The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story

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Dorothy Lou Thompson, whose 1985 murder in Louisiana was covered by local news and revisited in HBO's The Pet Cemetery Murders
The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story · Louisiana journalism

Local Journalists Who Covered Dorothy’s Murder in 1985 Speak Out in the New Series

HBO’s The Pet Cemetery Murders revisits Dorothy Lou Thompson’s 1985 killing through investigators, community voices and historical contex...

Oct 11, 2026 3 min read