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(THE STAR-LEDGER) – Each passing day, every grim clue and unanswered phone call has seeped the last strands of hope from Veronica Ramessar.
And as she provided police with a sample of her own DNA today — so they could identify the body of her missing daughter if she’s found — Ramessar was settling for closure.
Evadne and her friend Troy Edwards, both Plainfield residents, have been missing since Feb. 20, when they left New Jersey for Richmond, Va.
“I’m feeling lost, lonely, helpless,” she said. “If she’s dead, I just want to know.”
Evadne Orna, Ramessar’s daughter, and her friend, Troy Edwards, both Plainfield residents, have not been seen or heard from since Feb. 20, when they left New Jersey for Richmond, Va. On Friday, WTVR-TV in Richmond obtained the findings of a police search warrant for an apartment Edwards was known to frequent.
Among the forensic evidence taken from the scene on March 1, the station reported, were red-stained sheets, a stun gun, Duct tape and packaging materials, scales, baggies, as well as fingerprints and carpet samples.
“We are continuing the investigation and we do believe they may be victims of foul play,” Karla Peters, a public information officer with the Richmond Police Department, told The Star-Ledger today.
Gene Lepley, a Richmond Police Department spokesman, said the couple drove to Virginia in a rented 2011 silver Nissan Altima that originally had New Jersey license plates YXE-62E. But investigators now believe the car bears Viriginia license plates XNH-9410.
Ramessar said Orna, 39, and Edwards, 40, have dated on and off for nearly two decades. Recently, Orna told her mother that “my heart and soul are with Troy.”
Yet, Ramessar said she has her reservations about Edwards.
“I don’t think he did anything (with Orna),” she said. “(But) I don’t like him.”
A spokesman for the Plainfield Police Department said today it is working with Richmond police, but did not offer any new details on the investigation.
Orna, whose mother calls her daughter “Cassy,” is 5-feet-4, weighs 140 pounds and has a tattoo of a butterfly on her right shoulder, Plainfield police said. A picture on her Facebook page also revealed a tattoo of a pair of lips and a tongue on her chest. Edwards is listed as 5-feet-8, 140 pounds with a scar on his forehead. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt. Both originally hail from Guyana.
Ramessar, who lives in East Orange, said that during her last conversation with her daughter, on Feb. 20, “she said, a million times, I love you.”
“To be honest, she didn’t tell me she was going. I didn’t know she was going to Virginia. I don’t know why my daughter went down there.”
Ramessar said she went to Plainfield police headquarters today and had her mouth swabbed for DNA “in case they do get something, when they do get a body.”
Now that it’s been two weeks since she’s heard from her daughter, someone she constantly spoke with on the phone, Ramessar fears the worst.
“I think she’s dead,” she said. “Because she don’t do that.”
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