It is now three months since the discovery of the decomposed remains of a body believed to be Roselaine Hall, an American citizen who operated her Alpha Hotel on South Road and went missing in January, but police say they are awaiting the results of DNA tests.
The hotel staff had confirmed that the clothes found with the corpse were those worn by Hall on the last day she was seen. However, only the DNA results would definitively answer the question about the body which was found wrapped in tarpaulin.
The female remains were found a few miles off Yarrowkabra on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Thursday, March 13.
Hall was last seen on January 30.
Persons working in the area had discovered the body along with undergarments, a pair of black denim pants and a white blouse with ‘Solution S’ printed on it. One of Hall’s staff members who saw her when she was leaving the hotel the last day she was seen had confirmed that the clothes were hers.
Meanwhile, a high-ranking police source, in an invited comment to this newspaper yesterday, said the force was still waiting on the results of the tests and added that the search was still on for the woman’s ex–husband, Alex Barker with whom she was last seen.
The officer said the police were also in contact with the woman’s family in the United States who had also provided vital information.
The officer said some of Barker’s relatives had been questioned about his whereabouts but the police came up with no leads.
Yesterday when this newspaper contacted the United States Embassy for a comment on the matter it was referred back to the police.
Hall had apparently left her hotel with Barker and was supposed to have been going to her hairdresser. Her husband Romeo Rockerfeller had said that she should have also been going to visit a doctor because of difficulties she was having with her eyes. The woman had left with Barker who returned to the hotel that night and told staff that she had made him her power of attorney, giving him control of the business while she went to Suriname.
Barker, staff told this newspaper, had started making changes at the hotel, hiring new staff and firing others under the pretext of being Hall’s man of business while she was away.
After two days staff got worried when they did not see Hall, who also lived at the hotel, and subsequently made a missing person‘s report.
Rockerfeller was questioned on several occasions since the woman’s disappearance but said he was out of the country at the time. He had said that Hall had already purchased a plane ticket to meet him in Trinidad where they were to attend Carnival together.
When contacted yesterday the man said he had not heard anything from the local authorities regarding the DNA results.
