Sascha Wil­son

Don­na Pierre's worst night­mare was re­alised yes­ter­day, af­ter a De­oxyri­bonu­cle­ic acid (DNA) test con­firmed that the burnt charred re­mains found in car in Clax­ton Bay were those of her daugh­ter Danette Pierre.

"I feel like I'm float­ing," Don­na Pierre told Guardian Me­dia hours af­ter the po­lice told her the re­sult of the DNA test.

In a tele­phone in­ter­view, she said around 2.15 pm, the sergeant at the Ste Madeleine Po­lice Sta­tion, who has been in con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with her, came to her home with an­oth­er of­fi­cer and broke the news to her.

Danette, 31, a moth­er of three, of Pe­tite Morne, Ste Madeleine, hus­tled out of her home around 8.30 pm on Jan­u­ary 28 af­ter re­ceiv­ing a phone call. She told her moth­er she was "mak­ing a turn" and was "com­ing back now."

How­ev­er, Pierre was nev­er seen or heard from again.

About an hour lat­er, the po­lice were alert­ed to a car on fire at Cedar Hill Road in Clax­ton Bay. When the fire was ex­tin­guished, they found a body burnt to the bone in the back seat area of a Maz­da 3.

Danette's moth­er re­port­ed her miss­ing the fol­low­ing day. On Feb­ru­ary 6, DNA sam­ples were tak­en from Pierre.

In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Pierre was in a state of dis­be­lief.

"He (sergeant) told me it's a pos­i­tive match. I know what they said but I don't know what to think. Some­where, some­thing is not feel­ing right."

Pierre said she asked the of­fi­cer the pro­ce­dure to ob­tain a copy of the pathol­o­gist's re­port.

"I need to see it. I feel like I want a sec­ond opin­ion. This takes months and in a mat­ter of two to three weeks we get the re­sults?" ques­tioned Pierre.

She broke the news over the phone to her grand­daugh­ter, Danette's el­dest child, who is 13 years old.

Danette al­so has two boys, a sev­en-year-old, and her youngest will turn two on March 24.

Lament­ing that Danette's birth­day is on March 9, she said, "This sit­u­a­tion is messed up. I keep think­ing, is this re­al­ly hap­pen­ing."

She said the po­lice did not tell her about whether any sus­pects were ar­rest­ed or ques­tioned.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.