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Mortician surprised by New Orleans dead
Lincoln Journal Star ^ | 9-26 | Josh Swartzlander

Posted on 09/26/2005 11:45:14 AM PDT by stan_sipple

Mark Roper spent two weeks in St. Gabriel, La., this month, moving the bodies of Hurricane Katrina’s New Orleans victims into refrigerated trailers. After watching the steady stream of corpses, Roper’s biggest surprise about the dead: almost all were elderly or homeless. Most of the dead had drowned, Roper said. Others had died of dehydration, probably caused by abandonment, he said.

He was surprised by the number of homicides — people with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs.

Autopsies were performed on those victims, Roper said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: crime; katrina; neworleans; urbanbarbarians
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To: stan_sipple
Not that Roper is a medical examiner, but, I guess he's saying that these do not appear to be homicides.


If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

21 posted on 09/26/2005 12:01:08 PM PDT by rdb3 (NON-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
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To: stan_sipple
Zombies are hard to kill...

but they're easy to fight.
22 posted on 09/26/2005 12:01:45 PM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: BurbankKarl

"I guess he didnt read the blogs....lots of people who prepared were pulled out of their cars and murdered."

Havent you heard? The superdome and CC was all a big tea party now. It wasnt bad at all. The mdeia made it up to make Bush look bad. /barf/


23 posted on 09/26/2005 12:02:53 PM PDT by No Blue States (FW)
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To: stan_sipple
He needs to contact Anne Rice, isn't she FRom NO?

There may be "other" explanations, LOL.

24 posted on 09/26/2005 12:03:00 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Minuteman at heart, couch potato in reality))
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To: GaltMeister
I wonder if it would be safe to say that a large number of these could be classified as 'former looters'.

We prefer the term, "Step 13 of the Looters Anonymous 12-Step Program".

25 posted on 09/26/2005 12:04:29 PM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: brytlea; stan_sipple
How could he tell which were homeless from looking at the body?

He's a Mortician...And He's Psychic!

I think we can sell this concept as an hour long drama to NBC.

26 posted on 09/26/2005 12:06:03 PM PDT by siunevada
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To: BenLurkin

5.56? .40? 12ga?


27 posted on 09/26/2005 12:06:43 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be. -El Neil)
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To: stan_sipple

"He was surprised by the number of homicides — people with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs."

But he won't tell us how many? In light of some of the media hype that's been exposed lately re massive murder and rape, I wonder if his surprise wasn't that the number was so low?


28 posted on 09/26/2005 12:07:22 PM PDT by Pessimist
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To: brytlea
they all had their "will work shelter" signs on them? Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
29 posted on 09/26/2005 12:07:42 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.)
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To: Dead Corpse

I dunno. I can't get the link to work. My firewalls don't like the source.


30 posted on 09/26/2005 12:07:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: siunevada

Sure, why not! (I'm still mad that they have replaced Joan with another show about someone who talks to dead people--I mean how many of those do we need?!)
susie


31 posted on 09/26/2005 12:08:00 PM PDT by brytlea (All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
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To: No Blue States
The latest reports from the Superdome are that the worst thing that happened there was that the children were not able to sleep due to the noise levels created by the adults singing Kumbyah.
32 posted on 09/26/2005 12:08:49 PM PDT by Diva Betsy Ross (Code pink stinks)
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To: GaltMeister

Oh no, he didn't. He was on vacation, doing nothing just letting everything bad happen. It had to be someone else who was at work that day.


33 posted on 09/26/2005 12:09:29 PM PDT by tiki
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly. He might have been surprised by how few there were.


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BINGO. I think it is way less than the MSM has been proclaiming.


34 posted on 09/26/2005 12:09:33 PM PDT by FearlessFreep (If life gives you lemons, blame it on Bush.)
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To: No Blue States

"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalled the doctor saying.

The real total?

Six, Beron said. "

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491347/posts


35 posted on 09/26/2005 12:09:47 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: brytlea

In particular after it'd been sitting in the water in 90 degree weather for a few days.

I'd say it's racism but it would probably be hard to even tell the race.

Also I'm not sure how he know they drowned or how he knows for certain that some were homicides.


36 posted on 09/26/2005 12:11:10 PM PDT by whershey
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To: Bigh4u2

Hey, some people don't count so well....
susie


37 posted on 09/26/2005 12:12:43 PM PDT by brytlea (All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
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To: stan_sipple

What numbers? one? Two? Where and Who and ---- never mind.


38 posted on 09/26/2005 12:13:00 PM PDT by hombre_sincero (www.spadata.com)
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To: kcvl

right, i think his articles are usually pretty good


39 posted on 09/26/2005 12:13:10 PM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: hombre_sincero

Remember

These are the same folks that serve as democrat election officials. This is how they count..


40 posted on 09/26/2005 12:15:06 PM PDT by slapshot ("USAF- when you absolutely, positively need it delivered on target, on time, right away")
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