Nedenia Post Dye, great-granddaughter of socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post, and heiress to General Foods Inc., was found dead at her resort in the Honduras, according to MSN News.
Dye, 46, was found stabbed in her room last December 22, according to police reports.
"She was a good woman who worked with young people at risk, drug addicts and alcoholics," Alex Madrid, Roatan chief of police, told MSN News. Madrid said that they've arrested the murder suspect.
Lenin Roberto Arana, the suspect the police have arrested, said that he and Dye were in a romantic relationship. Arana, who is a local singer and also known as "The Canary," told local reporters that he didn't commit murder and was innocent.
According to Madrid, Dye had been living in Roatan, Honduras for the last 15 years and was running the Baan Suerte luxury spa, the report said.
Dye, who hailed from Santa Monica, California, told an alumni publication of George Washington University last year that like her great-grandmother, Merriweather Post, she loves to take risks. Merriweather Post inherited the Postum Cereal Company founded in 1895 at age 27 that would later be known as General Foods Inc.
"My friend and I had an idea to start a business," Dye told the alumni magazine. "I wanted to go to Asia but she said 'No, Central America is closer. If (the business) fails, we can swim home.'"
Madrid said that Arana had been arrested while wearing blood-soaked clothing while the latter tried to flee using Dye's car.
"I'm innocent," Arana told Roatan local reporters. "Nedenia was like a mother to me. She protected me."
Police said Dye appeared to have been stabbed many times in the back, which caused her instantaneous death.
Roatan is an island renowned for its scenic beaches, scuba diving, luxury resorts and vacation homes.
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