Missing woman’s body found stuffed in canal

Newsday Trinidad

A family’s search for a missing woman ended early yesterday morning, when she was found stuffed in a canal under the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in the St Augustine area.

Tessa Fonrose, 20, of Stella Street, St Augustine, was last seen going to do laundry at her boyfriend’s home, mere houses from hers.

When she did not return home Friday night, a report was made to the Tunapuna Police Station and investigators immediately picked up two male friends for questioning.

The family’s worst fears were realised when they found Fonrose’s body stuffed in a concrete cylinder under the east-bound lane of the highway, just before St Augustine Girls’ High School.

Her death sparked outrage from angry relatives who emerged from the nearby Stella Street, where Fonrose lived.
“He just kill my daughter and leave her in a drain? In a drain?” Fonrose’s father shouted, before looking to the heavens and clasping his hands.
Another relative shouted, “He better stay inside the jail. He safer inside.”
He was referring to one of the suspects who remained in police custody, reportedly a close friend of Fonrose.