| Family Says Chan Pine Ridge Skull May Be For Their Missing Loved One |
| Fri, March 24, 2017 |
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Last Saturday Orange Walk police found a burnt skull at the dumpsite on the Chan Pine Ridge Road, but were unable to identify who it came from. No one had been reported missing in the area. The skull was taken to the Northern Regional Hospital for DNA testing, but the authorities had no one to match the results with. Well, a new lead may have turned up. Today the family of Israel Cruz, an Orange Walk resident, went to the media on Orange Walk. They told CTV-3 that heh has been missing since March 10th, and they they reported him missing days ago. But most concerning is that Cruz frequented that very same dump site to recycle bottles and plastic materials. Here's a translated version of what Cowo told CT3 V-today.
Voice of: Marleni Copo
"Well the last time we saw him was Thursday evening. He went to sell some shoes with the neighbor. He asked me for a dollar, and said that he was going with my grandmother because he had some stuff to take for her. That was the last thing he told me. He went to my grandmother's through Palmar, but my grandmother said he hadn't been there since Tuesday. So we don't know what has happened to him."
"He goes to the dump site and gathers bottles, aluminum, copper, and bronze*. He sells those, and then in the evenings he goes to my grandmother's. There's a group of them that gathers at her house. Sometimes he might go to my mother's house too. But most of the time he is either at the dump or my grandmother's house."
"We know that last week a human skull was discovered there at the dump. Do you think that it is him?
"Well, we think that there's a possibility that it is him, because we found his bicycle, and his chain in a crocus bag tied up. Well it's not us that found it, it was the police. My mother was there when they did their investigation and she saw the chain and burnt up bicycle hidden in the bushes."
Now the family must wait for authorities to find a match between Cruz and the skull - which can take a while since DNA testing is not available in Belize.
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