San Pedro Police also made a disturbing discovery early on Saturday morning, January 17. They found the partially nude body of a 22 year-old mother of three. She is Honduran waitress Sylvia Carmen Benitez. She had been missing for 5 days.
The San Pedro Sun Newspaper reports that her body was found about 15 feet off the Mata Grande Road, some 3 and a half miles north of the town. She was in an advanced state of decomposition, and multiple blunt force injuries were discovered on the right side of her face, neck and back, and there were signs that someone tried to hold her against her will.
The last time she was seen alive was on Monday, January 12, where persons say that appeared to be intoxicated. Today, we asked the Eastern Division's head of CIB about what their investigation has revealed about the days after that last sighting:
Supt. Hilberto Romero - OC, CIB Eastern Division
"On Saturday, police visited an area at 10 miles north of San Pedro Town where they saw a decomposed body of one Carmen Benitez. She had some injured to the neck. A postmortem was conducted and the information we have is that she had been seen with some friends before she was reported missing."
Daniel Ortiz
"How many days was she reported missing for?"
Supt. Hilberto Romero - OC, CIB Eastern Division
"She has been reported missing about a week. No one has been detained. The police is asking the public's assistance to try any try and determine who are these persons she was last seen with."
It is believed that she was killed in another area, and then dumped at the location where police found her
Benitez was the single mother of 3 who lived in the San Pedrito area of the island. Due to the advanced state of decomposition, she had to be buried immediately after the postmortem examination. The medical examiner could not determine the cause of death.
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