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The FBI opened a Crime on the High Seas homicide investigation in May 2016 after the U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento sought assistance with allegations against Silas Duane Boston. The case concerned the 1978 deaths of tourists Peta Frampton and Chris Farmer, who had traveled aboard Boston's vessel, the Justin, in the Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras region. The released records include FBI electronic communications, a former police officer interview, and requests for overseas lead coverage and certified port, immigration, recovery, autopsy, burial, and identification records. They describe records showing the Justin's movements, the recovery of two weighted bodies off Guatemala in July 1978, and the later dental identification of Frampton and Farmer. The file also notes Boston as a suspect in the 1968 disappearance of his former wife, Mary Lou Boston, and records an unsuccessful 2016 search for Honduran immigration or vessel records.

FBI file number: 45C-SC-7578359 | Documents span: 2016 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Silas Duane Boston, Peta Frampton, Chris Farmer, Mary Lou Boston, Matt Segal, Heiko Coppola
Subjects: Crime on the High Seas, homicide, Belize, Guatemala, international investigation, missing persons