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Tonight both Densmore Bowman and Tariq Devon Lopez remain on the missing persons list. They are among a host of persons reported missing in recent weeks. Also among those were 18 year old, Micheal Cobo and 42-year-old Elito Puc, those men were found dead and terribly mutilated. 

Indeed, it's getting to the point that the public presumes the missing to be dead within a week. 

We spoke to Commissioner of police Chester Willams today after his Arenal Road tour to ask him about police strategies to locate missing persons. He told us that people are dying senselessly because they refuse to inform police of threats to their lives. 

Chester Williams - Commissioner of Police 
"Yesterday we have a number of person who have gone missing and in some case, some of them were found murdered and we have some who were found alive and well. You all know that there is always ongoing feuds between rivalling groups, maybe gangs or in some cases not gangs but persons who have issue with each other and that may result in persons being kidnapped, taken somewhere and killed and these are things we need to go after but one of the most salient thing that we found in these investigations, is the fact that the persons when they do go missing, the family will then say to us they were being threatened for some time but nothing was said to the police, no one comes to the police. So we are never aware of the fact that these person were being threatened until when they disappear and are found dead. And so we want to appeal to the public that if it is that you are being threatened by anybody, do not take the threats likely, come to the police, report it to us, even if you don't want any court action, you can make a future reference report and with that, we'll be able to approach the person or persons who are threatening you and try to see what we can do to intervene anything from going further. Keeping it to yourselves and not reporting it to the police when you're kidnapped and found dead, then the police is blamed makes no sense. We cannot deal with something, if we know nothing about it but if we know about it, we can do something to see what we can do to prevent it from going any further."

Also still on the missing person's list are the Fishermen who headed out to Mapp Caye.