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Apr 01, 2015 News
– suspected ‘butcher’ held; victim’s cousin leads cops to bloodstained house
Police have identified the woman whose dismembered body was found at the Annandale, East Coast
Demerara foreshore last Thursday.
The victim is 40-year-old Samantha Benjamin of Buxton, East Coast Demerara, who is also a Vendor’s Arcade stallholder.
Police cracked the case last night after a cousin of the slain woman led detectives to Benjamin’s home. Inside, detectives found a blood-spattered floor, pieces of flesh and two bloodstained sheets. There were also signs that someone had attempted to clean up the gory scene.
They subsequently detained a labourer who was in the house. Kaieteur News understands that the man had been employed by Benjamin some six weeks ago to rear poultry. He reportedly claimed that the last time he saw Samantha Benjamin was on Friday. But his employer’s headless and limbless corpse was actually found on Thursday.
The victim’s neighbours have told police that they heard loud music and screams coming from Benjamin’s home last week Wednesday. But no one suspected that the victim at the foreshore could be Benjamin, since she was often out of the country.
Police have received reports that the trader was planning to purchase a car. It is suspected that the killer learnt of this transaction and tortured, and subsequently butchered Benjamin to get his hands on the money.
According to reports, Benjamin returned from the US a few months ago and was living with her ex-husband.
She then moved to her father’s house.
According to reports, her shocked ex-husband claimed that he was to have accompanied Benjamin to buy the car. But then repeated calls to her phone went to voicemail.
Samantha Benjamin’s body, minus the head, feet and arms, was discovered around 06:30 hours on Thursday by an Annandale resident, who was about to bathe his dog at the location.
The clothing, a blue brassiere and a red skirt, were rolled up around the midsection of the corpse. There were bloodstains and tooth fragments not far from where the body was lodged between the rocks.
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