Iberia Parish Coroner Carl Ditch noted “evidence of drowning” on the one-page preliminary autopsy report, released Friday, according to the Lafayette Daily Advertiser: “muddy water in airways, hyper inflated lungs, water in sphenoid sinuses.” Ditch wrote that he found no evidence of injuries before death on Charles’s face and concluded that the injures seen on his face in Roxanne Nelson’s gruesome photo (Warning: Graphic photo) were caused by “aquatic animals.” How do you protect your children from predators? Join Nancy Grace and a team of world-class experts for the online course ‘Justice Nation: Crime Stops Here’. His mother Mamie insisted on an open-casket funeral so the brutality inflicted on her son would be seen. His killers were acquitted by an all-white jury.
His body was found on November 3 in ankle-deep water in a sugar cane field in Iberia Parish near Loreauville, about 22 miles from Baldwin.Ĭharles’s mother, Roxanne Nelson, snapped a photo of her son’s ravaged face and compared it with that of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was abducted and savagely beaten and mutilated before his body was sunk into Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River in 1955. Quawan “Bobby” Charles, 15, was last seen on October 30 leaving his father’s house in the St Mary Parish town of Baldwin with a friend and the friend’s mother - without permission, a family spokesperson said, as CrimeOnline previously reported. A preliminary autopsy gives “likely drowning” as the cause of death for a Louisiana teen who disappeared in late October and was found dead less than a week later, but questions about the boy’s death and the investigation have led his family to seek an independent autopsy from a company in Texas, ABC13 reports.
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