Detectives were suspicious of some of the cemetery’s groundskeepers, and even took a look at his friend Patricia NewmanThe victim’s power of attorney and the executor of her estate.
“Oh, come on,” Newman said, rolling his eyes at the idea of being a suspect in an HBO series. “come But!”
Thompson put her in charge of her affairs, she explained, because “he trusted me.”
However, Newman quipped, “I told him I didn’t want to live in a cemetery, the spirits and I would probably have problems.”
But when no clue was found the matter went cold.
And it remained that way for more than 25 years until Hurricane Katrina in 2005 destroyed the cemetery land, the case file and most of the evidence – people began reporting sightings of Thompson’s ghost.
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