Orleans mother suspects foul play in daughter's Riverwalk death

Yahoo

10-06-2025

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — 20-year-old Jameshia Selders went out in New Orleans with a group of friends but never returned home.
According to the Coast Guard, Selders fell into the Mississippi river by the Riverwalk at around 1 a.m. and has not been found since.
'Somebody just help me find my daughter,' Duplessis said. 'It's important to me if I can just get my daughter back with the family and get my daughter a decent burial funeral.''
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Duplessis says that her final conversations with her daughter were normal. Selders even said she would be home that night.
Just hours later though, Duplessis received the worst phone call of her life.
The coast guard would then spend hours searching but to no avail.
'We had people out here searching with helicopters,' Duplessis said. 'It was late. They tried. We shut down at 3 something in the morning. They said they would come back out in the morning and try to find my daughter. Still not getting any answers.'
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According to Duplessis, Selders' friends say that she jumped in. However, Duplessis claims there is more to the story. She believes that her daughter was killed by those she was with.
'My daughter would never throw herself in the river,' Duplessis said. 'My daughter knows how to swim and she's not just going to throw herself in the river. She didn't have any problems.'
Duplessis claims that some of Selders' friends have acted suspicious since that night such as deleting social media accounts.
'I mean I got some that deactivated their Instagram page, deactivated their Facebook page,' Duplessis said. 'I mean if you had nothing to do with it, why would you deactivate your information.'
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