Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most likely scenario is that she drowned because she drunkenly entered treacherous water at night. The guy will be judge harshly for the rest of his life. And the girlfriends will go about their lives as if nothing happened.

Agree. The silence of the girls is weird and . Terrible, convoluted accident with many bad decisions, but not his fault.

And how do you know that exactly? Because if you do and could share with law enforcement (LE), that could help him get cleared and relieve him, his family and those around him of unnecessary stress and spotlight.

Oh, shut up. I'm tired of you. You're part of the community protecting the girls.

Aren't you ashamed of yourselves for letting someone else take the fall for the series of mistakes the girls made? As someone else has pointed out, they don't even have the guts to so much as stand in front of the media and beg for any information or help in retrieving their friend, dead or alive.

How do you know they haven't been advised NOT to speak to the media by attorneys? That is the wise thing to do. Doubt they would have been able to leave DR without giving stories to LE. Riibe should have been given/had a lawyer before he gave any report to anyone in the DR with translators! How do you know it isn't DR trying to pin this on him to protect their business/economy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One thing that makes his story very believable for me is that video saw him leaving the beach at 8:15 am. If he had purposely harmed her, he wouldn’t have hung around the beach for 4 hours. Tubs seems more consistent with his story that he vomited, thought he had ditched him (which many people would do if they were drunk and the person they were with was vomiting extensively) and passed out on a chair. When he woke up he was still probably still drunk or massively hung over and just stumbled back to his room.
Why her friends didn’t report her sooner is a mystery but it probably wouldn’t have made a difference.
It’s extremely tragic but I don’t think this guy did anything criminal. And I’m the kind of person that thinks probably 1/10 guys is an opportunity rapist, so it’s not like I jump to defend guys. The people saying he did it have a huge whole in their story — if he had drowned her, the body would be just as likely to resurface on the reef or beach as if she had drowned accidentally withholding info delayed search, that only benefits Ribe., so lack of body proves nothing. And he didn’t have the means to transport her body off the beach, plus that would have shown on the numerous video cameras.

I think they thought she was with him until they got back. They texted Carter, did h reply Ribe had come back alone and had not seen her in hours. Doubt it. Those 2

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the girls Indian?

I think so. Either very selfish culture or guilty of something they got out immediately

oh stop. 100% more likely they had quick and prudent advice of their own council (to include one of their parents) to get the hell out of there asap. And it worked!

The say nothing strategy. It's a classic for a reason.

[Anonymous]

Those 2 likely withheld the info, delaying the search. That may have been to Ribe’s benefit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most likely scenario is that she drowned because she drunkenly entered treacherous water at night. The guy will be judge harshly for the rest of his life. And the girlfriends will go about their lives as if nothing happened.

Agree. The silence of the girls is weird and . Terrible, convoluted accident with many bad decisions, but not his fault.

And how do you know that exactly? Because if you do and could share with law enforcement (LE), that could help him get cleared and relieve him, his family and those around him of unnecessary stress and spotlight.

Oh, shut up. I'm tired of you. You're part of the community protecting the girls.

Aren't you ashamed of yourselves for letting someone else take the fall for the series of mistakes the girls made? As someone else has pointed out, they don't even have the guts to so much as stand in front of the media and beg for any information or help in retrieving their friend, dead or alive.

How do you know they haven't been advised NOT to speak to the media by attorneys? That is the wise thing to do. Doubt they would have been able to leave DR without giving stories to LE. Riibe should have been given/had a lawyer before he gave any report to anyone in the DR with translators! How do you know it isn't DR trying to pin this on him to protect their business/economy?

How do YOU know? You're so obvious and annoying on this entire thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are all the girls Indian?

I think so. Either very selfish culture or guilty of something they got out immediately

oh stop. 100% more likely they had quick and prudent advice of their own council (to include one of their parents) to get the hell out of there asap. And it worked!

The say nothing strategy. It's a classic for a reason.

You mean like Ribe did when he got back and learned she had not returned?

I wouldn’t want my young daughter to be at risk there. No longer a holiday and it’s not like they were going to help DR military or FBI search.

[Anonymous]

The DR was clearly ready to call it another drowning and move on. Then Ribe started to change his story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most likely scenario is that she drowned because she drunkenly entered treacherous water at night. The guy will be judge harshly for the rest of his life. And the girlfriends will go about their lives as if nothing happened.

How do you know the guy will be judged harshly for the rest of his life yet? And that the "girlfriends will go about their lives as if nothing happened."? Do you actually think any of them can be going on as if nothing happened whether they played a role in her disappearance or death? Plenty happened, wouldn't you be affected even the slightest bit?

They won't be treated harshly for it. This incident will not be the first thing everyone thinks of whenever their names are mentioned or first google hit for the rest of their lives.

You don't know yet. He could be seen as a person who TRIED to help her at some point if and when they went in the water (his last reported story). However unlikely his hero story while being under the influence of something, it could be true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most likely scenario is that she drowned because she drunkenly entered treacherous water at night. The guy will be judge harshly for the rest of his life. And the girlfriends will go about their lives as if nothing happened.

How do you know the guy will be judged harshly for the rest of his life yet? And that the "girlfriends will go about their lives as if nothing happened."? Do you actually think any of them can be going on as if nothing happened whether they played a role in her disappearance or death? Plenty happened, wouldn't you be affected even the slightest bit?

They won't be treated harshly for it. This incident will not be the first thing everyone thinks of whenever their names are mentioned or first google hit for the rest of their lives.

You don't know yet. He could be seen as a person who TRIED to help her at some point if and when they went in the water (his last reported story). However unlikely his hero story while being under the influence of something, it could be true.

We already know the girls' names are not connected to this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don't know if they tried to change her mind and she told them no so they left. It seems everyone was drunk, tired and sleep deprived after a day of beach, partying, drinking and power outage.

Because they haven't been questioned for day, held, passports taken, brought to the scene in the middle of the night for re-enactment. So we will never know.

The POI is always going to be the last person who probably saw her. Now if they think the bartender eventually came out too from the bar to the beach, they could have listed the POI as the bartender and not Riibe. They don't have video from beach area it seems so no one really knows who was last with her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how would you know you were the last person to see someone (especially a college woman you'd just drunkenly met hours earlier)? And you're to take responsibility when the FIVE traveling companions of the woman are kinda in a rush to meet their boat excursion sailaway time?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most likely scenario is that she drowned because she drunkenly entered treacherous water at night. The guy will be judge harshly for the rest of his life. And the girlfriends will go about their lives as if nothing happened.

Agree. The silence of the girls is weird and . Terrible, convoluted accident with many bad decisions, but not his fault.

And how do you know that exactly? Because if you do and could share with law enforcement (LE), that could help him get cleared and relieve him, his family and those around him of unnecessary stress and spotlight.

Oh, shut up. I'm tired of you. You're part of the community protecting the girls.

Aren't you ashamed of yourselves for letting someone else take the fall for the series of mistakes the girls made? As someone else has pointed out, they don't even have the guts to so much as stand in front of the media and beg for any information or help in retrieving their friend, dead or alive.

How do you know they haven't been advised NOT to speak to the media by attorneys? That is the wise thing to do. Doubt they would have been able to leave DR without giving stories to LE. Riibe should have been given/had a lawyer before he gave any report to anyone in the DR with translators! How do you know it isn't DR trying to pin this on him to protect their business/economy?

How do YOU know? You're so obvious and annoying on this entire thread.

DP, standard LE request in active investigations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So how would you know you were the last person to see someone (especially a college woman you'd just drunkenly met hours earlier)? And you're to take responsibility when the FIVE traveling companions of the woman are kinda in a rush to meet their boat excursion sailaway time?

I think someone is desperately trying to keep suspicion on the boy. Someone familiar with DCUM.

Why? That is the question.

Because the family is important. And there’s no way their daughter could have made a series of bad choices (getting wasted, swimming in the ocean in the dark wasted, etc) that may have resulted in her demise. So it has to be someone else’s fault.

What do you mean the family is important?

IKR. Every so often a PP proclaims the "importance" of this family but none of us have ever heard of them and the PP never explains. Well, PP?

DP. But the whole point of having a good reputation is that in times like this it counts.

This is not India. Doesn’t matter how “important” her family is.

Maybe it's like that saying- you can take the Indian out of India, but you can't take the Indian out of them (or something like that)? You can substitute another country, it could probably apply to other immigrants or countries as well. Maybe their Indian community wherever they may live cares?

Their community has closed ranks around the friends. Nothing is being said about any of them, they're not speaking, and they left DR right away. No press conference crying about where is my best friend, please come home, we miss you and love you. NOTHING. The community has surrounded them and protecting them. They're perfectly fine with someone outside of their community taking the fall, very possibly for a crime he didn't commit, as long as it means no consequences for them and that their lives and continue on the previously set trajectory. The parents of the missing woman aren't even speaking out whatsoever against the friends.

I do not think this makes their community unique and it isn't intended to be racist in any way; this type of behavior is seen in many, MANY different tight knit communities.

Silence speaks volumes. Good or bad whatever.

They have already given their stories it seems to LE. They probably got the hell out of the country because they don't want to suffer too, or vacation in a place that based on some of the travel reviews -eek. Or and most likely they had to resume classes after spring break. They must be in shock or feeling guilty for various reasons, whether they were "best" friends or not, they have lost a friend temporarily or forever. Or they have been advised to protect "their" community's image which at this point is so ridonc (yes, okay, Indian young women also party get over it - there's a young woman missing. Or they have all been advised not to speak to media they don't want attention drawn to them for safety reasons, or possibly if they know other things ("their" culture related things or possibly related to India/Indian embassy if that is whom the young woman's parents had to contact if it was alleged that US authorities couldn't or wouldn't help them initially in the DR etc..). And their stories could affect the US's POI as he recollects his memories.

It's the trashy White man she was with who probably drowned her when she resisted his advances. That is the problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So how would you know you were the last person to see someone (especially a college woman you'd just drunkenly met hours earlier)? And you're to take responsibility when the FIVE traveling companions of the woman are kinda in a rush to meet their boat excursion sailaway time?

He was expected to report when the girlfriends were off for a day trip?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most likely scenario is that she drowned because she drunkenly entered treacherous water at night. The guy will be judge harshly for the rest of his life. And the girlfriends will go about their lives as if nothing happened.

Agree. The silence of the girls is weird and . Terrible, convoluted accident with many bad decisions, but not his fault.

And how do you know that exactly? Because if you do and could share with law enforcement (LE), that could help him get cleared and relieve him, his family and those around him of unnecessary stress and spotlight.

Oh, shut up. I'm tired of you. You're part of the community protecting the girls.

Aren't you ashamed of yourselves for letting someone else take the fall for the series of mistakes the girls made? As someone else has pointed out, they don't even have the guts to so much as stand in front of the media and beg for any information or help in retrieving their friend, dead or alive.