The Namibian Police (NAMPOL) on Friday opened the grave of a young women suspected to have been murdered in Windhoek, in December 2005.

The grave of Viola Swartbooi was exhumed to obtain a DNA sample from her remains.

The remains were collected by the Director of the Forensic Science Institute of Namibia, Paul Ludik.

The Commanding Officer of the Police Public Relation and Liason Division, Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu, says the purpose of this move is to establish through the analysis of a DNA sample- the link between her death and those of three other women suspected to have been killed by the serial killer referred to as the B1 Butcher.

Amulungu added that combined investigations into these deaths were continuing without pause as DNA samples from 21- people- being posible suspects- have been collected for analysis. Swartbooi disappeared from her home in Windhoek in December 2005.

Her naked and decomposed remains were found in a shallow grave at Rehoboth on the 28th of December 2005. A reward of 60- thousand Namibia dollar remains in force for information that will lead to the arrest of the killer.