Suicide Note Leads to Dismembered Body (New Orleans)

[ripple]

New Orleans — A note found on the body of a suicide jumper led police to a French Quarter apartment where they found a woman’s charred head in a pot, her arms and legs in the oven and her torso in the refrigerator, police said Wednesday.
Zackery Bowen, 28, leapt from the seventh floor of a luxury hotel in the Quarter on Tuesday night, police said. His note, found in his pocket, identified the woman as his girlfriend but did not mention her name.

The body was found in the second-floor apartment that Bowen and his girlfriend, Adriane Hall, had shared on the edge of the Quarter above a voodoo shop, according to the landlord. Authorities said they were trying to find Hall, but did not speculate on the identity of the dismembered woman...

...The couple was profiled in several news stories following Hurricane Katrina as resilient residents who remained in the city after the devastating hurricane despite evacuation orders and a lack of power and water...

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/oct/19/suicide_note_leads_dismembered_body/

[Shakespeare]

1. Our news reported last night that they were Katrina survivors....

...who had been featured in several national news stories about how they'd remained in NOLA to try and rebuild, how resilient they were, etc. My first thought was is this a PTSD casualty? And how many other people who went through that hell are facing similar psychological breakdowns?

Everyone in GD seems to think this is a big joke, but I find it just unspeakably tragic.

[Shakespeare]

2. I STRONGLY object to this having been moved to the state forum.

This is a horrifying example of what PTSD is doing to Katrina survivors, and it needs to remain in a forum where more posters will see it.

[ripple]

3. I agree, PTSD is likely

This is horrifically tragic.

The Louisiana forum is an appropriate place for this, but I agree with you that it should be seen by a broader audience. There are an awful lot of people who aren't getting the mental health services they need to deal with PTSD, depression, and other psychiatric problems they've been faced with following Katrina. I also thought some folks might remember the couple from stories featuring them shortly after Katrina. I'm guessing the mods don't agree with it being appropriate for a broader audience, since they moved it from Latest Breaking News forum.

:shrug:

[uppityperson]

4. oh dang it all. heartbreaking.

ptsd multiplied.