Two more murders in north Trinidad are being investigated, including that of a 51-year-old schizophrenic woman, who police initially thought had committed suicide.
According to police, Jenny Jones’ decomposing body was found in the floor of her living room on Tuesday night and given her mental illness and reports that she had injured herself in the past it was assumed that she committed suicide.
Police said Jones’ nude body was found around 7 pm on Tuesday at her home at Harold Joseph Street, Phase Four, Malabar, when relatives went to check on her after not hearing from her.
Following the autopsy police were informed Jones’ throat was slit. She had a gash on her neck “from ear to ear” along with stab wounds on her buttocks and upper inner thigh prompting pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov to suggest that she was sexually assaulted.
Alexandrov in a telephone interview said Jones might have been dead for at least three days before she was found. Police had suspected something sinister in Jones’ death because her home was in a disarray but shelved the idea after hearing of her mental illness.
Police said nothing of noteworthy value was missing from the house and believed the intruder became fearful after he and Jones struggled and fled without taking anything.
In the second killing, a Morvant man was found dead around 5 am yesterday along Poinsettia Drive after residents reported hearing gunshots around 10 pm the night before.
The man remained unidentified up to late yesterday.