Crane housewife killer continues to walk free

Apr 02, 2017 News

While relatives of some murder victims might be impressed with the work being done by

Candy Rawlins and her daughter with Vidol Anthony Rawlins

the Guyana Police Force (GPF), family members of 30-year-old Candy Rawlins are still hoping that the cops will some day call to inform them that they have found her killer.
They are claiming that since her demise in 2014, they have not received any feedback from the lawmen regarding the case. They do not know whether ranks had made any effort to find the woman’s reputed husband, Vidol Anthony Rawlins, who confessed to killing her in a letter.
The woman’s nude body was discovered on her bedroom floor a little before 09:00hrs on July 18, 2014 by her daughter, who had managed to untie herself after being bound and gagged by the suspect.
Kaieteur News was told that the housewife’s face was wrapped with a mosquito net and bound with duct tape. Her hands were tied behind her back with a sheet.
Investigators found a bloodstained knife believed to be the murder weapon, next to her body.
The killer had left a note, in which he claimed that he loved his wife very much and that he regretted his action.
A senior police source who saw the letter said that the carpenter asked for forgiveness from his mother who resides overseas.
The suspect also requested that no one must search for him since he will be with his father who died a few years prior to the murder.
While the motive for the killing is still unclear after almost two years, investigators who have worked on the case believed that it might have been as a result of infidelity.
However, the victim’s daughter had provided police with a statement and a possible motive.
According to a police source, Rawlins’s 11-year-old daughter informed them that she was in her room when she heard her stepfather demanding sex from her mother.
The little girl said that she “did not take the noise too serious” because constant quarrelling was a norm in the home.
”She said she went back to sleep. The next day when she awoke, her stepfather taped her mouth and tied her up in a chair,” a police source explained.
He added that the 11-year-old girl claimed that she managed to untie herself after some time and she ran to her mother’s room.
”When she see her mother, she start scream and she run and call out for the neighbours who then informed us,” the police source said.
The child is now living with her biological father.
There are reports that the 46-year-old suspect, Vidol Anthony Rawlins fled Guyana to neighbouring Suriname. There is also information that he might be working in the interior.

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