Belize - Patricia 'Lynn' Nichiporowich, 57, Canadian, Corozal, 30 Oct 2013

A 57-year-old Vancouver woman was stabbed to death amid a botched home invasion of her apartment in a Belize retirement community, according to police from the Central American country.

Patricia Lynn Nichiporowich, a snowbird who had operated an environmental services company in Vancouver, was stabbed to death inside her second-storey unit Tuesday night in the wealthy Consejo Shores area of the Corozal District, according to Corozal police's Assistant Supt. Daniel Arzu.

"Upon the police entering the building, they saw this Caucasian lady lying face down on the floor in the living room in what appeared to be a pool of blood, with several multiple stab wounds to her neck and body," Arzu said in a telephone interview Thursday.
Arzu said investigators believe the motive was robbery, but nothing appeared to have been taken from the home.
"There certainly was a home invasion."
He said the home hadn't been ransacked.

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Police told Amandala today that they still have no leads into the murder of Canada national, Patricia Lynn Nichiporowich, 57, a resident of Consejo, Corozal, who died after she was stabbed multiple times and her throat slashed in her Consejo Shores home by a killer or killers who invaded her home between 5:30 and 6:30 Tuesday evening, October 29.

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Patricia Lynn Nichiporowich who had been living in the Consejo area in the outskirts of Corozal Town since May first. Her common-law left for Canada earlier this week and she was home alone when her life was cut short. Her killers apparently entered the secured house from the rear and police found footprints as well as the murder weapon…A stainless steel eight-inch blade knife, believed to be the murder weapon, was retrieved from the scene. Nichiporowich and her common-law had been renting in the area since May of this year and she was to relocate to San Ignacio shortly… She had a partner who is out of the country right now. I understand that he might have departed the country on Monday and she stayed back preparing to migrate to San Ignacio in the Cayo District.

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"It appears that a person (or persons) may have made entry by climbing to the upper flat of the building, and exited by the same means, jumping down and making their escape. That is basically what we discovered. We found a knife on the couch inside the living room, smeared with what appears to blood, and the injuries observed on the body would seem to be that of injuries from a sharp object… I believe that the person or persons who gained entry to that building were extremely distracted. They had to quickly flee that scene because of the presence of the neighbours. From information gathered, the neighbours were alerted by screaming and panicked yelling, and they responded.” Investigators are not sure if there is anything missing, but they are doubtful because there were quite a bit of small but valuable electronics, that could have been an easy haul, which were left undisturbed.
In Canada, Nichiporowich was an indoor air quality specialist with over 30 years’ experience. Police say that her spouse left Belize on Monday, and he is currently in Florida.

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we told you that one person had been detained for questioning. That person was released from police custody due to lack of evidence and to date there are no leads whatsoever that may direct police to Nichiporowich murderer…

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There were little to no clues as to who could have committed the heinous crime as Nichiporowich’s husband had just left the country en route to the U.S. one day earlier. One person was detained and then subsequently released, but reports are now that the person of interest in the ongoing police investigation is not in the country and can only be contacted through a local attorney here in Belize. That person, a foreign national, is being sought by Corozal police, who say that they are in contact with their U.S. counterparts for assistance

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Indications are that one of the persons whom the police wanted to talk with has been out of Belize since the brutal murder on October 29, 2013.

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At first observation, a number of cut wounds were seen on the body, which appeared to have been caused by a machete. According to police, it also appeared that she had been raped, but this was not confirmed by the autopsy conducted on her corpse.

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human said:

Strange they would climb into a second story apartment when the partner has left. Why there? Does not look like an easy thing to do

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David Dorenzo- Nichiporowich, Common-law-husband
"The churches spent much time advising North Americans particularly on the internet blogs to spent time to investigate the country before moving in when retiring, she also warned of unscrupulous North American developers who sold a dream; the dream, an unimproved piece of land with a promise and a picture, I am sure the development community deprive mostly of North American builder’s I should say were less than happy with what she wrote on these blogs.

“The Corozal Police are incompetent and I worst they are completely corrupt, that is the protection that won’t be afforded you the Expat should you decide to live and retire in Belize. While there is no official count of North Americans Expats in Belize someone did estimate that there are approximately 3000, it doesn’t seem like a lot but I think it is an understatement but when one notes adding totally the number of house breakings, robberies, house invasions, outrage murders of North Americans, the amount of crime against Expats is a significant statistics, as I said earlier North Americans are prey, we have money and stuff that the average indigent Belizean will never be able to afford, again if you are living in Belize or contemplating retiring in Belize please get a brain scan.

If you are a white North American Expat I believe you are prey with a target on your back for the natives; breaking, home invasion, stuff robberies and killings are a fact of life in Belize. The natives are rarely quite when the crime committed against North Americans Expats so that the perpetrators know they can commit the crimes with impunity. Police protection is none existent and self-protection is almost impossible as it is illegal to own a weapon in Belize. Let me just summarize by saying that if you live or plan to retire in Belize please get a brain scan.”

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Satchie said:

There's a follow-up article from the Belize media:

July 14, 2015 Corozal Police Is Accused Of Being Corrupt
http://www.ctv3belizenews.com/index...f-being-corrupt&catid=44:education&Itemid=112

"while police believe that the motive behind Nichiporowich’s murder is robbery, her common-law-husband, David Dorenzo, who had travelled to Florida just the day before she was murdered, thinks otherwise. Here is what he stated in an interview he shared on the social media.

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musicaljoke said:

It seems to me this was a straight up murder.

It seems to me that the partner knew a lot about the ability of locals to commit crimes with impunity.

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Satchie said:

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She posted a few times on October 22, 2013 (1 week before her death) on the Expat.com Belize forum in a thread titled Immigration, that she was living in Belize because of all the trouble she'd had trying to cross the border into Florida, where she owned a home. Last time she'd crossed the border she'd been told she could not even transit between Canada and Belize via the US because she had a US partner "not even married", therefore she'd "abandoned" her house in Florida, a little later stating she would most likely sell her house in the US and buy something in Belize http://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=313141#1555214

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musicaljoke said:

I suppose that a hired killing might have crossed everyone's minds.

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MelmothTheLost said:

I'm curious as to why a Canadian businesswoman would have such problems entering the US. OK, so she was in a non-marital relationship with an American citizen but she was a semi-retired educated person with a known background, not an undocumented central American illegal immigrant looking to disappear into the black economy.

What gives?

Is there something underlying this that isn't being made public?

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I feel more like we are the criminals and the criminal’s a good guy. They will not talk to me, they will not release our valuables…I believe Patricia was targeted, I have no evidence or proof but based on her discussion in the forums and telling people to “spend time before you buy” was anathema to developers there who were trying to persuade people to buy immediately off the web…I am upset because I don’t believe whoever did this will ever be caught and if there are money interests behind this, obviously they will never be caught.”

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