Deaths at Superdome Urban Myth?

It seems that they found only a handful of people dead in the Superdome.

They have no official reports of rape and no eyewitnesses to sexual assault. The state Department of Health and Hospitals counted 10 dead at the Superdome and four at the convention center. Only two of those are believed to have been murdered.

So there seems to have been only 2 real murders? The media I think is to blame for swirling all of this out of control. They needed to have had a reporter in the Superdome showing people what was really happening. But I guess the reports of:

children with slit throats, women dragged off and raped, corpses piling up in the basement —

were just to scary for reporters to brave. Ormaybee officials were keeping the reporters out of the Superdome for their own safety or something. But this is the stuff of urban legends. Here is how it will start I think. The FEMA officials or perhaps National Guardsmen dragged the bodies out of there early on. There were hundreds of dead spirited away by black painted trucks.

A week after the floodwaters poured into the city, an Arkansas National Guardsman told The Times-Picayune of New Orleans that soldiers had discovered 30 to 40 bodies inside a freezer in the convention center's food area. Guardsman Mikel Brooks told the newspaper that some of the dead appeared to have met violent ends, including "a 7-year-old with her throat cut."

So this guy started the rumor that children were getting their throat cut. I wonder if this guy was an actual eyewitness or just got this info from someone else. It would be interesting to follow up to see if this guy meets a suspicious end in the coming months. Death by hunting accident alone in some barren place with a different caliber of bullet in his back then the rifle he was carrying. Or he was found dead at the wheel of his car at a red light of an apparent heart attack. That would solidify the coverup if there was one.

In any case this incident would be great for a social scientist who studies the psychology of crowds. Finding out how the rumors were started and how they were spread would be some interesting reading.