♫♫ >>> I´M CELIA CARROLL, AND THIS IS "VIRGIN LONG ISLANDS CASE FILES" A SHOW THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE STORIES OF COLD CASE VICTIMS TO GET YOU, THE COMMUNITY, INVOLVED.

THIS MONTH MARKS THE 23-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE MURDER OF MY SON JASON.

AFTER JASON WAS SHOT TO DEATH ON MAIN STREET I BECAME INVOLVED IN THE WAR ON VIOLENCE AND I TURNED MY PAIN INTO PURPOSE BY HOSTING AN ANNUAL WALK/RUN AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE RIGHT HERE ON VETERANS DRIVE TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE DEVASTATING IMPACT GUN VIOLENCE HAS ON OUR LIVES AND OUR COMMUNITIES.

JASON AS KILLER PLEADED GUILTY.

BUT HUNDREDS OF UNCONVICTED MURDER CASES IN OUR TERRITORY REMAIN TO THIS DAY.

IN THIS EPISODE WE´LL TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE COLD CASE OF A 57-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FOUR WHO WENT MISSING IN OCTOBER OF 2019 AND WAS FOUND DAYS LATER IN A SHALLOW GRAVE IN THE RAIN FOREST ON ST. CROIX.

HERE IS THE STORY OF ROBIN HIGHSMAN.

>> ROBIN HIGHSMAN WAS MY MOTHER.

SHE WAS BORN IN JAMAICA.

WE CALLED HER -- IT WAS A NICKNAME BASED ON ONE OF HER FAVORITE SHOWS.

SHE WAS VERY JOYFUL, JOKED A LOT.

SHE WAS VERY HAPPY.

MY MOM AND STEP DAD FOR MARYLAND OVER 20 YEARS.

HE WAS AN OFFICER FOR THE VIRGIN ISLANDS POLICE DEPARTMENT.

>> NANCY WAS USUALLY VERY GENEROUS AND CHEERFUL AND HAPPY.

SHE HAD TWO OTHER CHILDREN, AND THEN WE ENDED UP BEING TOGETHER, AND SHE HAD -- WE HAD A DAUGHTER NAMED CAMILLE, AND THEN WE HAD A SON NAMED NATHAN.

>> ALL TOGETHER THERE WAS FIVE OF US.

SHE ONLY HAD FOUR OF THE FIVE, BUT MY STEPBROTHER, NICHOLAS, HE GREW UP WITH US AS WELL.

ME AND MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS GREW UP IN THE RAIN FOREST LIVING WITH MY MOM, STEP DAD, AND HIS MOTHER IN THE HOUSE THEY HAD IN THE RAIN FOREST.

FROM THERE HE ENDED UP BUILDING THE HOUSE MY MOTHER LIVED IN PRETTY MUCH FROM THE GROUND UP.

GROWING UP, WE USED TO HAVE A LOT OF HORSES.

>> I WAS ALWAYS INTO HORSES, SO I TAUGHT MY CHILDREN HOW TO BE WITH HORSES AND HOW TO RIDE THEM.

SINCE THEY WERE YOUNG THEY WOULD BE ON HORSES.

>> MY MOTHER WORKED AT JOHNNY´S GALLERY, OWNED BY MY STEP DAD´S MOTHER.

A VERGELY THEY ENDED UP BUYING IT AND WORKED FOR YEARS.

ME AND MY STEPBROTHERS WENT TO -- FOR A LONG AMOUNT OF TIME EVERYONE THOUGH WE LIVED IN FREDERICKSTED.

WE WOULD WAIT FOR HER TO GET OFF WORK OR CLOSE TO SHOP SO WE COULD GO HOME.

SHE WOULD ALWAYS TAKE US TO BUY STUFF AND SHOW US AROUND THE TOWN.

>> SHE WOULD HELP THE LOCAL ARTISTS THAT WOULD COME TO THE SHOP FOR ART SUPPLIES.

THERE WERE A FEW I KNOW SHE WOULD HELP MORE THAN OTHERS, AND I REMEMBER SHE WOULD PROBABLY HELP A.J.

WILLIAMS.

>> SHE WOULD ALWAYS GIVE HIM SUPPLIES TO PAINT, AND HE EVEN HAD SOME OF HIS ART HE DID, HE DREW, AND SHE WOULD SELL THEM IN THE SHOP AND GIVE HIM MONEY.

DIDN´T MATTER WHO YOU WERE, SHE WOULD ALWAYS TRY TO HELP IN ANY WAY SHE COULD.

EVERYONE THOUGH THEY WORKED SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WAS ONLY OFF ON SUNDAYS, SHE TAUGHT US HOW TO WORK AND GO FOR WHAT WE WANT.

THAT´S WHY I BELIEVE ALL OF US ARE SUCCESSFUL TODAY BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT, WHAT SHE WAS GOING THROUGH SHE ALWAYS GOT UP, WORKED HARD, AND MADE SURE WE HAD EVERYTHING WE NEEDED.

>> SHE LOVED HER CHILDREN AND CARED FOR THEM AND WANTED TO BEST FOR THEM.

WE WORKED TOGETHER FOR MANY YEARS UNTIL 2004 I DECIDED TO SEPARATE FROM HEM, AND THEN IN 2006 I GOT A DIVORCE.

>> AROUND THE TIME WHEN MY MOM GOT DIVORCED SHE CLOSED DOWN JONNY´S GALLERY.

SHE WENT THROUGH A LIFE CHANGE.

SHE STOPPED EATING MEAT, STARTED GROWING MORE OF THE STUFF SHE NEEDED TO EAT.

>> SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A -- FROM ST. THOMAS AND THAT CHANGED HER LIFE.

SHE FELT IT GAVE HER FREEDOM.

SHE COULD JUST BE WHATEVER AND BE WHATEVER SHE WANTED TO BE WITH THIS RELIGION.

HERE ON ST. CROIX SHE HAD MANY RASTAFARRIAN FRIENDS.

THEY HAD A BAND THERE.

SHE WAS ALWAYS A DRUMMER OR SOMETHING IN THE BAND.

BUT SHE REALLY EMBRACED THAT MOVEMENT.

I KNOW RONALDO VAZQUEZ AS RAY.

I MET HIM THROUGH NANCY.

HER AND RAY BECAME BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND.

THEY WEREN´T TOGETHER FOR THAT LONG OF A TIME PERIOD.

PROBABLY AROUND 2018 INTO 2019.

AND THEY WERE ALWAYS TOGETHER.

I WOULD GIVE THEM RIDES WHEN I SEE THEM WALKING TONIGHT AND I WOULD GIVE THEM RIDES, UP THE ROAD WHERE SHE LIVED OR OTHER PLACES IF SHE NEEDED A RIDE.

AND THEY WERE, LIKE, ALMOST INSEPARABLE AT THAT TIME.

>> WE WENT TO GO VISIT ST. CROIX, AND WE SAW MY MOM, AND THE SAME GENTLEMAN THAT SHE WAS TALKING TO WAS THERE AT THE SAME TIME, SO WE DID GET TO MEET HIM AS WELL.

>> SHE WOULD TELL ME THINGS ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP, ABOUT HER AND RAY´S RELATIONSHIP.

SHE TOLD ME RAY, HE DRANK A LOT OF ALCOHOL, SHE TOLD ME, AT TIMES, AND THAT HE WOULD GET BELLIGERENT AND THAT, UM -- SHE TOLD ME HE WOULD GET VIOLENT WITH HER, AND HE HAD SEVERAL TIMES ON OTHER A WEIGHS BECAME VERY VIOLENT WITH HER.

ONE TIME I WAS DRIVING THROUGH CHRISTIANSTED WITH MY PRESENT WIFE, WHOSE NAME IS BARBARA, AND NANCY WAS IN CHRISTIANSTED, AND SHE STOPPED US AS I WAS DRIVING BY, AND SHE ASKED IF I WOULD GIVE HER A RIDE TO THE COURT.

I SAID, SURE, NO PROBLEM.

I SAID, WHAT TOOK PLACE?

SHE GOES, OH, RAY HAD ASSAULTED HER AGAIN, AND SHE WAS GOING TO DO AN ORDER ON HIM, A RESTRAINING ORDER ON HIM.

SO I DROPPED HER TO THE COURTHOUSE.

THAT WAS PROBABLY EARLY IN 2019.

AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER IN 2019, OUR SON MICHAEL, MY STEPSON MIKE AND HER SON MICHAEL WAS GETTING MARRIED IN VIRGINIA, SO I DECIDED TO GO UP AND OF COURSE NANCY WAS GOING TO GO UP.

>> WE GOT MARRIED SEPTEMBER 28th, 2019.

SHE WAS MY MOM, SO, YOU KNOW, SHE SAT UP FRONT.

IT WAS FUNNY, BECAUSE WHEN THEY WERE ROLLING OUT THE CARPET FOR MY WIFE TO WALK DOWN THE AISLE, PEOPLE THAT WERE ROLLING IT OUT HAD IT BACKWARDS AND, AGAIN, BECAUSE OF JUST THE NATURE OF MY MOM AND WHAT SHE´S DONE, SHE GOT UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEDDING AND HELPED THEM FIGURE OUT HOW TO UNROLL IT BECAUSE SHE WAS MORE FAMILIAR WITH HOW TO DO THE MATERIAL AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

SO IT WAS INTERESTING, BECAUSE EVERYBODY WITH YOU JUST SITTING THERE WATCHING.

SHE JUMPED UP AND HELPED.

>> NANCY WAS VERY HAPPY, ENERGETIC.

BUT DURING THAT TIME SHE WAS THERE, SHE WAS GETTING A LOT OF PHONE CALLS ON HER PHONE, AND IT WAS ALWAYS RAY CALLING HER.

AND I COULD OVERHEAR HER TELLING HIM, REASSURING HIM THAT EVERYTHING WAS OKAY, THAT SHE´D BE BACK SOON AND THIS AND THAT.

AND HER KIDS WERE AROUND HER HER CHILDREN WERE AROUND HER, AND THEY WERE LIKE, MOM, YOU DON´T HAVE TO TALK TO HIM ALL THE TIME.

BUT HE WAS ALWAYS CALLING HER, ALWAYS CALLING HER.

>> WE HAD SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS.

IN FACT I WAS THE ONE THAT DROPPED HER OFF AT THE AIRPORT BEFORE SHE WAS LEAVING.

BECAUSE I WORK FOR CUSTOMS I WAS ABLE TO ESCORT HER TO THE GATE.

IT STARTED WITH, YOU NEED TO STOP AND CHANGE WHAT YOU EAT.

I SAID, OKAY, MOM, I´LL SEE YOU LATER.

I ALWAYS GO BACK TO THAT TIME, BECAUSE ESPECIALLY STILL WORKING THERE, I REMEMBER -- AND I WAS LIKE, IF I HAD ONLY KNOWN I WOULD HAVE STAYED A LITTLE BIT LONGER.

ABOUT A WEEK AFTER SHE WENT BACK AND MY SISTER CALLED ME AND SAID NOBODY HEARD FROM HER AND NOBODY COULD FIND HER.

SHE NORMALLY WOULD WALK DOWN TO FREDERIKSTED TO GO TO WORK FOR YUKA.

THEY HADN´T HEARD FROM HER, WHICH WASN´T NORMAL.

WE HAD FAMILY MEMBERS TO GO TO THE HOUSE TO SEE IF THEY COULD FIND HER.

THE HOUSE WAS ON A HILL.

THEY WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE DRIVEWAY TO CALL OUT LIKE THEY NORM I WOULD.

SHE WASN´T RESPONDING.

SHE DIDN´T HAVE A VEHICLE.

IT´S IN THE LIKE THEY COULD LOOK IN THE DRIVEWAY AND SEE IF SHE WAS HOME.

THE FIRST THING I ENDED UP DOING, BECAUSE HER PHONE WAS IN MY NAME, WAS TO TRY TO CHECK THE CAL LOG AND SEE IF SHE MADE ANY CALLS.

THAT´S WHEN I SAW THE LAST CALLS WERE 911.

>> SHE CALLED 911 AT 6:50 P.M. SHE SAID THAT WHILE SHE WAS HOME, HER EX-BOYFRIEND DAVID RONALDA VAZQUEZ SANCHEZ PULL HER BY THE ARM AND PUT HER ON THE FLOOR AND TAKE A MACHETE AND TAPPED HER ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HER FACE.

HE TOLD HER HE WOULD CHOP HER HEAD OFF, AND THEN HE LEFT THE HOME.

WHEN THE OFFICERS CAME, SHE SAID MR. VAZQUEZ WENT DOWN THE ROAD, AND SHE WAS IN THE PROCESS OF RETAINING ARY STRAINING ORDER, AND THIS WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME HE ASSAULTED HER AND THREATENED HER AND THAT SHE WAS AFRAID OF HIM AND SHE WAS GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GET THE RESTRAINING ORDER.

SHE SAID MR. VAZQUEZ WAS HOMELESS AND THAT BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT HE WAS HOMELESS AND MARSHALLS WASN´T ABLE TO SERVE HIM BECAUSE THEY DIDN´T KNOW WHERE TO FIND HIM.

SHE SAID THAT SOMEHOW THE OTHER SHE GOT A KEY FOR HER HOME, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THE DOOR WAS LOCKED, HE CAME IN AND HE DIDN´T BREAK IT, HE CAME IN.

SHE JUST WANTED TO POLICE OFFICERS TO SPEAK TO HIM AND TO WARN HIM TO LEAVE HER ALONE, BUT THEY WEREN´T ABLE TO FIND HIM.

THEY WENT TO THE AREAS THAT HE FREQUENTED, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DOWNTOWN FREDERIKSTED AND THE BEACHES BECAUSE HE OFTEN SLEEP ON THE BEACHES.

THEY MADE SEVERAL CHECKS AND WAS UNABLE TO FIND HIM.

THEN THE FOLLOWING MORNING, SHE DID NOT REPORT TO WORK.

SO ON THE 4th SHE MADE THE POLICE REPORT.

ON THE 5th, SHE VANISHED.

NOBODY SAW HER AFTER THE POLICE OFFICERS ACTUALLY SAW HER AND SPOKE TO HER.

THAT WAS IT.

NOBODY SAW HER ANYWHERE ELSE.

THE FAMILY MEANTIME IS DOING THEIR SEARCH.

THEY´RE LOOKING, CALLING, CHECKING WITH FRIENDS AND ANYBODY ELSE WHO FIGURE SHE MIGHT GO TO MORE REFUGE, AND THEY WERE UNSUCCESSFUL.

ON THE 8th IS WHEN WE MADE A MISSING PERSON REPORT, AND WE DID THE FLIERS AND SENT IT OUT INTO THE MEDIA ASKING FOR ANY ASSISTANCE WHO MIGHT KNOW WHERE ROBIN HEISSMAN, ALSO KNOWN AS NANCY, MAY BE.

AND THEN ON THE NINTH, RETIRED SARGENT HEISSMAN, WHO WAS HER HUSBAND, HE WAS MARRIED TO HER AND THEY HAD CHILDREN, BUT THEY WERE DIVORCED, HE ASKED PER FIGURE TO GO INTO THE AREA AND HELP, BECAUSE HIS CHILDREN WERE IN DISTRESS.

LIKE, WE DON´T KNOW WHERE OUR MOTHER IS.

SO HE WAS THE BEST AT WHAT HE DID, AND SO WE WAS HAPPY TO GET THAT ASSISTANCE.

AND WE ASKED HIM, HELP US, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE AREA.

HE KNEW THAT AREA LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE BACK OF HIS HAND.

>> THIS IS WHERE ROBIN, WHO WE KNOW AS NANCY, LIVED, LIVE IN THIS HOUSE HERE.

I CHECK AROUND THE HOUSE.

COULDN´T GET INTO THE HOUSE.

HOUSE WAS CLOSED UP.

ONLY THING I DID SEE IN THE YARD WAS MIDDLE OF THE YARD COMING DOWN THE HILL IN THE GRASS THERE WAS LIKE A CIRCULAR PATTERN WHERE THE GRASS WAS MATTED DOWN, SOMEBODY HAD BEEN LAYING DOWN THERE, SOMETHING WAS LAYING DOWN THERE PREVIOUSLY.

I CHECK ALL THE ROADS AROUND THE HOUSE.

EAST, WEST, NORTH, SOUTH, CHECK THE AREA.

DIDN´T SEE NOTHING.

SO FROM THERE, I WENT BACK DOWN TO THE DOMINO CLUB AND I STARTED CHECKING AROUND THE DOMINO CLUB AND ALL AROUND THE SIDE ROADS IN THE AREA.

I DIDN´T SEE NOTHING THAT WOULD LEAD TO ANYTHING THAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED TO NANCY.

SO FROM THERE I WALK DOWN TO MAHOGANY ROAD.

I CAME DOWN TO THIS OLD BRIDGE HERE I KNOW PEOPLE THROW THINGS OVER THE BRIDGE.

I CAME DOWN TO THE BRIDGE THINKING MAYBE SHE WAS OVER THE BRIDGE.

I LOOK, DIDN´T SEE NOTHING UNUSUAL.

I STOPPED HERE, TURNED AROUND, CAME BACK UP THE ROAD.

I FIGURED WHOEVER IT WAS IF THEY WERE CARRYING HER THEY WOULDN´T GO DOWN THE ROAD ANYMORE.

IT WOULD BE TOO RISKY.

I CAME BACK UP THIS WAY, AND I NOTICED THERE WAS MORE GRASS.

THERE WAS SLIGHT TRAIL IN THE GRASS GOING SOUTHWARD.

I FOUND THE TRAIL, LOOKED LIKE A FRESH TRAIL.

SO I WALKED THIS WAY.

I KIND OF JUST FOLLOWED THE TRAIL, BECAUSE THERE WAS, LIKE, A TRAIL WHERE SOMETHING HAD COME THROUGH HERE.

I WENT DOWN THIS WAY.

I COULD SEE SOMETHING WAS DEFINITELY DRAGGED THROUGH THERE.

SOY KIND OF WENT AROUND AND I WENT DOWN TO THE GUT.

WHEN I GOT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE RAVINE, I COULD SMELL SOMETHING.

I´M THINKING, WHAT AM I SMELLING?

UNDER ONE OF THE BENT TREES IN THE GUT THERE WAS A PILE OF STICKS THAT WERE MADE INTO A SMALL PYRAMID, WHICH WAS VERY UNUSUAL, BECAUSE SOMEBODY HAD TO MAKE THAT.

I´M LOOKING AROUND TO SEE IF THE PATH CONTINUED ANYWHERE IN ANY DIRECTION, BUT I´M NOT SEEING ANY SIGN OF THE PATH CONTINUING.

I´M LOOKING AROUND, SMELLING THIS ODOR, AND THEN I LOOK DOWN, STRAIGHT DOWN BETWEEN MY FEET AND I SEE BROWN SKIN.

I SEE HER FEET STICKING OUT OF THE GROUND, AND I SAID, THOSE ARE NANCY´S FEET.

I FELT SHOCKED.

I FELT, LIKE, KIND OF OVERWHELMED, BUT I WAS ALSO RELIEVED THAT AT LEAST I HAD FOUND HER.

>> HITESMAN REPORTED HE SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE A FOOT, AND THEN WE TRAVELED DOWN THERE WITH EQUIPMENT THAT WE WOULD NEED TO TAKE THE BODY OUT FROM WHERE IT WAS.

WE KNOW SHE DIDN´T BURY HERSELF, SO THE FACT SHE WAS BURIED, WE NEEDED TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED.

WE STARTED GOING DOOR TO DOOR TO ALL THE NEIGHBORS IN THE AREA TO ASK WHAT THEY HEARD, WHAT THEY SEE, WHAT TRANSPIRED.

WE DIDN´T FIND WHERE WE HAD A NEIGHBOR THAT HEARD SCREAMING.

WE WERE TRYING TO SECURE ANY VIDEO, WHICH WE DID, BUT THEN ENDED UP WITH ISSUES WITH BEING ABLE TO PLAY BACK THAT INFORMATION.

THE DOMINO CLUB IS ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE ENTRANCE TO THE RAVINE WHEN WAS FOUND IN.

SO WHEN THE DOMINO CLUB I GUESS IS OPEN AND PEOPLE ARE BACK AND FORTH IN THAT AREA DURING THE DAY, BUT WHERE THE BODY IS FOUND IS NOT A PLACE THAT PEOPLE GO.

YOU GOT TO GO DOWN INTO THE GUT AND TRAVEL INTO THICK BUSH.

WE DETERMINED SHE DIED FROM BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA TO HER HEAD BY ANOTHER AND THAT THE MANNER OF HER DEATH WAS A HOMICIDE.

>> WHAT CAN THAT MEAN?

>> SOMEBODY KNOCK HER ON HER HEAD WITH SOMETHING HEAVY.

SHE DIED AS A RESULT OF THAT.

DAVIS REYNALDO VAZQUEZ SANCHEZ, AND HE´S KNOWN BY DAVEY OR RAY.

THAT´S THE ONLY NAME THAT WAS BROUGHT UP BY HER SONS, DAUGHTER, BROTHER, SISTER.

HE BECAME THE PRIMARY SUSPECT TO WHAT MAY HAVE OCCURRED.

HE HAS A VERY LENGTHY ARREST RECORD.

EVERYTHING FROM RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT, HE MADE TERRORISTIC THREATS, HARASSING, STALKING, SIMPLE ASSAULT.

A LOT OF MISDEMEANOR ARRESTS.

SO HE HAS BEEN ARRESTED ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS.

SO, ON THE 4th OF OCTOBER, 2019, WE KNOW FOR SURE SHE REPORTED HIM THREATENING TO KILL HER WITH A MACHETE.

WE KNOW FOR SURE HE CAME INTO HER HOME EVEN THOUGH SHE LOCKED AND SECURED IT WITH A KEY SHE SAID SHE DIDN´T GIVE HIM.

AND SHE DID TELL THE OFFICERS WHEN THEY GOT THERE ON THE 4th THAT HE HAS STRUCK HER BEFORE AND THAT HE HAS THREATENED TO KILL HER BEFORE.

WE WERE DEAD SET THAT SHE´S DEAD, HE THREATENED TO KILL HER, SO HE´S THE PERSON WHO KILLED HER, AND THAT´S WHAT WE WAS MOVING ON.

WE STARTED LOOKING FOR HIM.

WE PUT THE WANTED POSTER OUT.

WHAT WE DID WAS PUT A WANTED POSTER OUT FOR MURDER FOR HIS ARREST.

SO WE HAD THE POSTER PLASTERED ALL OVER AS WELL AS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ALL THE NEWS OUTLETS, SO THAT WAS OUT THERE.

HE KNEW WE WERE LOOKING FOR HIM.

HE HAS A BROTHER WHO IS A POLICE OFFICER WHO WE KNEW WE WERE LOOKING FOR HIM.

THERE´S NO DOUBT ON THAT.

SO HE WAS TRYING BEST TO EVADE THE POLICE, AND HE DID AS MUCH AS HE -- AS MUCH AS HE COULD.

HE WAS HITCHHIKING.

HE, BEING DAVIS, WAS PICKED UP AND GIVEN A RIDE AS FAR UP AS CASTLE BOLT.

SO WE SPOKE TO THE INDIVIDUAL THAT GAVE HIM THE RIDE.

WE HAD HELP FROM OTHER AGENCIES, THE PARK RANGERS ASSISTED US, AND HE WAS SPOTTED BY A PARK RANGER IN THE CHRISTIANSTED TOWN AREA, AND WE WENT IN THAT LOCATION AND WE WERE ABLE TO ARREST HIM WITHOUT ANY INCIDENT.

WHEN HE CAME IN, HE DENIED EVERYTHING TO INCLUDE THE ASSAULT WITH THE MACHETE.

HIS VICTIM IS DEAD, SO THAT´S THE STORY, AND HE STUCK WITH IT.

WE EVENTUALLY LEARNED WE COULDN´T CHARGE HIM WITH THE MURDER DIRECTLY UNTIL WE HAD SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, SO WE ONLY CHARGE HIM WITH THE ASSAULT WITH THE MACHETE.

WHAT WE COULDN´T PIECE 100% TOGETHER ENOUGH FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL´S OFFICE TO PROCEED WITH ARREST FOR HOMICIDE WAS THOSE MISSING HOURS.

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE POLICE LEFT?

DO WE HAVE ANYBODY WHO COULD SAY THAT THEY SAW HIM BACK IN THE AREA?

DID ANYBODY HEAR ANY SCREAMING, ANY NOISE, OR ANYTHING THAT WOULD INDICATE THERE WAS ADDITIONAL STRUGGLING GOING ON IN THE HOUSE AFTER POLICE LEFT?

WE HAD NO ONE.

SO, WE GOT STUCK WITH KNOWING MORE THAN LIKELY THE INDIVIDUAL WHO DID THIS BUT COULDN´T PROVE IT TO THE POINT THAT OUR ATTORNEY GENERAL´S OFFICE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO CHARGE HIM WITH KILLING NANCY.

AND DISPOSING OF HER BODY IN THE MANNER IN WHICH HE DID.

>> THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DIDN´T SHARE INFORMATION WITH ME.

I THINK -- I THINK SOMEBODY IN HER FAMILY MIGHT HAVE SAID SOMETHING THAT MADE THEM LOOK AT ME AS THE POSSIBLE SUSPECT, WHICH I AM NOT, BUT, THINK DIDN´T SAY MUCH TO ME ABOUT THEIR INVESTIGATION AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING.

>> PRETTY MUCH ALL I WAS TOLD WAS THAT THEY WERE WORKING ON IT.

I HAVEN´T REALLY HEARD MUCH ELSE.

WE FOUND OUT THROUGH A NEWS ARTICLE THAT THE CHARGES THAT WERE PLACED -- WHICH WASN´T ANYTHING TO DO WITH MY MOM´S DEATH, BUT THE CHARGES OF BREAKING AND ENTERING -- WERE DROPPED.

>> I UNDERSTAND THAT THE ATTORNIES GENERAL GENERAL, BECAUSE SHE´S NO LONGER ALIVE, CAN´T PROCEED WITH THE SIMPLE ASSAULT CASE, BECAUSE THEY NEED SOMEONE TO TESTIFY ON THAT, AND SHE WOULD BE THE PERSON.

SO DROPPING THE CHARGES, THAT´S THE ATTORNEY GENERAL´S OFFICE.

THAT´S THEIR RULING, NOT OURS.

WE WANTED TO CHARGE THIS MAN WITH MURDER, BUT THEY TOLD US WE DIDN´T HAVE ENOUGH, AND WE FELT THAT NANCY SPOKE TO US AND TOLD US THAT SHE WAS ASSAULTED BY HIM, THAT HE GOT INTO HER HOME WITH A KEY THAT SHE DIDN´T PROVIDE TO HIM AND THAT SHE WAS FELT THREATENED BY HIM.

THE FACT THAT SHE EVEN WENT FOR A RESTRAINING ORDER BECAUSE SHE WAS AFRAID OF HIM TO ME SPOKE VOLUMES, BUT THEY DIDN´T THINK THAT WAS SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO MOVE FORWARD WITH AN ARREST, AND WE JUST DON´T HAVE ENOUGH.

THAT´S THE REASON WHY WE´RE EVEN DOING THIS, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT WE NEED MORE, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION THAT WE CAN GET THAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE SOL IT THAT WE CAN THEN GO BACK TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND SAY, OKAY, HE´S THE LAST PERSON THAT WE KNOW WAS IN HER HOUSE AND THAT SHE -- SHE SAID HE THREATENED HER, AND HE DISAPPEARED AFTER THAT.

SO FROM THE 5th UNTIL WE ACTUALLY MADE CONTACT WITH HIM AND ARRESTED HIM, HE WAS HIDING.

SO, AN INNOCENT PERSON TO ME WOULDN´T BE HIDING FROM POLICE.

BUT WE NEED MORE THAN THAT, ACCORDING TO WHAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL´S OFFICE TOLD US.

SO IF YOU SPOKE TO DAVID AFTER NANCY WENT MISSING AND HE TOLD YOU WHAT HE DID, THAT IS HEARSAY INFORMATION THAT´S ADMISSIBLE IN COURT.

SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HE´S BEEN SPEAKING TO, WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.

ANYBODY WHO KNOWS, WHATEVER YOU KNOW IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO CLOSE THIS CASE AND BRING CLOSURE TO HER CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, AND HER OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS.

>> SHE WAS LOVED BY MANY.

SHE WAS A QUIET, COOL INDIVIDUAL.

SHE LIKED ART, SHE LIKED MUSIC.

SHE´S A JAMAICAN AND A PROUD JAMAICAN.

IN HER LIFE, HER CHILDREN WAS PRIORITY.

>> SHE USED TO TALK TO THEM ALL THE TIME.

WE MISS YOU.

CONFIDING IN HER, TALKING TO HER.

>> 34I MOM´S DEATH IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK ABOUT EVERY DAY.

IT´S HARD TO SAY HOW IT IMPACTS, BECAUSE IT´S A LITTLE PERSONAL.

I THINK THE BIGGEST THING IS JUST WANTING TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, WANTING TO KNOW HOW SHE ENDED UP IN A DITCH BURIED.

IF BY CHANCE ANYBODY DOES KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE CASE THAT HASN´T ALREADY BEEN RELEASED TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS POLICE DEPARTMENT, IT CAN ONLY HELP TO -- HELP US TO PUT TOGETHER THE PUZZLE PIECES OF WHAT ACTUALLY REALLY HAPPENED.

AND IT´S MORE FOR CLOSURE JUST SO THAT WE CAN ALL KNOW WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH BEFORE SHE WAS DECEASED.

BEING ABLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW OR WHY -- I WOULD LIKE MY MOTHER TO BE REMEMBERED AS THE LOVING, CARING PERSON SHE WAS.

SHE HAD FRIENDS FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE, FROM BEING A RASTAFARIAN TO WHEN SHE OWNED HER BUSINESS, SHE TREATED EVERYONE THE SAME, LOVED EVERYONE.

REGARDLESS OF WHO WE ARE, LOVE IS ALWAYS THE WAY.

THAT´S SOMETHING SHE DID WAS LOVE EVERYONE.

>> NANCY´S CHILDREN AND LOVED ONES WANT ANSWERS, AND THEY NEED YOUR HELP.

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT NANCY´S MURDER, PLEASE CALL CRIME STOPPERS TODAY AT 1-800-222-TIPS.

YOU CAN REMAIN ANONYMOUS, AND YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CASH REWARD.

LET US WORK TOGETHER TO BRING CLOSURE FOR LONG SUFFERING FAMILIES.

WE MUST BREAK THE SILENCE TO BUILD A SAFER COMMUNITY.

I´M CELIA CARROLL, AND AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU FOR WATCHING.