THE battered body of Stacy Conway, a mother of two, was retrieved by Berbice police from the Number 19 Public Road, shortly after 08:00hrs yesterday.
The body bore marks of violence, and is awaiting a post mortem at the New Amsterdam Hospital. The younger sister of the deceased, Jacqueline Conway, who identified the body, is of the opinion that her sister, a vagrant, was ‘sacrificed’.
Her view is based on the nature of the injuries to the body.
Conway, an employee of the New Amsterdam Town Council, recalled receiving a phone call at 08:11hrs from a relative who told her Stacy and Cora, both vagrants, were killed.
The woman, who did not grow up with her siblings, said moments after  she saw the eldest sister Cora, who is mentally challenged, and on enquiring about the whereabouts of Stacy, was told that she was at home.
‘Within minutes I saw my niece Natasha. I asked for her mother, and she said the woman was at the hospital. I sent her to make enquiries. But shortly afterwards, a person approached me, saying Stacy was dead.’
Accompanied by a colleague, Jacqueline went to the New Amsterdam Hospital mortuary where her fears were confirmed.
Meanwhile, a fellow vagrant, who shared an unoccupied building on the New Amsterdam stelling road with the now dead woman, is reported as saying that an identifiable rich male with a black car had requested that the slain woman join his car.
It is reported that the suspect would periodically give the vagrants articles of clothing, food and money.
The grieving sister said that last Friday she asked her late sister to come off the streets and go to Edinburgh Village to the house where their deceased parents had lived, and where their youngest sister now lives.  But she did not want to go there.
The police are continuing their investigations.