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Elderly American rancher murdered in Costa Rica

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September 7th, 2015 (EFE) The body of an 85-year-old Cuban-American man was found inside a barrel over the weekend at his house in southern Costa Rica, the Judicial Investigative Police (OIJ) said.

The victim, identified only by the last name of Machado, lived in Coloradito de Corredores, a town in Puntarenas province, near the border with Panama.

Machado lived alone and was reported missing by a friend on Friday, the agency said.

On Saturday, “an extensive search of his house was conducted and the body was found inside a steel barrel, but the types of wounds could not be determined with a simple visual inspection due to the advanced state of decomposition,” the agency said.

Machado “had a ranch and hired foreigners as workers, with whom he apparently had constant personal problems. It is presumed that one of them attacked him and then fled to Nicaragua,” the OIJ said.

Investigators are gathering evidence and the body was taken to the morgue for an autopsy.

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  • Buffalo Bill

    Hey people it’s dangerous here! By the way if you moved here to escape what you saw coming to the USA in the future–congratulations–however you might soon find yourselves in the frying pan and the fire as the populace here is overwhelmingly catholic and when the pope announces ( soon) that all religions are equal and the muslims are in with the catholics–well you better accept islam my friend because the mark of the beast spoken of in revelation will be the acceptance of allah along with the sign of islam which is on the armbands and headbands of the muslim terrorists and you will be required to take the mark of the beast ( accept islam) or you will not be able to buy or sell. the pope is the false prophet and obama is the antichrist–get ready for the rapture of God’s saints and repent of your sins or be caught here in the end times tribulation. Where you will be beheaded if you donot accept islam.

    • jugomono

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  • disgsted

    Expats and Tico’s alike living alone on farms have been easy targets. Unfortunately, the murder will most likely never be caught like others..

    This Buffalo Bill posting he using is a way of telling us about this guy who murdered many and soon was caught at the river in Nicaragua going by this name. Oh boy I hope other expats here understand the risk they are taking. .

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