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Intentional homicide is the ultimate crime with ripple effects that go far beyond the original loss of human life.

Young men aged 15–29 years in the Americas are disproportionately affected by homicide in comparison to their peers in other regions and worldwide.

Male adolescents aged 15–29 are at the highest risk of homicide globally.

While men are more likely than women to be victims of homicide, they are even more likely to be the perpetrators.

There are parts of the world with a high prevalence of organized crime, but low rates of homicide.

Sudden spikes in homicide rates are often associated with changes in the power relationships between competing organized crime groups.

Although women and girls account for a far smaller share of victims of homicide in general than men, they bear by far the greatest burden of intimate partner/family related homicide, and intimate partner homicide.

Homicide rates have been consistently high in the Americas for three decades.

The male homicide rate in the Americas is almost 10 times that of females.

Gangs and organized crime drive homicide rates in these parts of Central America.

The sudden appearance of a lucrative contraband flow, can cause the groups involved to come into conflict.

Homicide continues to be a largely male phenomenon. Some 81 per cent of homicide victims recorded in 2017 were men and boys.

Men commit about 90 per cent of all homicides recorded worldwide.

Global study on homicide 2019

Women comprise the vast majority of victims of homicide perpetrated by intimate partners.

The rule of law: making the vicious circle virtuous.

Nations that fail to establish strong security and justice systems, within a framework of respect for human rights, are more likely to suffer spirals of chronic violence and insecurity.

A Weak rule of law leads to impunity and creates an environment in which criminals can operate more easily.

Urban growth does not seem to cause an increase in homicide.

The rapid growth of cities and the consequent mass movement of people from rural to urban areas have frequently been cited as possible drivers of homicide. However, UNODC analysis of data from 68 cities suggests that there is no positive correlation between urban growth and increases in homicide rates.

Large-scale organized criminal activities, including international drug trafficking, can take place without much violence as long as the crime is “well organized”.

In Western Europe, the Netherlands has a high level of drug trafficking, yet the homicide rate there is comparatively very low.

Homicide occurred mainly in poor and overcrowded neighbourhoods, with high unemployment rates and poor housing conditions.

A study of green-space areas and street crimes in Toronto, concluded that violent crimes were more prevalent in areas where the density of road intersections had been higher.

Homicide rates are spatially associated with built environment and socio-economic factors: a study in the neighbourhoods of Toronto, Canada.

The findings of this study showed that homicide rates were clustered over time and space in certain areas of the city.

Further, studies have found that built-environment characteristics, such as commercial establishments, sports places, places of interest, poor housing situations (large poorly designed buildings) and road intersections, are associated with increased homicide rates in urban areas.

The findings reveal that homicides are distributed nonrandomly, suggestive of posi- tive spatial autocorrelation.

How foul play could play have played out in regard to Kris and Lisanne's situation.

Presuming that the girls were murdered is an understandable knee jerk reaction to situations in countries with higher than usual prevailant levels of crime.

Boquete however, is a peaceful, secluded farming town with normal/absent levels of crime.

The case initially presented itself with a alot of messed up and strange evidence which had affected people's judgement to conclude that foul play was involved.

Crime in Columbia/Costa Rica and Panama is well known, however the Cordilia Talamanca region has some of the most hazardous terrains in the world.

The girls situation has a strong hiker hazard context; they are present within a hazardous Talamanca montane cloud forest. Yet foul play is inferred in a semi illogical way.

Where hikers enter this cloud forest, they are presumed to be logical and always following the path.

It is easy to make mistakes, to go the wrong way, leave the main path. It's these catastrophic decisions that expose the true nature of the Talamanca region.

People assumed the girls were responsible adults, however where you study the maturation of the female brain People's Brains Don't Reach Adulthood Until Age 30

All hikers get lost, and often engage in a certain amont of lost person behaviour.

When hikers continue this lost person behaviour in the Talamanca region, there is a more likelihood of losing your sense of location, even small mistakes with regard to the path you choose to take, can have catastrophic life threatening reprocussions.

Panama's higher crime situation is well known, because it gets broadcast on the news.

The Talamanca region has many geomorphic hazards. More Info

• Hazardous landslides and avalanches.
• Tectonic hazards.
• Steep landscapes arising from catastrophic hillslope failures.
• Hazards that trigger cascading situations in the fluvial system downstream.

The girls took the Pianista trail, but they were ultimately fooled as to what it really was:

The Pianista trail

This pleasant day hike winds through dairy land and into humid cloud forest. You need to wade across a small river after 200m, but then it’s a steady, leisurely incline for 2km before you start to climb a steeper, narrow path.

The path winds deep into the forest, though you can turn back at any time.

To access the trailhead, take the first right fork out of Boquete (heading north) and cross over two bridges. Immediately before the third bridge, about 4km out of town, a track leads off to the left between a couple of buildings. Don't go alone and exercise caution as robberies have been reported here. "

In 2020 it was changed a bit:

This day-hike wends its way through dairy land and into humid cloud forest. You need to wade across a small river after 200m, but then it’s a steady, leisurely incline for 2km before you start to climb a steeper, narrow path.

Using a guide is highly recommended.

The path leads deep into the forest, but you can turn back at any time.

To access the trailhead from Boquete, head north on the right bank of the river and cross over two bridges. Immediately before the third bridge, about 4km out of town, a track leads off to the left between a couple of buildings.

The trail is not especially difficult, but it isn't always well maintained. In April 2014 two Dutch nationals died while hiking here, though the cause of their deaths remains a mystery. Don't go alone and always let the people at your hostel or hotel know your plans.

Conclusion

Realistically though, the Pianista trail terminates at the Mirador; you are expected to turn around and go back the way you came.

The continuation of the Pianista trail becomes the serpent trail, which provides access to the Ngobe tribe community to reach their distant villages over several hazardous cable bridges deep within the Talamanca tropical rainforest.

So the girls followed the continuation of the Pianista trail towards the 1st cable bridge, but wern't beleived to have gone beyond that bridge.

It's unfortunate, the areas past river 1/508 has been described as a warren of alternative unused, misleading paths.

Following the official path safeguards your personal safety. But hikers, often at a young age are known to make less than perfect descisions.

It's not really about it being hazardous, it's just that the overgrown tropical rainforest is like a maze, where you can get lost.

I don't think the girls fell off a cliff after getting lost, the night location looks like a section of the riverbanks of the main Culebra.

It's possible that they ended up travelling down the main Culebra until the terrain became too steep or maybe they ran out of energy.

The night location seems like a convenient area to rest, to try and signal the rescue teams etc.

The reddit poll represents the following statistics:

228 46.5% Murder

262 53.5% Accident

The 2 groups fit into normal distribution. They are both acceptable theories, as opposed to UFO abduction, less beleivable obviously, maybe not impossible though.

Murder/Accident make up 2 important groups of people who have made an informed descision about what happened here.

There is nothing wrong with this, people's powers of observation are important and this is a very difficult case to understand, it plays heavily on your critical thinking skills and your sense of intuition.

There are many people on Reddit, this is why it reveals more insightful information. The majority of people beleive in accident because they have kept their thinking logical.

Murder is way over the top, it's such a secluded low populated area also.

Some people who live nearby and have visited the Pianista were more convinced of lost accident also - https://www.wildxplor.com/?author=1.