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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Vanna found dead near beach in Tobago

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1234 days ago
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The search for miss­ing lo­cal mod­el, ac­tress and brand pro­mo­tions rep­re­sen­ta­tive Van­na Girod, fond­ly called Van­na Vee, end­ed trag­i­cal­ly on Wednes­day af­ter her body was found near a beach in Arnos Vale in To­ba­go.

The 30-year-old woman was last seen at her aunt’s vil­la at about 5 pm on Tues­day.

Up­on night­fall and when she did not re­turn her aunt con­tact­ed close rel­a­tives who im­me­di­ate­ly launched a search for her. An of­fi­cial re­port was al­so lodged at the Shir­van Road Po­lice Sta­tion.

Ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, oth­er close rel­a­tives and friends flew out from Trinidad to To­ba­go to join the search that was led by her broth­er Dil­lon.

Dur­ing the search Girod’s clothes—a track pants and a sweater was found neat­ly fold­ed and placed along a trail. At about mid­day her body was dis­cov­ered.

At the scene Girod’s fa­ther, James was in­con­solable.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia dur­ing a vis­it in the area af­ter news that Girod’s body was found, a neigh­bour’s land­scap­er for the past 46 years said ini­tial­ly they feared that the young woman was kid­napped.

“In our Val­sayn What­sApp chat group it did show up that it may have been a kid­nap­ping and then lat­er on to­day (yes­ter­day) they said that her body was found. They’re say­ing the cause is yet to be known, the land­scap­er said.

“But know­ing what the fam­i­ly went through that death is re­al hard and a re­al shock­er to all of us. We didn’t re­al­ly know that Mr Girod had a big daugh­ter un­til this news here,” he added.

In ex­tend­ing con­do­lences, Jef­fers said he is reel­ing in shock.

“I knew Van­na as a very tal­ent­ed young la­dy, vi­va­cious, that’s how I knew her,” Jef­fers added.

Ef­forts to reach Girod’s broth­er Dil­lon for com­ment proved fu­tile as all calls went straight to voice mail, how­ev­er, po­lice sources said they were told by close rel­a­tives on the scene that Girod lived with her grand­par­ents in Mar­aval and was be­lieved to be go­ing through a pe­ri­od of de­pres­sion and had gone to To­ba­go on Sat­ur­day to spend time with her aunt.


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