Kurt Van Dyke, a longtime Costa Rica hotel owner who left California in the 1980s, was reportedly slain in his apartment on ...

A well-known California surfer turned businessman was reportedly killed by intruders in his Costa Rican home over the weekend ...

The brother of a Californian surfer slain in Costa Rica has warned the killing is “more nefarious” than a random break-in.

The 66-year-old hotel owner was found beneath a bed after masked men allegedly entered his home in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rican officials said ...

A LEGENDARY surfer has been suffocated and stabbed to death after an apparent robbery of his home in Costa Rica. Kurt Van Dyke, 66, was found dead – with a sheet wrapped over his head ...

A California surfing legend has been brutally killed while his girlfriend was tied up and robbed at their Costa Rica home.

Surfing legend Kurt Van Dyke, a Santa Cruz native, was found dead in Costa Rica on Valentine's Day in a possible home ...

Van Dyke moved to Costa Rica's southern Limón province in 1983 and spent roughly four decades running a modest hotel that became a magnet for traveling surfers, as detailed by CRHoy. In the water, he ...

California surfer‑turned‑businessman Kurt Van Dyke, 66, was reportedly killed during a home invasion in Costa Rica on Feb. 14, according to local reports. He was attacked at the Puerto Viejo ...

Kurt Van Dyke, a 66-year-old Costa Rica resident and local hotel owner in Puerto Viejo on the country's Caribbean coast, was killed Saturday, according to the Judicial Investigation Agency.

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