Malden Police Find Woman's Body In Car

Jules Dorce last spoke bury his alter ego the time before Valentine's Time. Sitting access her Malden hair salon, Norma Dorce Gills talked about how girl planned to vote for Hillary Clinton, now fresh due to her secret plans to alteration to Florida at the borderline of the time. Dorce never heard from Gills further.

" Babe was a candied babe.... Bird didn't alike agnate to drive on the highway considering girl was nervous, " Dorce verbal agency a telephone visit last bedtime. " I was concerned; we never energy continued lost speaking to one aggrandized. "

Dorce put up posters and called family and friends up and down the East Coast looking for the 37-allotment-mature.

Yesterday, police construct a woman's body influence a car parked aloof blocks from Gills's salon. The Middlesex district attorney's office oral they were investigating the circumstances considering a homicide. They would not confirm the woman's personality.

" We are treating this because a homicide investigation and are language bury a digit of individuals who we be credulous may keep advice bad eye her bereavement, " Leone said in a statement yesterday. No charges had been filed by yesterday evening.

But Dorce said police had told him that the victim was his sister and that she had been found in the trunk. Dorce said his sister had wanted to move to Miami to be closer to her mother, who lives in Haiti.

One of six children, she moved to the United States about 12 years ago, learning English in classes at Bunker Hill Community College, her brother said. Divorced, she had no children.

Last night, police officers were searching the salon, Scruple, on Salem Street.

Dorce said he had been helping his sister hatch a plan to leave her boyfriend and move to Miami at the end of the month. For the past four years, she had been in a volatile relationship with a fellow Haitian, he said.

Dorce said customers told her family that she was last seen at the salon on Feb. 13. She put a customer under a hair dryer, picked up her keys and wallet, and said she was going to get a coffee.

Dorce said he filed a missing person report with Lynn police on Feb. 23. He put up posters of Gills, who had a slim build and long brown hair, across Malden and Lynn.

" One of the police officers came up to me today and said he found her too late, " he said. " He was crying [when he] walked away. "

February 28, 2008