DNA test confirms skeletal remains belong to Answar Stoll

Despite confessed killer, Leon Waddle refusing to say wherehehadburiedthebody o f A n s w a r S t o l l , Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) testing confirms that the skeletal remains which were found at the Kuru Kuru

Backdam last year are those ofthedeceased.

Confirming the results with this publication on Friday was Crime Chief, WendellBlanhum.

On July 13, 2022 at about 20:35 hrs, a team of Forensic investigators from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Crime Laboratorywasdispatchedto 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 cmlong incised wound extending from the frontal bone to the parietal bone of the skull. This injury was ruledasthecauseofdeath.”

These samples were sent overseasfortesting.

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 smallplantssuggestingthatit had been there for a while.

Guyana Police Force (GPF) addedthat,“theskullappears to be that of a male and bore evidence of a sharp injury (chop)tothetopoftheskull.”

T h e c h o p w o u n d reportedly “extended from above the eye socket all the way to the rear of the top of theskull.”Rankswereableto 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 whileincustody;headmitted tokillinghimandstealinghis belongings but refused to say what he had done with the corpse.

Waddlewaslatercharged 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 bloodstainedbedsheet.