Mysterious bodies remain in Cayman morgue
RCIPS Joint Marine Unit vessel
(CNS): The bodies of two men found in a boat off the coast of Little Cayman in August remain in the morgue at the Cayman Island Hospital because the RCIPS has not yet been able to identify them and are still working with overseas law enforcement agencies to try and solve the mystery. A police spokesperson said this week that the investigation is lengthy as the RCIPS is working with various overseas jurisdictions over which they have no control.
“The formal identification of the bodies discovered on 25 August in Cayman Islands waters has been delayed by the failure to obtain confirming evidence from other jurisdictions,” police said. “The RCIPS has undertaken extensive efforts to facilitate this identification, including travel to other jurisdictions, but formal identification is still pending.”
The men’s bodies were found in a 28ft canoe found floating about 13 miles southwest of Little Cayman by a Joint Marine Unit vessel on patrol around the Sister Islands. The canoe was later identified as a boat registered in Jamaica but the men are not necessarily Jamaican nationals.
The same weekend the police had made a substantial 80lb ganja haul at Twelve Mile Bank and a second a few days later on Cayman Brac of both cocaine and ganja, but police have not indicated any connection.
Following a post-mortem, one of the men was estimated to be aged between 35 and 40 and the second more than 50. However, the bodies were in a significant state of decomposition and a cause of death has not been determined. How the men met their demise, who they are and why they were in Cayman waters al remain a mystery.
Police are still pursuing lines of enquiry regarding the men’s identity and the circumstances surrounding their death but a spokesperson confirmed that the bodies will remain in the morgue until those lines of enquiry have been exhausted. If the mystery is not resolved, the police would seek an order from the coroner for a burial for unknown individuals.
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Are these the guys with their hands and feet hacked off?
This is a very real and morbid reminder that Cayman is in the midst of a prolific international criminal sea corridor and active participant in a shadow economy, transferring weapons, narcotics and people. It is enabled by the willfully-blind resident pot and cocaine partiers that distance themselves from the death and horrors that accompany the business they finance.
This tiny island to our south is missing >800 “fishermen” to the trade. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34487450
Obviously not ours.
Burial at sea then.
You should be buried in an unmarked grave on mt trashmore
I hope they do find out who it is soon and maybe some worried family can grieve properly.
The usual, police cant figure anything out unless someone tells them. You could put a body in a garbage bag and leave it at the RCIPS station door step, they would throw it in the dumpster unless somebody told them there was a body inside, then they would most likely throw it in the dumpster by accident.
Duppy!