In 1985, Dorothy Thompson, owner of the Azalea Original Pet Cemetery, went missing from New Orleans. According to news reports, she was last seen at the bank, but where she went from there was anyone's guess. Weeks after Thompson was reported missing, her body was discovered in the Mississippi River tied with steel chains, with a plastic bag around her head. An autopsy concluded that her cause of death had been suffocation, not drowning, which means the body of the 63-year-old pet lover was merely dumped there like trash. At the time, police were unable to apprehend a suspect in Thompson's murder, and the case went cold for many years.
The pet cemetery was willed to Thompson's executors, but they didn't carry out her wishes to keep it operational, and allowed it to fall into ruins. Since Thompson's death, the cemetery has become a spot for teens to hang out and scare each other with tales of Thompson's death and her own murderous past there. NOLA.com reports Thompson, in an eerie twist, shot and killed her own abusive husband on the property years prior to her own murder there. She later remarried, and that husband was also shot and killed there though, according to Thompson, not by her.
In 2012, a man named Brandon Nodier turned himself in for the murder of Thompson, solving the mystery of the long running cold case. Nodier had worked for Thompson, maintaining the property and building tombstones for the pet cemetery. His motive for killing her was to get control of her land, which didn't end up working out for him very well.
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