Quest to Identify Two Victimsof Katrina Is a Long Journey
Augusta Chronicle, The › January 13, 2007
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NEW ORLEANS - Water is unforgiving to the dead, and by the time the crews arrived, the men were missing their eyes.
The workers slipped the two old men into zippered bags and drove them to an emergency morgue. Over the months that followed, investigators cut them, prodded them, photographed them, X-rayed them and studied their DNA, all in an attempt to coax their bodies into spitting out names.See the full content of this document
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Quest to Identify Two Victimsof Katrina Is a Long Journey
Today, their bodies rest in steel coffins inside a warehouse on a street of flowering weeds in New Orleans. In rows beside them are the coffins of 27 other anonymous souls, their bodies stuck in a forensic purgatory - unknown, unclaimed and unburied more than 15 months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
Some of Katrina's dead succumbed alongside people they knew; slips of paper or damp cardboard, inscribed with their names, were tucked into their clothes....See the full content of this document
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