Delano Carey just wants to lay his father to rest, something he hopes will finally bring closure to the family seven months after his father was killed and left in bushes in western New Providence. Carey, 24, of Garden Hills, said his family is still awaiting DNA results to confirm whether the body police found is in fact his father, Edgar Carey, 60. It was around 7 a.m. when police found the partially decomposed body off a dirt road in the Coral Harbour area on April 27. Police were alerted after residents in the area called them, complaining about a foul smell.
On the scene police said due to the state of decomposition it was suspected the body had been at the location for several days. The man was reportedly wearing blue pants and a blue shirt. "My grandmother calls the city morgue every day asking if her child's body is there," Carey said. "It is emotional, it's very hard on my family and I, and we are just tired of waiting. "We're grieving without any results. We haven't had the opportunity to even see his face, and we won't ever be able to see his face because of how badly his body was decomposed.
"We need some results, we need some answers and something just needs to be done." Carey explained that relatives could not identify his father when they viewed the body, but said police informed them a drivers license with the name 'Edgar Carey' was about the victim. In addition, he explained that the man was wearing a uniform his father wore and the name embroidered on the shirt pocket also read 'Edgar Carey'. In May, Burkley Fowler, 22, of Coral Harbour Close was arraigned for Edgar Carey's murder. Fowler was not required to enter a plea and the matter was expected to proceed via a voluntary bill of indictment.
Police said Fowler was Carey's stepson from a previous marriage and was living in the same home. "It is one thing when you are looking [from the outside in] but when you are dealing with the situation - I can't explain it," Carey said. "I dream about what possibly happened to him every day. I am now taking sleeping pills because I can't fully rest, and they are not even working because I sleep for three hours and then I'm up. "It's stressful, it's painful and it can send you crazy - it honestly can." Carey recalled being contacted by his cousin the day his father's body was found.
He said he immediately thought his father had a heart attack, but a short while after a second and third call, which confirmed the body was found in a garbage bag, he concluded his father had been murdered. Dorothy Carey, 82, Edgar Carey's mother, said words could not express the pain she has been grappling with since the loss of her son. "I was told they sent some stuff over to Miami, but no results have come back as yet," she said.
"This is painful, terribly painful." At one point, Carey said the family offered to pay for the DNA results to speed up the process, but claimed they were turned down, although the reason is unclear. Dorothy Carey said she hopes and prays that her son's body can be returned before the end of the year. Superintendent Paul Rolle, head of the Central Detective Unit (CDU), yesterday asked that the family remain patient, as police await the results from the DNA lab in Miami.
"Our hearts go out to the family. We understand their pain and frustration in waiting, but as soon as we get the results we will reach out to them," said Rolle when contacted by The Nassau Guardian. Edgar Carey has seven children and was employed in the Ministry of Works' road and parks division as a superintendent. He would have celebrated his 61st birthday next Saturday. He is the country's 41st murder victim. Since then 58 persons have been killed.
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