Mother of murder victim looks for a suspect
alice williams
On the local front, there have been no charges brought so far in the abduction and brutal murder of Pallotti graduate Neisa Pipersburgh who disappeared from her residence in the Fabers Road area last Wednesday morning. Her body was discovered floating near the Burdon Canal Bridge on Saturday morning with what appeared to be multiple stab wounds and a plastic bag was placed over her face. Pipersburgh was last seen by her mother, Alice Williams, before she left for work on the Wednesday morning. Belize City police detained several persons for questioning in connection with the murder but they have since been released. Williams, has openly expressed her dissatisfaction with the way the matter was initially handled and she has her own theory of who murder her daughter. In speaking with News Five, Williams said her missing person’s report was basically ignored by higher-ups at the Eastern Division.
Alice Williams, Mother of Murder victim
“When I went to the police with—when I went and I spoke with I think his name is Valdez, the high person at CIB I felt like he was giving me the cold shoulder. The game was on, the football game was on, so he was more interested in the football game. I give him the person’s name who I suspected “oh I could send goh pick him up,” ih write ih down, dis, dat, tara, dat’s it. When I went to B.T.L. coming back, coming back over the bridge, my vehicle coming over the bridge, the said person vehicle going back over the bridge so I noh, up to now I noh andastand dah kinda pick up. I noh know if da just pick up and you come, come tell me hi. Dah kinda pick up I noh andastand. I thought that they would have kept him there and questioned him pertaining to these texts because he told me that he hadn’t spoken to her, you understand. So right there I got frustrated. Then when I got back there this Valdez person didn’t even take the time to come and see what I found. He put me on to this other inspector, this other person who the morning of her—from the next morning when I found out that she wasn’t there, who was turning me around and she “oh man, ih say she wah come right back.” Police have the tendency of treating things like these this kinda way and dat totally wrong. If I go mek wah report like dis ‘bout my child you supposed to listen because dah me know di child dah noh you. You noh wah tell me dat di child supposed—well di child mussi gone with wah bwai. Ih say ooh den yah always happen and di child come back. That was the way it was treated. But after that I could say the person who is on the case right now, I’m thankful for him. When I say really thankful, I am thankful that he’s on the case because he dah di one weh di push everything right now. When I say push, ih di push ih di push and from my understanding I di tell yoh I noh expect fi we police force suppose to be di way how ih deh.”
The Belize Police Force keep showing their incompitence.Why were you guys even watching the World Cup on the job?That’s not what the tax payers of Belize are paying you all for.
Why is it that we just sit back and accept poor investigative techniques, and weak autopsy findings such as “inconclusive due to advance state of decomposition”? Can a qualified ME not tell us if it was a knife wound or a bullet hole on a 3 day old corpse? That girl was alive and breathing just 72 hrs before her body was found. So many unsolved mysteries because of poor and ill-equipped forensics. Dr. Estradabran’s workplace has to be better equipped and brought up to at least the 20th century because we have a crime situation in this country and Forensic pathologists play a vital role in crime solving. What a shame to be hearing in 2010, that an autopsy report was inconclusive due to the advanced state of decomposition after 72 hrs. We should demand more, we deserve better.
Why is it that every time suggestions are made to update the resources of any public institution (Health, Education, Or Criminal Justice) we always talk about “financial restraints” or “cash – strapped”. Are we the only ones who need to tighten our belts ‘til we suffocate? Our Ministers and their cronies are still driving “ gas-drinking, government-issued SUVs” outside normal working hours. They are seen at public and private functions such as clubs, weddings, free zone and Chetumal in these vehicles. They rack up very large utility bills and are in no mood to curtail. GOB officials and family members, travel first class all over the world at taxpayers’ expense.
If our so called cash-strapped government want to keep insisting that the placing of street cameras around the city is not cost effective, or updating the Forensic and Police Departments is too expensive, then we will never invest in these worthwhile resources.
If GOB continue to act like providing our people with the safe environment we so deserve and long for is too costly, then try living in a crime ridden society evaded by tourists, Belizeans living abroad, and WELL EDUCATYED, LAW ABIDING, TAXPAYERS, who may end up migrating, in search of a better life for their families
From my understanding Dr. Hugh Sanchez is the only qualified pathologist in Belize. The government needs to pay him handsomely the way they pay the CJ and the DPP in order for us to start solving these cases; if he does not want the post then we should support the government bringing in someone that has been doing autopsies and has the required qualification to do the job. We need a better forensic doctor, we need an updated forensic lab. Saying that the cause of death is ‘inconclusive due to advance state of decomposition’ is like saying I don’t know what I am doing. I could have come up with that finding.
Let me start off by offering my heart felt condolences to Miss Williams and her family. I can only imagine what you are going thru with the gruesome murder of your loved one and then the lack of investigative skills on the part of police and forensic authorities. Reading about these kinds of situation back home all but bring tears to my eyes.
As unfortunate and untimely as the shooting of Rodwell Williams was, one would have thought that the government of the day would be seeing the handwriting on the wall and act swiftly and decisively in addressing the sloppy intelligence gathering both by the Police and forensic authorities. I really don’t know who else will have to die before the powers that be stop all this talking. The time for conversation has long past……
You already know who he is, you know where he live, do not let him go.
take justice in your own hands, you will find that it is easier to live with justice in your heart than none at all.
Be well.
its very sad to hear of dis young lady, she didn’t deserve that. its true u know who did it and where they live, have them killed or just do it urself. i think a bomb needs to be dropped on the policestation and just destroy all those good for nothing dogs. policemen in belize r just gangsters and murderers in uniform.