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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

I want to know why he did it

says Sis­ter of mur­dered nurse

by

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The death of Siparia moth­er of two, Trichelle Camp­bell-Dean has left her fam­i­ly in a state of shock af­ter a male rel­a­tive whom they have grown fond of con­fessed to com­mit­ting the hor­ren­dous act. Now, the Camp­bell fam­i­ly wants to know why he did it af­ter be­ing so close to them. Camp­bell-Dean, 28, was re­port­ed miss­ing last Mon­day. Her se­vere­ly de­com­posed body was ex­humed on Fri­day evening from a shal­low grave be­hind the Pa­lo Seco Gov­ern­ment Sec­ondary School. She was found wear­ing a wig and a pair of black short pants af­ter po­lice were led to the scene by the al­leged killer. Camp­bell-Dean, a nurse at the Siparia Health Cen­tre lived with her hus­band and two chil­dren, Emi­ly, two and one-year-old Ke­shaun at Syne Trace, Syne Vil­lage, Siparia. Now, her chil­dren who are cur­rent­ly stay­ing with rel­a­tives, con­stant­ly call for their moth­er. Camp­bell-Dean was due for work at 6 am last Mon­day. In­stead, Siparia po­lice re­ceived a re­port from a rel­a­tive lat­er that day that she went miss­ing.

Af­ter lengthy search­es there were re­ports of a body found in Pa­lo Seco. Po­lice ar­rest­ed a male rel­a­tive. Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Franklin Sam­pat, In­spec­tor Seedarie and Sgt Ramdeen com­prised the in­ves­ti­gat­ing par­ty. At Camp­bell-Dean's par­ents' home at Cham­bersville, Pa­lo Seco on Fri­day night, friends and fam­i­ly gath­ered to of­fer sup­port to the dis­tressed fam­i­ly. A dev­as­tat­ed sis­ter of the de­ceased, Michelle O'Con­nor said the fam­i­ly wants to know why the rel­a­tive would kill her ba­by sis­ter. "I want to know why he did it. I want to know why he didn't come to us if he had a prob­lem so we could have helped him," O'Con­nor said.

She said her sis­ter was nev­er sub­ject­ed to any abuse at the hands of the rel­a­tive and would ar­gue like reg­u­lar peo­ple do. In a state of shock, O'Con­nor said the killer was close to the fam­i­ly and had a good re­la­tion­ship with every­one. She re­called the last con­ver­sa­tion shared with Camp­bell-Dean: "'Michelle, I go­ing now. I will call you or BBM you when I get home,'" she said. How­ev­er, that call nev­er ma­te­ri­alised as the next time O'Con­nor saw her sis­ter, she screamed out hys­ter­i­cal­ly as she stared at Camp­bell-Dean's grue­some re­mains.

"I was home with my fam­i­ly when my broth­er Desmond called me say­ing Michelle, I am com­ing for you. I need you to be strong for mum­my. He came and picked us up and car­ried us to where my sis­ter's body was. I just start­ed scream­ing," O'Con­nor said. Camp­bell-Dean was the daugh­ter of re­tired South West­ern Di­vi­sion In­spec­tor, David Camp­bell who in the past had to deal with an all too fa­mil­iar scene. This time, it was his daugh­ter. He iden­ti­fied her by the tat­too on her left hand. David Camp­bell is re­mem­bered for his in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the 2005 mur­der of teenag­er Pix­ie Lakhan. O'Con­nor de­scribed her sis­ter as a lov­ing moth­er, a good friend and the best sis­ter. She said her sis­ter had planned to go back to school to fur­ther her ed­u­ca­tion. Camp­bell-Dean was the last of four chil­dren to David Camp­bell, 59, and Joyce Camp­bell, 57. An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre on Tues­day. Po­lice sus­pect the vic­tim was stran­gled.


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