Body Found Saturday In Abandoned Tavern In Algiers

Despite suspicions, no signs of violence

Monday, August 03, 2009
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
Staff writer

City officials now know a body found inside an abandoned tavern Saturday belonged to Travis Price, an Algiers man who disappeared July 28.

New Orleans Police Department investigators suspect foul play in the 26-year-old's death. However, a preliminary autopsy showed he wasn't a victim of violence, Orleans Parish coroner's Chief Investigator John Gagliano said Sunday, seemingly complicating an already puzzling set of circumstances. Keep Reading