Murdered & Dumped!

Police have so far come up with few leads in the brutal murder of nineteen year old Neisa Pipersburgh, who graduated on Sunday June 13th from Pallotti High School and who went missing three days later on Wednesday.  Her mother, Alice Willaims, said that she left her daughter home just before ten that morning to go to school and when she returned, Neisa was gone.  Strangely, the house was left open and only a small purse in which she carried her identification cards and cell phone was missing.  For days there was no word of the young graduate’s whereabouts, despite numerous calls to her cell phone and public appeals for her safe return home.

Then on Saturday morning, someone tipped off cops that something wrapped in a white sheet and a large plastic bag in the dredging off a dirt road near Burdon Canal at mile 6 on the Western Highway was giving off quite a stench.  When police and the forensics team arrived, they discovered that it was the decomposing body of a young girl.  Because decomposition was already in an advanced stage, Neisa could only be identified by the clothing she wore, which were the same ones she had on when her mother left her at home that fateful Wednesday morning.  The green nail polish she wore on her toes at her graduation ceremony, along with a track of weave in her hair were still there. An autopsy could not confirm the cause of the teen’s death.  She had to be buried the same day because of the advanced state of decomposition.

Her mother does not have convincing evidence but she has a gut feeling that her daughter was killed by someone who not only knew her but someone she was used to.  Williams added that Neisa had just ended a relationship with a Police Constable and had started to receive threatening text messages from someone else, a neighbour.  Williams says that the morning when the girl went missing, Neisa was in the yard taking care of her pets when the same person drove past very slowly in a vehicle with dark tinted glass.  The following day, Williams said she went to the neighbour and asked him if he had seen her or been in contact with her and he denied it, saying he did not know Neisa’s cell number because she had changed it.  But when Williams went to BTL to check on her daughter’s phone records, it showed that for several minutes that same morning she and the neighbour were exchanging text messages.  While Williams is convinced of the identity of her daughter’s killer, the police aren’t and while they have detained three people so far, they have not laid any charges against anyone.

On Monday students and faculty of Pallotti High, in full uniform, held a memorial in Neisa’s memory inside the school’s auditorium.  Her death came as a shock to her fellow graduates, who on Saturday night also took part in a candle-light procession on North Front Street before they attended their prom, an event which the teen herself was supposed to have attended.

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