“3 New Orleans Men Were Suspected of Dr. Newsome’s Murder”

Two are still walking amongst us and one committed suicide in 2017. These three men were separately suspected of killing Dr. Ralph Ed Newsome on Halloween night in 2009 and setting his spacious French Quarter home ablaze. To date, no one has been arrested or charged in Newsome's murder and all three men are presumed innocent.

This exclusive information has been provided to “The NOLA Tabloid” by a confidential source who wants to shed light on a homicide investigation that has since gone cold.

Newsome’s estranged boyfriend at the time, Gerald Gabriel, was moved out of the Tulane surgeon’s fabulous home on Saint Louis Street and into a second, much less glamorous home on Desire Street. Newsome bought Gabriel this Ninth Ward home after their relationship soured and Gabriel grew increasingly violent. During one quarrel, Gabriel supposedly tried to throw the diminutive Newsome from a third floor balcony. Since Newsome’s murder, Gabriel has sold his Desire Street home in 2017 for over $400K and supposedly moved to Thibodaux, Louisiana.

To make matters worse, Newsome began frequenting a new, younger interest. A straight, married man named Brian Funches. Newsome met Funches while doing some repair work at his home. Funches also worked at a French Quarter restaurant and soon began living part-time in Newsome’s home and driving his Jaguar. Funches was very protective and provided a buffer between Newsome and an increasingly agitated Gabriel. In one episode, Funches confronted a hammer-wielding Gabriel and chased him out of Newsome’s home.

Yet, Newsome and Funches had problems of their own. In another incident, neighbors recounted an argument between Newsome and Funches whereby, Funches put Newsome out of his own car. These neighbors suspected that Funches was Newsome’s latest flame and Gabriel was old news.

So much for Newsome’s personal life. Professionally, Newsome was supposedly being stalked by a fellow surgeon, Dr. Stephen Hendry, who mysteriously committed suicide in 2017.

Although his love life was a wreck, Newsome was a highly respected plastic surgeon and professor at Tulane’s School of Medicine. These achievements drew the ire of Hendry who engaged in a campaign of harassment against Newsome, which included endless and obscene prank calls. Some say that Hendry was disturbed and

once publicly humiliated his girlfriend at the time at a social gathering that shocked his colleagues. Those demons ultimately claimed Hendry’s life in 2017 when he killed himself.

Eerily, Newsome may have foreseen his own murder. In the weeks and months leading up to his demise, Newsome shared with friends and family that he had been experiencing a reoccurring dream that someone killed him and he was roaming the French Quarter as a ghost.

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