Overview

• On July 5, Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police found a decomposed male body near Grace Bay while searching for 51-year-old Brian Tarrence
• Authorities have classified the discovery as a suspected homicide and are conducting forensic tests to confirm the identity
• The ongoing investigation brings together local police, the U.S. State Department and private investigator Carl DeFazio hired by the victim’s family
• Tarrence vanished on June 25 after surveillance footage showed him leaving his Grace Bay Airbnb during a one-year anniversary trip with his wife
• The probe unfolds against a backdrop of a recent U.S. travel advisory warning of rising violent crime in the Turks and Caicos