The Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) is investigating the death of a 75-year-old U.S. citizen found inside a walled property in Cabo Velas, Santa Cruz de Guanacaste yesterday morning, in a case agents are treating as an apparent homicide that may be connected to a robbery at the home. The property is encircled by a wall roughly two meters (about six and a half feet) high. Agents who responded conducted a preliminary inspection and determined that she had suffered blunt-force injuries to the head. Cabo Velas is a coastal district of the Santa Cruz canton that takes in Playa Grande, Brasilito, Flamingo and Potrero, a stretch of northern Guanacaste with a heavy concentration of foreign-owned residential property and short-term rentals. Business groups and municipal authorities have expanded camera networks across Santa Cruz, Carrillo, Nicoya and Hojancha in an effort to deter theft, part of a broader response to the security pressures facing the province’s tourism economy.