Less than two weeks after being sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars, Lawrence Hecker died of natural causes at 3 a.m. Thursday at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, according to ...

Lawrence Hecker, the former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty earlier this month to raping an underage boy decades ago, has died, according to our partners at WWL-TV. Hecker, 93, was sentenced to ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Former Catholic priest and admitted pedophile Lawrence Hecker, 93, has died in prison, according to his attorney. Hecker had served just nine days of a life sentence for ...

Lawrence Hecker, an elderly and enfeebled former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty this month to raping a boy in a church gym in New Orleans nearly 50 years ago, died Thursday morning in prison ...

Lawrence Hecker, the disgraced Louisiana priest who was sentenced to life in prison this month over the rape of a teenage boy decades ago, died in prison at age 93 just days after his sentence was ...