In two weeks police are expected to have the results of samples taken from the skeletal remains of a body 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, Crime Chief Leslie James said.
James said the results were expected to arrive in another two weeks. He did not disclose a date or why the return was extended to another two weeks. The samples were expected to be returned nearly two weeks ago. He had said the results would return in a month after being sent overseas for DNA testing.
Samples from the skeletal remains and Goodman’s parents were sent overseas after there was suspicion that the decomposed body was the remains of the missing Goodman.
A post-mortem examination performed on the skeleton gave the cause of death as incised wounds to the abdomen.
The St Stanislaus teacher was last seen 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.
Two persons were initially arrested in connection with her 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.
