A Guatemalan woman was found dead in an orchard along the Southern Highway. Yesterday afternoon around 3:30, Dangriga police were called out to an
orchard near miles 6 on the Southern Highway. They found the partially decomposed body of 39 year old Lydia Janet Garcia Giron. She was found wearing
only a pair of short blue jeans pants. A black bra was found beside her. She was identified by her sister. The only recognizable features were Giron's
false teeth and a tattoo on her thigh. According to the police report, Giron went missing on January 19th – and her whereabouts had been a
mystery until her body was found yesterday. She lived in Melchor but frequently traveled around Belize selling perfume. When we spoke with police today
they told us they are still looking into the case to determine if she was murdered. Although the post mortem results say the cause of death is "blunt
force trauma to the head" police say they can't confirm that until the official forensic report is sent in. That will give police a better idea as to
what exactly happened and when it happened. Police suspect she died or was killed a month ago. We will keep following on that case.
Important to note is that 2 women were raped in this same 6 miles area on the Southern Highway.
The first incident happened on December 11th 2015. A pregnant woman had just come off the bus at the 6 miles junction when a man with a grey t-shirt
covering his face, dragged her into a nearby orange orchard, held a knife to her throat and raped her. The second incident occurred on January 9th. In
this case a 48-year-old woman got off the bus at the same 6 miles junction. She was standing alone when a man with a brown T-Shirt tied on his head and
carrying a machete approached her. He dragged her into the same nearby orange orchard where she was beaten, raped and robbed. Jamaican Dwight Johnson
has been charged with 2 counts of rape for both these incidents.
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