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Accused Hotelier in Costa Rica Murder Case In Private Hospital
In an update to last week's article where we reported on a Costa Rica judge’s order to change the means of detention of defendant...
El Salvador orders arrest of former president over killing of six Jesuits in civil war
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A judge in El Salvador ordered the arrest Friday of former president Alfredo Cristiani for alleged links to the murder of six Jesuit priests...
Costa Rica Hotel Owner To Be Jailed For Murder Trial
A Costa Rica judge has signed an order for the immediate penal detention of a hotel owner in Manuel Antoinio/Quepos to await trial for...
7 People in Costa Rica Found Dead with Shots to the Head
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7 people were found dead Wednesday with gunshots to the head in Limon, Costa Rica's Caribbean province, authorities said, in an apparent dispute between...
US teen cleared in protester deaths says self-defense ‘not illegal’
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the American teen acquitted after fatally shooting two men during protests and riots against police brutality last year, said self-defense is "not...
Homicide rate steady in Costa Rica, but July was safer
Costa Rica recorded 327 homicides so far this year, an equaling the number over the same span in 2020, according to official figures.
Accused serial killer ‘Wild Bill’ Holbert asks forgiveness for murders of U.S. expats
Accused serial killer William "Wild Bill" Holbert asked Panamanians to forgive him for his murders because, he said, he only killed expats, rather than citizens of Panama.
Five students brutally murdered in Liberia
Five university students were murdered in a small apartment in Liberia, Guanacaste in Costa Rica Thursday morning. Another was in critical condition in a local hospital as of Thursday night.
Man linked to Costa Rica murder case sentenced to 3 years for identity theft in US
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.
Nicaraguan man sentenced to 183 years in prison for killing US-Costa Rican family
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.