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A state law enforcement investigators' report -- obtained by CNN from a confidential source close to the investigation -- into the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina provides new details about the events that occurred at Memorial Medical Center.

Sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN that the 68-page report was prepared by investigators from the Louisiana attorney general's office and given to the Orleans Parish district attorney who took charge of the case but did not gain any indictments. CNN has been told that the report was also distributed to other agencies familiar with the probe.

The document is a summary of more than 11 months of interviews, forensic analysis and collection of evidence. The period covered by the report is from September 2005, shortly after 45 bodies were removed from the hospital, through August 2006, when forensic pathologists retained by the state determined that eight, and possibly nine, of the deaths were the result of homicides. Read full article »

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