Drew DeVoursney, the Marine veteran from Atlanta who was recently killed along with his Canadian girlfriend in Belize, will be buried during a special military ceremony at Nashville National Cemetery in Tennessee Friday morning.
Marines will participate in the ceremony. DeVoursney’s mother, Char, will be presented with a U.S. flag. And “Taps” will be performed. A memorial service will be held at a separate location later in the day in Nashville, where DeVoursney grew up and graduated from high school.
DeVoursney, 36, and Francesca Matus, 52, were missing for almost a week before a farmer found their bodies in his sugar cane field in Corozal, a small town in northern Belize near the Mexican border. They had been strangled, and police found them with tape on their wrists. The FBI has been assisting with the investigation.
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John Deshaies, the man Belize police have identified as a person of interest in their double-murder investigation, was released on bail last week on an unrelated theft charge, according to news reports. A Canadian national who rented space on the ground floor of Matus’ seaside home in Belize, Deshaies has denied involvement in the killings.
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