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Man Murdered, Only Scavenged Remains Found
posted (December 18, 2014)
Ladyville police today found the remains of a male who they believe was murdered. All they encountered were the scattered bones of the man, believed to have been disturbed by animals that scavenged his body after he was killed.

It's a developing story and police believed violence was involved in his death. Our news team was in Ladyville for most of today, and Daniel Ortiz has this report:

Daniel Ortiz reporting
The signs says that you're not supposed to dump garbage here in the Dew Drops Area at mile 11 and a half on the Northern Highway.

But, not only is it being ignored, it seems that someone killed a man and left him there to decompose, or they killed him elsewhere and dumped him in that location. At least, that's what police looking at that this time.

He has been identified 23 year-old Marvin Rafael Bul, originally from Ladyville Village.

Insp. Frederick Gordon - Rural Executive Officer
"This morning sometime before 9am, today 18th December, police received information of human remains some 12 miles on the Phillip Goldson Highway, just about 100 yards or so off the main highway, whereby police visited the area where they found some remains of appeared to be a human being. On the scene, the area appeared to be contaminated by what we suspect might be animals or vultures and, yes we also found some clothing; a blue jeans pants along with a blue short pants, a boxers and a shirt was found in the area. Also inside the pants, we also found an identification of a person."

Reporter
"Sir, any reason to suspect that this person was murdered and his body dumped there?"

Insp. Frederick Gordon - Rural Executive Officer
"We are treating this time as a homicide. I notice that the shirt retrieve from the area also appeared to have blood stains on it. So we are suspecting that it might be some kind of foul play. We could confirm that a report was recently made against Mr. Bul about some 6 weeks ago in connection with a burglary. This fellow Bul is known to the Ladyville police."

Ladyville police say that there was no missing persons report filed for Marvin Bul, and that's because mother, who positively identified him from the identification card and the clothes he wore, did not make any. Nobody knew that he was missing, especially her, because for a few weeks now, Bul hadn't been living with her. She told reporters today that she kicked him out of her house because he was starting to hang out with men believed to be gang affiliates from Belize City. Also, he was getting into fights with his sister who also lives at the family home in Ladyville.

Bul's mother said that she believes that one of those people he started to hang out with may be involved in his death. She added that she believes he was kidnapped because a few weeks ago, a strange vehicle showed up at their house and a man demanded to know his whereabouts.

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