Peggy Brunner, the aunt of the American model who was killed in St James last year, says she recently received two calls from her niece’s cellular phone.
According to Brunner she was preparing dinner on Sunday when her phone began ringing. She grabbed her cell and stopped cold in the moment when she saw the name that flashed on the screen was her dead niece, 26-year-old Desiree ‘Desi’ Gibbon’s number.
“I got goosebumps from my head to my toes,” Brunner told the New York Daily News.
But her hope for a breakthrough was dashed when she answered the call at precisely 5:26 p.m. and was met by silence on the other end. She added that she missed a second call from Gibbon’s phone some six hours later, at 11:43 pm.
However when she tried to call back, Brunner said she got the message she hears anytime she dials her niece’s number, “this phone is not working”.
Gibbon’s was found with her throat slashed in the bushes along the Long Hill main road in St James last November. Her cell phone was never recovered.
