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Police conducting investigations into the murder of 89-year old Millicent Cummings are coming in for severe criticism over the way they are treating the matter.Relatives of the dead woman have said that the investigators have been overlooking significant evidence that could ultimately lead to solving the case.Millicent CummingsThe elderly woman’s partially nude body was found in a pool of blood under a house on the Cove and John public road not far from her home, early Friday morning, sending shockwaves throughout the entire community.Several persons were detained for questioning but they were all released soon after.A post mortem examination performed on Cummings’s body yesterday by Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh, gave the cause of death as severe blunt trauma to the face.The post mortem examination also confirmed that there was penetration of the elderly woman’s vagina.But while the police appeared stumped in their investigations, angry relatives believe that they are not doing enough to crack the case.One relative spoke of retrieving a “fresh condom wrapper” from the crime scene after investigators had left it on Friday last.“I took a twenty dollar bill and collected it without touching it, and I took it to the police at Cove and John. There they were trying to tell me that it was not at the scene,” the relative told this newspaper yesterday.This is despite the police securing the crime scene to gather all possible evidence.“This is sloppy work on the part of the police,” he added.This newspaper revisited the scene and discovered that Cummings was definitely killed at the same spot where her body was discovered.There were blood stains spattered on the wall, which suggested that she was bludgeoned while lying on the ground.No one heard the elderly woman’s screams,Jerseys NFL Cheap, not even a man who lives upstairs in a section of the house under which her body was found.He too was questioned and subsequently released.There are also concerns that the police failed to utilise the services of sniffer dogs. But a police source informed that that was one of the first options, however all of the canines at Eve Leary are only capable of sniffing for narcotics. |
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