Authorities in two states are investigating how a former New Orleans area cop turned up stripped, bound and beaten in Texas last week after vanishing the day before from a Louisiana town some 800 miles away.
Wayne Williams, of Jefferson Parish, vanished at around 11:30 a.m. last Wednesday after calling his wife to tell her he was having car trouble on a trip to Baton Rouge, The Times-Picayune reported.
A tow truck arrived on Old Hammond Highway where Williams had told his wife he broke down, but found no sign of the 34-year-old or his car, the newspaper said.
One day later, deputies and firefighters in Texas responding to a car fire discovered the former Gretna police officer in his boxers and socks, dumped on a desolate highway near Tulia, Tex. — some 14 hours and around 800 miles away.
A former lawman and West Bank security guard is out of a Texas hospital and back home, after an ordeal that investigators are calling an abduction.
Wayne Williams drove to Baton Rouge last Wednesday, June 13, and told his wife he had car trouble. When the wrecker arrived, police say Williams and his car were nowhere to be found.
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The next day, authorities say Williams burned-out car turned up on a desolate stretch of road of U.S. Highway 86 near Tulia, Texas.
Police say Williams was nearby, burned, beaten, hands tied and wearing only his boxers and socks. He was rushed to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas for treatment.
Williams is a father of two who is called a great family man by his former neighbors in Gretna. He worked for the Gretna Police department until 2007 and before that for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
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