Sascha Wil­son

Al­most two months af­ter the de­com­pos­ing and de­cap­i­tat­ed body of a woman be­lieved to be Jamie Mo­hammed was found in Siparia, rel­a­tives are still await­ing DNA con­fir­ma­tion.

“We just want clo­sure. We need to know if it is her or if we have to start search­ing again,” lament­ed Mo­hammed’s sis­ter-in-law Eve­lyn Chat­too yes­ter­day.

She said in No­vem­ber, DNA sam­ples were tak­en from Mo­hammed’s 74-year-old moth­er, but since then they have re­ceived no feed­back. An of­fi­cer told her that DNA re­sults could take a week to a year. Since the dis­cov­ery of the body, she said, the fam­i­ly has had a dark cloud hang­ing over them and spent a gloomy Christ­mas.

Chat­too said, “We were hop­ing by Christ­mas we would get the body; un­for­tu­nate­ly, no one has con­tact­ed the fam­i­ly. We did not get the body.”

While they be­lieved the body be­longed to Mo­hammed based on her sneak­ers, she said they were told an­oth­er woman was miss­ing from that area. 

“So the prob­lem is that we don’t know if it is true or not. At the end­ing of the day, every­thing just went cold, and we not get­ting any feed­back about the in­ves­ti­ga­tion,” she said.

Chat­too said the stress had al­so tak­en a toll on her moth­er-in-law’s health, as her heart was rac­ing, she had de­vel­oped in­som­nia, and now has vi­sions of Mo­hammed.

“She keeps say­ing she is see­ing Jamie. The moth­er keeps hear­ing Jamie’s voice all the time. That is the part that has me re­al­ly sad. She keeps hear­ing Jamie’s voice, and she an­swer­ing her, ‘Yes, yes.’ And now oth­ers are al­so say­ing that they are dream­ing of Jamie. I think their wor­ries need to be put to rest.”

As they await of­fi­cial con­fir­ma­tion, she said the fam­i­ly was in a “bit of tug-of-war” with some want­i­ng to re­sume search­es and oth­ers want­i­ng to wait on the DNA re­sults.

“A lot of con­fu­sion and dra­ma is com­ing out of the wait­ing,” she lament­ed, adding, “I hope that some­one con­tacts us soon and lets us know what is hap­pen­ing.” 

She said they had al­ready made fu­ner­al arrange­ments and print­ed jer­seys, as they planned to have a vig­il.

The body was dis­cov­ered by a hunter in a bushy area off Mur­ray Trace, Siparia, on No­vem­ber 14, al­most a month af­ter Mo­hammed went miss­ing. 

A skull was found next to the body, which was clad in a leop­ard-coloured top and pants pulled down to the knees. 

The body was found about half a mile away from Ram­phy’s Bar in Siparia, where Mo­hammed’s 70-year-old com­mon-law hus­band had dropped her off on Oc­to­ber 18 to lime with friends. She nev­er re­turned home.  

On No­vem­ber 11, Mo­hammed’s com­mon-law hus­band re­port­ed her miss­ing to the po­lice and he in­formed her rel­a­tives, who be­gan search­ing for her to­geth­er with the Val­lence Ramb­harat-led Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team. 

A homi­cide of­fi­cer said they were still await­ing the DNA re­sults. Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion III de­tec­tives are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.