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• Oct. 8: Joe Johnson, Sgt. David Conner, an officer with the Phelps Correctional Center in Dequincy, LA, and an inmate from the Phelps Correctional Center load a coffin onto an air boat in the North Big Lake area of Cameron Parish, LA. This is the second recovery for this corpse, which was identified through methods employed during coffin recovery after Hurricane Rita.
• Oct. 8: Joe Johnson, Sgt. David Conner, an officer with the Phelps Correctional Center in Dequincy, LA, and an inmate from the Phelps Correctional Center load a coffin onto an air boat in the North Big Lake area of Cameron Parish. This is the second recovery for this corpse, which was identified through methods employed during coffin recovery after Hurricane Rita.
• Oct. 8: Sgt. David Conner, an officer with the Phelps Correctional Center in Dequincy, LA, and an inmate from the Phelps Correctional Center examine an identification vial located in a coffin found in the North Big Lake area in Cameron Parish, LA. This was the second recovery for this corpse from the Ebenezer Baptist Cemetery in Cameron Parish.
• Oct. 8: Joe Johnson, a volunteer, and Sgt. David Conner with the Phelps Correctional Center in Dequincy, LA search through the tall grass for a coffin reported to be on this levee of Big Lake in Cameron Parish, LA. Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office is utilizing Global Positioning Satellite technology to track and locate the missing coffins.
• Oct. 8: Joe Johnson, a volunteer, and Zeb Johnson, Chief Investigator with Calcasieu Parish Coroners Office, check over coordinates from several located coffins utilizing Global Positioning Satellite Technology. GPS is used to estimate the location of missing coffins to facilitate their recovery.
• Oct. 8: Joe Johnson labels a coffin recovered from the Big Lake Area of Cameron Parish, LA. According to Johnson, more than 20 coffins have been recovered from the Big Lake area since Hurricane Ike flooded Cameron Parish.
• Oct. 8: Joe Johnson checks coordinates on a Global Positioning Satellite device to track and locate a missing coffin.
• Oct. 8: Joe Johnson positions his air boat to retrieve a coffin from the Big Lake Area of Cameron Parish, LA. Sgt. David Conner, an officer with the Phelps Correctional Center in Dequincy, LA, and an inmate from the Phelps Correctional Center wait to assist with the recovery.
• Oct. 8: Inmates from the Phelps Correctional Center, Dequincy, LA move a coffin onto a truck after its recovery from he North Big Lake area of Cameron Parish, LA. Recovered coffins are being taken to the Burton Coliseum in Lake Charles, LA to await reburial.
• Oct. 8: Sgt. David Conner, an officer with the Phelps Correctional Center in Dequincy, LA, Joe Johnson and an inmate from the Phelps Correctional Center load a coffin onto an air boat in the North Big Lake area of Cameron Parish, LA. This is the second recovery for this corpse and it was identified through methods employed during coffin recovery after Hurricane Rita
• Sept. 15: George Levias, 75, moves a cross from an exposed casket as he looks for a headstone at the Hollywood Cemetery in Orange, Texas. Several vaults and caskets were exposed after Hurricane Ike caused flooding in the area.
• Sept. 15: An angel grave marker looks over surfaced caskets at the Hollywood Community cemetery in Orange, Texas. Dozens of caskets and grave tombs surfaced due to the flooding caused by Hurricane Ike.
• Sept. 15: Earnest William walks through the Hollywood Community Cemetery as a surfaced casket is seen at left rear.
• Sept. 15: Trooper David Villanueva places a headstone on a casket vault that was returned to the Hollywood Cemetery. The vault floated from its grave sites and rested on a nearby roadway after Hurricane Ike caused flooding in the area.
• Sept. 15: Members of the National Guard return a casket vault back to a to the Hollywood Cemetery, in Orange, Texas. The vault floated from its grave sites and rested on a nearby roadway after Hurricane Ike caused flooding in the area.
• Sept. 15: Members of the National guard return a casket vault back to to the Hollywood Cemetery, in Orange, Texas.
• Sept. 15: Visitors to the Hollywood Cemetery take photos of a casket that was exposed following Hurricane Ike, in Orange, Texas.
• Sept. 15: An open gravesite with remaining flood water is seen with surfaced caskets at rear at the Hollywood Community Cemetery in Orange, Texas. Dozens of caskets and grave tombs surfaced due to the flooding caused by Hurricane Ike.
• Sept. 15: The grave site of blues musician Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown is seen at the Hollywood Cemetery in Orange, Texas. Several vaults and caskets were exposed after Hurricane Ike caused flooding in the area, including Brown's grave.
• Sept. 15: Visitors to the Hollywood Cemetery walk past a casket that was exposed following Hurricane Ike, in Orange, Texas.
• Sept. 15: A cross is seen at the Hollywood Cemetery in Orange, Texas where flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike have drained.
• Sept. 15: Visitors to the Hollywood Cemetery walk past a casket that was exposed following Hurricane Ike, in Orange, Texas. Several vaults and caskets were exposed after Hurricane Ike caused flooding in the area.