Amy Hebert

Background Hebert, originally from Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, worked as a teacher's aide at Lockport Lower Elementary School in Lockport. In her criminal trial, experts summoned by the prosecution and the defense stated that she had been severely depressed around the time she committed the crime.

Hebert's husband, Chad, sought a divorce in 2005, which was finalized in April of the following year.

At the times of their deaths, Hebert's son, Braxton, attended Lockport Lower, while her daughter, Camille, attended Lockport Upper Elementary School. Chad and Amy held joint custody of the children. The family had a dog named Princess. The children had defensive wounds to their hands and arms; Camille had about 30–35 stab wounds to the front of her torso while Braxton had about 50-55 stab wounds to his torso, with about 30 to the front and 20–25 to the back. Scanlan believed Camille was likely attacked in Hebert's bedroom and the bathroom, and that Hebert injured herself in one or both of those locations. asking authorities to check on the welfare of the children. His father, R.J. "Buck" Hebert, came to the house and discovered the crime scene. Sheriff Craig Webre of Lafourche Parish stated that as the children's bodies were in rigor mortis upon discovery, they had been dead for more than one hour. They were transported to Jefferson Parish for their autopsies. Mark Hebert, a doctor (no relation), stated in records at the Ochsner hospital that her self-inflicted injuries were life-threatening.

The prosecuting attorney was the district attorney of Lafourche Parish, Camille "Cam" Morvant II. Sophia Ruffin of The Houma Times characterized the notes as "vitriolic".

Hebert was convicted of the murders and received two life sentences, one for each child. Even though Goorley asked the judge to let her serve the sentences concurrently, on the grounds that she had no previous criminal record, District Judge Jerome Barbera instead chose to mandate that Hebert's life sentences be served consecutively on the basis that she had killed two people. Jurors voted on whether to give her the death penalty, but the 9-3 vote in favor of death was insufficient to successfully sentence her to death, as the State of Louisiana requires a unanimous decision; therefore, the default punishment of life in prison applied. The trial had a cost of about $100,000.

Subsequently, Hebert entered an appeal in federal court. Her legal representation, based in New Orleans, was Letty S. Di Giulio, who stated that the interviews with mental health experts proved she was insane. The appeal accused the attorney of doing low quality work and the courts of improperly vetting the jury pool. In May 2018, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the appeal. The U.S. Supreme Court denied a hearing of her appeal in April 2019. Joe Soignet, an assistant attorney with Lafourche Parish's courts, stated that the action, which is an example of the length of time an appeals process is completed for a prisoner, as over a decade had elapsed after the conviction, "literally closes the book on the case." Hebert was held in the LCIW temporary facility in the former Jetson Center for Youth in East Baton Rouge Parish . Visitations of their bodies occurred at Falgout Funeral Home in Lockport, The playground at Lockport Lower has the text "Braxton's Buddies". Camille's Court, at Lockport Upper, was scheduled to be a basketball court decorated with a plaque and flowerbed. Scholarships in the names of both children for education major students were established at Nicholls State University.