Police Investigating after Decomposing Body Found in Difficult Terrain in Bamboo, St Ann
ST ANN’S BAY, St Ann; July 13, 2026
The family members of the man who went missing in St Ann just over a week ago are fearing the worst following the discovery of a decomposing body on Monday morning, July 13, 2026.
Sixty-six-year-old retired accountant Owen ‘Techa’ Hamilton of Steer Town, St Ann, went missing on Saturday, July 4, after he attended a grave-digging event in Bamboo in the parish.
On Monday, his brother Joseph Hamilton, who has been leading family efforts to locate Owen, was called by police to a scene where a body was found in Bamboo.
Reports to the North Coast Times are that a farmer who was tying out cattle in a remote area of Bamboo, in rugged terrain, came upon a pair of shoes and a pair of pants in the bushes. The farmer called on a villager, and the two then discovered a decomposing body about 20 feet from where the shoes and pants were found
Mr Hamilton said he believed the pair of shoes belonged to his brother, who was wearing them the last time they saw each other. He said he could not give a positive identification because his brother was lying face down and the body was badly decomposed.
Mr Hamilton and others who went to the scene said it was almost impossible for Techa to have strayed away to that area or to walk there. They described the area as rugged and dangerous, consisting of steep inclines and rocky outcrops which would pose difficulties even to trained mountain climbers. Joseph Hamilton told the North Coast Times that he now had to wait for police and their forensic teams to try to determine what happened because his brother would have to be “carried there and not by one person.”
On Saturday, at the encouragement of Joseph Hamilton, family and friends of Techa walked through a section of Steer Town where he lived and then went to Bamboo, the last place he was seen. Mr Hamilton had also offered a reward of$500,000 for information leading to the safe return of his brother.
It was reported that on the day of the grave digging, Owen ‘Tech’ Hamilton was seen in the company of three other men in Bamboo.
