The Investigating Journalist of the Katrina Killings

More of the story on the Katrina Killers of Algiers Point. 

AT: The family of Henry Glover has been incredibly damaged by his death. Can you imagine what its like to have your loved one die like that: abandoned by the cops who could’ve helped him and then set ablaze like a pile of rubbish? I’d call his sister, and she’d just start bawling on the phone. For a long time, his mother wouldn’t talk to me because it was just too hard.

The photos of Glover still haunt me. I’ve been very close to a lot of death, but those photos of Glover — nothing but a skull and bones and some burned meat and ashes — haunt me. They show up in my dreams. And that brings me to a larger point, which is that surveying so much death is not healthy.