The decomposed remains of a female wrapped in blue tarpaulin was yesterday discovered in the vicinity of Yarrowkabra on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway dressed in clothing positively identified as those worn by missing Alpha Hotel owner Roselaine Hall the day she was last seen.
Hall was reported missing more than six weeks ago and the only trace of her since was her vehicle which was found at Parika.
Hall was last seen in the company of her ex-husband seven Wednesdays ago. Later that very day staff reported that the ex-husband had returned to the hotel and advised staff that Hall had gone to Suriname and that she had handed him a power of attorney giving him control of the hotel.
However many days passed and a missing person report was subsequently made. A wanted bulletin was subsequently issued for the ex-husband, Alex Barker, who has also since disappeared.
Police in a press release last night said that the discovery was made at about 1 pm yesterday by workers in the area about one and a half miles off the Linden Highway.
The statement said that among the remains were a black brassiere, a pair of multi-coloured underwear, a pair of black denim pants and a white blouse with ‘Solution S” printed on it.
Police said the clothing was positively identified as those worn by Hall when she was last seen. The statement also said that investigations are continuing.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that the police yesterday afternoon made contact with Hall’s husband Romeo Rockerfeller who, along with a member of staff, positively identified the apparel as belonging to Hall.
Hall’s mother, Joyce McPherson-Hall who lives in the US has told Stabroek News that she calls her daughter’s cellular phone just to hear her voice on her answering machine. The woman had said she was disappointed with the pace of investigations into her daughter’s disappearance, saying that she was not hearing anything from the police
Hall is also a United States citizen by birth and had come to Guyana to run the hotel following the death of her father Byron Dick who was gunned down outside his home back in 2003.
Dick was the original owner of all of the Alpha Hotel outlets.
McPherson-Hall had said that her daughter was also in the process of completing a divorce from her current husband.
Rockerfeller was also held and questioned by police following the woman’s disappearance but has since been released. He was however placed before the courts on charges relating to the falsifying of travel documents.
He was reportedly out of the country at the time the woman went missing and it was he who contacted the woman’s mother in the US to advise the family of the situation.
McPherson-Hall said prior to that telephone call she had never even heard the voice of her son-in-law.
The woman had also questioned the whereabouts of her daughter’s belongings which were all located at the hotel where Hall also lived.
