Crime

Body Suspected To Be Of Lyana Serieux Found In Cistern Of Abandoned Building Behind Mutual Homes

ST. CROIX -- V.I.P.D. Commissioner Delroy Richards has confirmed to The Consortium that at about 2:00 p.m. today, police found a body in the cistern of an abandoned building located behind the Mutual Homes Housing Community, which police were "70 percent" certain was the body of Lyana Serieux, 24, who went missing on Friday. The commissioner said while the V.I.P.D. would not have a positive identification until the body is looked at by a family member or a pathologist, "preliminary wise, some of the objects that she was last seen with appear to be those that she was found with," Mr. Richards said. The commissioner said that investigators, as of 5:00 p.m., had only gotten a high view looking into the cistern. "We know it's a female, we know the female had bracelets on, we know that she [Ms. Serieux] had bracelets on, but that's not enough for us to conclude that that's specifically who it is," the commissioner said. St. Croix Rescue personnel get dressed to enter cistern...