.

  • CT

     Or be just plain fucked up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    Yep,and to top it off by mutilating the corpse – well that’s just not right.The person responsible needs to be found ASAP and shot in the fucking head with a large caliber weapon.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     No one I have seen has been ignorant like that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     I like strippers,and like everyone else they are just trying to make a decent living … some of the younger ones are even putting themselves through college doing that form of work.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Hey Bubble.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    CT is that you?! 

  • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    Yes but mine aren’t stars. 

  • CT

    Yup but I’m not leaving it up.  I’ll take it down for before I leave work today.  Just so you know who you are talking to.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    Thanks for finally having the guts to post an actual pic. PS – I loves you.
    fap,fap,fap.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     agreed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     Understood.

  • CT

     Its not staying.  I cant look at myself that much.  Its annoying.  I did it for you after all of the shit that fool Shar g or X or whatever letter of the alphabet it was.

  • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

    Well how you doing?!

  • CT

     MUAHHHH. 

  • JohnQknowitall

    Quite frankly I do not care about what happened to a corpse except in the psychological evaluation for sentencing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/natachiav Natachia Ventura-Densten

    I was not going to comment but I must speak up.I was a dancer from the time I was 18 till a few years ago,I was over it and mentally could not even pretend anymore.Yes, being a dancer is a thankless and looked down on form of work. I want to clarify a few things.

    Majority of us did not have a drug problem and that includes alcohol,we were mothers,wives,students and pretty much knew that in a short period of time we could make very very good money for our families or whatever else we needed but, yes a few out of the hundreds of girls I worked with had a addiction problem and those girls never lasted long and had awful family lives with little to no support system.I personally have a very high sense of self esteem and regardless what anyone say’s you have too in that line of work.Most of us are health nuts…Gym,eating healthy,using the best of the best products,taking care of yourself mentally, physically and emotionally was and still is my number one priority with that being said Yes…The job attracts complete wack jobs there is always a “Captain Save-a-Ho” a “opportunist, and the “Pimp/Drug Pusher wannabes” dosing the girlfriend up to go out and make money but that is rare. Safety was HUGE in my book…NEVER treat a customer as a friend,never share your real name,where you live go to school,ect never allow a customer to cross the invisible line of trust…I have told girls that starting out more times than I would like you would think it is commonsense. 

    I have a hunch of what happened to her,it always makes me sad too see shit like this.Regardless she deserves the respect of justice and her daughter needs love and support.

  • http://www.facebook.com/natachiav Natachia Ventura-Densten

    You are picking the wrong “Strippers”

  • Heather_Habilatory

    It’s weird that we are all on the same page with our feelings and moods.
    Normally, we’d find SOMETHING funny in a story such as this. Not today. 
    I just feel incredibly sad that a mother and a little girl won’t grow with each other.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    I don’t usually hang with the bad ones – but they are working at the same clubs with the ones that I have hung out with.My grand child’s mother is a stripper,and to my knowledge she is not on drugs,or addicted to alcohol – far as I know she’s not selling her sex either … what I’m saying is there is always going to be a dark side in most everything Natachia.

  • http://www.facebook.com/natachiav Natachia Ventura-Densten

    Could you clarify what you don’t agree with.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     I respect your experience,but my experience does not match yours … just saying – it’s quite possible we are both correct within our own personal knowledge base.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

    I care John – for one thing the relatives may have liked an open casket good bye to their loved one.For another cutting up a victim like this is just a plain fucking evil thing to do.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     The main thing in his comment I disagree with is this :

    ” I would say it is more dangerous than a policeman.”

    As an ex-policeman statistically I find this to be an untrue statement.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     agreed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/natachiav Natachia Ventura-Densten

    I think your right about that,I must say though that the younger girls have no sense of danger.Just because “Billy Bob” is so nice and gives you a stack of cash does not mean he is a quality person,I had a customer years ago that was obsessed with me to the point I would refuse to even dance for him,a new girl who I never really even associated with somehow knew my real name and told him.I beat the living shit out of her and she was fired.My life at work never crossed paths with my home life,I never needed to get high to go to work,the ones who were drudged out of their mind never made much money and looked like shit.I have worked in every major city in the best of clubs and I never got it twisted…This job attracts the one you don’t want to fuck with.I will probably get argued with this but she had a drug problem that being said altered her commonsense.If I was the detective I would look at the cab drivers she came in contact with.

  • http://www.facebook.com/natachiav Natachia Ventura-Densten

    Well that explained’s it! You came in contact with “Badge Bunnies” hahahah,

    Cops and dancers go together like peanut butter and jelly. For every girl I worked with at least 75% dated a police officer or was married to one.

    And you are right being a Police Officer is very dangerous and very stressful.You can be a dancer and make it as dangerous as you want it to be or take precautions.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     I really like your comment – I read it and lol’ed.I would have responded lol – but JGo555 told me lol was illegal on here …

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

     You are very wise … I totally agree.

  • http://www.facebook.com/natachiav Natachia Ventura-Densten

    Lol is as big of a crime as being cut up like a christmas roast.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kara.cambre Kara Mcdowell Cambre

    its sad. our local newspapers (Baton Rouge, La)  arent reporting her name, the headlines all read: Body Found Not That of Missing Lafayette Student.”  So because this girl was a stripper and not a student she is getting pushed to the back burner.  I am heartbroken for the Mickie Shunick’s family as well, but this girl was HACKED UP!! Her child is without a mommy now!!  

  • neenaP

    You must have been finding them in shithole clubs that allow low class girls to work there.

  • neenaP

     I have known lots of people on drugs, booze, had their kids taken away, that were in other professions such as nurse, mortgage broker, big time attorney, etc.

  • megaflytron

    Pardon me for not receiving the memo that victims are gender specific.

  • http://www.facebook.com/natachiav Natachia Ventura-Densten

    Too soon dude,too soon..lol

  • http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

    Yeah, not sure. I haven’t seen anyone talk ill of her profession.

  • whisperswing

    Police: Boyfriend interviewed in dismembered woman’s death

    [...]
    Lockhart was a dancer at a strip club on Bourbon Street, police said. According to investigators, two people — a man and a woman — were with Lockhart when she left work before she vanished.
    Hancock County Chief Deputy Don Bass said Lockhart’s clothing washed up on the beach over the weekend. The clothes were identified by Lockhart’s boyfriend, Bass said.
    The boyfriend has been interviewed and is cooperating with investigators, Bass told WDSU.Investigators said they have been getting a bevy of calls with information on the case, but no suspect has been pinpointed yet.
    [....]
    http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/gulf-coast/Police-Boyfriend-interviewed-in-dismembered-woman-s-death/-/12537462/14774364/-/6xxa9sz/-/index.html#ixzz1xXmFbkzO

  • whisperswing

    Persons of Interest’ become suspects in dancer’s brutal murder

    HANCOCK COUNTY, MS (WLOX) – Two people taken in for questioning in the murder of Jaren Lockhart are now being called suspects in her death. Tuesday, authorities released surveillance video from the New Orleans strip club where Lockhart worked. It showed the couple leaving the club with the woman whose dismembered torso washed up on the beach in Bay St. Louis just days later. ”We got numerous calls from the video that was shown on TV,” said Hancock County Sheriff Ricky Adam. One of those calls lead authorities straight to the two people pictured in the video: Terry Speaks, 39, and Margaret Sanchez, 28, of Kenner, Louisiana. [...] The sheriff said at some point during the traffic stop, Speaks ran. ”Mr. Speaks, as identified now, did attempt to flee at that point from the custody of the police officers and was apprehended, to my best understanding, by the US Marshals in a field in a wooded area,” said Chief Deputy Don Bass. Bass said Speaks is a convicted sex offender from North Carolina. ”We understand he has a colorful past.” Speaks is being held on a fugitive warrant for failing to register. Margaret Sanchez is charged with aiding and abetting a fugitive. ”They have been interviewed and that’s about as far as we can go with it,” Sheriff Adam said. “And they are being interviewed now and they are being interviewed again right now. Their vehicle is being processed, the FBI assisting us with the processing of the vehicle.” The two have not been charged in Lockhart’s murder, but the sheriff said that could possibly come later. ”At some time, he will be transported to New Orleans and held for the Marshals there before he’s extradited back to North Carolina. Should the evidence come up between now and then, we’ll let the evidence dictate the steps we take from there.” Terry Speaks is being held by federal authorities. Margaret Sanchez is being held in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail under a $1500 bond.

    http://www.wafb.com/story/18777533/persons-of-interest-become-suspects-in-dancers-brutal-murder

  • whisperswing

    Suspect may have lured dancer to private party
    HANCOCK COUNTY, MS (WLOX) -
    Investigators are beginning to put together more details about the last hours of Jaren Lockhart’s life and how she may have ended up with the two people now suspected of killing her.
    Though neither have been charged, investigators now believe the two suspects, Terry Speaks and Margaret Sanchez, tried to lure other Bourbon Street dancers to their home the same night Jaren Lockhart left club Temptations with the couple.
    Hancock County Lead Investigator Glenn Grannan said, “Both girls were asked to come join them in maybe like a threesome and then they changed it to a party where they would make $700, $800 something to entice them to go.”
    Grannan talked to two women who say Sanchez and Speaks tried to lure them home.
    “Both girls thought our female suspect was somewhat freaky as they described it and didn’t feel comfortable, and they declined it and eventually they found someone to go,” Grannan said.
    That someone Grannan said was 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart.
    “We have witnesses stating they heard Jaren ask to leave work early so she could go make some extra money on a party, so we believe she was enticed to go with the hope she would make some extra money,” Grannan said.
    Survelliance video shows Lockhart leaving Temptations early Wednesday morning with both Speaks and Sanchez.
    Since apprehending the two, investigators have spent hours interviewing the couple about what happened that night
    “She was very adjatated, very excitable, she was of course upset. It appeared maybe even under the influence of something,” Grannan said. “He would speak about anything he wanted to speak about, unless you wanted to speak about this he referred to his attorney.”
    “We didn’t obtain any confessions but received a lot of information,” Grannan said.
    While they are considered suspects, investigators have not ruled others out.
    “They are our primary suspects because their actions in this time period, there are so many elements that can’t be explained by us or them,” Grannan said.
    This is not Terry Speaks first run in with the law, he served two years in prison for statutory rape in North Carolina and since then he has been charged three times for failing to register as a sex offender.
    [...]
    http://www.wlox.com/story/18792017/suspect-may-have-lured-dancer-to-private-party

  • hershey

    *scratches head* Huh? I don’t understand how you attach it. Can someone please explain it in simple terms for an old person?