POP/ROCK - April 19, 1988

Trial is scheduled to begin in Kingston, Jamaica, this week for two men arrested for the September, 1987, murders of reggae star Peter Tosh and two others. However, few Jamaicans believe it will shed much light on the killings, United Press International reported. Since the execution-style attack, which killed Tosh, 42, disc jockey Jeff (Free-I) Dixon and herbalist Wilton (Doc) Brown, the Caribbean nation has churned with theories about Tosh’s death. National Security Minister Errol Anderson said last fall there could be a connection between Tosh’s murder and gangs involved in drug trafficking. The most bizarre theory came from bookkeeper Marlene Brown, who told the wire service that Satan killed Tosh because she and Tosh were going to conceive a baby that would be “a powerful boy with a Star of David on his forehead.”