According to the Missing Americans Project, a nonprofit organization helping to track Americans and other nationals who vanish in Costa Rica and elsewhere, disappearances of foreigners are under-reported and not closely monitored by any organization. “Families of people who go missing outside their country’s borders frequently find themselves alone and struggling”, according to the organization’s director. This is the recent situation with Canadian native Jaclyn Smith-Farland, a 40-year old ex-military officer who disappeared from Playas del Coco on August 17th, and has not been seen since. Police say she was “swallowed up by the earth.” Jaclyn apparently suffered from schizophrenia...
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