{"id":245950,"date":"2004-10-21T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/american-woman-mutilated-and-murdered-in-bahamas"},"modified":"2004-10-21T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T16:55:40","slug":"american-woman-mutilated-and-murdered-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/american-woman-mutilated-and-murdered-in-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"American Woman Mutilated and Murdered In Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives are investigating the gruesome mutilation and murder of a woman in Cat Island. Mrs. Carol Meredith, a 49-year-old American resident, was discovered by police in her own home with a slit throat on Tuesday evening.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nReports indicate that Mrs. Meredith was mutilated about her body, including her breasts and genital area, while she was still alive, before having her throat cut.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe island&#8217;s only physician described the wounds to the body as &#8220;carvings that looked like they were done with a dull knife&#8221;.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAlso, under investigation is the murder of a young Bahamian man on the same night, who was shot in his home, 15 miles away. (<a href=https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wmview.php?ArtID=4228>Read more about this&#8230;<\/a>)<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIt is believed the murders were committed by the same person.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe shocking murders have left the 1,700 residents of Cat Island in a state of confusion as they await the results of an investigation by both local and New Providence police.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe murders bring the country&#8217;s total to 29 for the year.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMrs. Meredith and her husband Larry, were well known on Cat Island. They owned a gas station and a local convenience store.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Meredith, at the time of his wife&#8217;s murder, was not on the island. He is a pilot who operates a daily flight to and from the island. He was reported to have returned to Cat Island yesterday.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. A.T. Bain, a long time Cat Island resident said, &#8220;Cat island was looking forward to future development. We can&#8217;t tell how exactly the tourists are going to take it. This is bad news for Cat island and everyone is very, very upset.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;Mrs Meredith was a nice person who had lived here for maybe 20 years and was very friendly. Her husband was the type of person who helped people on the island.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;I have heard that there was blood all over the house and that the person who did it was all bloodied up&#8221;.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe killer is thought to have used Mr. Meredith&#8217;s shotgun to kill Mr. Hoyte after stealing the family car.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nDr. Bartlett added that the deaths of Mr. Hoyte and Mrs. Meredith have more far-reaching effects to the community than just psychological.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;They (the merediths) were pretty big people and they contributed a lot to the little economy Cat Island has,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;No other foreign investors are currently here and others looking to invest might think twice about coming.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Kilah Rolle, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports indicate that Mrs. Meredith was mutilated about her body, including her breasts and genital area, while she was still alive, before having her throat cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}