Florida Sheriff Confirms Missing Doctoral Student's Body

0:00It's May 1st. This is Durham News Today, powered by AI. A Florida sheriff just confirmed a body pulled from Tampa Bay is Nehita Bristie, the second missing doctoral student from Bangladesh at the University of South Florida. Her remains turned up in a garbage bag snagged by a kayaker's line on Sunday. That's after her friend, Zambo Limon, got found two days earlier in a similar bag off her bridge. Her roommate, 26-year-old Hisham, Saleh, Abu Garbe got arrested right away on two first degree murder charges and he's locked up with no bond. Investigators massed Bristie's badly decomposed body using DNA and dental records. The sheriff noted the suspect state's stone cold when shown the evidence, no reaction at all. Both killings happened around the same spot and time, but they're still piecing that together. These were sharp grad students, Lyman in geography and environmental policy, Bristie in chemical engineering. The suspect had dropped out of USF and shared an off-campus apartment with Lyman.

1:04Folks are shaken, especially the university community reeling from losing two promising minds from overseas. New details paint a premeditated picture. Forensics pulled up deleted phone searches from days before they vanished on April 16th, like queries on knives piercing skulls and of gunshots, carried inabors. He bought heavy-duty trash bags, lice-all wipes, and other gear. Their apartment lit up under luminal with blood trails from the kitchen to his room, even an outline of a curled up body by his bed. Modus is still a mystery, but detectives are digging deeper into what led to this cold blooded act. Stay tuned as more comes out on this heartbreaking case.