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A Times-Picayune reporter at the scene says that a body found under the dock near the Natchez river boat appears to be that of missing Houston businessman Douglas Schantz. The New Orleans Police Department reported earlier that the search for Douglas Schantz, the missing oil executive from Houston, had shifted to the Mississippi River. Chief Warren Riley reported at a press conference this morning that Schantz was tracked after he left Razoos Bar and Patio about 2:06 a.m. by various cameras in the French Quarter. He walked down Bourbon Street to Toulouse Street and then to the Natchez river boat....

The president of natural gas firm Sequent Energy Management, was hanging out on Bourbon Street in New Orleans with coworkers around 2 a.m. last Friday morning. He hasn't been seen since. Schantz, who lives in Houston, went to New Orleans last week to present a donation from his company to Tulane University and to visit his daughter, a student there. He and his colleagues went out on Bourbon Street Thursday night. According to news reports, he was last seen at Club Razzoo at two o'clock in the morning. Now his company and his family are looking for him, along with...

The president of a Houston energy company disappeared in New Orleans early Friday, according to police who are trying to get surveillance video from the Bourbon Street area where colleagues last saw him. Douglas Schantz, 54, is president of Houston-based Sequent Energy Management, one of the largest wholesale gas marketers in the country. Colleagues last saw Schantz wearing a blazer and tie between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Friday in a Bourbon Street bar, Assistant Police Superintendent Marlon Defillo said on Saturday. His wife reported him missing after he failed to meet his daughter for a flight home later that...