Wanted Fugitive Edwin Marin Found Dead Near Patchakan

Tonight, the suspect wanted for a double murder in Corozal Town a few weeks ago has been found dead. Police officers made the grim discovery of Edwin Marin’s lifeless body on Monday night in a remote area near Patchakan Village.  Marin was accused of fatally shooting his ex-common-law wife, twenty-one-year-old Deysha Hill, and her mother, forty-six-year-old Natasha Clarke. The tragic incident occurred on the morning of September ninth, after a heated argument between Marin and Hill over the custody of their two-year-old daughter. During the confrontation, Marin allegedly told Hill he would return after she refused to let him have the child.  After the deadly shooting, it was believed that Hill had escaped across the northern border into Mexico. There’s also speculation that Marin’s murder might be linked to cartel activity. Here’s Commissioner of Police Chester Williams with more details.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“Last night, the police in Corozal were called to one those illegal border crossing areas.  Upon arrival, they countered the lifeless body of one Edwin Marin, a person who was wanted for a double murder in Corozal Town and was being sought by police for a couple of weeks now and initially we had gotten information that he had fled the country to Mexico and he was being sought both in Belize and Mexico for the purpose of being charged for the double murder in Corozal.  But his body was found right on the border crossing area with injuries consistent with him being beaten to death.  That’s a matter that the police are looking at at this time, trying to verify if he was killed in Belize or on the Mexico side and dragged over to the Belizean side.  So we are looking at it. The body was found in Belize, and so it is going to be reflected in our murder stats.  We certainly will require some assistance from the Mexican side, in terms of the investigation, so we’re just going to coordinate with our Mexican counterparts.”

 

Reporter

“We had heard that this individual had interactions with the cartel, the much spoken about Caborca Cartel.  Might he have been killed by them?”

 

Chester Wiliams

“That is a possibility, it is one of our suspicions as well, but in the absence of empirical evidence to that effect, we just have to look at it as a murder and investigate it to see exactly who are behind it.”