{"id":73224,"date":"2026-05-08T05:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/new-orleans-child-molester-questioned-on-unsolved-killings-takes-the-fifth-700-times\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:55:05","slug":"new-orleans-child-molester-questioned-on-unsolved-killings-takes-the-fifth-700-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/new-orleans-child-molester-questioned-on-unsolved-killings-takes-the-fifth-700-times\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans child molester questioned on unsolved killings takes the fifth 700 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Burkhardt, convicted abuser and ex-investigator of sex crimes against children, gives deposition in civil case<\/p>\n<p>Convicted child molester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/06\/new-orleans-stanley-burkhardt-custody\">Stanley Burkhardt<\/a> \u2013 a former investigator of sex crimes against children who has been in and out of prison for decades \u2013 invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination more than 700 times while being questioned under oath recently, including when asked whether he committed a series of unsolved murders of youths in his orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Burkhardt\u2019s decision to remain silent came when faced with questions about the killings during a deposition in a civil lawsuit by an alleged sexual abuse victim of his \u2013 a case aimed at him and the New Orleans police department (NOPD) which used to employ him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/08\/new-orleans-stanley-burkhardt-deposition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Burkhardt, convicted abuser and ex-investigator of sex crimes against children, gives deposition in civil case Convicted child molester Stanley Burkhardt \u2013 a former investigator of sex crimes against children who has been in and out of prison for decades \u2013 invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination more than 700 times while being questioned under &#8230; <a title=\"New Orleans child molester questioned on unsolved killings takes the fifth 700 times\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/new-orleans-child-molester-questioned-on-unsolved-killings-takes-the-fifth-700-times\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Orleans child molester questioned on unsolved killings takes the fifth 700 times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}