Chapter 904 (Incest/Taboo):Their Love Problem:>Ep2

• Johnny been almost three when his daddy, Jean-Martin Deaucette, was killed on a crosswalk in downtown Houma; a truck had come out of nowhere, jumped the lights, and mowed him down; the driver, Marty Labouchediere, was slumped behind the wheel almost too drunk to see, let alone drive. He'd been arrested, charged with vehicular homicide, but Judge De La Boulé, his mom's uncle, still let him out on a $100,000 bond, and Marty promptly disappeared.
• A few weeks later they found his body hanging from a huge White Oak by Bayou Boeuf at Forty Acre bayou; he'd been sliced open and strung-up just as neat as a line of speckled trout, with a nine-inch 'gator hook wedged up under his sternum. Sheriff Broussard still had the file open, but there'd been nothing found in all this time, and probably never would be; the Labouchediere boys made enemies throughout The Isle the way other people breathed, with no effort whatsoever, and there was no shortage of people they'd pissed-off, cheated, robbed, or just plain antagonized.
• The young John barely remembered his daddy, or the accident; his memories were mostly confined to the pictures in the albums and the stories constantly told him by his mama, Jane, a pretty English girl, one of the secretaries at Greenham Common Airbase in England who'd caught Jean-Martin's eye when he was stationed there.