The outrage continued last night in a country still reeling from the murder of ten-year-old Tecia Henry, with the discovery of another dead girl-suspected shot and body dumped at the roadside in Central Trinidad.
A man led police to the body of 17-year-old Amy Selena Joseph in an orange orchard off Solomon Trace, near Todds Road, Caparo, yesterday.
She was last seen by her family just after midnight Wednesday.
The report of her disappearance was made that afternoon and this time the police acted. A ground search began and the media called to get the news out after two men were detained.
Joseph lived with her family at Petersville Road, Cunupia.
But for the past three weeks she had been staying with an aunt at Point Pleasant Park, Enterprise.
It was Joseph's mother, Yvonette Joseph, 40, who made an appeal early yesterday.
She said the family panicked when the aunt called at 2 p.m. on Wednesday asking if the girl was there.
The mother said "I last saw Amy Tuesday. Around 2 p.m., she called to say she was going to Chaguanas to collect her certificate for the cosmetology course she was doing. Then about six o-clock she came to my house with her cousin to pick up some clothes".
The girl had planned with friends and relatives to go leatherback turtle watching on the east coast last night.
Police were told that Joseph stayed up late with her relatives Tuesday night playing games on a computer. The family went to bed at around 1 a.m., and Joseph apparently sneaked out of the house to met someone.
Two hours later, Joseph called a relative and asked that the gate be unlocked for her to get back into the house. She never came.
A suspect in the case has told police that Joseph was in his car when she found a gun and killed herself in a suicidal rage. He claimed that he drove to the orange orchard and dumped the body for fear that the police would accuse him of murder.
Among the relatives waiting and wailing at the scene last night was Joseph's cousin Travis Dowrich.
He said "It look like somebody pick she up on the way home and kill her. She was a nice, cool girl, and not the kind to frustrate anybody. Everybody trying to understand how (the suspect) could do a thing like that".