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Jul 14, 2014 News
Despite reports in the New York Daily that police have identified parts of a body found in a Long Island parking lot as that of missing Guyanese mother, Chinelle Latoya Browne, her husband, Dale Browne, is clinging to hope that his wife is still alive.
Browne, a mother of four who is originally from Georgetown, disappeared two Saturdays ago.
She was last seen by her landlord, Lea Cuevas, near her 346 Sumpter Street apartment in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
It was later reported by Browne’s friend, who is also a tenant at the aforementioned address that the Guyanese native had several confrontations with her landlord over an extension cord that powered her room, culminating in a fight.
Yesterday, the NY post reported that police sources said that a jigsaw puzzle body strewn across Long Island was identified as the Guyanese mom, thanks to a tattoo on a body part that was found last Wednesday on a lawn near the Long Island parking lot.
The decomposed torso and legs of the body were discovered in the parking lot on Tuesday, while a right hand with the name “Chinelle” was found on the lawn of a Hempstead family around 14:00 hrs the following day.
Just a quarter-mile down the road, another arm was found last Thursday evening, also in Hempstead, but it has not been identified as Browne’s left arm as yet.
During an interview with this newspaper, Dale Browne said that he last spoke with NY detectives yesterday and they did not tell him anything regarding the identity of the body found in the parking lot.
The husband said that he still believes that his wife is alive and she will return to him and their four children, Gabrielle, seven; Jonathan, five; and three-year-old twins, Ariel and Michaela.
Dale Browne had told this newspaper that the last time he spoke to his wife was around 11:07 two Saturdays ago.
He explained that they would normally keep in touch via Skype but when he called her later that day, he got no response.
Mr. Browne said that after not being able to contact her via Skype he decided to text her. He said that he received a text response from his wife’s phone, saying that she was going to the hospital with a friend.
“I message and asked her if she would sleep at the hospital, but I got no response. I continuously messaged the phone until Sunday and then I received a message saying that the phone was found in Manhattan,” the husband related.
Trying to put the pieces together, the husband said that he telephoned other relatives and friends but no one knew where she was. Browne then telephoned his wife’s sister, Suget Thompson in the United States and asked her to check at his wife’s work place.
When she did not show up for work, her sister made a missing person report. Investigations are still ongoing
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