There were seemingly no news articles written about the disappearance of 22-year-old Paula Boudreaux in 1986, yet speculation based on rumors swirled around the small Lafourche Parish town of Golden Meadow in the years that followed about what allegedly happened to her. Those rumors of her murder carried on over the decades like the whisper of a family secret, yet investigators never found her body, so the case remained an unsolved missing person probe. Last year, Paula’s distant cousin believed those rumors, and used them to connect the dots between Paula’s disappearance and a Jane Doe found in 1989 in a Slidell marsh. “Everybody talked about it, you know, kind of a rumor, but a rumor down here, you know, it's pretty much the truth,” said Van Boudreaux, Paula’s brother.