American chocolatier charged in deaths of Canadian animation pioneer and his wife at Caribbean resort

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1. Guardian link

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/07/us-businessman-charged-dominica-deaths

Lehrer owns property next to Coulibri Ridge, a luxury eco-resort run by Langlois and Marchand listed by Condé Nast Traveler as a “hotlist” destination for 2023 and by Travel + Leisure as the “world’s greenest resort”. He is reported to have been locked in a dispute with the couple over a public road that passes through Lehrer’s cocoa plantation estate.

Radio-Canada, citing local sources, said that Langlois and Marchand had been ambushed and killed before their car plunged into the ravine and caught fire last Friday.

The businessman and philanthropist Daniel Langlois was a pioneer in 3D animation.
Death of Canadian 3D pioneer found in burned car on Caribbean island was ‘potential homicide’

The fire that engulfed their bodies was reported to be so intense that police relied on “circumstantial evidence” to identify them. “This type of terrible and brutal crime cannot be ignored, and we cannot allow those responsible to get away with it,” Dominica’s minister of national security, Rayburn Blackmoore, said on national radio.