The remains of a Hurricane Katrina victim unidentified after 19 years
Nineteen years after the devastation in MississippiHurricane Katrinawas identified the body of a woman, Tonette Jacksonwhich was turned out to be missing. Her husband, Hardy, now has a body to bury, but until recently he had only one painful memory: when on August 29, 2005, he and she, amidst the floods, held hands. He had managed to cling to a tree and squeezed his wife’s hand, before feeling his grip loosenthe. The woman had disappeared in the wave of water, mud and rubble.
A week later a body was found, but in such conditions as to be unidentifiable. In the burial place he had been placed mercifully a generic nameJane, and next to the word “Love”Love.
All these years Tonette Jackson has been classified among the 12 thousand missing in Louisiana and Mississippi, but her husband and children never stopped thinking that one day the story would have its end, albeit a tragic one. Hardy had given interviews on national TV, becoming one of the faces of the tragedy. The identified victims were 1,392. The damages were quantified at 125 billion dollars.
With new technologies linked to DNA, doctors have now managed to give a name to Jane’s remains: it was Tonette Jackson. When he died he was 46 years old. The family, who was immediately informed, asked to be able to get the remains back and bury them with a new headstone. The authorities agreed. Tonette’s name has been removed from the long list of “missing” people, officially missing.
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