The Katrina Missing: Death Toll Likely Higher Than 1,300
by Pamela LeaveyAnd still, more news on the Katrina front today…
Nearly six months after Hurricane Katrina, more than 1,300 bodies have been found, but the real death toll is clearly higher. How much higher, no one can say with any certainty.
Hundreds of people are still unaccounted for, and some of them — again, no one is sure how many — were probably washed into the Gulf of Mexico, drowned when their fishing boats sank, swept into Lake Pontchartrain or alligator-infested swamps, or buried under crushed homes, said Dr. Louis Cataldie, Louisiana medical examiner.
Cataldie noted that coffins, disgorged from the earth by the floodwaters, have been found great distances from their graveyards, and “if we have coffins that have washed 30 miles away, I can assure you there are people who have.”
“The likelihood is there are people we will not find,” he said.
New Orleans Coroner Frank Minyard said a final sweep of homes in the devastated Ninth Ward will be done this month with help from federal officials. After that, he said, any more bodies found will probably be discovered in out-of-the-way places by hunters or fishermen.
But neither he nor Cataldie would venture a guess as to how many how many undiscovered victims are out there.
Could the numbers of so many lost, so many still missing, so many never to be found have lessened… I think we all know the answer to that, at this point.
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I would recommend you and your readers drill down into my blog http://wetbankguide.blogpost.com, and find any number of posts on this, the most recent in late December titled The Dead. It is clear from the resolution rates of missing person lists in Mississippi and St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana that the death toll is at least twice that being reported, and likely well over 3,000. The company which runs the morgue in St. Gabriel, La. is the same Bush-connected company that owned the body-dumping crematorium that got a lot of ink a few years ago, and all employees are sworn to secrecy. They can’t let us know that more people did in Katrina than on 9-11.
We up here in Canada thought something was ‘fishy’ when the Death Toll literally dropped overnight from a reported 15,000 to the miraculous 1,400..if that’s the case, then we want those 20,000 body bags back !! Thank God for the European Media and their Truthful reporting-Americans (and Canadians now) cannot count on finding Truth/honesty in North american Major media. New Orleans/Katrina was really an Act of Racism-fuelled Genocide. God help us ALL!!