One Week Later, No Arrests in Murder of Mother of Three Delcea Flowers

Tomorrow will be one week since Delcea Flowers, a mother of three children, was murdered, and police still have no leads. An issue the family says they cannot come to terms with. LOVE NEWS sat down with Flowers’ mother, Desiree Moody who was too distraught to appear on camera but says she needs the police to do their work and find who killed her daughter.

Desiree Moody, Mother of Delcea Flowers: “The police have not really found anyone that brutally killed my daughter you know, and it’s sad, very sad because Delcea is not the first and she would not be the last. And to me, the police would have never solved the problem. You just can’t blame the police system alone because the police don’t stand by itself, it has a backup. The government was supposed to step in and see how much going on, especially with females, you understand? And females, where most of them are single mothers.  They worked hard for the children.  And by the end of their life, their last life, they breathe  they’re dead by abuse  or by someone killed them.  And I don’t believe it’s fair.”

Holding back tears, Moody said she’s waiting on the police to call.

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Desiree Moody, Mother of Delcea Flowers: “Up until Tuesday, that was the last time  they gave me a phone call and that phone call was to tell me that they were  going to do a post-mortem on my daughter Tuesday morning.  That was the last time I heard from the police.” 

Love FM Reporter: “So what are you asking from the police in regards to this incident?” 

Desiree Moody, Mother of Delcea Flowers: “I’m asking the police that I just want justice for my daughter understand.  My daughter didn’t need to die how she died. And to be honest, from my heart, the 35 years my daughter lived down here, my daughter never had problems with anybody understand. To say street fight, street problem, she wasn’t like that. She was a mother to her children there. She goes from work to home and anybody out there that knows Delecea Flowers, they can say the same thing. She was like a flower to everybody because when she saw you, she would give you that beautiful smile and she knew how to say ‘good morning’  and that took my daughter all the way.  So for me,  I have said to the police, I really have been left staggard, you know, and  frustrated  and I still wait for they get back to me  and try tell me something what could ease my heart.”

With the absence of women’s organizations and formal groups in Belize, Moody makes an impassioned plea for more organized networks to support women in time of need.  

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Desiree Moody, Mother of Delcea Flowers: “It’s time for us as Belizean women get up,  stand up for our rights.  We need to join a union, get together, do something, find someone who can help us to put ourselves together and make the government understand enough is enough.”

On October 24, Police found Delcea Flowers unconscious lying in a pool of blood on her sofa with a large cut wound to the back of the neck. Her 14-year-old daughter suffered blunt force trauma to the head and other bodily injuries consistent with a struggle. Both were rushed to the KHMH where Flowers later died.  Her daughter has since been released from the hospital.  Delcea Flowers will be laid to rest on Sunday in her home village of Bermudian Landing. Her funeral service takes place at the Baptist Church at 3:00 pm./