Overview
- Judicial investigators said two armed men entered the Cahuita residence, threatened Van Dyke and a woman, and stole valuables during the attack.
- The woman suffered minor injuries that are not life-threatening, according to the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ).
- The body was transferred to the judicial morgue for autopsy as investigators work to confirm the precise cause and reconstruct the sequence of events.
- Detectives are following leads that the assailants may have fled in the couple’s white Hyundai Elantra, and no arrests had been announced.
- Van Dyke, a Santa Cruz, California native long based on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast and a former Hotel Puerto Viejo operator, was mourned by the surf community, including tributes from Raw Surf.