New Orleans, La. -- A Bourbon Street dancer who says she was approached by the suspects in the murder of 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart, on the same night Lockhart disappeared, has contacted authorities.
Dancer Sheila Nand had worked previously with 39-year-old Terry Speaks. Speaks and 28-year-old Margaret Sanchez are suspects in Lockhart's death, but are currently being held in jail on unrelated charges.
Stiletto's, an establishment on Bourbon Street, is right next door to the Temptations Gentleman's Club where Lockhart worked. Nand said she was approached by the pair while working at Stiletto's, and became alarmed when she saw news reports.
"I freak out like, oh my gosh, those are the people that approached me," Nand said.
Nand said Sanchez made her a generous offer inside the club.
"She asked me if I wanted to go home with her and her boyfriend, and I said I don't work outside of the club, and got off stage and they were still there," Nand said.
Nand said she was offered $700.
"That's the fishy thing about it is when she approached me on the stage, she asked me if I wanted to go home with her and her boyfriend as a third party as a 'gift' to him, you know," Nand continued.
Nand said there were other red flags.
"She changed the story on me and said, do I want to go to a private party with her, you know, and it would be safe and it's only to take a short amount of time, there was a bouncer which would be her boyfriend there and it was all good," Nand stated.
A manager at Stiletto's, who didn't want to go on camera, did confirm that Speaks did work there for less than a year. He said Speaks seemed like a nice guy and he had been gone from the business for about two months.
"He always portrayed himself as a really sweet guy, very shy," said Nand.
Hancock County Deputy Don Bass said they are checking out Nand's story about encountering the suspects in the French Quarter.
FOX 8 legal analyst Joe Raspanti said the case offers a tangle of jurisdiction issues.
"They gotta figure out where this young lady was killed, that's the main thing," Raspanti stated.
Another question Raspanti said must be answered is whether the victim was kidnapped from New Orleans.
"Where ever the murder occurred, you can bet that that's where the prosecution is going to start and finish," he said.
Suspects in Jaren Lockhart murder.
