Mark Pedero

In the spring of 2017, a gruesome discovery shattered the morning quiet of a New Orleans neighborhood. On May 22nd, a city worker on their regular route in the 2100 block of St. Ann Street made a shocking find inside a trash can. The body of a man, later identified as 56-year-old Mark Pedrero, had been concealed within the receptacle. The Orleans Parish Coroner's Office would later determine that the man had died as a result of multiple sharp and blunt force injuries, indicating a violent end to ...