Homicide Coverup: The Jake Latiolais Disappearance

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August 29th, 2014 2:00 a.m.

911 receives two strange phone calls reporting someone may have jumped off the Horace Wilkerson Bridge in Baton Rouge Louisiana.  When police arrive on the scene, they find Jake Latiolais’ truck still running in the right-hand lane near an exit.  

Horace Wilkerson Bridge – Wikipedia

The owner of the truck was nowhere to be found. Strangely, Jake’s crutches and his wallet were missing. He was also in a walking boot waiting to have surgery on a broken foot. The boot would be discovered at home. The crutches were never officially found. Of course, nothing was officially done about anything in this case. 

To make matters worse, the trailer that he shared with a roommate had been ransacked, and all of Jake’s valuables had been taken including his guns, his PlayStation, and his TV. Police wrote this off saying Jake wanted to end it all. Why would he end it all when he was preparing to go to court to win custody of his child? If he did want to end it all then why didn’t he use his own guns at home instead of driving to a heavily trafficked bridge that he didn’t normally use? 

Why was his roommate able to sleep through the whole ordeal? Supposedly, he told Jake’s mother that he simply went to bed and the house was fine. When he got up the next morning the house was destroyed. Holes had been knocked into walls and windows had been shattered. Yet, despite all of this, he was able to sleep through it. Was he passed out on something? Why would he not call the police the next morning?  And why we’re both of those 911 calls coming from the same phone number even though they were acting like two different people? 

A jurisdictional dispute over who should be policing the bridge has caused more trauma for Jake’s mother. This dispute has forced Jake’s mother, Tina, to become the primary investigator in her son’s case. What happened to Jake Latiolais?

Ex’s & Oh’s:

As with so many of these cases, Jake went missing within a couple of weeks of a court date. He was fighting his ex-girlfriend over custody of their child. He had made arrangements to have her full-time. He was working multiple jobs trying to earn the type of income needed to support a child. And, he had a good chance of winning custody due to a previous conviction against his ex. 

We know that Jake’s phone received a text message from the ex-girlfriend. She wanted to meet at a local Walmart parking lot to talk. Although it isn’t clear if he ever met with her, we do know that he had a receipt from Walmart where he had purchased three packs of cigarettes. Did he actually go and meet her? Was she the last person to actually see Jake alive? 

5 years later:

Five years after Jake went missing, his aunt reached out to Tina and claimed she had Jake’s crutches and she had them all along. She said Jake told her he didn’t need them because the doctor had released him. This didn’t make since to Tina because Jake hadn’t had the surgery for his foot yet! There’s no way the doctor would release him to walk without crutches BEFORE the surgery. 

As with everything else, Tina took this information to the police along with Jake’s medical information from his doctor’s office. Again, she is pushed back and forth between East Baton Rouge P.D. and West Baton Rouge P.D. No one wants to take the lead on this case. So this valuable lead goes to waste just like everything else this poor mother has collected over the years. 

Identity Theft:

Tina is hoping the IRS might take up her son’s missing person case. No, the IRS doesn’t usually investigate these types of cases but should have a vested interest in who cashed Jake’s stimulus checks during the pandemic. Tina found those checks went to the family of his ex. Strange. 

If you have any information on this case please contact Tina on Jake’s Facebook Page

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