missing persons

Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) are searching for Jaclyn Naomi Smith.

Two people died and one is missing after a tropical wave and heavy rains swept through Costa Rica late this week.

The woman, Gerlinde Hahne, went for a walk on the afternoon of May 3 in the community of Delicias and has not been seen since.

Police began the trafficking investigation following the disappearance last year of three Ticos who allegedly paid Barboza to take them to Miami via Panama and Barbados.

Roma and Luda Gimelfarb are in Costa Rica this week for what's become a tragic, annual ritual: searching for information about their son, David, who went missing in Rincón de la Vieja National Park in Guanacaste seven years ago today.

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.

Police spoke plainly about the theory that the remains belong to Cody Dial, who went missing in the national park in July 2014, but a DNA test that would confirm to whom the bones belong is still weeks away.

A criminal investigation has been underway for several months but OIJ officials said the location of the body makes foul play unlikely.

Police say it is "very likely" that human remains found in Corcovado National Park belong to U.S. hiker Cody Dial, 27, who has been missing since 2014.

The body of missing surfer Ricardo Andrés González, 22, was found by relatives and authorities on Tuesday after he disappeared off the coast of Caldera in Costa Rica last weekend.