The man who loved CSI

Dec 24, 2017 Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery

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By Michael Jordan
I have a strange request for you. I want those of you, who love crime dramas, particularly the CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) television series, to tell me if you recall any episode, perhaps going back six years, in which someone committed a murder in a house, and dumped the body in a creek, or river, or canal, to fake a drowning.
This strange request may give a young man named Tristan Isaacs a clue about the still unsolved murder of his mother, which happened right here, and around that time…
Boys will be boys, so the shiny red bicycle in the canal near the ‘D’ Field, Sophia access road caught the child’s eyes. The sight of that bike drew him closer to the water. It was then that he spotted the other object, and screamed, and ran.
It was Sunday, March 13, 2011, and the sight of the running, screaming boy caught the attention of residents passing along the ‘D’ Field, Sophia roadway. What the boy told them sent them hurrying to the canal, and there they saw what had scared the child.
It was a woman’s decomposing corpse, lying face-up and dressed in a green t-shirt and blue denim skirt.
Some of the onlookers speculated that a vehicle may have struck the woman while she was cycling through Sophia, and that the panic-stricken driver fled the scene. But others also observed that the bicycle was undamaged. Their queries turned to consternation when they realised that the victim was one of their own. She was 52-year-old Neibert Isaacs-Bacon, a Special Constable who lived at ‘D’ Field. She worked the three to eleven p.m. shift at a location near the Sophia Exhibition site and rode the red bicycle to and from work.
Mrs. Bacon was reportedly last seen alive on Friday, March 11, 2011, two days prior to the discovery.
She had a 19-year-old son, and it was he who confirmed the victim’s identity after viewing her remains at the Lyken Funeral Parlour. And he was certain of one thing: No hit-and-run driver had killed his mother. Someone with a motive had murdered her.
Tristan Isaacs says that his mother could not have been riding her bicycle at the time of her death, because it had suffered a puncture and she was unable to have it patched immediately. He also didn’t believe that his ever-vigilant mother was attacked while traversing the area.
Tristan Isaacs believed that someone killed his mother in her home while she slept, then dumped her in the canal, in the hope of making it appear that she had drowned. He thought that the killer had also hoped that the caimans and other reptiles inhabiting the canal would have devoured the corpse.
He was even more convinced of the killer’s identity when a post mortem revealed someone had clubbed her to death. She had sustained blows to the head.
Tristan Isaacs says that after identifying his mother’s body, he accompanied other relatives to his mother’s home. According to Isaacs, he observed that someone had placed a heavy plank against the back door from the inside of the house. He believed that the killer blocked the back door with the plank to thwart her escape.
The slain woman’s relatives also realised that a small black handbag, which his mother literally always carried, was missing. That handbag contained all of his mother’s valuable documents, including her birth certificate. Her phone was also gone.
Something else was missing; or rather, someone.
That person was Mrs. Bacon’s husband, Everol ‘Evo’ Bacon. He just couldn’t be found. The two had been married for five years, but were on the verge of divorce, and in the midst of a long and acrimonious court battle over their ‘D’ Field, Sophia property. Mrs. Bacon had reportedly also claimed in court that she was forced to flee her home after her spouse threatened her with a meat cleaver, over her attempts to gain sole possession of the property.
While some reports suggest that the husband moved to a relative’s home, located close to the couple’s house, Tristan Isaacs says that the two continued to live together, up to the time of his mother’s murder. According to him, his mother, “a no-nonsense and determined person,” repeatedly ignored pleas to find other accommodation until the case ended.
But some two days after Mrs. Bacon’s body was found, Mr. Bacon reappeared. He turned up at the Turkeyen Police Station in the company of an attorney. According to reports, Mr. Bacon claimed that he was in Essequibo at the time of the murder. Police detained him for 72 hours, found nothing to link him to his wife’s death and released him.
According to Tristan Isaacs, some of his mother’s closest neighbours have hinted of hearing screams coming from the victim’s home on the night she was slain. Others reportedly also saw suspicious activity by a male resident, but have been fearful of retaliation and have not confided in the police. Isaacs believes that the killer is someone known to him; someone with an almost obsessive fondness for television crime dramas; someone who may have been watching CSI, and watching his mother, and planning…and waiting to turn fiction into reality.

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