Is murder accused a serial killer?
THE gruesome discovery of the corpse of 23 year-old Lisa Gay Gordon near Moneague, St Ann last Monday and the mysterious disappearance of Angella Nicholson, a former employee of Ciboney Ocho Rios in the parish three years ago, have one common element — their boyfriend, Kenroy Gaubault.
The Ocho Rios police are investigating the possibility of a link between the death and disappearance of the two women, after arresting and charging Gaubault Wednesday with the murder of Gordon, his current girlfriend who lived at Exchange, St Ann.
Gaubault was slapped with the capital charge, following two days of intensive investigation by the Ocho Rios police, after Gordon’s decomposing body was discovered on an abandoned road near Moneague.
Gaubault appeared in the Ocho Rios Resident Magistrate’s court Friday and was remanded in custody to reappear on July 31.
But hot on the heels of the murder charge being slapped on Gaubault, speculation spread like wildfire across Ocho Rios as to what could have happened to two of Gaubault’s previous girlfriends who went missing years ago and whose bodies have never been found.
The first case involved a female from St Ann’s Bay, which the police say they have not sought to make any connection with. However, in the second case involving Nicholson, investigations are being carried out.
“We have heard of one and we’re trying to make a case,” Detective Sergeant Headley Coleman, who is leading investigations, told the Sunday Observer. Coleman said investigations were being carried out to see if additional charges could be laid against Gaubault in connection with Nicholson’s disappearance.
“It’s vague, we haven’t come up with anything really positive as yet,” he said.
Details are sketchy but it is alleged that Nicholson, who was then living at Mango Valley, St Mary, was involved in a relationship with Gaubault that was going sour.
She reportedly disappeared without a trace, leaving investigating officers stunned.
With the new twist, however, the police have reopened the case and are searching for clues that may offer some answers as to Nicholson’s whereabouts.
Gordon went missing last week Thursday after she and Gaubault reportedly left their matrimonial home in Exchange, heading for St Mary. But he later returned without her, claiming she had changed her plans and he had let her off in Ocho Rios.
Relatives three days later filed a missing person report with the Ocho Rios police who started investigations that finally led to the discovery of Gordon’s body on Monday.
Detective Coleman said investigations had been completed and the police were now awaiting reports of forensic tests carried out on the couple’s Nissan Sunny motor car that was sent to Kingston early last week.