Grim update on search for sailing American retirees apparently hijacked in the Caribbean by escaped prisoners

Police in Grenada say that escapees likely threw Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel, seen in the inset, overboard. (Screenshot: GIS TV; image of the couple: GoFundMe campaign)

Police in Grenada say that prison escapees likely threw Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel, seen in the inset, overboard. (Screenshot: GIS TV; image of the couple: GoFundMe campaign)

Police in the Caribbean nation of Granada released a grim update in the search for an American couple whose yacht was hijacked by escaped prisoners. Evidence suggests that the perpetrators “disposed of the occupants” while sailing to the nearby country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

In other words, the men likely threw Virginia residents Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel overboard. As Law&Crime has reported, authorities had said they feared that the missing couple had been killed.

Monday’s update sheds more light on what specifically might have happened last week.

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