Gruesome Ending for NOLA Bartenders

This is a very gruesome story about a pair of French Quarter Bartenders, Zack Bowen and Addie Hall, who hooked up the night that Katrina blew into New Orleans. They managed to stay together through the disaster, and stupidly, they refused to flee the city when it was flooded. They did a little looting to get supplies, and the two were profiled as some type of “heoric” figures for refusing to abandon the city.

Now they are both dead. He strangled her and then dismembered her. He popped her feet and legs into the oven and set it on high and left it there. Her head went into a stew pot on the heated range, and he left that one there too before taking a leap out of the window of their apartment window, committing suicide.

Drudge tipped me to the story. The bulk of it is here.

Some holdouts seem intent on keeping alive the distinct and wild spirit of this city. In the French Quarter, Addie Hall and Zackery Bowen found a unusual way to make sure that police officers regularly patrolled their house. Ms. Hall, 28, a bartender, flashed her breasts at the police vehicles that passed by, ensuring a regular flow of traffic.

Part of their food supply came from a local grocer who opened his doors once the looting began. “He said, `I’m gonna get the insurance check anyway, so take what you need,”‘ Hall recalled.

A suicide note in the pocket of a man who jumped off the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel late Tuesday led police to the grisly scene of his girlfriend s murder, where they found her charred head in a pot on the stove, her legs and feet baked in the oven and the rest of her dismembered body in trash bag in the refrigerator, according to police and the couple s landlord.