The results of an analysis of samples taken from the skeletal remains of a woman found along the Turkeyen Road in July and from the parents of Nyozi Goodman, a school teacher who disappeared after a basketball game earlier in that month, are expected to arrive soon.
The samples were sent three weeks ago to a regional lab for testing and Crime Chief Leslie James said the police force is now waiting on the results. James had said that the results were expected a month after the samples were sent. Carol Greene, Goodman’s mother, said she is still aggrieved over her daughter’s disappearance. She said the police have remained tight-lipped about Goodman’s disappearance but she is hoping to get some closure when the results from the samples are returned.
Greene and her husband had taken blood tests and samples were also taken from Goodman’s home to be sent abroad. Samples were taken from the remains discovered along the desolate old road.
Goodman went missing on July 3, after a school basketball game at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall. She had reportedly told her students that she was waiting for someone to pick her up.
Greene said she was still waiting for the school to contact her since her daughter was on duty at the time she disappeared. She had told Stabroek News, before the remains of the unidentified woman was found, that she believed her daughter was “somewhere on the East Coast.”
A few days later, she had identified a belt found at the crime scene as her daughter’s. A rotten tooth was discovered on the body and according to Goodman’s brother Nestor Thompson, his sister had a similar tooth. However, family members were unable to identify the body because of the state of the decay. The corpse was believed to be about five feet, five inches tall and between ages of 25 and 40 years old.
A post-mortem examination performed on the corpse gave the cause of death as incised wounds to the abdomen.
Two persons were initially arrested in connection with Goodman’s disappearance but were released later. One of the men was believed to be a suspect in the disappearance of Lance Corporal Patriena Nicholson, who vanished mid-last year. She was last seen at a Republic Bank ATM at the Kitty GuyOil Gas Station. According to sources, a taxi driver had confessed to police that he dropped off Goodman at the sports hall that Sunday afternoon but denied picking her up.
