INDECOM is probing the suspected murder of a Portland man who went missing, after reportedly being in the company of a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on a trip to an undisclosed location, on Wednesday night, September 26.
Twenty-seven-year-old taxi operator Jeffery Campbell, otherwise called Rese, reportedly left home for work on Wednesday morning, as he usually does. Things got tense that same night, after Campbell’s common law wife, Kareen Williams received two voice messages from Campbell, one at 8:03 and the other 8:07. According to Ms Williams she didn’t see the messages until some time, after nine.
Ms Williams told The Times she knew something was wrong when she listened the messages “he was whispering and sounded scared. He said he was out with a police and him nuh trust after dark mission. Him tell me the person name and where to find him that if anything should happen and him nuh come back. He didn’t say where he was, maybe he didn’t know because he would tell me,” she said.
Ms Williams said, “When I listened to the message I was trying to call him and up until this day I can’t get him. Honestly mi did a call him fi cuss him ask him why him gone with the person if him can’t trust him”.
Ms Williams said she shared the voice message with other family members while she hoped for the safe return of Campbell. After waiting for more than a day, she decided to file a missing person report at the Port Antonio Police Station on Friday morning, September 28. She said she was afraid and didn’t mention the voice message to the police.
Later that evening, Ms Williams reportedly got a call from the police asking her to report to the station. Ms Williams said when she went there an officer asked her about the voice messages, which she denied circulating, out of fear. She added that the officer who had taken her statement in the morning asked her to stand at a window and pointed her out to the other police at the station. Ms Williams said she got scared and left. She added that the officer who Campbell identified in the voice message, is also stationed at that station. “They (Port Antonio Police) have been trying to call me but I don’t answer because I don’t like the way they handled the situation. I don’t trust anybody up here. ” Ms Williams said she has reported the matter to INDECOM who have collected evidence and are investigating the matter.
Body Found
The body of a man who Ms Williams believes to be her common law husband, was fished from the Rio Cobre in St Catherine, On Sunday, September 30, four days after Campbell’s disappearance.
DNA test results have not yet been released to confirm if the body, is that of Campbell.
When asked about the discovery, Ms Williams told The Times that “the body looks just like his, but the face kinda mash up.” Ms Williams described the body to be in a decomposing state and also said it appeared to have blows to the head.
Ms Williams is distraught at Campbell’s disappearance. He was the breadwinner for their two daughters, ages one and four.
Ms Williams said her older daughter asks for him “I tell her he is at work. He usually call and talk to them if he is coming home late. I don’t know how to tell my children that, their aunt is going to tell them. If it’s him (the body) I don’t know, I really don’t know, she said”.
Campbell’s vehicle has not been found.
