After two hours of digging, investigators this morning found the skeletal remains of a woman, suspected to be 43-year-old Lilwanti Ballack, buried in the back yard of the house she shared with her husband in Black Bush Polder.

Forty-five-year-old Sunildatt Ballack was taken into custody on Thursday following a police report that his wife has been missing since August 2016; he initially denied knowledge of her whereabouts but cracked under pressure during interrogation and reportedly confessed to her murder.

He reportedly strangled her until she became unconscious. It was then he decided to bury her in a garden aback of his yard at Mibicuri North, Black Bush Polder.

He took investigators to the scene of the crime on Friday morning and indicated where he buried the body. It took police approximately two hours to locate the remains in a six feet grave.

A pathologist was on scene and according to Commander of the Division, Ian Amsterdam, a DNA test will be conducted to confirm it is the remains of the mother of one.

The woman was last heard from in August 2016, a few days before her 43rd birthday on September 3rd. The accused told the couple’s daughter – 20- year- oold Darshanie Devi Ballack – that the mother was visiting relatives overseas and would not be able to attend her wedding reception, something which the daughter found to be strange.

According to the daughter, on September 6, 2016, her father visited her at her Friendship Village, Corentyne home and told her that Lilawantie won’t be able to attend their wedding reception on September 11 since she is leaving for the United States the next day.

“Daddy come on the 6th and say mommy send the ring for the reception but she nah gun make it because she gah fly out the next day.”

She continued that while she thought it was strange that her mother was leaving without seeing her before the reception, she did not think anything of it. However, after a few weeks of not hearing from her mother, she enquired from relatives overseas of the woman’s whereabouts.

Relatives in the US said they had not seen or heard from the woman; the daughter became worried after the father provided different accounts of the woman’s location to family members.

She further related that two months after her mother allegedly went missing, her father took a 22-year-old woman as his common law wife.

It was not until March 29, 2017 after visiting the office of the Prime Minister in Region Six that an official report was made to the police.

According to police, the accused initially denied having any knowledge about the woman’s whereabouts, but after being repeatedly interrogated, he reportedly confessed on Thursday to killing his wife and disposing of the body somewhere in Black Bush Polder.