A history of beheadings in T&T

Beheadings in T&T      

 

 

We took a look back at some of the most high profile discoveries of this kind, including the country's most widely publicised and memorable beheading - that of Thackoor Boodram, the brother of Dole Chadee, in 1997.

 

Michael Derrick Piper, 50. His head was found on Nelson Street on September 9, 2013. His body was later found in an empty lot. Police said, despite Piper’s criminal history, his death may have been a case of being in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”

 

Learie Ceballo, 33. His head was found on a table outside Step Restaurant and Bar in Rambert Village on February 21, 2013. His body was found hours later off the Hermitage Village agricultural road. Ceballo had been released from prison a week before. Police believe the murder may have been drug-related, and that it may have been a ‘hit’ ordered from within prison.

 

Shinelle Nelson, 21. Nelson’s body, minus her head, arms and feet, was found floating in the Guyamare River on February 13, 2013. Nelson last known whereabouts before her body was found was at the Trini Posse fete in Chaguaramas, the Saturday night before her corpse was discovered.

 

Ramjesh Ramdeo, 27. Ramdeo was found on September 1, 2012 with his head decapitated in Moruga, where he lived.

 

Unidentified woman. The charred remains of a woman were found on December 27, 2011 at Dookhan Trace, Aranguez.

Dianne Williams, 37 and Shaquille Morgan, 8. The headless bodies of mother and son were found stuffed into a garbage bag at the Forres Park landfill in Claxton Bay on July 21, 2010. Three days later, their heads were found buried behind a house in Ste Madeleine

 

Dr. Edward Koury, 38. Koury, the nephew-in-law of then Minister of Health John Rahael was attacked and kidnapped at his business place on September 21, 2005, and his headless body was found two days later in an orange field near Caparo.

 

Lancancious John, 27. John’s nude, headless body was found in Sumaria Trace, Charlieville in September, 2004. The body also bore gunshot wounds to the chest.

 

Ursula Innis, 65. In September, 1999, Innis’ headless body was found in a bath tub in her Siparia home. Her head was found in a plastic bag in a nearby water tank. Her husband was found dead under another tank behind the home.

 

Thackoor Boodram, 41. In arguably the country’s most famous beheading, Boodram’s head was found inside a whisky box at the Caroni cremation site on December 31, 1997.