43 Katrina Victims Still Unidentified

On the corner of Canal Street and City Park Avenue, six granite buildings hold the final mysteries of Hurricane Katrina.

Here, in these mausoleums, are 43 bodies of unidentified victims — people whose fingerprints, dental records and DNA were not enough to shed light on who they were. Three-and-a-half years after the torrential floods killed 1,500 people across the Gulf Coast and put 80% of New Orleans under water, workers in the city's forensic center are still trying to close the book on Katrina's final chapter.

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