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Two women are in custody as the St Mary police probe the discovery of dismembered body parts at a home on Tank Lane in Oracabessa in the parish on Tuesday, December 29.
The body parts which are believed to be of 26-year-old Jerome Forrester of Tank Lane, who was reported missing on Monday, December 28 by his sister, was found on Tuesday morning in an advanced state of decomposition.
Reports from the Oracabessa police are that about 9:30 am, residents launched a search for Forrester in the community and discovered the body parts in knitted bags in bushes at the back of his home.
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