Ecuador: Money was motive in murder of U.S. Expat Jonathan Gilchrist

American was missing five months ago in Guayaquil. One woman revealed that Jonathan Gilchrist
was under three layers of cement

expreso.ec (machine translated) On October 19, 2016, it was the last time the American Jonathan Charles Gilchrist, 56, was seen by the guards of the condominium where he lived, in the canton Salinas (Santa Elena). Five months later, his body appeared buried.

The clues came to the police through a woman who would have witnessed the death of Gilchrist, who – by the end of 2016 – would have sent a text message to a friend to tell him that he would travel to Colombia to buy a property.

According to the police, the informant would have confessed that it was a homicide and would have given the names of the suspects involved in the incident.

Prosecutor Santiago Rivadeneira, who was in charge of the removal of the body, said that two people are already detained and that, although the investigations continue, it would seem that he was murdered for money. Read Article

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