Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain why people care about this story so much? The girl is obviously dead in the ocean. The why does not matter at this point and it obvious everyone was drunk. No one is responsible for this. Are we seriously searching the darn ocean for a drunk dead person?

Well, she is a symbolic case to convey that tourist safety is taken seriously. So many young people vacation there, imagine the blow to tourism if they stopped. We also need to send a message that American students got country's backing so don't mess with them.

She isn’t American. Very glad we’re there to help. But just a fact.

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She's a resident of Loudon county. She went to Thomas Jefferson. She's not some random international student.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain why people care about this story so much? The girl is obviously dead in the ocean. The why does not matter at this point and it obvious everyone was drunk. No one is responsible for this. Are we seriously searching the darn ocean for a drunk dead person?

Well, she is a symbolic case to convey that tourist safety is taken seriously. So many young people vacation there, imagine the blow to tourism if they stopped. We also need to send a message that American students got country's backing so don't mess with them.

She isn’t American. Very glad we’re there to help. But just a fact.

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She's a resident of Loudon county. She went to Thomas Jefferson. She's not some random international student.

I think her parents pay taxes ...

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Anonymous wrote:Alas we can’t control other people. Many are trying to divert the thread.

ah, back to irrelevant 4th grade PE curriculum in an irrelevant county

Create another thread in the correct county then. Geez is it really that hard for you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain why people care about this story so much? The girl is obviously dead in the ocean. The why does not matter at this point and it obvious everyone was drunk. No one is responsible for this. Are we seriously searching the darn ocean for a drunk dead person?

Because she’s Indian and the news media doesn’t want to seem racist. It’s the truth.

Or that it involves a young adult student where many young adult American students choose to vacation. The FBI is there?

[Anonymous]

Some different details here

https://nypost.com/2025/03/14/us-news/pitt-student-sudiksha-konanki-person-of-interest-joshua-riibe-saved-her-life-didnt-answer-key-questions/

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Anonymous wrote:Alas we can’t control other people. Many are trying to divert the thread.

If there's no new report, there's only speculation and plenty of that on this thread. Are they keeping the young man there for a reason? or is he still there because he had already planned to be there

They took his passport and he is under constant LE supervision, so keeping him. His father has arrived.

But he's free to request it and leave if he wants, so he's not really being detained.

Which makes it even more unlikely that he is in anyway involved, as he's purposefully staying there to assist with the investigation.
DP

They have his passport and he is observed by LE 24/7, he cannot leave.

Every article I have read said he is there voluntarily and free to leave.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Alas we can’t control other people. Many are trying to divert the thread.

If there's no new report, there's only speculation and plenty of that on this thread. Are they keeping the young man there for a reason? or is he still there because he had already planned to be there

They took his passport and he is under constant LE supervision, so keeping him. His father has arrived.

But he's free to request it and leave if he wants, so he's not really being detained.

Which makes it even more unlikely that he is in anyway involved, as he's purposefully staying there to assist with the investigation.
DP

They have his passport and he is observed by LE 24/7, he cannot leave.

Are you there? How do you know this?

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Anonymous wrote:Alas we can’t control other people. Many are trying to divert the thread.

If there's no new report, there's only speculation and plenty of that on this thread. Are they keeping the young man there for a reason? or is he still there because he had already planned to be there

They took his passport and he is under constant LE supervision, so keeping him. His father has arrived.

But he's free to request it and leave if he wants, so he's not really being detained.

Which makes it even more unlikely that he is in anyway involved, as he's purposefully staying there to assist with the investigation.
DP

They have his passport and he is observed by LE 24/7, he cannot leave.

Every article I have read said he is there voluntarily and free to leave.

Incorrect

Link or lie.

[Anonymous]

The friends went on a day boat trip, likely the boat Venmo payment she had made. They may have wanted to get a little sleep before.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve read mixed facts re that. He is being watched 24/7 in a room by police.

I'd be prepared to sue every news outlet and individual who created innuendo or worse if I were that young man.

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Absolutely

Yeah, describing the facts is not actionable.

"facts": what do YOU know as a fact?

I mean even just taking verbatim what the guy himself reported causes people to raise an eyebrow a want to double check (even if, like me, you think the girl likely drowned.)

Wtf do you want, lady-that a young man is alone w a young woman that disappears and no should even double check his account of the situation? Just “he said they were swimming and the she was gone-who knows?!” And no one should want thorough look-see about that?

I think she sadly drowned but you’ve got real #boymom energy that’s not a good look.

Np. Of course they should look into it. But his stories really aren’t that different. Especially considering how much they drank.

I’d be very interested in what they drank at the bar. How much, and testing the liquor. I’d hold culpable any bartender that continued to serve them and then allowed them to leave walking around the beach.

#boymom energy comment is gross. He needs to be investigated but putting his picture on media and sensationalizing his involvement is terrible, just as it would be tarnishing her reputation.

Sorry, boymom-that’s the price you pay for not seeking aid when the woman you’ve been night swimming with is swept away by a wave!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alas we can’t control other people. Many are trying to divert the thread.

If there's no new report, there's only speculation and plenty of that on this thread. Are they keeping the young man there for a reason? or is he still there because he had already planned to be there

They took his passport and he is under constant LE supervision, so keeping him. His father has arrived.

But he's free to request it and leave if he wants, so he's not really being detained.

Which makes it even more unlikely that he is in anyway involved, as he's purposefully staying there to assist with the investigation.
DP

They have his passport and he is observed by LE 24/7, he cannot leave.

Every article I have read said he is there voluntarily and free to leave.

Incorrect

Link or lie.

He is under direct police observation, like monitored house arrest, but a hotel. Look it up. Only one outlet claimed he could just get passport back, incorrect. When authorities take your passport and staff shifts to literally watch you, not staying bc you are a hero.

His attempt to portray himself as a hero in this 4th story is also suss.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve read mixed facts re that. He is being watched 24/7 in a room by police.

I'd be prepared to sue every news outlet and individual who created innuendo or worse if I were that young man.

+1
Absolutely

Yeah, describing the facts is not actionable.

"facts": what do YOU know as a fact?

I mean even just taking verbatim what the guy himself reported causes people to raise an eyebrow a want to double check (even if, like me, you think the girl likely drowned.)

Wtf do you want, lady-that a young man is alone w a young woman that disappears and no should even double check his account of the situation? Just “he said they were swimming and the she was gone-who knows?!” And no one should want thorough look-see about that?

I think she sadly drowned but you’ve got real #boymom energy that’s not a good look.

Np. Of course they should look into it. But his stories really aren’t that different. Especially considering how much they drank.

I’d be very interested in what they drank at the bar. How much, and testing the liquor. I’d hold culpable any bartender that continued to serve them and then allowed them to leave walking around the beach.

#boymom energy comment is gross. He needs to be investigated but putting his picture on media and sensationalizing his involvement is terrible, just as it would be tarnishing her reputation.

Sorry, boymom-that’s the price you pay for not seeking aid when the woman you’ve been night swimming with is swept away by a wave!

Had he told anyone would be very different.

I also wonder if she may have been drugged, her friends seemed to be walking unimpaired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alas we can’t control other people. Many are trying to divert the thread.

If there's no new report, there's only speculation and plenty of that on this thread. Are they keeping the young man there for a reason? or is he still there because he had already planned to be there

They took his passport and he is under constant LE supervision, so keeping him. His father has arrived.

But he's free to request it and leave if he wants, so he's not really being detained.

Which makes it even more unlikely that he is in anyway involved, as he's purposefully staying there to assist with the investigation.
DP

They have his passport and he is observed by LE 24/7, he cannot leave.

Are you there? How do you know this?

Media coverage

[Anonymous]

Media reports say that he can leave DR at any time. He’s not being held against his will. He does have a lawyer and has started refusing to answer certain questions “on advice of counsel” which I don’t find unusual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Some different details here

https://nypost.com/2025/03/14/us-news/pitt-student-sudiksha-konanki-person-of-interest-joshua-riibe-saved-her-life-didnt-answer-key-questions/

This is not a serious newspaper, lol. Hope the young man has a lawyer keeping track of innuendo inferring malicious intent. I'd be suing into the next century.