Michael Dixon One of Several Missing Tourists in Costa Rica
Why are tourists disappearing in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica? Normally when we hear stories of tragedy befalling a recent arrival it is either because they fall victim to Pacific rip tides or had trouble at home that follows them to Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is not the best place to hide if you are wanted by the authorities, and it’s a worse place to escape if you are wanted by organized crime. Simply put it’s difficult for a foreigner with no family connections to survive for the long term in Costa Rica. Tougher immigration laws and bank transparency requirements require that a person on the run have reliable associates who aren’t also wanted.
Michel Dixon wasn’t running from anything, and he along with Four other Missing Tourists have disappeared in the Guanacaste region that is popular with tourists and real estate developers.
His family made this video to help spread the word, and the local television station Repretel did a short story on it several weeks ago. Dixon a British journalist disappeared on October 16, 2009 and was last seen on Playa Tamarindo. A website has been setup to help get the word out, however no new information has been forthcoming since he disappeared.
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This is a major problem and not just in Costa Rica. 2 last year in Isla de Roatan, Honduras (one of them my brother, Joe Dunsavage); Ron Scheepstra in Xcalak, Mexico; Alex Humphrey in Panama; Richard Alicea and Edwin Pritchard in the Bahamas. U.S. and British citizens between the ages of 28 and 49, no ransom requests, no reasons to believe any of these men chose to disappear — no interest from their governments and precious little attention from the media. If you know anything about these men, have lost family or friends abroad, or can be of assistance in spreading the word about this problem and helping the families of the missing, please visit and join The Missing Americans Project.
Has anyone looked into strains of parasites in Costa Rica and if Americans and Europeans are susceptible to any of these strains?
I know of a person who returned to the states after a trip to CR and lost his mind. He has since died. I read an article where a missing American tourist was spotted in CR, and he was unshaven and seemed to have lost his mind.
Just trying to connect the dots.
there is a lot of people flying in Costa Rica that are professional scammers…use bites to get unsuspecting victims and make them dissapear, and they travel a lot short stays in one place and hard to pin down….