NEW ORLEANS — Julie Grant Meyer will never forget September 23, 2019—the day her husband, Michael David Meyer, died by suicide. But what followed that tragic day left her not only grieving but also deeply shocked by the treatment of her husband’s remains.
According to Meyer, a coroner’s office employee dragged her husband’s body down three flights of stairs in their St. Charles Avenue home and then continued down eight more brick steps outside to get to the driveway. She was accompanied by a clergy member at the time.
“I didn’t know the body was coming down until I began to hear thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk. And I thought, ‘What in the world was that?'” Meyer recalled…