[El Gato]

The stories were not completely false. There were several pictures of a body, a young black man, outside the convention center, that was definitely not a victim of winds or flood. Large puddle and stream of dried or drying blood around the body. Various "baggy pants worn below the hips types shown in different photos lifting the cover over the body, presumably to see if he had been someone they knew. At least one other photo of a family walking past the body.

And there were others as well that looked to have died an unnatural violent death.

[Katya]

Hard to tell if the death was unnatural...probably a bloated body of someone who had drowned. So far only 4 bodies and the convention center and 10 at the superdome. Those numbers include the people outside those facilities as well. I remember the reporters kept pointing to a body of a man sitting in a wheel chair that had been draped over. A Times Picayune story mentioned that man had died while being transported there. Thank goodness most of these stories have turned out to be tall stories.