Homi­cide of­fi­cers made the gris­ly dis­cov­ery of a head­less body wrapped in plas­tic and dressed in a blue cov­er­all in Gas­par­il­lo on Thurs­day. This came af­ter a res­i­dent, Ryan Vial­va, heard dogs bark­ing and found a hu­man skull in some bush­es.

Around 6.30 pm, Vial­va was alert­ed by the dogs and when he checked, he saw the skull. He quick­ly went to the Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice Sta­tion, where he made a re­port.

PC Roberts and oth­er of­fi­cers vis­it­ed the scene at Hold­er Street, Caratal Vil­lage, and found a black plas­tic-wrapped ob­ject a short dis­tance away.

On clos­er in­spec­tion, they re­al­ized it was a de­com­pos­ing corpse wrapped in a blue blan­ket and par­tial­ly clad in the cov­er­all. Lengths of dread­locks were found near­by.

The re­mains were found down a precipice rough­ly 30 feet off the road­way.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Stephanie Dans­ingh vis­it­ed the scene and or­dered the re­mains to be tak­en to Dass Fu­ner­al Home. An au­top­sy will be done at the Foren­sic Sci­ences Com­plex once the re­mains are iden­ti­fied.

ASP Ram­saran, Ag Cpl Hug­gins and his team from the San Fer­nan­do En­quiries Team, as well as Sgt Elvin and his team from Homi­cide Re­gion 3, are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the body can con­tact Crime Stop­pers at 800-TIPS or the Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice Sta­tion.