“The community was terrified,” said Capt. Dennis Veal of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. “Women were afraid to sleep at night, and for good reason.”
DNA samples collected from the 1986 crime scenes were stored but could not be analyzed until modern forensic techniques became available.
In 2023, those samples were sent to the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab, leading to a DNA match with Bluain.
Read more on the cold case development here.
Pattern of Violence Across States
Bluain is currently incarcerated at Ware State Prison in Waycross, Georgia, for a string of violent crimes committed in 1992. Court records from DeKalb County show convictions on three counts of rape, two burglaries, aggravated sodomy, attempted aggravated sodomy, and kidnapping with bodily injury.
The details of his Georgia assaults mirror the Airline Park attacks: women raped after home break-ins, often through windows. “The similarities are chilling,” said Veal. “It’s clear this was the same man.”
Justice Delayed in Airline Park Assaults
Bluain is scheduled to be arraigned on August 18 in Jefferson Parish. If convicted of aggravated rape in Louisiana, he faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
