Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

[Anonymous]

It's not a stretch to think their drinks may have been tainted. They both were seen vomiting and not the other 6 bar/traveling companions. No reason to suspect him - he wouldn't poison his own drink. But unless video is uncovered of someone tampering with the alcohol, I think this theory is done.

[Anonymous]

I could imagine that perhaps investigators in DR showed or told parents some stark and uncomfortable truths and maybe even some theories or leads they were following. The parents, overwhelmed with grief and sorrow, asked what the fastest way forward would be-how do we make this stop-we do not want a prolonged search.

Someone - an investigator, an attorney, a trusted family member or maybe a combination of all counseled the family that they should immediately return home, declare her dead and with parent permission, all investigations will cease.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Haven't read the 207 pages.

Some friends this girl had. Even if she hooked up with the guy, when she didn't show up for the excursion after she venmo'd for it, how could they just go about their day until 4pm.

And this guy with the hero syndrome most likely did something to her.

And the parents knowing she's dead probably just don't want her name dragged through the mud by the Indian circle in Ashburn and Aldie and want her declared dead. They must be looking out for their other children.

It's sad that this girl won't get justice.

Well, you should read the 208 pages. Nothing you have said hasn't been said already and discussed.

Her parents’ action is not even based in law and it’s an extremely unusual action, esp less than 2 weeks after she went missing. They have created an additional spectacle.

I’m not sure both parents are in agreement re this timing.

My guess is that they have been pressured in some way using their citizenship/residency status as leverage. They have two younger kids at home whose lives have already been turn upside down by what has happened to their sister. Being deported from the only place those kids know of as home would cause additional trauma.

Pure speculation, but that was the feeling I got watching their news statement.

US sent FBI and HS, parents were not pressured.

I think they left after only 3 days when videos went public. I think father is motivated by shame and mother may not have been in agreement.

It is possible she was trafficked, even after he passed out.

Parents action has all but shut down searching.

It’s in interest of DR, not US, India or the poor girl to sweep under the rug after only 11 days.

How are your concluding this?because of their citizenship?

No, culture.

They left DR after only 3 days when vids were released.

DP. Correlation? Couldn't they have left for a host of other reasons, such as their other children to care for who were probably facing some emotions of their own. What a fking troll post above.

Neither could stay and search for missing daughter? After only 3 days? They also asked stations to not play video. They took the unprecedented, and non-Hindu required step of asking that she be declared dead after only 11 days. DR would have to pass a law for that, otherwise the time period is far longer in DR and US. They hugged someone after 3 days who was a POI still under investigation. I feel for them but anyone deserves the investigation not to be truncated after only 11 days, not even 2 weeks!

It's really no one's business why they made the decisions they did for their daughter. Based on reports and their statement they said authorities explained and showed them the area of the possible drowning. Your/others' continuing curiousity and questions are not the responsibility of the grieving parents. Hire your own people to lead the efforts to find out what happened in DR. Could LE from US continue "assisting"? Go ahead to understand issues in DR or at that resort that prospective visitors could face (such as what posters here mentioned about drinks or why beach wasn't blocked off after certain hours or why drinks weren't cut off at bar, passport issues etc etc.)

[Anonymous]

Disgusting how the DR attempted to use young man as a red herring.

Hope he gets a damn good lawyer and sues any and all responsible parties for throwing him under the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not a stretch to think their drinks may have been tainted. They both were seen vomiting and not the other 6 bar/traveling companions. No reason to suspect him - he wouldn't poison his own drink. But unless video is uncovered of someone tampering with the alcohol, I think this theory is done.

The bar video is suggestive, an envelope, sniffing drinks, same men later going to the beach. In DR it is said the idea of going to beach was suggested to them in bar.

Without family pressure, DR has economic incentive to sweep under rug. Per TA reviews in this thread there have been reports of spiked drinks, of men too, safety incidents, men being offered $ for companions, etc. Investigation was ended prematurely. Tragic esp if she may be alive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not a stretch to think their drinks may have been tainted. They both were seen vomiting and not the other 6 bar/traveling companions. No reason to suspect him - he wouldn't poison his own drink. But unless video is uncovered of someone tampering with the alcohol, I think this theory is done.

Possible. But I was in a sorority in college and blackout drinking and vomiting was honestly pretty normal — especially on spring break. It’s obviously disgusting to think about now but at 18 to 21 it was far from uncommon.

[Anonymous]

Her friends taking her phone still seems so ridiculously sketchy. I don’t know any kid their age who doesn’t want their phone on them at all times. Even a dead phone still transmits a GPS location for several hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her friends taking her phone still seems so ridiculously sketchy. I don’t know any kid their age who doesn’t want their phone on them at all times. Even a dead phone still transmits a GPS location for several hours.

No, it doesn't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not a stretch to think their drinks may have been tainted. They both were seen vomiting and not the other 6 bar/traveling companions. No reason to suspect him - he wouldn't poison his own drink. But unless video is uncovered of someone tampering with the alcohol, I think this theory is done.

The bar video is suggestive, an envelope, sniffing drinks, same men later going to the beach. In DR it is said the idea of going to beach was suggested to them in bar.

Without family pressure, DR has economic incentive to sweep under rug. Per TA reviews in this thread there have been reports of spiked drinks, of men too, safety incidents, men being offered $ for companions, etc. Investigation was ended prematurely. Tragic esp if she may be alive.

Suggested by whom??

If you feel it ended early, resume it pressure DR et at with your own advocates and resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her friends taking her phone still seems so ridiculously sketchy. I don’t know any kid their age who doesn’t want their phone on them at all times. Even a dead phone still transmits a GPS location for several hours.

Still hung up on this part? Have you read this thread? Why don't you try to get to the end of this using your own detective skills or hire some?

[Anonymous]

If Sudiksha was taken from the beach while guy was passed out, she could still have been or still could be alive. Her father’s initial instinct re possible trafficking may have been correct.

Typically families and even victims do not dictate criminal investigations.

Here DR saw scratches on him and other evidence that raised concerns, discussed at hearing if you understand Spanish. Without a body they could not hold him longer. But he may have no knowledge of who took her. The focus on him and water may have been too limited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Sudiksha was taken from the beach while guy was passed out, she could still have been or still could be alive. Her father’s initial instinct re possible trafficking may have been correct.

Typically families and even victims do not dictate criminal investigations.

Here DR saw scratches on him and other evidence that raised concerns, discussed at hearing if you understand Spanish. Without a body they could not hold him longer. But he may have no knowledge of who took her. The focus on him and water may have been too limited.

Whatever happened happened in DR. The authorities there did not say they have closed the case. Have they? The parents requested something that was perhaps advised by whomever in their circle to make that request so they can start whenever legal, bureaucratic and strategic steps were necessary in the U.S.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Her friends taking her phone still seems so ridiculously sketchy. I don’t know any kid their age who doesn’t want their phone on them at all times. Even a dead phone still transmits a GPS location for several hours.

No, it doesn't.

Find My iPhone does indeed work when phones are powered off, assuming you have that settling enabled.

[Anonymous]

I never believed he drowned her. I believed she either drowned or a random man or men approached her after the near drowning incident. If anyone recalls a UVA murder a few years ago, the murderer randomly came upon the teen victim in a solo drunken state and pounced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Hannah_Graham

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not a stretch to think their drinks may have been tainted. They both were seen vomiting and not the other 6 bar/traveling companions. No reason to suspect him - he wouldn't poison his own drink. But unless video is uncovered of someone tampering with the alcohol, I think this theory is done.

Possible. But I was in a sorority in college and blackout drinking and vomiting was honestly pretty normal — especially on spring break. It’s obviously disgusting to think about now but at 18 to 21 it was far from uncommon.

But looking at a sample of all the people at the bar, we see 2 vomiting. It would not be surprising that a petite TJ/pre-med girl would be more affected by alcohol than average 20 year olds. But that the big burly white dude from Iowa/Minnesota? Doesn't make sense for him got be getting sick before every other person at the bar. Thus, the tainted drink theory.