The man have been identified as Alton Heath, otherwise called 'Sick Head' of Seventh Street; Desmond Kennedy, otherwise called 'Dezzy' of Fourth Street; Marlon Duncan, otherwise called 'Dutchman' also of Fourth Street, all in Greenwich Town, Kingston, and Chadrick Gordon, otherwise called Andre Reid of Slipe Pen Road, Kingston. A fifth man who was implicated was killed by his cronies who accused him of "informing" on them. The other four are still on the run.

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The dead women are Simone Vernon and Catherina Webb who were 21 and 23 years old, respectively, of Olympic Gardens addresses. The survivor was 20 years old at the time.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Michael Phipps, then detective inspector, who led the investigations, had initially reported that about 9 p.m. on October 20, 2005, the survivor was at a bar in which she was employed in Greenwich Town when Webb and Vernon visited her.

Shortly after, Gordon entered. He was in the company of some other men. They proceeded to hold up and robbed the establishment then took the women to a football field in Greenwich Town where they were joined by other men.

This brought the total to nine. The men raped the ladies repeatedly, after which they shot them several times. They then took them to a section of the community where they were dumped in a sewage tank. The survivor managed to escape and reported the gruesome incident.

DSP Phipps' intensive investigations - even though the bodies of the other females were not found - led to a capital murder conviction by the jury.