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second body found.
WWLTV
NEW ORLEANS – St. Tammany Parish deputies have found the body of a smallish male about a mile from the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain Friday near the Bayou Liberty area.
The area where the body was found was in the area where search teams were looking Friday – a day after discovering another body in the water near Lake Catherine.
The body was turned over to the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office.
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Ugh. If it is the brothers, I feel like foul play is involved somehow.
It's the hint of arsenic that gives it that extra kick.
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first body COD was drowning, no ID yet.
i suspect these kids had no dental records, or they have not been turned over, or IDs would have been made by ME by now.
WWLTV
NEW ORLEANS -- Even though two bodies have been recovered from Lake Pontchartrain, the family of Aaronne Russell and Aaronne Mitchell, two 13-year-old brothers missing since Easter Sunday, said their search continues this weekend.
According to the teens’ father, Aaron Simmons, the family plans to search around 4 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday in the area where the bodies were found; they’re still holding out hope that the bodies do not belong to the missing teens.
Meanwhile, Eddie Skena from Wildlife and Fisheries said their search has ended. They believe the bodies do belong to the two teens, even though there has not yet been an autopsy.
Skena said if the autopsy shows that the bodies do not belong to the teens, he will speak with his captain and decide whether or not the search will continue again.
Equusearch, the volunteer search team from Texas, is also no longer searching for the missing boys.
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LC...Would a swab of the cheek inside of the mouths of the two and a next of kin be enough to answer the question? And if the DNA is viable with this procedure, could the answer be within 15 minutes of the swabbing?
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i honestly don't know, i'm no labrat, but it seems 15 minutes would not be sufficient time. if it comes down to no dental records, DNA will have to be the method of ID.
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WWLTV
NEW ORLEANS -- At least one of the two bodies pulled from Lake Pontchartrain this week are one of the 13-year-old brothers -- Aaronne Mitchell and Aaronne Russell -- who went missing on Easter Sunday.
Orleans Parish Coroner's Office spokesman John Gagliano confirmed that one body found was that of Aaronne Russell whose body was found Thursday. Crews pulled Russell's body out of the lake near the Rigolets, about 20 miles from where the teens were last seen. The cause of death was accidental drowning.
as i thought:
NOLA
A second body was found Friday near Bayou Liberty, and Gagliano said his office will perform an autopsy on this body to determine the cause of death Sunday. However, the family has not yet provided dental records for Mitchell, and the coroner's office will not be able to identify the body without them, Gagliano said.
An autopsy on Russell's body confirmed he drowned.
the families were blaming the ME for making them wait for IDs, when in fact the holdup was no dental records.
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Bless their souls
It's the hint of arsenic that gives it that extra kick.
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Adub, that's been on my mind as well & since the dogs are still "missing" I assumed there was foul play involved. Just seemed a little off. But maybe the dogs ran away. Doubt the dogs are micro-chipped when the brothers have no dental records 
It's the hint of arsenic that gives it that extra kick.
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i don't feel this was foul play.
dogs not found.
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Sheron Mitchell -- the mother of one of two 13-year-old brothers reported missing from eastern New Orleans for days -- delivered her son's dental records to the Orleans Parish coroner's office on Monday. But she has little doubt the second body recently found floating in Lake Pontchartrain is Aaronne Mitchell.
A conversation Sunday with a representative of the coroner's office revealed the bloated body had a rubber bracelet on one of his wrists.
"I just couldn't breathe," said Mitchell, recalling the moment when the worker began to describe the bracelet.
Before moving back to eastern New Orleans -- after a 2 1/2-year stint in Lafayette -- Mitchell and her son attended a nondenominational church where visitors were given a black rubber church bracelet as a memento.
"He was still wearing it," she said.
The body she believes is her son's was found Friday afternoon in Lake Pontchartrain about a mile from where Bayou Liberty empties into the lake in St. Tammany Parish. The previous day, searchers found the body of his brother, Aaronne Russell, in Lake Pontchartrain, west of Rigolets Pass.
According to autopsies, both died from drowning, said John Gagliano, the chief investigator for the coroner's office, which identified the body of Aaronne Russell from dental records and is expected to do the same Tuesday for the body found Friday.
The body of Aaronne Russell was found about 20 miles from an area in eastern New Orleans where the two boys were last seen walking dogs, said Marlon Defillo, a New Orleans Police Department Deputy Chief. And the spot near Bayou Liberty where the second body was found is about 20 miles from where the first body was found, Defillo said.
Karalynn Russell -- mother of Aaronne Russell -- said her theory is that the boys somehow got into a boat and "something happened that caused them to have to get out of the boat."
She said it is unlikely that her son drowned near the shore of Lincoln Beach because he can swim. And Sheron Mitchell insisted her son too was a "good swimmer."
Mitchell said her brother taught his nephew how to swim.
Aaronne "DJ7" Simmons is the father of the boys.
The boys were last seen by Angela Kinler, a former St. Bernard Parish resident who now lives in eastern New Orleans, She said the boys told her they were going for a swim at Lincoln Beach, one of the historic swimming areas along Lake Pontchartrain. And they wanted to know if she would allow them to take Buddy, her dog, and a puppy, which once belonged to a relative of the boys' father. She said she allowed the boys to take the dogs in the spirit of trying to be neighborly.
She became worried when the boys and the dogs did not return. Soon the police were asked for help.
A search conducted by a long list of government agencies and many volunteers followed.
The two dogs have not been found. A report about the dogs being lost was filed April 26 with the Louisiana SPCA.
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That sucks.
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It sounds like these two boys were just enjoying an afternoon of fun, took the dogs for a walk and a dip in the water. Perhaps the dogs were caught up in a current and the boys, in a very natural response tried to save the dogs only to find the current was too strong for them as well.
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HeidiSue, I didn't even think about the possibility that the dogs may have drowned as well. Hmmm.
It's the hint of arsenic that gives it that extra kick.
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