KFDM COOP Posted May 27, 2009 Report Posted May 27, 2009 Bodies of 4 additional Hurricane Ike victims identified Comments 0 | Recommend 0 May 27, 2009 - 7:38 AM posted by: Scott Lawrence GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Family members say four of five bodies of unidentified Hurricane Ike victims have been identified at the Galveston County morgue. Five victims, who are believed to have drowned on the Bolivar Peninsula when the hurricane came ashore Sept. 13, were kept in the morgue in Galveston County as authorities painstakingly tried to determine their identities. The victims have been identified as Marion Violet Arrambide, 78, and her daughter, Magdalina Strickland, 49; Delores Brookshire and her disabled son, Charles Allen Garrett, the Houston Chronicle reported. Roy Arrambide, the son of Marion Violet Arrambide, said he was grateful to finally have closure. DNA testing enabled their identification. Officials with the Galveston County medical examiner's office are still working to identify the remains of a petite female with webbed toes and an abdominal scar.
tvc184 Posted May 27, 2009 Report Posted May 27, 2009 One left. I wonder where all the conspiracy theorists are that said there were hundreds if not thousands of bodies and Governor Perry has them all hidden in refrigerated trucks. I guess he still has them parked somewhere... and the black helicopters are circling overhead to protect them.
bullets13 Posted May 28, 2009 Report Posted May 28, 2009 the number seems low to me. i find it hard to believe that with as many people who stayed, and the destruction that the coast received, that there weren't more victims. but i guess maybe all of the witnesses that "saw" floaters and whatnot were exaggerating, as people often tend to do.
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