KINGSTON — Jamaican police are investigating the murder of a retired American nurse this weekend.
Loris Murray, 72, was found strangled to death in her home in the Pyramid Heights section of Ocho Rios in St. Ann Parish in Jamaica on Saturday, the Jamaica Constabulary Force said.
Murray’s body was found at 11:26 a.m. lying face down in a pool of blood with an electric chord wrapped around her neck, according to police.
Her body was subsequently taken to the morgue for an autopsy to be performed at date to be determined.
Police have determined that Murray was attacked sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning.
Three hardware store delivery men were seen entering Murray’s home on Friday afternoon, police said.
A motor vehicle belonging to Murray was subsequently found abandoned on the Milford main road in the resort town.
Police believe some of Murray’s attackers might have driven away with the vehicle after exiting her home.
Jamaica has one of the world’s highest homicide rates, and robberies, rapes and killings of tourists are a common occurrence there.
The country also has one of the highest rates of killings by police officers in the Americas, according to Amnesty International which has dubbed them as “extrajudicial executions.”
