Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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She was not a freshman.

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Anonymous wrote:He was named to put pressure on him. If he harmed her I hope he confesses. Curious if he has a history of VAWG, even if in sealed juvenile records?

https://people.com/person-of-interest-named-search-missing-college-student-vanished-early-morning-beach-walk-police-11695281

Dumbest thing that guy did that night was allow himself to be alone with a drunk girl.

He told LE he saw her get knocked down by a wave and not surface.

Then he changed his story several more times.

US LE is not buying it.

I haven’t seen any legitimate news source corroborating this.

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I doubt few if any of you have seen someone drown. Its not how it looks "in the movies". Whoever was with her probably didn't realize she needed help until it was too late and they were intoxicated so likely they would have drown too trying to help.

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https://youtu.be/9KV-zbtGdGc?si=pQetNqe5m_flXOz7

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Anonymous wrote:There is a small chance she walked back to her room alone, when he was passed out drunk. Since the power was out and there was no security or functioning security camera, she may have been kidnapped. The fact that she had a drink or two probably made it easier. They should examine people in the resort in the event someone saw or heard something

She wasn’t kidnapped. This is not colombia.

No, it's some dirt poor country with dirty liquor and no laws that frequently loses power. Sounds fun .

Another misguided gringo how about staying sober and not hooking up with unknown strangers you barely know. Is that too much to asked?

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Anonymous wrote:We need all female resorts.

to resist unholy temptation?

No, so we can get drunk and swim naked in the ocean.

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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.

Kids go to places like DR to be irresponsibly drunk and for casual hook ups. With that implicit understanding, one's friends will not stand in the way of actualizing that goal.
Sorry, DR is not Disneyland.

Exactly. I think a number of posters on this thread did not have traditional American college experiences.

The traditional American college experience is the problem.

Not everyone participates in the "traditional" American college experience. Have you heard of Alternative Spring Break programs?

You're right not everyone participates but a lot do. The college partying experience has been glamorized for decades and it's made the college experience worse for the most part. Binge drinking is learned in college and for many it continues well into adulthood.

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Anonymous wrote:Teach your kids not to go to a third world county country for spring break and get wasted go swimming.

The problem is that's not really teachable. You can do you best to instruct a kid about a variety of risks but college students are naive, inexperienced, and impulsive. They rarely know how much alcohol they can handle and can make terrible decisions when under the influence and cognitively impaired. No matter what they've been told.

The other four girls who also traveled on this trip were found "safe", right?

Yes. They weren't crushing on a boy and swimming in the ocean in the dark with him.Fortunately for them. It was one different decision that likely proved fatal, but they were all behaving irresponsibly in terms of excessive alcohol.

How do YOU know that she was?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a small chance she walked back to her room alone, when he was passed out drunk. Since the power was out and there was no security or functioning security camera, she may have been kidnapped. The fact that she had a drink or two probably made it easier. They should examine people in the resort in the event someone saw or heard something

She wasn’t kidnapped. This is not colombia.

No, it's some dirt poor country with dirty liquor and no laws that frequently loses power. Sounds fun .

Another misguided gringo how about staying sober and not hooking up with unknown strangers you barely know. Is that too much to asked?

You just love using slurs don’t you?

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Anonymous wrote:He was named to put pressure on him. If he harmed her I hope he confesses. Curious if he has a history of VAWG, even if in sealed juvenile records?

https://people.com/person-of-interest-named-search-missing-college-student-vanished-early-morning-beach-walk-police-11695281

Dumbest thing that guy did that night was allow himself to be alone with a drunk girl.

- and we wonder why boys in 2025 America won’t risk trying to date girls.

PP you’ve responded to, and I agree. Unless this guy has a violent past, there is no reason to suspect him of anything. He’ll be dragged through the mud and suspected for the rest of his life regardless.

He told police he saw her get swept under a wave yet NEVER reported it. He chose to start with that, then changed his story several times.

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Anonymous wrote:We need all female resorts.

to resist unholy temptation?

No, so we can get drunk and swim naked in the ocean.

and without fear of waves

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Anonymous wrote: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.

She was not kidnapped. Only two scenarios here. She drowned or the gringo did something to her.

To her parents, she is more of an innocent, virtuous, pure, sweet victim if she was kidnapped into international human trafficking.

That scenario is more pleasant than:

- she got wasted out of her mind and possibly wanted to get laid, like the popular resort cocktail “s*x on the beach” - all of which would have been “dumb” decisions their “brilliant” daughter surely could not have made.

Yes, cognitive dissonance for them because they have entrenched cultural and generational views about their "perfect" daughter. I felt her dad's anguish when he said she was a "good girl." No doubt she was. But of course she was human, too, and a sexual being who wanted to desire and feel desired. And young, enjoying a brief space of freedom from the hard academic work she's been focused on as long as she can remember. I feel so sorry for her, wanting to be carefree and even a little wild, with such a tragic outcome. I agree with a PP this could have been any of our kids and we should all be feeling very grateful they're safe right now.

How do you come to that thinking? YOU don't know what happened, do you??

Wait - weren’t all five girls drinking the alcohol that night?

So now drinking alcohol is "going wild?" Hmmm, hear that parents who are here: who knew, we oldies are all still "going wild" by have an alcoholic drink at dinner in our homes. Good to know 50 year olds can still be wild.

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Anonymous wrote:Teach your kids not to go to a third world county country for spring break and get wasted go swimming.

The problem is that's not really teachable. You can do you best to instruct a kid about a variety of risks but college students are naive, inexperienced, and impulsive. They rarely know how much alcohol they can handle and can make terrible decisions when under the influence and cognitively impaired. No matter what they've been told.

The other four girls who also traveled on this trip were found "safe", right?

Yes. They weren't crushing on a boy and swimming in the ocean in the dark with him.Fortunately for them. It was one different decision that likely proved fatal, but they were all behaving irresponsibly in terms of excessive alcohol.

How do YOU know that she was?

She was videotaped walking with his arm around her and her clothes were found on the beach chaise. Depending on the clothing found, she was either nude or in her bikini. Why do you suppose that might be, Sherlock?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

She was not kidnapped. Only two scenarios here. She drowned or the gringo did something to her.

To her parents, she is more of an innocent, virtuous, pure, sweet victim if she was kidnapped into international human trafficking.

That scenario is more pleasant than:

- she got wasted out of her mind and possibly wanted to get laid, like the popular resort cocktail “s*x on the beach” - all of which would have been “dumb” decisions their “brilliant” daughter surely could not have made.

Yes, cognitive dissonance for them because they have entrenched cultural and generational views about their "perfect" daughter. I felt her dad's anguish when he said she was a "good girl." No doubt she was. But of course she was human, too, and a sexual being who wanted to desire and feel desired. And young, enjoying a brief space of freedom from the hard academic work she's been focused on as long as she can remember. I feel so sorry for her, wanting to be carefree and even a little wild, with such a tragic outcome. I agree with a PP this could have been any of our kids and we should all be feeling very grateful they're safe right now.

How do you come to that thinking? YOU don't know what happened, do you??

Wait - weren’t all five girls drinking the alcohol that night?

So now drinking alcohol is "going wild?" Hmmm, hear that parents who are here: who knew, we oldies are all still "going wild" by have an alcoholic drink at dinner in our homes. Good to know 50 year olds can still be wild.

Sure, a drink at home. That’s the same. 🙄

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Joshua Riibe from Rock Rapids worked as a lifeguard for 3 years (2019 - 2020). His Linkedin shows he started studying at Saint Cloud State University from 2023-2025. He also did a lot of competing in wrestling. He was involved in reckless driving back in 2019.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/13762217/joshua-riibe-alone-sudiksha-konanki-punta-cana