8. Missing And Murdered In Brazil: Anne Swaney
ABC7 Chicago producer, Anne Swaney, aged 37, was visiting the Nabitunich Farm in Belize for vacation in January of 2016, when she was murdered and her body left in the Mopan River. It was Swaney’s second visit to the farm where she went to ride horses, and the caretaker of the estate described her as an outgoing and vivid person. On the day she disappeared, Swaney went down to a nearby river to practice yoga. When she didn’t return for over 3 hours, hotel workers notified police of her absence when her belongings were found abandoned by the river. Her body was found the next morning and an autopsy showed that she had been strangled to death. Officials say that the motive for the attack was unclear and that being only about a mile away from the Guatemalan border, it’s possible the culprit killed Swaney and fled to Guatemala( it being an open border). The murder rate in Belize is said to be the third highest in the world, although the area in which Swaney was staying was not common for violent crime. No new leads have been found and no culprit has yet been found.
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