Guyana-born couple Evadne Orna and her friend, Troy Edwards of Plainfield, New Jersey have been missing since February 20 and police suspect foul play after searching an apartment that Edwards frequented.
According to today’s The Star-Ledger, the couple has not been seen or heard from since February 20 when they left
New Jersey for Richmond, Virginia.
Richmond television station WTVR-TV managed to obtain the findings of the police search.
Among the forensic evidence taken from the scene on March 1, the station reported, were red-stained sheets, a stun gun, duct tape and packaging materials, scales, baggies, as well as fingerprints and carpet samples.
“We are continuing the investigation and we do believe they may be victims of foul play,” Karla Peters, a public information officer with the Richmond Police Department, told The Star-Ledger today.
Gene Lepley, a Richmond Police Department spokesman, said the couple drove to Virginia in a rented 2011 silver Nissan Altima that originally had New Jersey licence plates YXE-62E. But investigators now believe the car bears Viriginia licence plates XNH-9410.
Orna’s mother, Veronica Ramessar said Orna, 39, and Edwards, 40, have dated on and off for nearly two decades. Recently, Orna told her mother that “my heart and soul are with Troy.”
Ramessar told The Star-Ledger she has her reservations about Edwards.
“I don’t think he did anything (with Orna),” she said. “(But) I don’t like him.”
A spokesman for the Plainfield Police Department said it is working with Richmond police, but did not offer any new details on the investigation.
Orna, whose mother calls her “Cassy,” is 5-feet-4, weighs 140 pounds and has a tattoo of a butterfly on her right shoulder, Plainfield police said. A picture on her Facebook page also revealed a tattoo of a pair of lips and a tongue on her chest. Edwards is 5-feet-8, 140 pounds with a scar on his forehead. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt.
Ramessar, who resides in East Orange, told The Star-Ledger that during her last conversation with her daughter, on Feb. 20, “she said, a million times, I love you.”
“To be honest, she didn’t tell me she was going. I didn’t know she was going to Virginia. I don’t know why my daughter went down there.”
Ramessar said she went to Plainfield police headquarters today and had her mouth swabbed for DNA “in case they do get something, when they do get a body.”
Now that it’s been two weeks since she’s heard from her daughter, someone she constantly spoke with on the phone, Ramessar fears the worst.
“I think she’s dead,” she said. “Because she don’t do that”, She told The Star-Ledger.
