JENNINGS – In Jennings, Sheriff Ricky Edwards confirmed that DNA evidence has helped to identify the remains of a sixth body that has been discovered in Jefferson Davis Parish since 2005. The body was identified as 24-year old Crystal Shay Benoit Zeno.

Zeno’s death has been ruled a homicide. Her decomposed body was discovered September 11 in a ditch south of Jennings.

According to Edwards, Zeno associated with the other five victims. She lived a high-risk lifestyle, like the others, which involved drugs and the trading of sex for narcotics.

Authorities are also investigating the disappearance of a 17-year old girl who is related to one of the other victims. She has been missing since November 2.

Only three of the six deaths have been officially ruled as homicides. The other three deaths remain undetermined.

The other victims were:

Loretta Lynn Chiasson, 28, found May 20, 2005 in a canal.

Ernestine Daniels, 29, found 17 days after Chiasson in a canal six miles away.

Kristen Gary Lopez, 21, found March 18, 2007 in a rural canal south of Welsh.

Whitnei Dubois, 26, found May 12, 2007 along a rural road.

Laconia Shantell Brown, 23, found May 29 on a rural road in Jennings.

All of the cases remain unsolved despite some earlier arrests on charges that did not pan out.