Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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Anonymous wrote:According to this article, she very likely drowned. I don’t know why other news sources aren’t given more information.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/missing-univ-pittsburgh-student-believed-died-drowning-dominican/story?id=119617091

The story leaves out who the other person was that she went into the water with and whether they also drowned.

Was it one of her friends? Another guest at the hotel? A local?

A guy friend, shown in a video earlier that evening with his arm around her.

It was not a friend, she and her friends had met 2 tourists. No different than meeting strange men in US who may turn out to be dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure why her parents are suspecting human trafficking. I doubt a drunk Iowan college student trafficked her between 6 and 9 am.

Seems far more likely that either she drowned or he did something to her. Although you would think her body would have been found if he killed her as there was only a 3 hour gap between when her friends left the beach and when he returned to his room. If you are a drunk college student, that isn't a lot of time to execute a murder and hide all the evidence

The ocean was right there, duh. Have you heard of Natalee Holloway who was never found?

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Anonymous wrote:OMG her friends went on a day trip without even looking for her?!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14485901/amp/joshua-riibe-sudiksha-konanki-dominican-republic-missing.html

Have a bad feeling about this huge guy, could be another Natalie Holloway.

Claiming she was not seen out of water and that she was, which is it? If he saw her after the water, where is she?!!!

Well, her "friends" aren't much better.

We need to do a better job teaching kids how to identify who your friends are and how to be better friends. I feel terrible for this family. Tragic.

Who are you to judge that?

Well, let's see...They hadn't seen their friend since around 4:00 a.m. and didn't know where she was in a foreign country but thought they'd just go on a day trip?!

How were they going to reach her if 1. She didn't have her phone on her, 2. Or they tried reaching her but she didn't pick up maybe because they thought she was still sleeping or with that guy? 3. Things werent known at time of them going on a day trip? Didn't read all the reports to know if any of those questions were answered.

Was the guy known to them on that trip prior to that night? One of the young woman's friend could have stayed with her tho on the beach (being a better friend). Does anyone actually know what occurred before the friends left to go back to the hotel and her staying on beach?

No. Friend's job was to tell her why this is a bad idea and to inform resort desk that she didn't come back at night before going for the scheduled trip. She wasn't required to put herself in danger at night at beach in a foreign country with a drunk male.

“Hey front desk, my friend was hooking up with a guy and they are passed out in his room. They can catch up with us at the local watering hole where we’ll be snorkeling. Ciao!”

But no one said they saw her come back to the hotel nor did they say she was seen in video footage coming back..right?

Did her friends know that at the time they took off for their excursion?

While my college years were obviously quite awhile ago….if a friend didn’t return at night (or wasn’t there in the AM) it would generally be assumed that they went home with a guy. For example the guy she had been hanging out with and swimming with. Or crashed in another friend’s room.

And if she didn’t show up for a scheduled excursion, the friends would’ve texted her but again- likely assumed she was still asleep or hungover.

It is understandable that the friends didn’t think much of it. IMO. As a 40-something mom obviously it all sounds horrifying but remembering back- this kind of thing happened all the time. And everyone was fine.

Yes. Everyone would’ve assumed she went back to the guy’s room and was sleeping off a hangover. They probably got worried by afternoon and then finally couldn’t deny something was wrong and reported by 4 but you can see why on spring break when they left her with a guy they didn’t assume anything was wrong at 11 am. You’re not alerting international police until you KNOW something is really wrong which probably took hours to sink in.

The friends got up and went on a day trip. They did not know she still had not returned until they got back on late afternoon.

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This all seems strange. Everyone went on day trip but her? There is a lot missing. I also am now understanding the problems with the power outage at hotel. Power just went on around 3 am that morning. The power had been off for 24 hours so more people were not in their rooms because no AC. It also could have allowed someone to sneak in resort because it was dark. There will be so many theories to run down. I am holding out hope that she was kidnapped and maybe could still be alive.

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The tragedy is - accident or no - she isn’t alive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:According to this article, she very likely drowned. I don’t know why other news sources aren’t given more information.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/missing-univ-pittsburgh-student-believed-died-drowning-dominican/story?id=119617091

The story leaves out who the other person was that she went into the water with and whether they also drowned.

Was it one of her friends? Another guest at the hotel? A local?

A guy friend, shown in a video earlier that evening with his arm around her.

It was not a friend, she and her friends had met 2 tourists. No different than meeting strange men in US who may turn out to be dangerous.

What are you suggesting? Total seclusion and celibacy?

By your definition, my husband was a “strange man” when I first met him. Everyone’s was.

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Anonymous wrote:allegedly the young man she was with was a lifeguard which makes it seem more suspect

No it really doesn’t. Drunk people in the water in the dark aren’t functioning like lifeguards. He is an American tourist about her age, in what way would he be involved in a trafficking ring operating through the DR? I empathize with her family but the simplest explanation is both were drunk- both swam- he was a stronger swimmer / not as drunk and made it back out of the ocean - she didn’t. He was disoriented and drunk and passed out and didn’t realize she hadn’t made it back out til he woke up after 9 am. Even then he could’ve assumed she did make it out and had already gone inside so he didn’t immediately alert anyone. It’s still tragic but this need to assume someone did it vs a terrible accident occurred is bizarre to me. Not everything is a true crime story.

I feel badly for the young man. He’s going to be scapegoated for this.

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This young man is innocent until proven otherwise. She went willing on her on into the ocean while drunk.

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Anonymous wrote:According to this article, she very likely drowned. I don’t know why other news sources aren’t given more information.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/missing-univ-pittsburgh-student-believed-died-drowning-dominican/story?id=119617091

I would think the guy raping and killing her is more likely.

His changing stories are a red flag, as is claiming he saw someone drown and never notified anyone.

I’m gonna be crass and say it, he’s a beefy not very attractive guy who did an uncool and violent sport. He may not have had a lot of success with the ladies in his tiny town. She is a very pretty girl. Maybe he did not like hearing no from her. He was very drunk. Maybe he lost control. When you look at the video of them walking, he is holding her oddly and she seems to be trying to pull away. He seemed to be videoing the 2 of them like she was a prize. When he came back he had no shirt and what may be scratches on his shoulder. Perhaps there was a struggle?

Had her parents not gone down, it was being swept under the rug. The better to protect tourism.

Hopefully a body will be recovered soon enough to indicate if she was assaulted, had damage to her neck, etc.

I’m not going to presume this young man is guilty of something this serious from random inferences from a few seconds long clip, his size, or his gender. Shame on you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:allegedly the young man she was with was a lifeguard which makes it seem more suspect

No it really doesn’t. Drunk people in the water in the dark aren’t functioning like lifeguards. He is an American tourist about her age, in what way would he be involved in a trafficking ring operating through the DR? I empathize with her family but the simplest explanation is both were drunk- both swam- he was a stronger swimmer / not as drunk and made it back out of the ocean - she didn’t. He was disoriented and drunk and passed out and didn’t realize she hadn’t made it back out til he woke up after 9 am. Even then he could’ve assumed she did make it out and had already gone inside so he didn’t immediately alert anyone. It’s still tragic but this need to assume someone did it vs a terrible accident occurred is bizarre to me. Not everything is a true crime story.

I feel badly for the young man. He’s going to be scapegoated for this.

Either her or him could be ANY of our young adult kids on spring break. I can only imagine the terrible places her parents’ minds are going in the absence of a body, but those of us uninvolved and simply watching from home don’t need to start with the outlandish conspiracies and narratives about him lacking ANY proof that anything besides a tragic accident happened to a girl he literally just met.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure why her parents are suspecting human trafficking. I doubt a drunk Iowan college student trafficked her between 6 and 9 am.

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Because in India, the media and entertainment are filled with scandalous accounts (real and fictional) about a virtuous and young woman who is abducted by a scoundrel who is connected with an international human trafficking syndicate. All the housewives watch these shows all day.

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Anonymous wrote:This young man is innocent until proven otherwise. She went willing on her on into the ocean while drunk.

Not necessarily in the Dominican Republic he isn’t.

The presumption of innocence is a Constitutionally-protected right which ends at our national border.

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Anonymous wrote:This young man is innocent until proven otherwise. She went willing on her on into the ocean while drunk.

Not necessarily in the Dominican Republic he isn’t.

The presumption of innocence is a Constitutionally-protected right which ends at our national border.

A quick Google search would have told you that the presumption of innocence also applies in the DR.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been to all inclusive in DR before and I have never seen alcohol just left in the lobby for people to freely take (how would you monitor kids not taking it). I have known of people to ask for entire bottles of wine to take with them to the beach and seen that happen, but the concept of lobby alcohol sounds crazy.

Who said it was just left there?

I assumed there was a hotel bar in the lobby.

Also, in DR there are certain resorts that are "over-18" only, especially for Spring Break. 18 is the min drinking age there

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Anonymous wrote:allegedly the young man she was with was a lifeguard which makes it seem more suspect

No it really doesn’t. Drunk people in the water in the dark aren’t functioning like lifeguards. He is an American tourist about her age, in what way would he be involved in a trafficking ring operating through the DR? I empathize with her family but the simplest explanation is both were drunk- both swam- he was a stronger swimmer / not as drunk and made it back out of the ocean - she didn’t. He was disoriented and drunk and passed out and didn’t realize she hadn’t made it back out til he woke up after 9 am. Even then he could’ve assumed she did make it out and had already gone inside so he didn’t immediately alert anyone. It’s still tragic but this need to assume someone did it vs a terrible accident occurred is bizarre to me. Not everything is a true crime story.

I feel badly for the young man. He’s going to be scapegoated for this.

Either her or him could be ANY of our young adult kids on spring break. I can only imagine the terrible places her parents’ minds are going in the absence of a body, but those of us uninvolved and simply watching from home don’t need to start with the outlandish conspiracies and narratives about him lacking ANY proof that anything besides a tragic accident happened to a girl he literally just met.

+1000

Cautionary tale for all of our children.