A young woman who went missing a week ago after receiving threats
from a spurned suitor was found dead in a secluded field, authorities
said.
Siam Lee, 20, of Durban North, South Africa, was last seen leaving
work in a black Mercedes-Benz with a man whom police are still searching
for, the Zululand Observer reported.
Lee’s badly burned body was found Saturday in a secluded cane field in KwaZulu-Natal, a coastal South African province, the Times Live reported.
Her family confirmed that the charred remains were Lee’s on Thursday, a week after her disappearance, the outlet reported.
“The body was found by a farmer who was driving past,” said Lt. Col. Thulani Zwane.
Friends told local channel YOU that Lee had been receiving threats from a man since last October who’d also been stalking her.
“There was a man who’d wanted a relationship with Siam, but she
wasn’t interested,” said family friend Sue Foster. “She told him so and
he didn’t handle it well.”
The stalker even showed up at Lee’s workplace, threatening and
pushing her, until he was kicked out by her co-workers, Foster said.
The family believed this man was behind her disappearance, but police did not comment on the matter.
Foster said the family had hired a private investigator to find Lee, to no avail.
Lee’s mother, Nan, had released an emotional plea on video asking for the girl’s safe return last week.
“Bring her home, bring our baby home,” she said. “If for some reason
she is not being harbored or kidnapped, I know she would be home. I can
only think the worst.”
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