‘I didn’t know Marie Kilmartin was my mother at her funeral – now I’m on a quest to find justice for her’

‘I didn’t know Marie Kilmartin was my mother at her funeral – now I’m on a quest to find justice for her’

As 14 year-old Áine stood with mourners at the funeral of her murdered cousin Marie Kilmartin, a long-kept secret had already started to unravel.

Mother of slain Destrehan alum finally finds justice

The pain remains for Rhonda Johnson – it always will.  But almost three years after losing her son to an act of senseless violence, she says she finally has the justice she’s sought for him and his memory.  On Feb. 6, Jacobi Cage was found guilty of the second-degree murder by a St. John the Baptist Parish jury, the result of the nearly three-year case surrounding the LaPlace murder of 23-year-old Jaece Stroud of Norco. Cage will be sentenced ne…