Missing East Coast man found dead in Buxton backdam
Stabroek News
October 27, 2002
The partly decomposed body of 27-year-old Camaldeo Ganesh was found in the Buxton backdam early yesterday morning.
Ganesh was reported kidnapped on Wednesday. He was shot execution style in the back of the head. Relatives of the man yesterday told Stabroek News that the body was positively identified as that of Ganesh. He was found clad only in a pair of briefs and his body was swollen. It appeared that he had been dead for sometime.
A release from the police said a body, believed to be that of the missing businessman, was discovered at around 7 am in the Buxton backlands in the vicinity of the Church of God Road with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
The police said his motorcycle was found about 20 metres south of the body.
Ganesh of Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara, was last seen between 6:30 pm and 7 pm on Wednesday, when he left his home to visit a friend.
His wife Sunita Godette said that around an hour after he left she had received a telephone call stating that her husband was being held hostage until a ransom was paid. The woman said after the demand for cash was made, Ganesh tearfully told her that his captors were taking him away to be killed.
Sunita said that was the last time she heard from her husband and the kidnappers. Another woman who was at the house on Friday told this newspaper that Ganesh's captors had called on Thursday morning telling them that the man's body was dumped at the back of Buxton, in the vicinity of the Church of God road.
That sparked an intense search by members of the army and police force on Friday but they turned up empty-handed.
Relatives yesterday said all day Thursday and Friday they kept telling the ranks to keep up the search, because they were certain that the body was dumped down the Church of God road. The body was found there yesterday morning.
According to one relative, "he (Ganesh) nah good at all. All over he skin was bare bullet...he nah good."
On Friday, Acting Police Commissioner, Floyd McDonald told reporters at a press conference that the police had launched a manhunt for a young woman who they believe can assist in the investigations into Ganesh's disappearance.
Ganesh's wife last evening said that the police had not contacted her about the whereabouts of the woman who was being sought and whether anyone had been arrested for the killing.