SENIOR DETECTIVES and forensic experts yesterday revisited the two pits in the Fourth Avenue and Jacques Road communities off Mountain View Avenue, St. Andrew, where three bodies, five human skulls and other human skeletal remains were found earlier this week.
According to Det. Senior Supt. Tony Hewitt, the Metro Crime Officer, the police were eagerly awaiting the results of forensic tests to continue their investigations.
Apart from the bodies of Yvonne Beaumont-Walters and Jeffery Beaumont who have already been identified, preliminary investigations by the forensic team revealed that four of the five skulls were those of males, while the fifth was that of a female.
The third body, which is a headless corpse, is that of a male about six feet tall. SSP Hewitt suggested that dental records may be needed to assist in establishing the identity of the persons whose skulls were found without the bodies.
The police say it will take the forensic experts sometime before they can find clues to help with establishing the identities. Some may never be identified.
In the meantime, the police are clueless about where the bodies of the skulls found, were disposed of.
The police say they believe that the same group of men who recently raped and killed a 15-year-old girl in the Grants Pen community of St. Andrew were responsible for the murder of Mrs. Beaumont-Walters and Mr. Beaumont, who were kidnapped last week Friday night.
Mrs. Beaumont-Walters was formerly married to Linton Walters, who in September 1997 was appointed the deputy general secretary of the People's National Party.
Reports are that she and Mr. Beaumont, her nephew, were abducted on Washington Drive. Apparently they were taken to the Jacques Road community where the woman was sexually assaulted and they were shot dead and their dumped in the pit. The bumper of Mrs. Beaumont-Walters's car was found behind the Jacques Road Community Centre.
- G.S.
