Four get maximum sentence for murder of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist

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By <a class="author-link"…Apr 1, 2016, 11:00 am140 ptsTrending
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n May 30 2013, Jairo Mora Sandoval, a sea turtle conservationist, and four women volunteers were kidnapped by a group of men at gunpoint on Moin beach near Limón, Costa Rica. The women (three Americans and one Spaniard), who were reportedly held in an abandoned house for several hours and…

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