Crime
Murder Victim No. 4 Identified, Cause of Death shared but who is he?
By Dana Malcolm
Staff Writer
#TurksandCaicos, May 15, 2023 – Police have officially classified the suspicious death of Edrin Siffard, a 50 year old, as a murder following the Wednesday May 10 results of an autopsy performed on the man, whose death had been ruled suspicious at the onset.
The Haitian’s decomposing form had been found by police Sunday night after residents raised the alarm about a
body lying off South Dock Road. Gunshots are fingered as the cause of death, and the autopsy revealed he was shot multiple times.
Initially, police had not speculated on the cause of death indicating they were waiting for an autopsy to be sure.
Still, perplexing to some is that no information has been shared on who the man is and how police came to know of his identity. Siffard had not been declared missing by police prior to his body being spotted by residents on Silverado Road, which is off South Dock Road and for many, the lack of information is unacceptable.
No suspects or motive have been conveyed by police in the peculiar homicide.
Of the four murders this year, police have arrested and charged the suspected perpetrator in the one case; that of Stephen Asino Baker of Jamaica who was stabbed to death on January 15th in Grand Turk.
A police statement on the murder did say investigations are continuing in the case of Siffard by the Serious Crime Unit.
Rashaed Esson
Staff Writer
#TrinidadandTobago, April 15, 2024 – Heinous crimes continue to plague the Caribbean region, the latest the beheading of a four year old girl in Trinidad on Tuesday April 9, leaving a deep sense of shock and sadness over her town, Fifth Street, Five Rivers, Arouca in the East-West Corridor of Trinidad and Tobago.
The little girl whose life was severely cut short is identified as Amarah Lallitte and her killer is reportedly her step-father.
Reports are saying he killed her between 10 pm Monday and Midnight Tuesday. Her mother Tricia Villaruel, 41, who filed a domestic disturbance report, expressed deep grief and disbelief at the fact that the stepfather, 39, would hurt her.
Villaruel reports the events before her daughter was killed. She recalls the stepfather acting strange which she said is unlike him. She
expressed that he was acting like he was schizophrenic, as if “he was a different person, and different personalities were talking to me that night.”
She said she left to get help from the police out of fear that he would harm her and going she tried to bring Amarah, who she highlights wasn’t coming.
“but she not coming. She was laughing like she thought we were playing so I had no choice.”
Following the mother’s report to the police, they went back to the house to find it locked up and in darkness. The officers called for the stepfather who came out calm with no blood on him. Villaruel was then told to get her daughter. It was at this time that she was found dead by her mother who screamed at the sight of her daughter’s headless body.
Her head was reportedly stashed in a barrel at the back of the house and her body in another room.
At the sight of the decapitated four year old, some officers were moved to tears according to Richard Smith, Senior Superintendent of Police, in reports.
In fact he says they may need counseling from the Victim and Support Unit and they were deeply affected, as would any human being.
The suspect was arrested and taken to the station for questioning.
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