Costa Rican police have wanted to question William “Bill” Ulmer regarding the disappearance and suspected murder of Barbara Struncova, his former live-in girlfriend, since December 2010.
Adrían Salmerón was purportedly the boyfriend of Jessica Durán, 38, of Costa Rica. Durán was killed along with her U.S. husband, Dirk Beauchamp, 56, and three of their children, ages 12, 8 and 6, on Valentine’s Day in their home in Matapalo, Guanacaste.
LIMÓN – At least one of seven defendants accused of the 2013 killing of Costa Rica sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora likely will walk after prosecutors sought Monday to drop homicide charges against him, citing a lack of evidence.
According to police, the four suspects – two men and two women – learned that the victim, Brian Lynn Hogue, had several properties in Paquera, Puntarenas, listed under an anonymous corporation and allegedly conspired to commit identity fraud to gain control of the corporation.
Costa Rican authorities are investigating the grisly slaying of five members of the same family, including three children, who were discovered Tuesday morning inside their home in the northern Pacific community of Matapalo, in Guanacaste province. Two other minors were injured.
The bound body of journalist Anabel Flores Salazar was discovered on Tuesday with her head covered in bags in the state of Puebla. She was a 32-year-old mother of two, snatched from her home in the middle of the night.
GUATEMALA CITY – A Guatemala judge handed down prison terms of up to 828 years for six drug traffickers convicted of killing a busload of foreigners in 2008 before setting the bodies on fire.
TEMIXCO, Mexico – When gunmen burst into her home, the freshly-installed mayor of Temixco, south of Mexico City, Gisela Mota, told them to leave her family alone and surrendered to them, witnesses recalled.
Here is what Steven Avery, 53, has: "Making a Murderer," a 10-episode Netflix documentary series that raises questions about the circumstances surrounding his arrest and conviction. And with it, a collection of scenes, documents and theories that present an image of innocence that Avery never really enjoyed as a free man.
In an interview with The Tico Times on Friday, the 23-year-old former boyfriend of Sondra Elizondo, who was arrested last week in connection with her killing in a Barrio La California hotel room, claimed he was not at the hotel when the 46-year-old U.S. woman was stabbed to death.
