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Woman Hacked To Death In South
posted (January 6, 2014)
Tonight, we report on the first 2 murders for 2014, 2 of them involve brutal choppings, and both of them happened over the weekend in the Banana Belt. We start first with 41 year-old Maria Domitilia Perez, a Naturalized Belizean businesswoman of Benque Viejo Town. She was found on early Sunday morning on the Green Gold Banana Farm, located just off the Placencia Road. She had been savagely chopped to death most of the injuries to her head. Today, 7News spoke to the police officer commanding the Intermediate Southern Formation, who told us about what police found:

Superintendent Alton Alvarez - Officer Commanding, Intermediate Southern Formation
"Police responded to a report of a woman that was seen lying motionless somewhere within the Green Gold area in the Stann Creek judicial district. Independence Police responded and they came upon the said female lying motionless. The female has received multiple machete wounds to the head and body. On the scene the police recovered a cell phone. The cell phone was found on the person of the deceased and we believe that that cell phone is the property of the deceased."

"We have information that that cell phone was used for atleast 45 seconds in the moments leading to her demise. The body was blooded and the police had found her in that condition. An under wear, a blouse and a black skirt which we believe to the property of the deceased was found not too far from where the body lies."

Police have one man detained, and he continues to be questioned. The investigators have received multiple reports that villagers heard when Perez was being attacked. They are asking the members of the Green Gold Village to assist them in solving the murder of this woman.

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