38Victim: Aria TheaksLocation: San Cristobal, VenezuelaCompany: United Oil2 February 2008Initial eventAt 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday 2 October, a young woman in a maid’s uniform knocked on the door of Jessica and Connor Theaks. Mr Theaks is a UK national, employed by United Oil and based out of San Cristobal, Venezuela. He and his wife lived there in a home funded by United Oil, with their six-month-old daughter, Aria.Mrs Theaks opened the door to the young woman. She does not remember anything after that. Mr Theaks claims to remember coming downstairs and seeing an unknown woman in a maid’s uniform in the lobby of their home. He has no subsequent memories.Examination of CCTV footage installed inside the downstairs lobby of the Theaks home allowed us to fill in the blanks. The footage shows Mrs Theaks opening the front door to a young Hispanic woman – approximately five feet five inches, shoulder-length black hair, slender, aged between twenty and twenty-five. It shows the woman blowing what appears to be a powder into Mrs Theaks’s face.
