Desiree Gibbon, 26, was discovered with her throat slashed and spine severed at a Jamaica tourist hotspot. To this day the murder remains unsolved, nearly 10 years after her almost decapitated body was abandoned in roadside bushes.
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Following a Thanksgiving meal with relatives on November 27 2017, the model and budding filmmaker told the hotel security guard she would return shortly as she left her accommodation at 11.27pm, reports
It was her final interaction with another human, and the last time her family would know she was alive. For two days, friends and relatives lived through hell as they searched for Desi until her lifeless, blood-drenched body was found at approximately 7.30am in a hedgerow four miles away.
She had been working as a bartender in order to save money for film college(Image: Family Handout)
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Officers were called to the location in Anchovy town by locals who discovered her corpse which was “caked in blood”, Loop Jamaica reported.
Her grieving mother Andrea Cali-Gibbon told the Daily News: “We were very close, so you can imagine, when I got the news, ‘devastated’ doesn’t begin to describe it… The brutality is what killed me.
“She was beaten and had her throat sliced open… She was a tough cookie. I know she fought until she drew her last breath. I know she did. And I’m certain that her last thought was’ ‘Will my mom be OK if I don’t make it?’”.
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She told ABC New York: “She never travelled by herself. She didn’t leave the hotel by herself. She always left with somebody. They would take a car service provided by the hotel and the same driver would take them and drop them and bring them back.”
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