{"id":373320,"date":"2025-11-12T06:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373320\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T06:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:34:13","slug":"vancouver-woman-found-dead-in-belize-after-stabbing-authorities-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373320\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver woman found dead in Belize after stabbing, authorities confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Vancouver woman was found dead at a spa in Belize on Monday morning after a stabbing, local police have confirmed.<\/p>\n

The body of Marty Thorne was discovered shortly before 8 a.m. local time, at a resort called RawSpa near Bullet Tree Village.<\/p>\n

The spa is located around 100 kilometres southwest of Belize City, and 37 kilometres southwest of Belmopan, the capital of the Central American country.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson with the Belize Police Department told CBC News that a caretaker arrived and found blood at a cabana (small hut) at RawSpa, and police discovered Thorne’s body around 50 metres away near a river on the property.<\/p>\n

One person is in custody in relation to the case, and police are looking for two more suspects.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson said they believe Thorne may have known the suspects, and only her cellphone was missing. <\/p>\n

They did not release an exact motive or cause of death, pending an autopsy.<\/p>\n

Police say Thorne had been living in Belize since she was a young adult, and had returned to Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. She went back to the Central American country around six weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\"AA cabana is seen at RawSpa near Bullet Tree Village in Belize. (Rawspa Cabanas\/Belizing.com)<\/p>\n

Authorities said they have notified Thorne’s two sons, who live in Vancouver, and their father is Belizean.<\/p>\n

One of Thorne’s sons replied to a CBC News reporter when contacted on Facebook, saying he was still in shock and would check with family before agreeing to an interview.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada said it was aware of the death of a Canadian citizen in Belize, and extended its condolences to their family.<\/p>\n

“Consular officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and with the family to provide consular assistance,” the spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Due to privacy considerations, no further information can be disclosed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":373321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-373320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115535339441396161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}