Gruesome murder-suicide in New Orleans

Post-Katrina madness continues to haunt New Orleans.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1161238995252250.xml&coll=1

And related stories on the same site.

Some of you might remember this couple from stories soon after Katrina.

 

Some pretty excellent reporting in that story. Gruesome indeed.

 

sad story.

 

Awful crime, terrific writing

 

Unless I skipped over it, the story doesn't link post-traumatic stress from the storm and the crime. This stuff happens all too frequently, in all too many places.
I remember when a guy in NYC cut up and cooked his dancer girlfriend and served her to his homeless buddies on the Bowery.

 

I didn't mean to suggest Katrina stress was necessarily a cause. Just pointing out that so many horrific and unfathomable things have happened in New Orleans since the hurricane, and this is another.

I know there were many senseless bloodbaths in New Orleans before, but even the police spokesman said he's never seen anything like this in 40 years on the job.

 

I saw one NOLA newscast last night where they interviewed the police forensic psychiatrist who was using this as a big alarm that the city didn't have any free mental hospital wards after the storm with Charity and one other hospital's ward still closed. I think it's obviously a stretch to link that to this case, which the psychiatrist didn't do but the TV station didn't separate from the incident's coverage, but it's a pretty big issue for the city.

 

No question.

 

Interesting turn-of-phrase: "Survivalist" vs. "survivor."

Sad that the mere formality of referencing it as "Hurricane" Katrina on first reference is now considered redundant at the T-P.

The website prompted me for a zip code after page 1, so I gave the rest of the tale a miss.

 

What a creepy story.

Makes you wonder just what is wrong with people.

 

Every Newhouse site I visit thinks I'm a woman from Beverly Hills (aka 90210) born in 1901.

In other NOLA crime news, sports talk host Vince Marinello allegedly murdered his wife a few weeks back. Probably a DB, but I just heard about it for the first time today.

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5431262

 

Moddys, please don't merge this with the Lidle funeral/In=n-Out thread.