FBI helping search for more victims in Bocas del Toro
Investigators are continuing the search at five sites in in Bocas del Toro, for additional victims of a couple who allegedly murdered at least two people and may be serial killers.
William “Wild Bill" Cortez and his wife Jeana Seana, were arrested in Nicaragua earlier in the week on two murder charges and are suspected of a series of murders.
Prosecutor Ángel Calderón revealed that crime scene experts found traces of blood in a boat used by the couple which may indicate that they used it to ferry bodies of victims.
Investigators are searching the five sites in Bocas for additional evidence against the couple. Two bodies have already been found in a property where they once lived. They were Bo Icelar, who went missing in 2009, and Cher Lynn Hughes, who disappeared this year.
In both cases, the couple allegedly murdered the victims so they could steal their properties,
The investigation is now focused on whether they also killed another ex-pat shortly after arriving in Panama in 2007. There is also the possibility that the couple murdered two of their indigenous employees who have also been reported missing.
The FBI are assisting in the search using dogs trained to find human remains.