PLAINFIELD — The bodies of a man and a woman found in the trunk of a car on a Brooklyn street Wednesday night have been identified as a Plainfield couple who were reported missing last month after relatives said they traveled to Virginia but did not return, authorities said. Evadne Orna, 39, and Troy Edwards, 40, were found dead...
Evadne Oma and her friend Troy Edwards, both Plainfield residents, have been missing since Feb. 20, when they left New Jersey for Richmond, Va.PLAINFIELD — The bodies of a man and a woman found in the trunk of a car on a Brooklyn street Wednesday night have been identified as a Plainfield couple who were reported missing last month after relatives said they traveled to Virginia but did not return, authorities said.
Evadne Orna, 39, and Troy Edwards, 40, were found dead inside of a Nissan Altima in Brooklyn Wednesday night, according to Gene Lepley, a spokesman for the Richmond, Va. Police Department.
While he would not identify the victims, a New York City Police Department spokesman said two people were discovered dead in the trunk of a Nissan Altima in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday night.
Authorities had not determined a cause of death, and New York City police said an autopsy was pending. A spokeswoman for the New York City Medical Examiner's Office did not return calls seeking comment.
Lepley said Richmond Police issued a nationwide alert Wednesday for law enforcement to be on the lookout for a silver Nissan Altima rented by Orna and Edwards last month. Police in Fairfax County, Va., apparently received a "hit" on the vehicle Wednesday night, tracing it to Brooklyn.
Hours later, New York Police made the grim discovery in the 400 block of East 52nd Street.
Orna and Edwards were both reported missing by family members in Plainfield late last month, according to city police director Martin Hellwig. Lepley said Plainfield police contacted his department ealier this month, prompting Richmond Police to launch an investigation.
Early last week, police searched a South Richmond apartment while looking for Orna and Edwards.
"The condition of the apartment and forensic evidence recovered there gave us cause for concern," said Lepley, adding that the search "led us to believe that the two people may have been in Richmond may have been in jeopardy."
Lelpey would not say what police found in the apartment, but a Richmond television station said police discovered red-stained sheets, a stun gun, duct tape and packaging materials, scales, plastic sandwich bags and carpet samples.
By James Queally and Simone Sebastian/The Star-Ledger