The murder in Baton Rouge of Barry Seal!
If you’ve lived in Louisiana for any length of time, you probably are familiar with the name of international drug runner Barry Seal. Tom Cruise played the part of Seal in the 2017 movie “American made.” And Dennis Hopper played the same role in the 1991 film, “Doublecrossed.” Seal was a larger-than-life character who flew plane loads of cocaine for the infamous medallion drug cartel out of Columbia headed up by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. His drug running days ended abruptly when he was killed in a hail of bullets right here in Baton Rouge back in 1986.