Surfing legend, 66, brutally murdered at Costa Rica hotel he owns during burglary that saw his girlfriend, 31, zip

Surfer and hotelier Kurt Van Dyke, 66, was found dead under his bed with a sheet over his head in the vacation hotspot of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca on Saturday.


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