A Florida voluntary worker was stabbed to death at her hotel in
Costa Rica by a younger local lover in a jealous fit. The woman
identified as Sondra Lynn Elizondo, 46, is from Merritt Island, Florida
had reportedly been stabbed at least five times with a knife - receiving
deep wounds to her neck, face, chest and shoulder - when she was found
dead in her hotel room in a trendy neighborhood in the capital San Jose
on Wednesday. She was found found naked on her bed, lying in a pool of
blood and with a pillow on her face by a maid.
And according to local reports, police are searching for a man 15
years her junior who is said to have visited the mother-of-two at the
hotel - called Casa 69 - each time she visited the count. Sondra helped
people in Central America get medical care. Elizondo, a divorcee, of
Merritt Island, Florida, organized volunteer medical missions in Central
America through her charity Vida Volunteer and is said to have been a
regular visitor to the region.
Sondra Lynn Elizondo
On Tuesday they are said to have arrived at the hotel together and
gone into her room. Soon after an argument was heard inside the room. A
few minutes later, screams from a woman were briefly heard again. The
suspect is then said to have left the hotel in a taxi, said to be the
same that had been used to pick her up at the airport. Police are still
trying to locate him and are said to be looking at CCTV footage from the
hotel for clues. Police are looking for the suspect, who was described
as her lover and is 15 years younger than Elizondo. The unidentified man
allegedly fled the scene in a taxi.
Friends told investigators that the alleged killer was an extremely jealous man who “never let her speak to anybody.” Elizondo
is a divorced mother of a teenage boy and girl, who was the director
and co-founder of VIDA Volunteers, an organization that set up medical
and dental clinics in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Police have.
Police said that they are reviewing security cameras for evidence of the
crime.
Sondra Lynn Elizondo
Sondra is survived by her two children, her parents and a brother.
She will be deeply missed. Elizondo grew up in Minnesota, where she
found a love of volunteering through working at a local nursing home,
according to Space Coast Daily.
She then went on to graduate from the University of St Thomas with a
degree in social work. She worked at several hospitals and long-term
care facilities before becoming a US Peace Corps volunteer in Central
America before eventually winning University of St Thomas's Humanitarian
Award in 2014, reports Dailymail. Her
former husband Ricardo lives in Florida, as do her parents. Elizondo
marks the second woman with Space Coast, Florida, ties to be killed in
Costa Rica in the last four years, according to Florida Today.
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