“And of course, after talking with the forensic pathologists, both of them, they both concluded very quickly that the person was dead before they entered the water,” DeRosier said.

The autopsy report was brought to Calcasieu Parish Coroner Terry Welke. I asked him specifically what the condition of the body was when he first saw it in the water floating and he said it was just like that, stretched out and there was just something about that that troubled me.” This list shows serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims. There are gaps of time between the killings, which may range from a few hours to many years. It was almost laying straight on its side not slouched over like a typical drowning victim and I noticed in the basket when the body was loaded up onto the boat that it was laid out straight. A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, in two or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological reasons. “What interested me about it was his description of the position of the body when he saw it floating. Abshire was right there, the only survivor still alive at that point who actually saw the body in the water and saw the body get taken out of the water and placed on the stretcher,” said Calcasieu District Attorney John DeRosier.

Sonny “Ike” Abshire, who drove the boat during the search for Mary, had held onto the 1963 supplemental report from the Calcasieu Sheriff’s Office the photos of Mary’s body long after police had discarded them from evidence.

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