Second Body of Four Children Thrown Over a Coastal Bridge Found

A search team found a second body out of four children that were thrown over a coastal bridge by their father.  The body was found five miles west of the bridge in a marshy area, the same place where a duck hunter found the first child, an infant, on Saturday.

The search began on Tuesday around the mouth of Mobile Bay after the father, Lam Luong, confessed to throwing his children over a bridge.

Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said “The inevitable nightmare we have feared has now been confirmed…We believe, certainly now, that the father of these children threw these children off the Dauphin Island bridge.”

Kieu Phan wept when she was told that her infant child’s body was found.  An interpreter translated for the grief-stricken Phan who asked “Why didn’t he kill me instead of the children?  Its too much hurting.”

Searchers saw what they believed to be three bodies under the water with images taken with sonar technology; however they were unable to reach the bottom due to strong currents.  The search zone has been expanded.  Authorities believe that the currents may have carried the bodies westward toward Pascagoula, Mississippi.

37 year old Lam Luong was a shrimp boat worker in Irvington who is now facing four counts of capital murder after confessing to throwing his four children over a bridge.  If convicted he could face the death sentence or life in prison without parole.