Killers among us

Jul 15, 2012 Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery

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–    five sadistic suspects remain at large

By Michael Jordan

On the surface, they look just like you and me; five ordinary people who would not merit a second glance.But police believe that these five ‘ordinary’ people are responsible for nine sadistic killings within a 12-month  span. And they have been seeking your help to locate them.
These killings began on July 19, 2006, at around 01:30 hrs, when a mysterious fire broke out at a two-storey house – Lot 33 Nursery School Road, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara. A neighbour tried to kick the front door open, but it was double-bolted from the inside.
Accompanied by a brother, the neighbour entered the back door, which was ajar and attempted to douse the flames with buckets of water. But within minutes, the entire building was gutted.
When the smoke finally cleared, two charred and shrunken corpses were found in the lower flat. The bodies had apparently fallen through the burnt-out floor in the upper flat. The victims were 22-year-old computer technician Fayon Williams and her lover, 30-year-old John Hernandez, a driver from Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara. An autopsy revealed that they had died from smoke inhalation.
What puzzled detectives was the fact that the occupants had apparently made no attempt to flee the burning building and that no one had heard them scream.
Almost immediately, suspicion fell on a young taxi driver and airport employee who had lived in the house a few months prior to the tragedy. The man, Michael Dey, was Fayon Williams’ ex-husband, but the two had separated after several altercations. It is alleged that after Dey moved out, Fayon changed the locks on her doors because she feared for her safety.
Fayon’s mother claimed that her daughter had repeatedly expressed concern about her husband’s ‘strange’ behaviour.  She said that during a telephone conversation, Fayon had attempted to reveal something about her husband, but never got the chance to do so. Detectives immediately tried to track down Michael Dey, but he had not turned up at work at the airport; neither was he at home.
He has not been seen since. One of Dey’s sisters expressed the view that he is innocent. She suggested that he went into hiding because he knew that he would be the prime suspect.
GROVE HOUSE OF HORROR
One month later—on August 19, to be exact—residents of Grove, East Bank Demerara, became concerned about a foul smell that emanated from a nearby two-flat house. Suspecting the worst and having not seen the occupants for some time, the neighbours contacted the relatives of the people occupying the premises.
In the house, the relatives found the decomposing bodies of two adults and two children.
The victims were 43-year-old Danmatri Kayman, called ‘Mother’; 69-year-old caretaker Looknauth, called ‘Fred’, and Kayman’s children; two-year-old Melville Kayman and 10-year-old Alicia Kirkpatrick.
Autopsies would reveal that Looknauth and the two children had been clubbed to death.  ‘Mother’, had sustained injuries to her neck which suggested that she had been strangled.
At first, suspicion fell on Ms. Kayman’s husband, since there were reports that he had threatened his spouse. However, he was eventually released, and police began to look for other suspects. They eventually turned their attention to a young sex worker and her male friend.
The sex worker and Looknauth had started a relationship, but the caretaker had eventually left her for an older woman. The detectives were told that the younger woman was seen at the house on the same day that the victims were believed to have been slain. It was now suspected that jealousy was the motive and that a male friend had assisted the sex worker to carry out the brutal crime.
According to this information, Danmatri Kayman’s mother had gone to see her daughter that same day, but had received no answer from the occupants. The mother was about to leave when she heard two-year-old Melville crying. She then observed another female, identified as sex worker Anita Lala, entering the yard. According to this report the mother asked “’Mother’ (Kayman) nah deh?” The suspect reportedly replied, “No, ‘Mother’ and she daughter out.”
The sex worker also reportedly said that Kayman had left her to take care of two-year-old Melville. Kayman’s mother returned the following day. This time the gate was locked and no one answered her calls.
To date, police have not located the two suspects.
On April 5, 2007, at Linden, a cutlass-wielding man hacked 18-month-old Shaquan Nero to death while trying to kill the child’s mother, Bernadette Nero.  The killer was identified as Calvin Bailey, called ‘Lava’, of Wisroc Housing Scheme; Agricola, East Bank Demerara and Campbellville, Georgetown.
He fled the scene and remained in hiding for several months.
Police believe that Bailey emerged from hiding on July 28, 2007 and, along with an accomplice, murdered Aubrey Laurie, a 33-year-old ex-policeman, near the Lucky Spot Ranch at Wismar.
Bailey has again gone into hiding, though police believe that he is hiding out in the Wisroc backlands.
And on July 17, 2007, the partly nude body of Iesha Byron, 25, was found in a clump of bushes at D’Urban Backlands. She had been shot three times.
The young hairdresser is believed to have been slain by a man with whom she had lived, and who had taken her to the area on a bicycle. He, too, has disappeared.
Is it possible you may have unknowingly passed one of these sadistic killers?

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