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A Virginia couple is feared useless after escaped prisoners hijacked a docked yacht within the Caribbean.
The couple, Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel, dwell on their yacht in the course of the winter.
Hendry and Brandell had been final seen in St. George's, Grenada's capital, on Sunday afternoon. In response to a report within the New York Submit, they’d arrived on the island two weeks earlier and deliberate to remain for an additional week earlier than returning to Falls Church.
The looted yacht was situated in St. Vincent, however the American couple had been nowhere to be discovered.
American couple goes lacking in Caribbean after fugitives allegedly steal their yacht: Ralph Hendry and his spouse Kathy Brandell disappeared from their yacht Simplicity, which was parked within the waters off the southern Caribbean nation of Grenada, Hendry's sister, Suellen Desmarais informed ABC. pic.twitter.com/v9zFOSQROX
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Fox 5 DC studies that it’s “clear {that a} violent act had occurred.”
Three escaped prisoners at the moment are in custody on prices of kidnapping and the couple's disappearance. In response to the police station, he was already accused of theft and rape.
Fox studies, “The lads escaped from their jail cells on Sunday, February 18. Someday between then and Wednesday, investigators consider they contacted Ralph and Kathy on their boat.”
The Royal Grenada Police Drive mentioned in a press release that they had been “following leads which counsel that two individuals on board the yacht could have died within the course of.” It’s believed that the individuals on board the boat had been Americans.
Ralph Hendry's sister, Suellen Desmarais, informed the station she is hopeful he’s alive.
“On Sunday, they went into town round 3 am as a result of one other sailor had seen them going into town. After which the second sailor, when he went to mattress, he noticed they had been there since you at all times look to see who's round you and within the morning, when the sailor wakened they had been gone,'' Desmarais mentioned. “Why would I consider that somebody is useless with no physique and no DNA? I need to keep constructive. I need to consider they’re alive.