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Jaren Lockhart
Four body parts that washed ashore on Mississippi beaches Saturday may belong to a decapitated New Orleans woman whose stabbed torso turned up days earlier, officials said.
Jaren Lockhart, 22, vanished Tuesday in New Orleans, officials said. Her torso, discovered Thursday in Bay St. Louis, Miss., was positively identified Saturday, officials told television station WLOX of Biloxi.
On Saturday morning, a fisherman found a lower leg portion in Pass Christian, east of Bay St. Louis, Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove told NBC station WDSU of New Orleans. Authorities later found a thigh nearby. They found the head just to the east in Long Beach, WDSU reported.
WLOX reported an unspecified fourth part was discovered later in Pass Christian.
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Officials were trying to determine if the parts found Saturday also belonged to Lockhart, who New Orleans police said had tattoos over most of her body. She was last seen leaving her Tulane Avenue home around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
WDSU reported that her boyfriend told police that she took a cab to her Bourbon Street job and he grew concerned when he couldn’t contact her. He told police he hasn’t seen or heard from her since that night, WDSU said.
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The crack NOPD will have this solved in no time... first suspect -- George W. Bush. After him - the boyfriend. I doubt if it was a strangers. Strangers don't take the time to do the deli work.
Grew up in New Orleans not the safest place......Especially the Quarters.......22 yr old by herself in the Quarters.....wouldn't want my daughter in that position....
When he was Mayor Ray Nagin declared New Orleans a "Chocolate City"...She should have stayed in "Vanilla Town"
mike, your post could be nothing more from the truth.....Nice try....but race is not the issue in N.O.
PDug19, people like mike will always bring race into any situation. They can't help themselves. Just click on his name and read some of the garbage on his page. He can't help it, it's like a mental disease with him.
Tragic.
new orleans is a morally bankrupt @!$%# hole!
New Orleans has problems but I wouldn't go that far. Plenty of good people in New Orleans, there's just enough bad people there to make it a bad place altogether. Damn shame really. I like the town, there's just too many dangerous and unstable people. Damn shame.
I live in New Orleans and we are not morally bankrupt. When you go to the French Quarter and Bourbon Street there is no secret about what goes on there. We are not the only city that has strip joints and gay bars. So get off your high horse and look around where you live
What do Gay Bars have to do with it?
The people in New Orleans are not homophobic. We have gay bars in the French Quarter that are not hidden away or hush-hushed. If you are a gay person in New Orleans we embrace your right to be who you are and we welcome you.
Bull@!$%#-the-clown wow you sound so compassionate!
If you are trying to be a comedian don't quit your job yet cause YOU AIN'T FUNNY.
My heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to her loved ones.
She probably got killed by her crack dealer for monies owed. Black on white crime. Where's Jesse and the Black Panthers?
Poltergiest, do you know something the rest of us don't? Where in the article did it say this was black on white? or white on white? or asian on white? or hispanic on white? or purple on white? or blue on white? or green on white? or ........ see I can keep going and going. Why don't you let the rest of the facts come out and then we can see where law enforcement is on this? And if for some reason it was a black person and they don't arrest them and let them go home (ala Zimmerman) then Jesse and Al can get involved, does that make you happy?
Now go put an icebag on your head and calm down, frothing at the mouth does not look good on anyone.
Visited Bourbon Street 3 weeks before Katrina hit. Told my daughter it would be my last visit there. The place is morally bankrupt. Not a safe place for a pretty young woman.
OH yeah, sure and Georgia has so many better places? 'Cast not' and all that.
Just curious, how much time did it take out of your KKK meeting to put together your ignorant and hateful little comment?
New Orleans, like most port cities, has a history of being dangerous. It's a party town and we all know the crazy %*#@ that happens when booze and such are added to unstable people.
Deepest sympathy to the family and friends of this young woman.
Georgia, Judging N. O. based on a visit to Bourbon Street is like judging all of California after a visit to Death Valley.
Are you huffin' on your own fermented sh!t or what?
Chris-735081: Sure we do. Parts of Atlanta. Especially downtown. Intelligent people avoid it like the plague. My comment was of BOURBON STREET. Not all of NO.
5 bucks says the coroner makes morbid jokes about putting the tattoo pics back together
He'll sing:
“Jambalaya, spare-parts pie and-a file' gumbo”
[Thanks to Hank Williams, Jr.]
The Lip Clip and major Tatoos scream out : Look At Me.........A pretty girl who deserved better but Life is not Fair and she danced with the devil and she is gone !!!
Jesus, what is wrong with you? Tattoo's are a gateway to getting murdered and dismembered? Yeah man, that makes no sense at all.
Wow ...........How many tats do you have ...................Many I am sure and you will be so proud when you are old and in the Senior Home ...Yes you will become OLD !!!!
if this was your daughter would you speak this way
I agree. Lots of callous thoughts here on this post. A young woman lost her life. Her family and friends will feel the loss
Like this?
That guy looks pretty proud to me. Some of the coolest ink I've ever seen was on a guy well into his 60's -- an old sailor, like the fellow in the link, but he had a full chest piece, anchors, the whole nine yards.
Here's another pic. Different guy, older pic, but still an old dude rocking a bad ass service tat.
razor.... I agree with you assessment...she had already cast herself into a very dangerous part of society...
And with all the extreme violence in our society. Her every instinct should have screamed dangerous path to take several years ago....
And I just never believe the person who last seen a victim...
sheila,
If one was going to be as judgmental as you apparently are, then a lot can be determined by your last statement:
And I just never believe the person who last seen a victim...
Who has the job of decapitated head removal? I thought working in sewer was bad, I never dreamed about any killer turds... but I did dream about a dead cow in a tree for 30 years. When I told my mom, she said that wasn't a dream, I had seen the cow at one of her relatives when I was very young. Thankfully my mom told me about the cow, or I would still be seeing that thing in my dreams.
Tatoos, where she lived and worked, and piercings does not mean that she danced with the devil, this is a style and form of art. I feel for her family and friends that have lost a important person in their lives.
You make a great point ..........It is just a matter of style......Perhaps someday cutting off you small toe and showing by only waering flip flops will make sense ...Man it is only what is in style !!!
Sure has been "what is in style" for a pretty long time. I don't think i'd consider it "in style". In fact, I think I can say with some certainty that it's something pretty normal people do. So it looks like you're the freak here, razor55.
??? the thread is broken - not posting where we want.
Can't just kill someone nowadays, it's not enough. You have to make sure you chop them up and then either mail the body parts somewhere, or pose with the body parts and post it on YouTube......Yeah we're doing fine in this Country no worries
You are right but, it's global. WTF? So sad. How did she get to MS?
It's not just in the U.S. where horrific crimes take place. It's so easy to generalize when you live here and see this junk in the news all of the time. However, take a look at some of the headlines from Canada, Mexico, the Middle East, Africa - the list goes on and on. You'll see that they're not so different from us and not in a good "It's a Small World" kind of way, either.
Eating body parts is the current craze.
People have been killing and dismembering people since people have been people. It's nothing new. We just get to hear about it more because of the info highway. Its got nothing to do with a city, state, country or whatever. It's just mans inhumanity to man that, unfortunately, will never end. My condolences to the family.
John the Baptist was one such victim.
Take heart-- violent crime has been declining since the early 90's (visit the FBI crime statistics site to look into it). During that same time, though, media coverage of violence has increased over 400%-- so you're effectively hearing more and more about fewer and fewer events.
WMG, very true. Back 30-40 years ago network news was a public service and not subject to rating battles with entertainment programming. That all changed in the 1980s so that now there effectively is no real news programming as part of the major networks. People cannot make intelligent decisions without honest, well researched information.
We'll sing:
“Jambalaya, spare-parts pie and-a file' gumbo”
[Thanks to Hank Williams, Jr.]
You are some sick extremely inconsiderate people.
The piercings and the tatoos say nothing about the kind of person that she was. Apparently she was working trying to support her daughter.
Some of you people are nearly as twisted as the person responsible for this horrendous crime.
My condolences to her family and friends.
I agree with you, but where did you read she has a daughter?
Even if she were a nun or a librarian, people on here would still find something negative to say. It doesn't matter what she looked like or had adorning her body - she's still a human being who had plenty of life left to live.
To die as a result of a violent crime, is tragic. What's worse is to be discarded in such a way. I hope they catch the criminal who committed this atrocity.
Mark, she is a friend of a friend. Never met her, know nothing about her. But I have seen pictures of her beautiful little girl.
Mr. Sprigsss -
This seems like another invention. If so, Shame!
Mr. Mario,
What are you saying?
I have a friend that I went to high school with that posted on his facebook page earlier in the week to please pray for his friend. He posted a number of pictures of her, some with her daughter. You can read several articles on the internet about this tragedy that mention her 3 year old daughter.
I know nothing else about the young lady. But I do know she was a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a friend and was apparently loved by many. Nobody deserves what she got. She certainly doesn't deserve the unfounded assumptions being made by many on here. All I ask is that a little respect for the deceased is shown.
I'd never date a woman that doesn't have it all together !
No woman would want a man with such a lame sense of humor.
How does (didn't) she have it all together?
Whatever she did or was.......she did NOT deserve this. She should be FREE to be whoever she wants to be without some CONTROL FREAK COWARD MONSTER killing her.
Right on, nobody deserves that sort of thing, except maybe the s.o.b. that did it.
I couldn't have said it better!
The cab driver did it.
I think I saw this episode of Dexter.
Almost 2 hours since the story aired and not even 1 joke tie-in yet about "did that porn star in Canada do it?"
Motive but not opportunity.
The death rate in Damascus will soon surpass New Orleans.
The boyfriend did it and you heard it here first. There are no other grizzly murders like this in the area. HE DID IT YOU WATCH AND SEE
Wow...Sherlock the 2nd you must be.
Could you and some of these other posters be more obnoxious? Someone's lovely daughter, sister, niece, granddaughter, aunt, friend, girlfriend, former student, employee died a gruesome death and you people make sick, disrespectful jokes. People that make that kind of comment make me sick... get a soul.
Is it time again to start accusing people and harassing them in the media to make sure their lives are ruined? Nice that you've appointed yourself judge and jury ... and so quickly! What the hell ever happened to "INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY"!!! Hopefully karma will kick and and you're accused of something you didn't do someday. Let me think about this a second ... so if it was me would I want some jackal making accusations on something they know nothing about? Hope to hell I NEVER get my 15 minutes of fame.
I don't think they have grizzly bears in Louisiana. (Or did you mean grisly?)
With all those tattoos and piercings, maybe her body just fell apart.
And liberals think we don't need a death penalty. They say it doesn't deter crime. They are partially right. You need to use something to make it effective. Like liberals, they don't think so their brain is of little use.
See, mom was right. Tattoos were not a good idea.
What are you talking about? Her tattoos made her identifiable.
You're just a judgmental holier-than-thou TW.
Was sacastic humor there Kat. Take some more feel good pills girl.
Ohh, but that LA INk is a nice show you have on. Too bad you and Jesse didn't work out.
Yup, just as I thought. A big ole TW.
We don't need to hear all the details; this poor woman has a family and friends. I knew that somehow this would be made into a political argument. What I do know is that nobody deserves to have their life taken and their body disrespected as this poor woman did. My condolences to her family.