Kills girlfriend, spends night with body
Murders in Belize come in many varieties and under differing circumstances, but the killing that occurred over the long holiday weekend in Belize City still has investigators shaking their heads. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on the scene this morning and stayed with the story as it grew stranger over the course of the day.
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
Police say they are still awaiting post-mortem results to say whether or not Sandra Moss was raped before she was murdered. Moss’s body was found sometime after eight this morning inside the lower flat of a two storey wooden house at number forty-six Cran Street. She was nude and lying faced up across a bed with a single deep stab wound to the upper abdomen. According to Pathologist, Doctor Mario Estradabran, the woman believed to be forty years old was killed late Monday evening.
Dr. Mario Estradabran, Pathologist
“According to the signs of decomposition and the rigor mortis, she may have been killed around four…between four to six p.m. yesterday.”
Moss, who did not live at the residence, is believed to have been visiting a friend identified as Osbourne Carr better known as “Bino”. Carr and Moss had apparently been seeing each other for the past two years. On Monday morning, one of Carr’s co-workers, who live next door to where the crime occurred, may have been the only person to hear the sounds of a murder in progress.
Glenford Ford, Witness
“Well I noh see nothing, I only yer. Bout round five, six soh, the talking weh I di hear wake me up, so I start to listen. Then I hear gyal tell ah, “Osbourne, you see weh you di do, you di cut me up. Put on the light and then you wah see weh you di do because I noh want you go dah jail.” After I yer that I get up, open the door and I come out and gone. When I come back I see padlock on the door. Dah that time he must mi kill gyal. Whole day he got ah in deh and I deh right yah the work not knowing that she deh in deh done dead.
“The night, when I get inna my house, he come from soh and come inna my house and sit down inna a chair and watch me. So I seh, “Weh gone on?” he just watch me a kinda way, mek I start to figure well this man must do something wrong. So with that now when I see ah it mek I noh trust ah. So I come out back outta my house and tell ah, “When you di come out, out that light fi mi,” and I gone back down dah my pa. When I come back and I gone inna my house I got the feeling that somebody deh round the house. So I call his name, nobody answer. So I come out, I gone dah the gate, I look soh, I look soh, I noh see nobody. So when I swing round the back he deh by deh di peep di watch me. So I gone to ah and seh, “What you di do back yah Osbourne, I nevah does see you back yah.” He just watch me a kinda way, so I just walk away and gone inna my house. Then he come and hail me and tell me fi lock up ah in deh. So when he open the door-he noh open it fi mek I see weh he could got in deh-he hurry get inside and haul the door and tell me lock it.”
Only Carr knows exactly what transpired inside the locked room with the dead body, but early this morning another co-worker said after Carr called out to him to please unlock the door. When Martin Duran complied with the request, he was in for a shock he will not soon forget.
Martin Duran, Witness
“The man say open the door for me. I seh, “Weh you di do in deh bwai?” The man give me the key, I open the door. Then the man lock back the door and gone inna the bathroom and sit down. I tell the man, “Bwai, dah weh gone on, weh smell so?” The man seh he and his gyal gone through wah thing and he and ih gyal mi fight fi a knife and he bite the gyal over ih eye, after that he juk the gyal. The man tell me, “You want see the body?” I tell the man, “Yeah,” cause I figure dah mi lie right. The man gone and he open the door back and I just peep in and I see the gyal pan the bed naked like that right in there.”
Jacqueline Woods
“Police would not say why they believe Moss was stabbed to death, but reports suggest that the murder may have been as a result of jealousy. We also understand that early this morning, Carr confessed to the crime.”
Sometime after eight this morning, the police detained Carr and told us he will be charged for murder. Jacqueline Woods for News 5.
