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Canadian Tourist Reported Missing Found Dead Near Huchuy Qosqo in Cusco

Police and prosecutors are conducting preliminary forensic tests to determine how the 47-year-old died.

Overview

  • The body of Jame Lea (Lee) Anne Summers was located on the morning of December 24 on an access route to the Huchuy Qosqo archaeological complex in Calca, Cusco.
  • Peruvian police activated search protocols with the Missing Persons unit and High Mountain Police, focusing on difficult terrain near the site.
  • Summers was last seen on December 21 near Yanahuara in Urubamba, and her daughter filed a missing-person report the next day.
  • The daughter told authorities she received a WhatsApp message, apparently from her mother, to meet at Cusco’s airport on December 22, after which the phone could no longer be reached.
  • Officers and a prosecutor cordoned the area, transferred the body to the morgue, and say the case remains a preliminary investigation with no cause of death yet established.