Unidentified body confirmed as missing Honduran Silvia Benitez

Police in San Pedro Town are investigating the circumstances leading to the death of a missing Honduran. She has been identified as 22 year old Silvia Benitez, a waitress of the San Pedrito Area.

Benitez, a single mother of three, was discovered about 15 feet off the Grand Belizean Estate road 3 � miles north of San Pedro Town on Saturday morning, January 17th. She was in an advanced state of decomposition, and as such doctors performed the postmortem onsite. Police suspect Benitez was murdered and disposed of in the uninhabited area.

Benitez had been missing since Monday, January 12th after she left her place of employment highly intoxicated. Friends became concerned and organized a search party which ended with the discovery of her body.

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