Dismembered body…Suspect admits beheading woman at seawall

- says he only got $20,000

Crime affecta everyThe killers of US-based Guyanese, Samantha Benjamin, were trying to buy time by dismembering her to delay her identification.

Samantha Benjamin

This piece of information was given to investigators by the prime suspect in Benjamin’s murder. The man detailed how the woman was bludgeoned to death for her money when she put up a fight.
The suspect reportedly detailed how he and his two accomplices first cut off the woman’s limbs and then carried her body to the Annandale foreshore where they decapitated it.
The suspect who is expected to make a court appearance early next week was holding out that he had no knowledge of the crime until he was taken back to the house at Middle Walk, Buxton and shown the evidence of his savagery.
The suspect was taken into custody last Tuesday when investigators led by the woman’s family members went into the house where Benjamin was staying and discovered bloodstained sheets and pieces of what appeared to be human flesh splattered on a wall.
There were also signs that someone had attempted to clean up the gory scene, but the efforts were not enough.
“When we took him back to the house and he saw the blood in the creases of the floor, he could’a drop dead,” a police source who is a part of the investigation said.
It was then that the suspect broke down and gave a detailed account of what transpired in the house on the night of March 25, last.

The mastermind of Benjamin’s murder

According to a source, the suspect reported that after Benjamin broke up with her estranged husband, she came and took up residence in the Buxton Middle Walk house.
It was while she was there that she confided in him about her business plans, including the plan to purchase a car.
He admitted that he plotted with two other men to kill her for her money.
According to the suspect, they first struck the woman a devastating blow to her head with a piece of wood and rendered her motionless.
Almost certain that the blow was fatal, the suspect and his accomplices hatched a plan to get rid of her body and conceal their crime and buy time to relocate to avoid capture.
They decided to cut off the woman’s limbs, apparently to make the body easier to fetch in a wheelbarrow.
This was done in the house, accounting for all the blood at the scene.
Benjamin’s body was then taken to the seawall about 400 metres away where the men cut off her head and threw everything into the ocean.
This corroborated investigators’ theory that some dismembering occurred at the foreshore since they had observed marks on the concrete seawall that suggested that chopping had taken place there.
The killers had hoped that the high tide would have carried the body parts away.
But they did not cater for the body and its severed parts getting stuck between some huge boulders on the foreshore.
The killers’ plan might have worked because no one immediately missed the woman, even though the body was discovered a few hours later.
But they stuck around and eventually relatives began asking questions.
Even neighbours did not link the body recovered on the foreshore to the “visitor” from the US-who had moved into the house about a month ago.
One neighbour told this newspaper that he is in a total state of shock that something like that could have occurred so close to his house.
He said that he had seen Benjamin from time to time but would only greet her with the customary “Good morning” or “Good evening”, since he knew she was visiting from overseas.
According to the neighbour, who lives alone, on Thursday last he observed all the commotion surrounding the discovery of a body on the foreshore but did not venture to the scene.
He too had no clue that the body had anything to do with his overseas neighbour.
It was only after he saw a number of police ranks outside the house on Tuesday night that he became interested in what was taking place.
At first he thought that something had happened to the labourer he had seen tending to the chickens.
“But then I see police hold he up and I see a man with a camera, and I say, ‘Oh s*#t, is wha dis man do?’”
Even up to then he still did not link the situation to the discovery of the body on the foreshore.
It was only later that he made the connection.
“Is de morning when I see police, den I start to pick up, and I say, ‘wha?’ I see people coming and start to look, look; then I say man something happen. But I sorry though,” the neighbor said.
He claimed that he did not know the young labourer personally, but he maintained that the suspect had to know something about the woman’s death.
He was right!
The suspect in custody also claimed that for all their troubles, he only got $20,000. He led detectives to a house on Bent Street, Georgetown, where he had sold the dead woman’s laptop and her cellular phone for drugs.