(Trinidad Express) Five months after Anita Ramsaran walked out of the family’s business place in Penal and vanished, relatives have received the news they had dreaded.
Police confirmed the charred remains found on a pyre of tyres in an abandoned canefield in Chaguanas two days after Ramsaran vanished belonged to the 25-year-old woman.
Her mother, Rajmantee Sookram, got the call on Wednesday, the day the Express published her story as part of its current Murder Mysteries series detailing unsolved cases.
She said, “The police called me and said that the DNA samples taken from myself and her father matched the samples taken from the body found in Chaguanas.
“I don’t know whether it was the story that made the investigators get the results, but I am thankful that now I know what really happened to my child. It is not the closure I was hoping for, but now I know what happened. I was still hoping that she was alive somewhere,” she said.
Sookram was allowed to remove her daughter’s remains from the Forensic Science Centre in St James. Ramsaran will be laid to rest today, following a funeral service at her family’s Penal home.
“I want her family to say goodbye, so we have planned a nice service for her tomorrow,” Sookram said.
Ramsaran was last seen by her mother on March 7 leaving her workplace at her family’s food outlet at Penal.
What the police know is that she was dropped off at the Chaguanas taxi stand at San Fernando and headed to an apartment in Chaguanas, which she had recently moved into with a boyfriend. She never reached the apartment, the boyfriend told police.
Police found a burnt corpse in a canefield in Chaguanas two days later. The remains were examined and pathologists found they belonged to a woman.
DNA samples were taken from Ramsaran’s parents. Sookram was told the DNA testing was delayed because a machine had “broken down” at the Forensic Science Centre.
Homicide detectives have few leads in this case. Anyone with information is asked to call 652-0495.
