Raymond Schoenberger
January 18, 1980
New Orleans, Louisiana

Times-Picayune
April 25, 1998

SUSPECT INDICTED IN 1980 MURDER HE ADMITS ROLE IN CABBIE'S DEATH

Eighteen years after a cabdriver was gunned down in New Orleans' Garden
District, an Avondale man went to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office 
and confessed that he took part in the crime.

An Orleans Parish grand jury indicted (Albert) Gauthreaux this week
with first-degree murder in the death of Raymond Schoenberger on Jan. 18,
1980. Schoenberger, 20, was found shot in the head in the front seat of 
his taxi in the 400 block of Eighth Street after an apparent robbery. It 
was just his third day as a cabdriver.

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Times-Picayune
August 19, 1998

JURY ACQUITS MAN IN KILLING CABDRIVER SHOT IN 1980 ROBBERY

Albert Gauthreaux went to authorities last fall and admitted he 
helped rob a cabdriver in the Irish Channel 18 years ago but said another 
man fired the shot that killed the cabbie.

However, Mark Benoit, the accomplice Gauthreaux blamed, took the 
stand Monday in Gauthreaux's first-degree murder trial and testified that
Gauthreaux had shot the cabdriver in the head.

Faced with finger-pointing and a lack of physical evidence, a New
Orleans jury late Monday deliberated less than two hours before acquitting
Gauthreaux.

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