| Murdered Man Wife’s Held For Questioning |
| Tue, September 27, 2016 |
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Last night we told you about the murder of Rudolph Selgado - the 33 year old who was found decomposing in a corn field in the Valley of Peace area. He had large cut wounds to the neck, chest and to the back of the head. The father of 3 had gone missing on September 21st., and search teams organized by his common law wife didn't turn up anything. Tonight, that same wife Kayla Spencer isn't at home grieving or consoling her children on the loss of their father: she's in a holding cell at the Belmopan police station being questioned about his murder. How did she go from grieving wife to possible murder suspect? That's what we asked her attorney Rachel Montejo via phone from Belmopan today:...
Rachel Montejo, Spencer's Attorney
"My client was traumatized. She has not been with her children since yesterday and she has never been released and have to come back to facilitate the process. She cried and she complained and she said 'look they are putting it to me Ms. Montejo that I know something and had I know any information I would assist the officers, but they are treating me like I am a guilty person.' She was trembling, she was crying, she was hurt in the way how she was being treated. I mean my client has even help with a search party when her common-law went missing and she was the one who reported it. I mean she has done stage by stage everything to make sure that she found her loved one. And to see that she's been treated and met with this type of behavior and placed there in a room detainee, almost as if, if you don't talk you won't come out. She is thinking about who has my children? Where are my children? How are they eating? Are they eating? I mean that is the frame of mind that my client is in. She can't even console her grieving son, Junior."
But Montejo only spoke to Spencer after police had finished questioning the grieving wife. Spencer did call Montejo to be present during questioning - which is her right - but according to police, attorney Montejo had it all wrong. She told us how she was unlawfully put out of the interrogation:...
Rachel Montejo, Spencer's Attorney
"I was met with "I'm sorry you need to come out." I said but that's my client right there in that room. He say "I'm sorry not right now." I said sir, during an interview I may be present while my client is being questioned. And I was just placed outside, not touched or anything, but I walk outside and the door was locked behind me. It leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth to see where the law is as it relates to client and defendant rights or detainees right. It's just not fitting."
Montejo says she will be following up with police tonight to see if her client will be released. Spencer has been detained for 24 hours.
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