By Sue Anne Pressley and Jacqueline L. Salmon
Updated: 1:05 a.m. ET Sept. 13, 2005
The people who died during Katrina and its aftermath are, two weeks later, still largely unidentified and unknown. No one can say yet how many perished, who they were, how and when they died. Communications and recovery problems — and a heavy cloak of secrecy — have compounded the mystery. Officials have been told not to pass on any information. For now, and for the foreseeable future, the victims of Katrina remain the dead without a roster.
Atlanta’s Incoming Survivors
Marilyn Ringstaff
September 7, 2005
“A family of 7 people arrived who had been sleeping on the bridge after reaching it by boat, and they finally decided to leave their home after the water started turning black from the bodies.”