Michael Hon­ore says he al­ways be­lieved his daugh­ter would re­turn home safe, even as her dis­ap­pear­ance stretched in­to days of si­lence and dread. But on Thurs­day morn­ing, his worst fears were con­firmed when search teams found her dis­mem­bered body in a suit­case dumped in a pond in San­gre Grande.

Can­dace Hon­ore, 22, of Va­len­cia, was last seen on Ju­ly 8th leav­ing her work­place at 3:08 p.m. Her phone lat­er went straight to voice­mail, and a miss­ing per­son re­port was filed at the Man­zanil­la Po­lice Sta­tion.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia near the site of Thurs­day’s dis­cov­ery, her fa­ther re­called the mo­ment the search turned in­to heart­break.