In 2014, New Orleans-based investigative reporter Ethan Brown published an article on Medium called "Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8?" In 2016, a book by the same reporter, called "Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?" was released.A review of the documentary series by Rolling Stone states: "The book, obviously a much more detailed account than the Medium article, includes a particularly jaw-dropping revelation that came to light since 2014: In the second-to-last chapter, Brown discovers a connection between some of the victims and Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany." This connection to Boustany is further explored in the 2019 Showtime documentary, "Murder in the Bayou." Boustany later sued the author, Brown, and publisher of “Murder in the Bayou” in October, when he was in a tight competition for a U.S. Senate seat. He dropped the lawsuit that December.