office by a disgruntled client. Bridget Boustany is hence a paternal niece of Democratic former Governor Edwin Washington Edwards. The Boustanys have two children. His cousin, Jerry Ramsey, and her husband Bo were among those wounded in the 2015 Lafayette shooting, in which two people were killed and nine others injured. In 1995, Boustany filed a lawsuit in Louisiana's 15th Judicial District against two men in Britain for defrauding him in a $50,000 investment and in the $18,500 purchase of a "title" after they failed to deliver a purchased British Lordship title. In 2014, New Orleans-based investigative reporter Ethan Brown published an article on Medium called "Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8?" In 2016, a book by the same reporter, called "Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?" was released. A review of the documentary series by Rolling Stone states: "The book, obviously a much more detailed account than the Medium article, includes a particularly jaw-dropping revelation that came to light since 2014: In the second-to-last chapter, Brown discovers a connection between some of the victims and Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany." This connection to Boustany is further explored in the 2019 Showtime documentary, "Murder in the Bayou." Boustany later sued the author, Brown, and publisher of “Murder in the Bayou” in October, when he was in a tight competition for a U.S. Senate seat. He dropped the lawsuit that December. See also Physicians in the United States Congress List of Arab and Middle-Eastern Americans in the United States Congress Jeff Davis 8 References External links |- |- 1956 births 21st-century American politicians 20th-century American politicians American Episcopalians American politicians of Lebanese descent American surgeons Living people Louisiana State University alumni Middle Eastern Christians Politicians from Lafayette, Louisiana Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni Candidates in the 2016 United States Senate elections