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Brittney Graham’s worst fears became a reality yesterday when she discovered the headless, decomposing body of a woman she is convinced is her aunt Suzette Clark, who went missing last Wednesday.
“I was in shock. My heart was racing. I didn’t know if it was her, but I knew what she was wearing. I knew it was her,” Clark’s grief-stricken 23-year-old niece, who had been raised by Clark as a daughter since she was 2, told Clark. The Gleaners yesterday.
Clark, a 52-year-old forklift operator from South Haven Program, St. Thomas, went missing Sunday after leaving his home Thursday morning to go to work.
Police were called on Wednesday to reports that a headless woman’s body was found with her head next to it in bushland near South Haven Shores. Yarra police are yet to confirm the identity of the body.
However, Graham was convinced the body belonged to her aunt.
Recalling the terrifying moment when the body was discovered, Clark said: “When she went missing, me and my cousin decided to go to the beach to see if we could find any signs because we thought maybe something had happened to her because it wasn’t like her.
“So we checked along the seafront and when I got to the top of the grass and bushes I found the body.”
Graham continued: “I was definitely frightened. I never really see everything at once. I just saw the skull, but I was definitely frightened.”
She remembered seeing blood on her clothes but believed the woman was killed elsewhere.
When asked how she was sure the body was her aunt, she said: “I know her clothes, her watch, her hat and the vest she wore to work. She wore the vest over her clothes every day and she always had a hat on. It was a different colour but she always had a hat on.”
Upset
Graham said she was unable to identify her aunt by facial features because the skull had decayed.
According to her, the rest of her family is devastated and questioning why someone would want to kill her aunt.
Graham said she also doesn’t understand why her aunt was killed and she wants answers.
“Honestly, she’s not the type to cause trouble to other people. She doesn’t stay anywhere. She just goes to work and goes home. She rarely talks to people and she doesn’t have many friends. She can be counted on one hand.”
She explained that Clark left home for work around 3 a.m. Thursday but did not arrive.
Clark said she learned of her aunt’s disappearance on Saturday after her manager called her to ask why she wasn’t at work.
The niece said she contacted the taxi driver who usually picked up her aunt and was told she was confirmed to pick her up Thursday morning, but never showed up.
“He said he called her that morning to tell her he was on his way and she said yes, but when he got to the end of the road, she wasn’t there, and he kept calling her but couldn’t get through, so he drove off and still didn’t see her, but the passengers started complaining and he had to leave,” she recalled.
When contacted, Clark’s supervisor said he and her colleagues were hoping for the best but were shocked to hear the outcome.
He called Clark the company’s best employee.
“She’s the best employee. We have an event every month for top employees, and I can close my eyes and know she’s going to do it. Even if she’s absent for a few days, she’ll still excel the same way. If I could have 10 more of them, that would be ideal.”
The Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Communications Unit has confirmed that police are investigating after a headless body was found in St Thomas around 2pm yesterday afternoon.
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