“Part 5: New Information Revealed About Terrilynn Monette’s Personal Life & Disappearance”
Initially, NOPD detectives focused on a traffic camera at the intersection of Harrison Avenue & Marconi Drive. Police believed that Monette turned left from Harrison Ave. onto Marconi Dr., heading towards her apartment on Paris Avenue. Monette’s mother and sister were even shown video from the traffic camera and they positively identified the woman driving the car as their missing relative, however, they were all wrong.
Perhaps it was the “power of suggestion” by detectives or their desire to believe it was Monette, but the car and woman depicted in the traffic camera video was not her. Instead of making a left turn, Monette would have continued straight on Harrison Ave. and into City Park. It has never been revealed by police if the woman driving the car in the video was ever identified or what ever happened to any video footage of Monette’s car that passed through the same intersection. After Monette’s car entered City Park, it is still a mystery what happened and how she
ended up a short distance away in Bayou St. John, at Harrison Ave. & Wisner Blvd.
According to Monette’s family, the driver’s side window was down when her car was finally located by a volunteer diver from the Slidell Police Department on June 7, 2012, 97 days since going missing. Monette’s Honda sports coupe was equipped with a standard safety mechanism that automatically rolls down the car’s windows in the event it becomes submerged.
Despite the final conclusion by police that Monette was simply in a single-vehicle accident, many others believe to this day that she was the victim of a crime and that foul play was involved. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office later concluded in an autopsy that Monette died as a result of drowning and that toxicology reports suggest that she was not under the influence of alcohol or other drugs at the time of her death. However, it seems unlikely that a viable toxicology sample would have been available from Monette’s badly decomposed body after being submerged in water for 97 days. Others believe that the official versions by police and coroner are disingenuous and filled with half-truths in order to dispel a perception in the national media that New Orleans is a dangerous city and tourist destination.
Was Monette’s drink “spiked” with a date-rape drug at the bar? Was she attacked in City Park after stopping for some reason? Was Monette’s car and body purposely sunk in Bayou St. John to cover up a sexual assault? Could a viable toxicology sample be collected from Monette’s body after being submerged for 97 days?
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