TORONTO — The mother-in-law of Canadian star Alan Thicke is suspected of masterminding the brutal murder of her husband.
Police in Bolivia allege Ruth Miriam Callau, known as Chingui Callau, paid her employee Richard Velasquez Terrazas $4,000 to hire hit men to kill Petrus Jacobus Gerardus Dekker.
The Dutch citizen was found last Saturday not far from the couple’s 1,400-acre cattle ranch in the Santa Cruz region of eastern Bolivia with gunshot wounds to his chest and head. His hands and feet were bound.
Terrazas reportedly told investigators Callau wanted to sell the ranch and move back to the U.S. but her husband did not.
Prosecutor Rolando Ramirez said both Callau and Terrazas have been charged as accomplices in the murder.
Callau, who was taken into custody on Saturday, has denied any involvement in her husband’s murder.
Her daughter Tanya — stepdaughter of the victim — married Thicke in 2005. It is the 66-year-old Growing Pains star’s third marriage.
Thicke, who is currently filming a TV movie in Vancouver, has not publicly commented on the case.
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