Strange case of the missing miner…More body parts found, DNA tests needed to verify identity

Jul 24, 2016 News

The case of missing miner, Shawn Clarke, keeps getting stranger by the day, with police announcing that they have now recovered more body parts that they suspect are the 47-year-old man’s remains.

Shawn Clarke and his wife Rachael

In all, police have recovered bones that appeared to be half of a hand, two legs and shoulders in an area between Mahdia and Konawaruk.
Kaieteur News understands that the bones were found some 600 meters apart.
A police official said on Friday that relatives of Clarke’s had identified a Wellington (long boot) and part of a pair of trousers that were found with some of the remains.
However, DNA samples may have to be taken from the missing man’s remains for positive identification.
Investigators are reportedly getting a “bizarre story” from the two miners that they are questioning about Stewart’s fate. One of the suspects is said to have fathered a child with a female acquaintance of Clarke’s, who is currently pregnant.
Police suspect that there might have been some animosity between the two men.
It was some time last week that relatives said that they received reports that a body that might be Clarke’s was spotted at Mahdia.
However, nothing was found, and it was suggested that someone had hidden the remains.
Clarke left his Lot ‘C’ Norton Street, Lodge home on June 15 for North Fork, where he had been working as a gold miner for over 20 years.
His wife, Rachelle Clarke, became worried after he failed to answer several calls on July 10. She had spoken to her husband at around 06:00hrs that day about some items she had sent to the interior for him with a bus driver.
Clarke reportedly called the driver at around 20:45 hrs to say he was coming out from North Fork to Mahdia.
After calling her husband on July 12 and getting no response, Mrs. Clarke called the driver who said that her husband had not collected the package.
The woman related that she was told that her husband and a man named “Marlon” had left North Fork and walked to another back dam.