Testimony ends in Balfa hearing

By: TONY MARKS Editor Testimony in a three-day evidentiary hearing in connection with John Brady Balfa ended on Wednesday, April 1. Balfa was convicted in connection with the 1983 abduction and murder of Aubrey LaHaye. On Wednesday, Fr. Bernard Papania, a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Biloxi, Miss., testified as to his relationship with Balfa. Fr. Papania served as a priest at Angola...

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