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<h6><span style="color:#140101;"><strong>Suspect accused of killing Canadian woman and her American boyfriend in Belize was victim&#8217;s &#8216;best friend,&#8217; her friends say</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;"><strong>52-year-old Canadian business woman Francesca Matus and boyfriend Drew DeVoursney, a former Marine from Georgia, were found dead Monday in Belize </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;"><strong>They were missing for a week before their bodies were found in a sugarcane field, wrists bound with duct tape, dead by strangulation</strong></span></h6>
<h6 id="ra-headline"><span style="color:#140101;"><strong>Authorities in Belize say Canadian expatriate John Deshaies, 54, is the prime suspect in the killings</strong></span></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-179274" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/john-deshaies11.jpg" alt="John Deshaies1.jpg" width="750" height="568" /><strong>Victim&#8217;s &#8216;best friend&#8217; John Deshaies, [photo], is the prime suspect in the killing of Canadian businesswoman Francesca Matus and her American boyfriend</strong></h6>
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<div class="ra-date-updated"> Fellow Canadian expatriate John Deshaies is in custody in the Central American country of Belize, for the <a href="http://konniemoments.com/2017/05/03/police-in-belize-detain-suspects-in-brutal-double-murder-of-atlanta-man-and-his-canadian-girlfriend-after-their-bound-strangled-bodies-were-found-in-cane-field/">double murder of Francesca Matus and her American boyfriend</a> was her &#8220;best friend,&#8221; a pal of the suspected killer claims.</div>
<article id="ra-body">Authorities in Belize have named 54-year-old John Deshaies as the prime suspect after Matus and boyfriend Drew DeVoursney, a former U.S. Marine from Georgia, were found dead Monday in the Central American country.<br />
However, a friend of Deshaies said police have the wrong man in custody and the Canadian construction company owner would never harm Matus.<br />
It&#8217;s a terrible misunderstanding,&#8221; the friend <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/05/ontario-man-reportedly-to-be-charged-in-belize-slayings-idd">told the Toronto Sun</a>. &#8220;Francesca was his best friend. He&#8217;s a really good guy.&#8221;<br />
<a href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/05/03/police-in-belize-detain-suspects-in-brutal-double-murder-of-atlanta-man-and-his-canadian-girlfriend-after-their-bound-strangled-bodies-were-found-in-cane-field/" rel="bookmark">Police in Belize detain suspects in brutal double murder of Atlanta man and his Canadian girlfriend after their bound, strangled bodies were found in cane field</a>The friend, who did not want to be identified, said officers targeted Deshaies because he disappeared shortly after the Canadian real estate investor and DeVoursney went missing.</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-179284" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/francesca-matus-and-drew-devoursney11.png" alt="Francesca Matus and Drew DeVoursney1" width="609" height="431" />Canadian real estate investor, Francesca Matus and boyfriend Drew DeVoursney were found dead in a Belizean sugarcane field, bound and strangled</h6>
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<p>However, local law enforcement started to focus on Deshaies, who lived in the lower half of Matus&#8217; home in Belize, following a theft at a Placenia casino.<br />
&#8220;Belize is a very corrupt country,&#8221; the friend said. &#8220;I think they&#8217;re actually keeping him in jail for his own safety. They want it to seem like it&#8217;s a Canadian or American problem rather than a Belizean one.&#8221;</p>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-177651" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/drew-devoursney-and-francesca-matus2.jpg" alt="Drew DeVoursney and Francesca Matus2" width="567" height="755" />Former US Marine Drew DeVoursney was killed in Belize along with Canadian girlfriend Francesca Matus. The pair had been dating a few months</h6>
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<p>Belizean authorities remain convinced the murders were an extension of a quarrel within the expatriate community that went too far.<br />
“We have one person we believe can assist us in our investigation,” was all police Sr. Superintendent Dennis Arnold said addressing the media.<br />
Matus, 52, split her time living in Canada and Belize and was a popular figure among the ex-pat community of 300 strong that gathered at a local watering hole for gossip and fun.<br />
The last time she and DeVoursney, 36, were seen alive was at Scotty&#8217;s Bar and Grill in Corozal.<br />
The couple, who had only been dating for a few months, were found dead in a field near the village of Chan Chen a week after they disappeared.<br />
Sources said marks on the bodies indicate that Matus and DeVoursney had been strangled.<br />
A second suspect was taken into custody Wednesday, but their identity has not been released.</p>
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John Deshaies, victim’s ‘Best friend’ held in murder of Canadian woman, Francesca Matus and her American boyfriend in Belize
