The January 2006 murders of Youric and Mary Courville during an apparent robbery of their Boudreaux Street home in Eunice are at the top of St. Landry Crime Stoppers’ list of unsolved crimes.

And as its program year draws to a close, the organization is increasing the width and breadth of its information umbrella, a move it hopes will lead to tips in the Courville case and others.

Deputy Jimmy Darbonne, who heads the non-profit group, said the program will partner with the Crime Stoppers program in Baton Rouge to create a deck of playing cards featuring unsolved crimes.

Each card will provide information on an individual case. Darbonne has submitted three local cases for the deck, including the Courville murders.

The Eunice Police Department, the Sheriff’s Office and State Police worked the case but it remains unsolved.

“Those cards will be passed out at all the Department of Corrections institutions and to prisons such as Angola. Our hope is to get information from criminals who are in jail,” Darbonne said.

He said other states have successfully used such “cold-case decks” to gather information from inmates and their families regarding unsolved crimes.

According to Darbonne, the St. Landry program has 21 arrests to its credit, arrests which solved 41 cases and included recovery of about $130,000 worth of stolen property.

Crime Stoppers allows people to make anonymous tips about area crimes and, if the information leads to an arrest, pays rewards of up to $1,000.