Louisiana cold case ‘The Man in The Well’ is cracked nearly 40 years later: Deputies

58-year-old Lester Rome disappeared nearly 40 years ago. His family reported him missing to the Grand Isle Police Department in January 1984. The police department sits on a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico — right along the Louisiana coastline. A month later — and a two-hour drive north toward New Orleans — the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office took over the investigation. When detectives there began investigating Rome’s disappearance, they spoke with a woman who lived in Rome’s home — Patricia Tito, according to a Facebook post by...