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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: brytlea

That's the big question. Corpses who have been in the elements a long time are not going to look well-groomed and well-dressed. This guy is a 'Rat shill, nothing more.


61 posted on 09/26/2005 12:57:42 PM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: stan_sipple

this story is a little different from the "nothing here" move on story making all the other news headlines today. I wonder when the facts will come out?


62 posted on 09/26/2005 12:58:51 PM PDT by q_an_a
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To: stan_sipple
"He was surprised by the number of homicides — people with gunshot wounds to their heads and backs."

Old and weak people could also be murdered by drowning them. Also, wasn't there a report of several bodies found in a hospital who appear to have been beaten to death with brass knuckles?

63 posted on 09/26/2005 12:59:14 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Bigh4u2

I just read that article about the lack of dead at the superdome (and convention center) in my local rag. I imagine numerous pychological papers will be done on that. Why/how can there be so many people telling stories of "We had to walk over countless bodies of dead people". Not even a second-hand statement. Although the sheriff now admits that some of the things he had said (based on second-hand stories) were "not accurate".


64 posted on 09/26/2005 12:59:53 PM PDT by geopyg (Ever Vigilant, Never Fearful)
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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'.

Unfortunately, many of them could have been "lootees".

65 posted on 09/26/2005 1:03:55 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: GaltMeister

I wonder too if some of the of homicide victims were killed before the storm and the flooding just exposed their bodies? Just a thought. I would want to know if any of the homicide victims had been listed as missing persons before the storm came through.


66 posted on 09/26/2005 1:09:39 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: stan_sipple

bttt


67 posted on 09/26/2005 1:10:13 PM PDT by lunarbicep (If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. –Jonathan Winters)
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To: BenLurkin

So basically the news reports coming out now are trying to turn the story in a better light so that they can't be accused of racism?? I'm confused. Either the first hand accounts are true, or they aren't?


68 posted on 09/26/2005 1:14:50 PM PDT by mosquitobite (What we permit; we promote.)
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To: GaltMeister

no it wouldn't be safe to say. folks in other areas have already used the white vigilante line.


69 posted on 09/26/2005 1:15:56 PM PDT by freema (Ready to Rock AND Roll)
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To: mosquitobite
What happened in New Orleans showed America what people are really like in the American inner cities. Things got this bad thanks to long decades of bad governance by the liberals.

Too many Americans didn't know or didn't want to know the truth in this regards. Heck, consider Celine Dion's foolish pronouncements. She is exhibit A of how a clueless liberal fails to see the damage liberalism has done to society.


Maybe some in the media may think that we'll all be better off if we forget. Otherwise, liberals could be booted out of office all across the nation.
70 posted on 09/26/2005 1:23:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Diva Betsy Ross

LMAO!


71 posted on 09/26/2005 1:26:30 PM PDT by No Blue States (FW)
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To: BenLurkin

ROFL!

Ahh the benefits of the hurricane machine.


72 posted on 09/26/2005 1:28:16 PM PDT by No Blue States (FW)
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks. I agree with your assessment.


73 posted on 09/26/2005 1:31:47 PM PDT by mosquitobite (What we permit; we promote.)
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To: brytlea

Shopping cart calluses.


74 posted on 09/26/2005 1:36:11 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (As it was in the days of NO...)
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To: BenLurkin

Im not sure how many died at the SD and CC, from day one the stories have conflicted. Its probably somewhere between a tea party hug fest and an unforgetable living hell.

I will certainly never go to a group shelter.

In the end what concerns me most in Texas is the sex offenders,criminals, and even welfare leeches that got a free bus ride to my state. Not that they all were.


75 posted on 09/26/2005 1:36:11 PM PDT by No Blue States (FW)
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To: thoughtomator

Do you know, or are you just supposing (not that there's anything wrong with supposing, but I'd really like to know how they can tell.)
susie


76 posted on 09/26/2005 2:01:14 PM PDT by brytlea (All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
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To: Thinkin' Gal

Ok, now that I could buy! ;)
susie


77 posted on 09/26/2005 2:04:59 PM PDT by brytlea (All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
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To: brytlea

I'm just supposing.


78 posted on 09/26/2005 2:08:29 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Driving an SUV is objectively pro-terrorist)
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To: thoughtomator

It was good supposing. My supposer is broken right now!
susie


79 posted on 09/26/2005 2:09:18 PM PDT by brytlea (All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
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To: BenLurkin

The machete & knife wounds will be harder to identify.


80 posted on 09/26/2005 2:12:08 PM PDT by johnny7 (“I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean sh_t.”)
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