The search for the missing heads of a dismembered boy and woman, ended yesterday in an abandoned canefield near the Corinth's Teachers College, Ste Madeleine.
The decomposing heads were found side-by-side in a grave less than two feet deep, a 30-second walk behind squatters' houses along the Old Train Line, Ste Madeleine. The woman's arms were also found buried in the holes.
The bodies are believed to be that of widowed 37-year-old Diane Williams and her ten-year-old son, Shaquille Morgan, of Stony Hill Avenue, Tarodale.
Police cracked the case yesterday with a series of arrests. Five people, including two women, were in custody last night. More arrests are expected.
The motive for the killings is unclear.
The area in which the heads were found is known as Dog Patch and is considered by police to be a criminal hot spot for drug dealing, car thefts, and used as a hideout for robbers, kidnappers and killers.
The squatting settlement is off the south-bound lane of the Solomon Hochoy Highway, and less than a 20- minute drive from the Forres Park Landfill, near Claxton Bay, where last Wednesday, scavengers saw a child's leg protruding from a garbage bag being pecked open by vultures.
Police would over the next few hours find body parts spilled from bags torn when overnight rains washed the bags downstream a ravine running through the dump site.
The limbs were apparently dissected with a power tool.
It was the trace of the registration plate on a white Kia pick up van that helped police cracked the case.
The vehicle was identified as the one that came into the dump at around 5 p.m. the afternoon before the discovery of the limbs. Four or five men were seen throwing the bags from the vehicle.
Yesterday, in a series of coordinated raids led by officers of the Southern Division Homicide Bureau, police held the registered owner of the vehicle at his business place in Valsayn.
He was released last evening. But his information led to San Fernando and a midday raid, involving dozens of police officers, at a house where a mother, two sons, two daughters-in-law, and several grandchildren live.
The woman told the Express she came home from work just after noon.
"I came here to find all kinda police all over my place. Some of them were wearing white like on murder scenes".
She said, "I ask what going on. They told me they found two heads somewhere in the back of my place."
"Before that moment, we didn't know nothing. We living right here! Place normal, everybody quiet. Not a suspicion of anything," she said.
The woman said the area at the back of her home is unfenced and leads to a canefield, and to the Cipero River.
A woman near the grave said many smelt decaying flesh but believed it was a decomposing animal.
The people in custody are from Mayo, Cross Crossing, San Fernando and Vistabella.
Assistant Commissioner of Police-South John King, Superintendent David Abraham, Sgts Anderson Parriman and Peter Ramdeen worked the case yesterday.
