Bodies found dumped in field still unidentified
March 19, 2008
CLARKS TOWN, Trelawny - Senior investigators here were up to yesterday still looking for clues which could assist in identifying two corpses - theorised to be that of females - which cane cutters stumbled upon in a field owned by the Long Pond Sugar Factory.
Detectives surmise that the homicides were committed elsewhere, then the bodies transported and dumped in the cane field just outside of the Long Pond sugar factory between Sunday and Monday morning.
The cane fields here have been steadily developing notoriety in recent years as a dumping ground for human carcasses which were butchered elsewhere. Last year two male corpses were discovered in the cane fields.
In the latest grisly find, an overwhelming stench lured cane cutters who were on the job early Monday morning to a maggot-infested body. The cane field workers subsequently alerted the Clarks Town police
Monday morning's gruesome discovery follows on the heels of another grisly find of the skeletal remains of a body Sunday morning - about 100 metres from where the body was discovered Monday.
A pair of woman's shoes found close to the body led the cops to theorise the victim's gender.
The bones have since been transferred to a laboratory in Kingston for DNA tests.
Meanwhile, an on the spot post mortem conducted by government pathologist Dr Murari Sorangi showed that the body, which was also badly burnt, also had its throat slashed and there was evidence of several stab wounds all over the chest.
Not far from the crime scene the cops found one foot of a shoe which matched the scorched remnants of one found on the body.
The cops also found female underwear and fragments of a brassiere beside the charred remains.
The detectives concluded that the person was killed on Saturday and taken to the cane field, then set ablaze.
The bones have since been transferred to Kingston for DNA tests.
Author: Horace Hines
Source: Jamaica Observer
