10 things about Calgary, Canada’s Steven Welland aka Swell 80

Steven Spencer Welland was a citizen of Canada. He died in Costa Rica.

BIOGRAPHY

Welland was known for sharing amateur videos in adult sites and his online handle was Swell 80. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Spencer Welland and Sara Welland.
2. He spoke English and Spanish.
3. He is Jason Welland and Rachel Welland Nielsen‘s brother.
4. He is Gary Welland, Alix Moon and Richard Moon‘s nephew.
5. He attended Lord Beaverbrook High School and Mount Royal College, which are both in Calgary.
6. As an adult content creator, he indicated that he recorded his male partners without their knowledge in most of his videos.
7. After living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for some years, he returned to Calgary in 2007 and started a business called SW Renovations Inc.
8. From 2007 to 2016, he operated SW Renovations Inc., which provided remodeling, renovation and finishing services to facilities, offices and houses in Calgary.
9. In 2016, he left Canada for Central America.
10. In 2021, he died in Costa Rica at age 41.

TIMELINE

2021

• On February 27, 2021, he turned 41.
• On the evening of May 23, 2021, he camped his camper van enabled as a house on private property in the Las Parcelas sector in Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
• At around 2:00 a.m. on May 24, 2021, he was resting in his camper van in Puntarenas when a man surnamed Lefevre Hernandez, then 23, sneaked up to the trailer, entered, gagged him and stabbed him 14 times. Neighbors, who reportedly saw the suspect leave, found him dead inside the vehicle. The suspect was arrested at the scene, according to the Organismo de Investigation Judicial.