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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jen Adams (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 10:56 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Shay Harwood was murdered in Bonaire
on December 31, 1987
NYE 1988, which was also her 16th Birthday)
She was murdered in the LOBBY public washroom at their hotel.
The was pre-internet so little/no info is available.

PLEASE if anyone has ever heard anything / tips / confessions over the years please share.

What we the family and friends heard that was never publicly know:
Shay was murdered by strangulation around her neck. (Any other strangulation causes talked about over the years??).
We heard of 2 suspects the police were working on at the time, but no one was charged. One was a man in his 20's at the time named "Denny". I think I heard he worked in the hotel. The second suspect was a teenage boy, mentally challenged.
Those who knew Shay well always believed it could not be the teenage boy because Shay was a very strong, tall, athletic lady - perhaps as strong as an adult. We feel the boy could not have overpowered Shay. We also heard talk that the man named Denny perhaps was trying to frame the handicapped boy.
Other info we heard - the lobby public washroom had stall walls that did not meet the ceiling and it was thought that the killer climbed over the top of Shay's stall.

Please help if you have any information. Please do not take this as a negative reference on the beautiful island of Bonaire. Bonaire is safer than many places, that's for sure. We just want info on the unsolved murder of our dear friend. Thank you

 


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