Bizarre death: Elderly woman found partially nude under bed in Chaguanas home; daughter calls her ‘the devil’ in disturbing social media post

An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

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One day af­ter the de­com­pos­ing body of pen­sion­er Doo­d­hani Vish­vati Sook­nanan was found in bizarre cir­cum­stances in a town­house she shared with her daugh­ter and spe­cial-needs grand­daugh­ter in Ch­agua­nas, her rel­a­tives yes­ter­day waved away re­porters from their doorstep be­fore dis­ap­pear­ing be­hind the cur­tains.

And while all re­mained qui­et along Tore­nia Dri­ve in Ed­in­burgh 500, Ch­agua­nas, where the fam­i­ly lives, neigh­bours de­scribed the fam­i­ly as “strange.”

Al­though no one has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the bizarre find on Thurs­day, Guardian Me­dia was told that in­ves­ti­ga­tors are await­ing the au­top­sy re­sults be­fore de­cid­ing on the next course of ac­tion.

The body of Sook­nanan 74, al­so called Mary Sook­nanan, was found par­tial­ly hid­den un­der a bed, with her head fac­ing in a west­er­ly di­rec­tion and feet in an east­er­ly di­rec­tion, clad in a top on­ly.

The dis­cov­ery came af­ter of­fi­cers of the Ch­agua­nas CID car­ried out a wel­fare check at the res­i­dence around 1 pm on Thurs­day (Jan­u­ary 8).

It was re­port­ed that up­on ar­rival at the house, the of­fi­cers met Sook­nanan’s daugh­ter Mi­ra Van­der­bilt, who claimed not to have seen her moth­er.

Of­fi­cers lat­er wrote in their re­port on the vis­it that “Mi­ra Van­der­bilt ap­peared to be in a dis­il­lu­sioned men­tal state.”

Re­quest­ing as­sis­tance fol­low­ing what they learned af­ter speak­ing with Van­der­bilt, of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force Area North went to the home and breached the back door to get in – af­ter they were al­leged­ly re­fused en­try via the front door, as it had been bar­ri­cad­ed from the in­side.

Of­fi­cers said the con­di­tion of the first floor, which con­tained the kitchen, liv­ing room and a toi­let and bath, was de­scribed as “de­crepit.”

The sec­ond floor, which fea­tured three bed­rooms, was searched, where Sook­nanan’s body was found in one of them. Her 19-year-old autis­tic grand­daugh­ter was al­so found in one of the bed­rooms.

The Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer vis­it­ed the scene and or­dered the body re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James, where an au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be con­duct­ed next week.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the house yes­ter­day, the teenage girl was seen peer­ing out from be­hind gold cur­tains in the sec­ond-floor win­dow, while her moth­er, whose face ap­peared to be cov­ered in white, shiny make-up, smiled strange­ly and waved us away from the first-floor win­dow.

Both women ap­peared to be dressed in white with yel­low head­wear.

Neigh­bours said there was a sign out­side the house, which read, “Gods and God­dess Mi­ra full le­gal own­ers of plan­et Earth.” How­ev­er, they not­ed it was tak­en down be­tween Thurs­day and yes­ter­day.

Asked why the women had not been ar­rest­ed, a po­lice of­fi­cial ex­plained, “Keep­ing a dead body is an of­fence and you can be charged. But in this sit­u­a­tion, an au­top­sy is need­ed and based on this, on­ly then will we know what charges can be laid, if any, go­ing for­ward.

“Based on what the of­fi­cers en­coun­tered, a men­tal as­sess­ment will al­so have to be done be­fore any charges can be laid.”

Neigh­bours re­port­ed get­ting a foul stench

Neigh­bours yes­ter­day re­called they had be­gun get­ting the stench of what they de­scribed as “worse than rot­ting chick­en” ap­prox­i­mate­ly three weeks ago. Res­i­dents liv­ing close by said they knew some­thing was amiss when they didn’t see Sook­nanan. They said Sook­nanan was usu­al­ly seen walk­ing to the dump­ster at the end of the street, and days be­fore Christ­mas, she fell one evening and hit her head af­ter dis­pos­ing of the garbage.

Neigh­bours said a rel­a­tive as­sist­ed her back home af­ter that in­ci­dent and she had not been seen since.

A woman, who ad­mit­ted the stench had been un­bear­able, said, “They don’t re­al­ly talk to peo­ple around here.”

She claimed the fam­i­ly on­ly left the house, where they had been liv­ing for the past 20 years, once week­ly to make gro­ceries.

The woman re­called, “Since Christ­mas, we were get­ting a fun­ny scent com­ing through the air-con­di­tion­ing but we didn’t take it on.”

She said they had opt­ed to turn off their air-con­di­tion­ing units to help keep the scent out but ad­mit­ted that did not work.

Con­firm­ing Sook­nanan’s rel­a­tives were known for get­ting in­to ver­bal spats with oth­ers and even made threats to some of them.

“Re­al mad peo­ple thing,” she in­sist­ed.

While they were con­cerned about the strange go­ings-on by the oc­cu­pants of the house, the woman said she and her fam­i­ly can­not af­ford to leave, al­though she ad­mit­ted to be­ing un­com­fort­able.

Dis­turb­ing so­cial me­dia posts

Around 4 am yes­ter­day, Mi­ra V M Van­der­bilt took to Face­book, where she post­ed what were de­scribed as some dis­turb­ing com­ments about her rel­a­tive.

She post­ed, “With re­gards to One of the head ter­ror­ists on Plan­et Earth, dev­il mary sook­nanan, dev­il mary sook­nanan has died. As per 3I/At­las’ warn­ing, 3I/At­las Crew stat­ed that they will be­gin the de­struc­tion against evil on De­cem­ber 19th 2025. 5 Mil­lion years ago, dev­il mary sook­nanan, dev­il saoirse ro­nan, dev­il kam­la per­sad bisses­sar and some oth­er rep­til­ians killed Lord Do­ri­an who stayed in An­drom­e­da. The 3I/At­las Crew is here to de­stroy all evil.”

And less than one hour be­fore at 3 am, she wrote, “I am God­dess Mi­ra V M Van­der­bilt of An­drom­e­da and Fur­ther Re­gions in Out­er Space. I no­ticed an AI Overview of My­self on­line and have de­cid­ed to al­low it on My Blog.”

A pre­vi­ous post-dat­ed De­cem­ber 23, 2025, read, “The Gods and I God­dess Mi­ra V M Van­der­bilt are the Full Le­gal Own­ers of Plan­et Earth. The Gods and I God­dess Mi­ra V M Van­der­bilt are able to trav­el any­where in all the Uni­vers­es and in oth­er Di­men­sions as well. The video be­low shows Grand Bazaar, Val­sayn, Trinidad in one of the oth­er Di­men­sions. Some of you may recog­nise your­selves in that oth­er Di­men­sion. Three of the peo­ple com­ment­ing in the video about the City of Grand Bazaar are mafia crim­i­nals. The tourist who com­ment­ed is good.”