Mother of Dead Children Dumped in Delray Beach Canal Is Missing
March 4, 2011 — -- Now that police have found the bodies of two children stuffed in suitcases and floating in a Florida canal, they are trying to find their mother.
"We haven't been able to locate the mother. We're not sure where she is," Delray Police Sgt. Nicole Guerriero said. "We don't have any idea where she might be."
Police have not identified the children or their mother, but Margaret Gissome believes the missing mother is her sister, Felicia Brown, and the dead children are her niece and nephew, 10-year-old Jermaine McNeil and 6-year-old Ju'tyra Allen.
Gissome said that police have asked her to provide dental records for the children and pictures of her sister's tattoos.
"That's confirming in my mind you got my niece and nephew back there and you all need dentist records to point it out to the public. And now you're asking about tattoos [on] my sister and ... Yes we're going to read between the lines that you got my sister back there," she told ABCNews.com.
Gissome said the family didn't know how long Felicia Brown, 25, has been missing.
"We never knew she was missing until the community of Delray tipped off Delray police that they discovered the bodies," Gissome said.
Neighbors told Gissome that the kids were seen three weeks ago jumping on a trampoline in the neighborhood.
Clem Beauchamp, 34, is being held on an unrelated weapons charge, but is considered a suspect in the deaths, Guerriero said.
Gissome told ABCNews.com that Beauchamp had dated her sister since at least 2007. Brown and her two children were living with Beauchamp, Gissome said. Two of Beauchamp's children also lived in the home, Gissome said. It's not clear where those two children are at the moment.
"I've known situations where Clem hit my sister," Gissome said.
Police are searching the home that Beauchamp and Brown lived at in Delray.
"The detectives are at the house where we believe the children resided," Guerriero said.
