Costa Rican police find body of '5Dimes Tony'

One year after he was reported missing and presumed kidnapped, the body of William Sean Creighton, better known as “5Dimes Tony” has been found in Costa Rica. Costa Rica’s Judiciary Investigative Police (OIJ) confirmed the worst case scenario for the missing sports betting entrepreneur after positively identifying a body that was found in a cemetery in the small, rural town of Quepos, which is about three hours away from where he was last seen.
5Dimes disappeared last year under a cloud of mystery that set off wild speculation about his fate. While most sources assumed that Creighton had been kidnapped and was being held for ransom, a fringe of conspiracy theorists put forth the idea that he had staged his own disappearance. Costa Rican media outlets did not help the situation when they suggested that 5Dime’s body had been found just days after he went missing, though that story has been proven to be inaccurate.
Shortly after Creighton disappeared, his wife was contacted by a group of kidnappers who said they were holding him for a $5 million bitcoin ransom. Creighton’s widow immediately raised $1 million in Bitcoin and sent it to the supposed kidnappers, but 5Dimes was never heard from again. Costa Rican police eventually used information from the Bitcoin transfer to extradite and arrest three men from Spain who have not yet been charged with the kidnapping or, now that his body has been found, murder.
5Dimes Tony was in the first wave of American entrepreneurs who went to Costa Rica to establish what is now known as the offshore sports betting industry.