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American Missing in Mazatlan, MX, Found Dead

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on December 20, 2016 at 8:55pm — No Comments

Canadian Ex-Pat & His Stepson Murdered in Honduras

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on October 7, 2014 at 10:33pm — No Comments

A Happy Ending on Roatan (and How A Thoughtless Individual Screwed Countless People)

Last week, a U.S. citizen (whose name I will not mention out of respect for his family) pulled an idiotic stunt on the island of Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras. The vacationer, very intoxicated, got into an argument with his girlfriend and stormed out into the night without cash or his cellphone and didn't return.

You may know Roatan from posts here as a place that is aggressively marketed as a safe, inexpensive destination to vacation and retire.…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on April 27, 2014 at 11:15am — No Comments

American Murdered in Costa Rica Was Secretly Married; No Luck in Search for Murder Weapon

Read the latest update on the murder of U.S. ex-pat Kurt Heigis near La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Thank you, Inside Costa Rica, for your diligent and respectful coverage of this case.

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on February 14, 2014 at 4:29pm — No Comments

Update on Murder of U.S. Citizen Kurt Heigis in Costa Rica

Update on murder of Kurt Heigis, U.S. citizen murdered near La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Thank you, Inside Costa Rica for being one of the few English-language news organizations in the region that actually want to do real journalism.…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on February 12, 2014 at 1:21pm — No Comments

Mystery Surrounds Murder of U.S. Ex-Pat Near La Fortuna, Costa Rica

Kurt Heigis -- a 64-year-old U.S. citizen living in La Fortuna, Costa Rica -- was killed by unknown assailants around 7:30pm Sunday night on a gravel road about 4km from La Fortuna de San Carlos.  Authorities said the rural road on which the couple traveled is frequented by drug traffickers and addicts.

Heigis was traveling home with a 30-year-old Nicaraguan woman identified as Marta Rafaela Blandón when they approached a bridge that was blocked by a…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on February 11, 2014 at 12:21pm — No Comments

U.S. Citizen Murdered in Costa Rica

A 64-year-old American was killed by assailants in Costa Rica who dragged him out of his vehicle and cut his throat, the police said Monday.

Kurt Heigis, who had been living in Costa Rica for eight months, was intercepted by four men Sunday night as he was returning to his home in San Carlos, a woman accompanying him told police.

His companion, who was identified by policy only by her first name Martha, said the men pulled Hergis out of his pick-up truck, hit him in the head,…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on February 10, 2014 at 10:30pm — No Comments

The Travel-Intel Gap: How Government & Media Fail Travelers

No government keeps credible or reliable track of how many of its citizens disappear while traveling abroad annually or how many foreign nationals disappear while traveling in its country. This information deficit has major implications for the global traveling public. In the absence of timely, credible news, data, and analysis, how can travelers make informed decisions? How can media contextualize “missing abroad” stories as to whether they are anomalies or symptoms of a larger…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on December 1, 2013 at 11:17am — 3 Comments

Canadian Murdered in Costa Rica Home Invasion

A Canadian man has been killed in Costa Rica in an apparent home invasion, police there have confirmed. Brad Deering, 42, was shot outside his home in Escazu, near the capital San Jose, Costa Rican police said in a statement on their Facebook page.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has not confirmed the man's identity, only saying in an emailed statement that "our thoughts are with the family and friends of a Canadian citizen who passed away in…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on May 25, 2013 at 7:55pm — No Comments

U.S. Travel Advisory for Mexico Remains in Place, but State Dept. Language Is Too Soft

Spring Breakers who want to take a dip in the Gulf of Mexico south of the border should be reminded of security concerns when visiting Matamoros, according to a U.S. Department of State Spring Break travel advisory.

“Travelers to the Mexican border should be especially aware of safety and security concerns due to increased violence in recent years between rival drug trafficking gangs competing for control of narcotics smuggling routes,” the advisory states.…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on March 10, 2013 at 2:45pm — No Comments

Costa Rica - 3 Years On - Family Refuses To Give Up Search For Missing Journalist

Three years after his disappearance in Costa Rica and the Dixon family is no nearer to finding out what happened to their son.

Michael was last seen leaving his hotel in Tamarindo, Costa Rica on 18 October 2009.The British and Costa Rican response to the incident has been bugged by incompetence and false hope from start to end.

The Foreign Office did not tell the…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on October 18, 2012 at 9:43pm — No Comments

DO YOUR HOMEWORK BEFORE MOVING TO THE THIRD WORLD!!

Another conversation with another mother (in this case, a mother -- could be a father, daughter, son, sister, brother, friend...) of a person missing in a foreign country, her own government (and mine) unwilling, unable to provide meaningful guidance, support, advice. I'm happy to be able to provide a bit of moral and practical advice and a connection with someone in her state who has been through the same ordeal. Then I'm on Facebook and see a guy who is scheduled to move in a couple weeks…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on September 8, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Mexico Tourism Officials Assures Tourists on Safety

In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Mexico's Tourism Secretary Gloria Guevara argues that all of Mexico should not be tarred with the same brush in the area of safety.

"Mexico has 2,500 counties," Guevara said. "Eighty of those have issues. So does that mean that the entire country has issues? Of course…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on September 5, 2011 at 10:22pm — No Comments

List of Foreigners Missing or Murdered in Costa Rica Since May 2001

This list is almost certainly incomplete, and it does not reflect the many people who have disappeared while swimming at Costa Rican beaches, which, by and large, do not have lifeguards. If you know of someone missing or murdered in Costa Rica who is not shown here, please send as much information as you have to missingamerican@optonline.net

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on June 3, 2011 at 4:49am — No Comments

Mexico Town Searches for Missing, Seeks Answers

The Durango Human Rights Commission received 35 reports of disappearances in 2009 and 70 in 2010. Unlike in other regions of Mexico, there are no non-governmental groups investigating those cases and dozens more which were not reported officially. 

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on May 29, 2011 at 10:36am — No Comments

Thousands Turn Out to Mourn U.S. Agent Murdered in Mexico

Thousands turned out to honor fallen Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata on Tuesday.

Law enforcement bean arriving before sunrise ahead of the funeral at the Brownsville Event center. Read article.

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on February 23, 2011 at 10:56am — No Comments

KRGV: 2 U.S. Immigration Officials Shot in Mexico City, One Dies

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Armed Mexican soldiers making an incursion into U.S.

Cartel wars spilling across the border.

Pakistan holding U.S. diplomatic staff -- against international agreements on diplomatic immunity.

Americans disappearing, being murdered, being unjustly arrested around the world.

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on February 16, 2011 at 1:00am — No Comments

FOXNews: 3 teens killed in Mexico, 2 were US high schoolers

Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, and at least two of them had been high school students in Texas, according to this article on FoxNews.com. The boys were killed at a car dealership in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, Chihuahua prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. He said there were no witnesses and no…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on February 7, 2011 at 11:09pm — No Comments

Canadian Murdered While Boating in Honduras; Daughter Rescued

A Canadian tourist was murdered after a gang of men swarmed his small yacht in Honduras, but relatives said his daughter managed to escape the assailants unharmed. Milan Egrmajer, 58, was shot and killed in front of his daughter Myda, 24, on Thursday night aboard his sailing yacht Adena as it lay anchored in a small cove on the Caribbean coast of northern Honduras. Myda called Honduran authorities soon after her father was killed, but police lost contact with her and feared for her safety. But… Continue

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on December 5, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

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