A Californian surf legend was killed during a home invasion in Costa Rica on Saturday morning, a local news station reported. <\/p>\n
Kurt Van Dyke, 66, was found dead under a bed in his home in Hone Creek, Cahuita, Talamanca, with multiple stab wounds and signs of asphyxiation, according to the Tico Times<\/a>, a Costa Rican newspaper. <\/p>\n Van Dyke and his 31-year-old girlfriend were confined in a single room by two armed male assailants according to investigators, SURFER <\/a>reported. The men stole valuables before attacking Van Dyke, according to Costa Rican authorities quoted by the news site. <\/p>\n His girlfriend, identified only by her last name, Arroyo, was restrained with zip ties and had a 2013 Hyundai Elantra stolen off the property.<\/p>\n Costa Rican officials are investigating the killing but have made no arrests. <\/p>\n \u201cWe remember your spirit, your energy, and the light you brought into the lives around you. Some people leave footprints \u2014 you left waves,\u201d Ronald Uma\u00f1a, a friend of Van Dyke\u2019s, wrote on Facebook<\/a>. <\/p>\n Van Dyke, a Santa Cruz native, was a long-time Caribbean resident and owned Hotel Puerto Viejo, a dorm-style hostel in Puerto Viejo de Telemanca. <\/p>\n \u201cMy brother was a very benevolent, giving person who would help just about anybody,\u201d Kurt\u2019s brother, Peter Van Dyke, told the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. \u201cKurt would never hurt anybody, and he was always there when you needed him. Everyone that he met knew this about him.\u201d<\/p>\n Van Dyke was from a prominent surfing family. His father, Gene Van Dyke, pioneered the sport in Northern California in the 1950s. <\/p>\n His mother, Betty, who died in 2021<\/a> at 88, was a fifth-generation California farmer<\/a> and one of the first female competitive surfing champions in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Californian surf legend was killed during a home invasion in Costa Rica on Saturday morning, a local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85688,6577,11418,85691,7,9,8,68548,85686,85685,85689,85687,85684,1555,85690,85693,11466,85692],"class_list":["post-180660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-31-year-old-girlfriend","tag-authority","tag-brother","tag-cahuita","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-surfer","tag-costa-rica-home-invasion","tag-costa-rican-newspaper","tag-hone-creek","tag-hotel-puerto-viejo","tag-kurt-van-dyke","tag-man","tag-multiple-stab-wound","tag-ronald-umana","tag-sign","tag-talamanca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}