VANISHED! Twelve intriguing missing persons cases between 1999 to 2016

May 08, 2017 News

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People go missing all the time, often turning up alive and well a few days later, or if not, leaving some clues about their whereabouts.
But sometimes, people go missing and it’s like their existence has been erased entirely from the face of the earth.
In these cases, there’s always some kind of complicated foul play involved.
Such was the case with Babita Sarjou, who vanished in 2010 after leaving her mother’s home to visit her son, who was at the time staying with her estranged husband. Six years later, her skeletal remains were found buried in the ex-partner’s backyard.
While not all missing persons cases around the world end like Sarjou’s, in Guyana, most of these cases have come to a tragic conclusion.
However, we are hoping that the 11 cases mentioned in this article will bring new information to light, and also push the police to step up their game in finding these persons.
One case that has captured the attention of many is that of 18-year-old June Ann Davis who disappeared in July 1999.

The young woman had left her home to take up lodging at the home of a self-proclaimed spiritualist named, Patricia Alves in Second Street, Alberttown, Georgetown, after her mother, Joylyn Brotherson, went to St. Maarten.
While the spiritualist’s home was always open to young women and men, who needed a place to stay, things did not always turn out well for these visitors.
In fact, “Mother Alves” herself was in 2002 charged with murder when the decomposed body of 32-year-old Camille Sibnauth of Anna Regina, Essequibo was dug up from her backyard.
A neighbour had peeped through a fence and saw the spiritualist burying the woman in a shallow grave. Sibnauth had been badly beaten and suffered a fractured skull. She had been staying at the woman’s home for a few months.
Before the 32-year-old woman was killed, a male guest of “mother” Alves was charged with the murder of a female acquaintance.
However, June Ann’s mother had been told by the spiritualist that the young woman had eloped with the same individual but it was not until he was charged that Mrs. Brotherson realized that the ‘elopement’ had never happened.
Mrs. Brotherson had been given conflicting details by ‘Mother’ Alves regarding her daughter’s disappearance. Today, she still hopes to see her daughter alive.
Another worrying case is that of 11-year-old Nordex Wilkinson, who vanished in May 2004 while staying with her father, Victor Simmions and sisters, Keasha, then aged nine and eight-year-old Kimberly at Pattensen, Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Wilkinson’s life was one that was filled with pain and sorrow. Her parents had separated and the children stayed with their father while their mother, Nadia Wilkinson, went to live in Bartica.

It was on May 18, 2004, that little Keasha contacted her mother and an aunt, and told them that something might have happened to her sister.
Keasha informed her relatives that she had run away from home and alleged that a few days before fleeing the home; her father had come home while they were attempting to prepare a meal.
He had reportedly flown into a rage and beat them with a piece of wood.
According to the child, the man had grabbed a pair of scissors and slashed at Nordex’s throat. Keasha claimed that her elder sister was bedridden after the beating and she was forced to take care of her.
She further alleged that a few days after, she saw her father fetching the badly injured Nordex out of the house. He reportedly arrived home later that night and told her that he had sent Nordex out of the country.
The child said that her father told her to say the same thing to anyone who asked but her sister’s whereabouts.

By the time the cops were called in, Nordex’s father had disappeared. To date, no one knows what happened to Nordex and the whereabouts of her father remain unknown.
Another sad story is that of 58-year-old Michael Harris—the man who disappeared on Christmas Day in 2008.
Harris disappeared after leaving his Lot 607 Hippani Oval, Retrieve, Linden residence on a pedal cycle—he has not been seen since.
The June 2009 disappearance of US-based Guyanese, Kwame Rumel Jobronewet is another strange case.
Mr. Jobronewet had travelled to Guyana to attend his mother’s funeral, but went missing before she was laid to rest.
On the day the 67-year-old man arrived at his relative’s Company Road, Buxton home, he left with a small bag but never returned.
There are many suggestions surrounding the elderly man’s disappearance; one of which includes that he had been killed during a robbery and buried somewhere on the East Coast of Demerara.

Two brothers were arrested but there wasn’t sufficient information linking the man’s disappearance to them.
The relatives of Basmattie Anantram who went missing in June 8, 2011 from her Seawell, Corentyne home are still hoping that she can someday return home.
Anantram reportedly disappeared after her partner had visited her from the United States. He’d reportedly heard that she was dating someone in the neighbourhood.
He reportedly left Guyana a few days after a missing persons report was made to the police by the woman’s relatives.
Another case that is baffling cops is that of 25-year-old Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) employee, LeVoy Taljit who left his Anira Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, home on December 23, 2012 in his Toyota Raum, PNN 8315 and never returned.
Almost a week after the young man disappeared, his vehicle was found in a trail at Yarrowkabra, about a mile off the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway.
Police had detained a 32-year-old Soesdyke resident who reportedly confessed to stashing Taljit’s vehicle along the highway.
The man, who was in possession of the missing man’s debit card also allegedly admitted to selling Taljit’s phone for $40,000. He was however released.
Basil Taljit, the missing man’s father, had accused the police of conducting a “sloppy” investigation into his son’s disappearance.
He is still hoping that a thorough investigation can be done so that they can finally get some answers.
On December 26, 2013 a 76-year-old deaf and mute man disappeared from his Lot 164 Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home without a trace.
Banalo Motilall, called “Dumb man,” was last seen walking on the Herstelling Public Road around 14:00hrs on Boxing Day.
Motilall’s relatives were informed that the pensioner was seen crossing the Demerara Harbour Bridge. Surveillance footage (at the bridge) showed Motilall heading in the direction of the bridge from the eastern side but he never made it to the other end.
In August, 2013 Patriena Nicholson left a police location and vanished without a trace, leaving relatives still wondering about her fate.
It was on a Friday when Nicholson, dressed in a brown blouse, blue jeans and black sandals, left her post at the Police Mounted Branch.
There are reports that she told some of her colleagues that she was going to wash while others claimed that she told them she was heading home to drop off a package.
Whatever she did and wherever she went, there has been no information on her since.
According to information received, the policewoman had been dating taxi driver, Royston Waldron, the prime suspect in the murder of secondary school teacher, Nyozi Goodman, whose skeletal remains were found in a bushy lot at Pattensen, East Coast Demerara weeks after she went missing.
Shortly after the discovery of the teacher’s remains, Waldron was shot dead during a confrontation with police.
He was wanted for a number of robberies.
On August 30, 2015, Shawnette Savory left her Prospect, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home, shortly after paying a GPL bill and has not been heard from since.
Relatives have received numerous anonymous calls, one of which indicated that the woman had been killed and buried under shack at Belle West, West Bank Demerara (WBD).
This information led the cops to the location where the dug the floor of the shack but found nothing. A wanted bulletin has since been issued for the owner of the shack, Patrick Bannister and his partner, Ritesha Rahaman.
Little Daniel Adolphus mysteriously disappeared from his parents’ Richmond Hill, Essequibo home in December 2, 2015.
His father, Junior Adolphus, was the prime suspect in his disappearance. While the older Adolphus was arrested and placed in custody, the police were unable to pin him to the disappearance of his six-year-old son.
In April the previous year, the child’s father was arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to slash the six-year-old throat. The matter was dismissed after a medical evaluation was done.
On the night the little boy went missing, he and his father were home alone since his mother; Natasha had left for Georgetown with her newborn.
Junior Adolphus allegedly told his sister, Pauline Benn, that he had gone to bed and left the child watching television, but when he got up around midnight, the six-year-old was gone—he claimed that the door was open.
However, around the time the father said he left the little boy watching television, the entire Essequibo Coast had a power outage—raising suspicions of his involvement in the child’s mysterious disappearance.
On September 10, 2015, Alpha United goalkeeper, Ronson Williams and his friend, Carlos Anderson disappeared after entering a silver-grey car in Bent Street, Georgetown. They had informed relatives that they were heading to a football match.
They have not been seen or heard from since.
Shortly after their disappearance, the police issued a wanted bulletin for 41-year-old Gary Mervin Primo called “Gary Talkout.”
It is believed that the men might have been kidnapped.
Reports are that their disappearance might have been connected to a sum of money that one of the men had borrowed.

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