U.s. Couple Missing In Caribbean After Fugitives Allegedly Steal Their Yacht.

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  1. Jake Smith

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    Kathy Brandel 71 yo, and Ralph Hendry 66 yo, were last seen a week ago near a beach in the small island nation. Police found their sailboat, and captured three escaped criminals whom they believe stole it. The couple was likely thrown into the ocean and died, police in Grenada said Monday. Feb 27, 2024

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    https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/us-ne...ad-after-yacht-stolen-by-caribbean-prisoners/

    A Virginia couple is feared dead after three escaped prisoners stole their docked yacht from a Caribbean marina and fled to another island.

    Ralph Hendry and his wife Kathy Brandel, who live on their yacht, Simplicity, were last seen by a boating neighbor on Sunday afternoon in St. George’s on the island nation of Grenada, as they headed to a restaurant.

    The pair lived on their boat during the winter and arrived on the island two weeks prior, intending to stay another week before they went missing.

    “They went into town [on Sunday] to have a little bite and to walk back,” Hendry’s sister Suellen Desmarais. “Somehow Ralph crossed paths in this teeny tiny town with these three men. What happened after that, we’re not sure.”

    ‘This was their whole life,” she added. “They didn’t own another home; they didn’t own cars; they owned Simplicity.”
     
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    Here is video of the couple,

     
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    I hate that all I can do is "Like" this, when it's horrific.
     
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    I think the 'like' also judt means we read the persons post, but I do know what you mean.

    They found blood and dna on the boat on the rape and murder.
    What a horrible way to die, the last thing you see are these monsters on top of you and the man had to see his friend being brutally molested and then butchered.
    So much evil is going on now, like the white devil who murdered the 13 yo Soto girl, after raping her for at least two years.

    I always tell my daughters and son 'watch your back' when they go anyplace now.
     
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    My first thought was shock at one they thought they would be safe there but I suppose it used to be.

    There have been some high profile shootings in the US this weekend as well.

    Agreed.
     
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    I have been watching a couple and a family on their boats sailing around the world, and most places they visit are safer than the USA.
    The couple have been sailing for 5 years now, the family whose young kids grew up on the boat are leaving now one is getting his own boat, his sister will join him. Both families are from Texas.
    They have been to all kinds of ports over last several years.
    I thin k this was just an opportune time for these criminals.

    We are one of the most dangerous nations for crime, we used to be one of the safest.
     
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    Unfortunately, the U.S. government is not interested in protecting citizens, but they will go to the wall for the citizens of other countries. Sad that this happened to those folks, and I hope the offenders get hung.
     
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    Me too! People that can be that cruel can't be rehabilitated, Imo. An eye for an eye for the devils.
     
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    I agree, with that, Don.


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    Like they did in the old days.
     
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    Unimaginable, Sons speak out, of missing Virgina couple.

     
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    America is becoming just as violent, corrupt, immoral and crime ridden as most third world nations.
    Even more frustrating is we are so worried about offending others we put our own children on the sacrificial alter of apathy and actually accept the evil going on.
    So long now that it is impossible to defend without being targeted.
    This idiocy blossomed in the late 50s and early 60s by the commie mud bath, free sex hippies.
     
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