F.B.I. Joins Investigation into Claire Rigdon’s Death in Corozal District

Joseph Myvett

Detectives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have joined the Belize Police Department in probing the death of forty-nine-year-old Claire Elizabeth Rigdon.  The lifeless body of the American national was found floating in a swimming pool at her residence on the Consejo Road on the night of October thirteenth.  According to her husband, Robley Smith Rigdon Junior, the couple was socializing at home earlier that evening before he fell asleep.  When the fifty-year-old American retiree woke up several hours later, he reportedly found his wife in a partial state of undress floating in the body of water.  While that was the initial account provided to police, the F.B.I. has been called in to assist with the investigation. ACP Joseph Myvett told the media today that a second postmortem will be conducted in the U.S.

ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“That is still an ongoing investigation and we have requested for and had the assistance of the F.B.I. in relation to this matter.  The body was flown out of the country for a second post mortem which will be conducted in the U.S. later this week.”