Claudia Kirschhoch
By Keril Wright, Staff Reporter
WESTERN BUREAU:
ALMOST TWO months after the disappearance of US travel writer, Claudia Kirschhoch, the police say they are nowhere closer to finding the American.
The Area One Police are reporting that they received a call this week that Ms. Kirsch-hoch was sighted in Trelawny. However, crime chief John Morris said this turned out to be false.
"We are still getting information from the public. Up to today (Monday) we got word that she was seen in Trelawny. A group of officers went out and searched the area but nothing turned up."
Since the disappearance of the 28-year-old Kirschhoch, on May 27, a reward of J$2 million has been posted for information leading to her whereabouts.
Her parents, Fred and Mary Ann Kirschhoch, left the island last week after their third visit to Jamaica to look for their daughter.
According to Superintendent Ionie Ramsey, the Police Tourism Liaison Officer, the Kirschhochs met with the police for a 'private meeting' and continued their own investigations in Negril, during their one-week stay in Jamaica.
"During their third and last visit here they met with us for a private meeting and continued their search in Negril by talking to the town's people and handing out posters. They did not say when or if they would come back to Jamaica a fourth time," she told The Gleaner.
The Kirschhochs arrived in the island on July 12 and left on the 19.
Unlike their first two visits to Jamaica they did not call a press conference according to Supt. Ramsey and they did not stay at Sandals which had provided them with accommodation on the first two occasions.
The couple stayed at Charela Inn, a small hotel in Negril and according to sources there, the Kirschhochs were locked in an interview with foreign journalists on the first day of their arrival.
