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Detectives had their suspicions about a couple of the cemetery groundskeepers, and even looked into her friend Patricia Newman, the victim’s power of attorney and executor of her estate.
“Oh, come on,” Newman said in the HBO series, rolling her eyes at the thought of being a suspect. “Come on!”
Thompson put her in charge of her affairs, she explained, because “she trusted me.”
Though, Newman quipped, “I told her I don’t want to live at the cemetery, the spirits and I probably would have problems.”
But when no leads panned out, the case turned cold.
And it stayed that way for more than 25 years until—after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 wiped out the cemetery land, the case file and most of the evidence—people started reporting sightings of Thompson’s ghost.
Read on for the bizarre true story behind The Pet Cemetery Murders:
