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3 American women found dead at beach resort in Belize · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Three young American women dead in a luxury Belize resort.
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  It sounds like a vacation gone terribly wrong, but there's
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  something more to this.
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  Speaker 2: Story, yeah, way more unsettling for sure.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do a deep dive today into the
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  deaths of Catronoquad, Imane Maala, and Wafai Larr. We've got
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  some news reports and even some online fundraisers that we're
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  going to try to piece together to figure out exactly
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  what happened to these three women in their final hours. Absolutely, so,
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  all three of these women, they were from Revere, Massachusetts,
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  and they were all in their early twenties, and they
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  were found in their room at this resort, the Royal
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  Cahal Beach Resort, right, and that was on Saturday morning,
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  but they were last seen on security footage going into
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  their room Thursday night.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, so there's like a pretty big gap there where
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  nobody knows what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. And so authorities they're saying that
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  they estimate the time of death was about twenty hours
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  before they were actually found.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a huge amount of time.
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  Speaker 2: So what happened during those missing hours? Were they alone
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  the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: Right exactly. And there's even more layers to this onion
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  because resorts staff they actually tried to get in touch
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  with these women multiple times on Friday, but they got
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  no response, and so they finally ended up having to
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  use a master key to get into the room.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and that's when they found them. And so no
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  signs of forced entry, that's.
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  Speaker 1: What the reports are saying. Yeah, no signs of forced
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  entry and no visible injuries either.
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  Speaker 2: So this is really shaping up to be quite a puzzle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's even more confusing because there was some
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  initial speculation that maybe they had overdosed on drugs.
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  Speaker 2: Right, because they said that they had found froth on their.
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  Speaker 1: Mouths, yeah, exactly, And they did also find alcohol and
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  gummies in the room, okay, but nobody has actually confirmed
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  that those things were connected to their deaths. And it's
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  still not clear where the gummies even came from, so.
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  Speaker 2: Like were they brought from the US or were they
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  purchased locally?
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  Speaker 1: Right, right exactly.
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  Speaker 2: We're working with limited information here, right, so what seems
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  really obvious right now might not be the full story,
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  that's right, So everything needs to be looked at really closely,
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  Like the type of gummies, what kind of alcohol, where
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  there are other snacks, liquids, what else was in that room.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like every little detail could potentially be another
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  piece of the puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And there's actually one.
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  Speaker 1: More detail that it's just really unsettling.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you actually found this. The US State Department issued
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  a travel advisory for Belize a couple months ago, Yeah,
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  in December, and it was warning people about the violent
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  crime even in the tourist areas exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So this adds like a whole new dimension to this case.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's scary. It really makes you think about just
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  how risky international travel.
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  Speaker 2: Can be, even to places that seem really safe. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I was looking through your sources and
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  the advisory specifically mentions things like armed robberies and sexual assault.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like, how do you balance wanting to
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  travel and have adventures but also so you know, stay safe.
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  Speaker 1: Right. It's easy to get caught up in the excitement
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  of going on a trip, but you really have to
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  remember to be aware of potential risks absolutely, you know. Meanwhile,
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  back in Revere, the community is obviously devastated. Of course,
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  the cities sent out their condolences, and there are actually
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  multiple online fundraisers that have been started to support these
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  women's families.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's incredible. They've already raised over twenty five
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  thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: So they're using those funds to help bring the bodies
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  back to the US.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, it's called repatriation, and then of course also
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  to cover funeral costs.
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  Speaker 2: Makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: So where does this leave us? Three young lives cut
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  way too short, a community trying to deal with all
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  this grief, and an ongoing investigation that has way more
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  questions than it has answers.
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  Speaker 2: Right, We've got pieces, but we don't have the whole
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  picture yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Were these deaths just a horrible accident? Was there
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  some kind of foul play involved? Or is there something
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  else going on that we don't even know about yet.
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  It's heartbreaking and we may never have all the answers.
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  But as we learn more about this case, I think
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  it's a good reminder for all of us to think
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  about how this tragedy might affect our own travel choices
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  in the future.
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  Speaker 2: I completely agree this case is a huge reminder that
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  you need to do your research, you need to be prepared,
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  and you need to understand the risks even if you
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  think they're unlikely, because that could really make a difference
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  in having a safe trip and you know, having an
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  enjoyable time.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, absolutely, well, I think that's all the time
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  we have for this deep dive today, Okay, but we're
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  going to continue to follow this case as it develops
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  and we'll keep you all updated. Sounds good, Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks everybody,