MISSING MAN'S BODY FOUND TIED TO TREE

The body of a missing Princes Town man was found badly decomposed and tied to a tree off Fairfield Estate Road, Princes Town on Friday afternoon.

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00:00body of a missing Princestown man was found badly decomposed and tied to a tree

00:05off Fairfield Estate Road, Princestown on Friday afternoon. 38-year-old Matthew

00:11Badoli, a father of three, was last seen on CCTV footage on December 17th 2024

00:18walking through Princestown on his way home but he never got there. He was later

00:24reported missing and searches by relatives at times assisted by two

00:29different hunters search-and-rescue teams have been ongoing since then.

00:33Speaking off-camera with TV6 News this afternoon, one sibling said

00:38information led Matthew's brother and two sisters to the gruesome discovery.

00:44Whoever, whatever, placed his phone on his wallet by my brother's house, his slipper by my

00:50mother's house and he was nowhere to be found. So that's why somebody passed, I

00:54don't know who, at a little garden or whatever, they saw something looking

00:58like a body by a tree after a pond. So the only pond that we know is this pond and we

01:02followed the trail and actually came up to a second pond and that is where we actually saw him.

01:06The man's hands were bound and rope was tied around his neck and then to a tree

01:12despite being badly decomposed based on visible arm tattoos and the clothing

01:17relatives identified the body as that of Matthew. A relative speculated about a

01:22possible motive for the brutal murder as others complained not enough is being

01:28done by the TTPS to get a handle on crime nationwide.

01:33I don't know him to be no drugs, no bad boy thing or nothing like that, but I know he

01:40does go and play roulette, go and play whappy and stuff. I'm also hearing that he

01:44make a hefty earnings a night in whappy and he had over $15,000 in his

01:50possession prior to money he had in his possession what he won by a roulette

01:54machine earlier on the same evening.

01:57Every day I hear somebody go missing, they come and end up being found dead, some are found alive, but I think that not

02:04enough is being done by the TTPS and even business owners because we have been trying

02:09on numerous occasions using different avenues to try to get footage from the

02:13store owners. I'm not saying it's their business to give us their footage but we

02:17tried all how to get help and it's like everything was like at a standstill.