Kurt Van Dyke, a U.S. surfer from Santa Cruz, was found strangled and stabbed multiple times inside his apartment in a small ...

Kurt Van Dyke, a Santa Cruz surfing legend who later settled in Costa Rica, was killed Saturday during a home invasion in Limón province, authorities said.

Santa Cruz surfing legend Kurt Van Dyke was found slain on Valentine’s Day in Costa Rica, friends and family said. They said Van Dyke’s oldest son shared the news.

The surfing community is mourning the loss of a legend whose family helped define the culture along the Santa Cruz coast.

Costa Rican authorities are investigating the killing of a U.S. citizen in what they describe as an apparent robbery. On ...

Kurt Van Dyke, a California surfer and longtime Costa Rica resident, was found dead at his home. Authorities say the killing appears linked to a robbery.

He was a class act,” said one longtime friend of Van Dyke’s. “Just someone who you’d want to hang out with … was passionate about surfing; passionate about ...

A California surfing legend has been brutally killed while his girlfriend was tied up and robbed at their Costa Rica home.

The 66-year-old hotel owner was found beneath a bed after masked men allegedly entered his home in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rican ...

An expatriate American hotel owner from a prominent surfing family in California was brutally killed in Costa Rica this ...

Kurt Van Dyke, 66, was killed in a home invasion in Costa Rica over the weekend. His girlfriend survived the attack.

Van Dyke moved to Costa Rica's southern Limón province in 1983 and spent roughly four decades running a modest hotel that became a magnet for traveling surfers, as detailed by CRHoy. In the water, he ...