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DNA testing confirms skeletal remains belong to Answar Stoll
Kaieteur News – Despite confessed killer, Leon Waddle refusing to say where he had buried the body of Answar Stoll, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) testing confirms that the skeletal remains which were found at the Kuru Kuru Backdam last year are those of the deceased.
Confirming the results with this publication on Friday was Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum.
Dead: Answar Stoll
On July 13, 2022 at about 20:35 hrs, a team of Forensic investigators from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Crime Laboratory was dispatched to an area in the Kuru Kururu Backdam where human skeletal remains believed to be of Answar Stoll were recovered.
The Crime Chief told Kaieteur News that “The bones were later examined by a Pathologist and confirmed to be those of a male above the age of 35 years old. The Pathologist found evidence of a 14 cm-long incised wound extending from the frontal bone to the parietal bone of the skull. This injury was ruled as the cause of death.”
These samples were sent overseas for testing.
Kaieteur News had reported that the skeletal remains were found at the backdam scattered across an area measuring 30 feet in diameter.
In a report, the police had stated that several human bones were found intertwined in the roots of small plants suggesting that it had been there for a while. Guyana Police Force (GPF) added that, “the skull appears to be that of a male and bore evidence of a sharp injury (chop) to the top of the skull.”
Suspect: Leon Waddle
The chop wound reportedly “extended from above the eye socket all the way to the rear of the top of the skull.” Ranks were able to recover the shoulder bones and part of the vertebral column.
Some thirteen pieces were reported still missing and GPF assured that the remains will be sent overseas for DNA testing a soon as possible.
Stoll had disappeared in November 2020 and three months later, police arrested 30-year-old Waddle, the prime suspect who was hiding in a fowl pen. Waddle was Stoll’s roommate and while in custody; he admitted to killing him and stealing his belongings but refused to say what he had done with the corpse.
Waddle was later charged with murder during the furtherance of robbery and remanded to prison. According reports, it is believed that Stoll was killed between November 15 and 16 during a drinking session at Dadrima Savanah at Kuru Kururu, Linden-Soesdyke Highway.
Detectives had found his home ransacked with blood stains splattered across the walls. Sniffer dogs had also led to an area in the Kuru Kururu Backlands where they found a bloodstained bed sheet.
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