WDSU heard from a friend of the woman whose body was found in a bag floating in Bayou St. John last month. Earlier this week, the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office identified her as 44-year-old Benita Robinson of New Orleans.
New Orleans police said the bag was discovered Aug. 2 by someone living on Bancroft Drive near Filmore Avenue. The coroner’s office stated the cause of Robinson’s death remains under investigation.
“She was such an angel,” Eddy Roche, who befriended Robinson a couple of years ago, said. Roche told WDSU he and Robinson would often spend time together at bars on Decatur Street in the French Quarter…