On March 16, 1984, Leon Gary Plauché fatally shot Jeffrey Doucet, his son’s abuser, at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, an act captured on live television. Doucet, a 25-year-old karate instructor, had sexually abused Plauché’s 11-year-old son, Jody, for over a year and kidnapped him to California in February 1984. After police rescued Jody and arrested Doucet, Plauché, waiting at the airport, shot Doucet in the head as he was escorted in handcuffs. Doucet died the next day. Plauché, charged wit

Jeffrey Doucet is escorted through an airport in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1984 to face trial for the kidnapping and rape of an 11-year-old boy. On his right is the boy’s father, Gary Plauché. In one of the world’s most infamous cases of vigilantism, Plauché shot Doucet on live TV moments later killing him. Plauché was given a seven-year suspended sentence with five years’ probation and 300 hours of community service, receiving no prison time. The case received wide publicity because some peopl

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