Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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Anonymous wrote:This story is so sad. I feel like girls especially have it drilled in their head to look out for their friends and yet this sort of thing happens. I wonder if she had known the boy for a few days so had an illusion of safety and so did her friends.

I really don't like blaming the friends. She clearly wanted to stay behind with him. It was after 5am and the friends wanted to go to bed at last. If she didn't want to go with them, please tell me specifically what they should have done.

My understanding is they took her phone so find my phone would show her in the hotel room. They were doing what she wanted.

Is this understanding from anything official or simply the game of telephone (pun intended) being played in this thread?

Nothing official. More likely she didn't want her phone to get wet or sandy, or it was dying.

Right. We just know she asked her friends to take it, several possible reasons why.

Young people these days do not normally make a move without their phone. Here is a quote about the phone situation from an article: "Her family says her belongings, including a phone and wallet, were left with her friends, although she’s known to always carry her phone." https://www.counton2.com/news/national-news/ap-what-to-know-about-us-student-sudiksha-konanki-who-vanished-in-dominican-republic-on-spring-break/

Why is this relevant in any way? Maybe it was as simple as she didn't want to carry them around. If she'd been out all night, maybe the phone was dead. Anyway, she asked them to take her stuff. So? At that hour, didn't need anything other than the key to her room. Her parents are looking for any iota of suspicious activity that might be helpful, but hard to see how this is.

Yeah, where was the key? Friends took phone did they leave key behind? Or did one of them have the key that they needed to get in to the room?

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Anonymous wrote:This story is so sad. I feel like girls especially have it drilled in their head to look out for their friends and yet this sort of thing happens. I wonder if she had known the boy for a few days so had an illusion of safety and so did her friends.

I really don't like blaming the friends. She clearly wanted to stay behind with him. It was after 5am and the friends wanted to go to bed at last. If she didn't want to go with them, please tell me specifically what they should have done.

My understanding is they took her phone so find my phone would show her in the hotel room. They were doing what she wanted.

Is this understanding from anything official or simply the game of telephone (pun intended) being played in this thread?

Nothing official. More likely she didn't want her phone to get wet or sandy, or it was dying.

Right. We just know she asked her friends to take it, several possible reasons why.

Im new to the phone theories. I assumed it was on the beach chair. So the girls have it? That’s unfortunate if true.

If you have an older teenage child, you might be aware that they DO NOT like being tracked by their parents. Some have no choice, the parents are controlling. If the parents are not, some kids usually elect to turn off location sharing because, surprise, they like privacy. In this case, if there is controlling parent and she wanted to fool them into thinking she was with her friends whose parents might be in contact with her parents, she gives friends the phone to throw them off the trail of her hormonal intentions.

Haven't you seen posts from mid-life adults who's 80 year old mother will call because middle aged child was at a doctor's office 3000 miles away and pesters about middle aged child's reasons for being at doctor's office?

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One. Night. Stand. (ONS).

What’s not shocking is adults in their 20s having a ONS. Having a ONS during spring break is not shocking (it’s so common as to have become a cliché). A ONS at a beach resort is not shocking.

What is shocking?

- the number of people commenting on this story who are in total shock, disbelief, and apparent denial that women in their 20s in 2025 might want to have (and often do have) a ONS on vacation.

Get over yourselves. This is not the 1950s.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's highly likely the poor girl drowned. You can see from the video both she and the boy are staggering as they walked. Likely it began as a hook-up, they were both drunk, they went into the water, and the power of the waves dragged them in different directions. He made it back to shore, she did not. He didn't realize she didn't make it out of the water, because he was drunk. Have any of you ever been that drunk college kid, or seen a drunk college kid? At that age kids make really dumb choices, like entering the ocean when they're so drunk they can barely walk.

Accusing the boy of foul play is misplaced.
Of course her family and friends are upset. But accusing the boy of murder without any basis is wrong.

I agree. Unless something turns up about the boy's background, he should be given the benefit of the doubt. Video footage seems to confirm the basic outline of his story. We may never know exactly what happened when they were alone on the beach together. He may well have been too drunk, and it was too dark, for him to be clear about it either.

My guess is the FBI will do a complete background check, including interviewing his family, friends, and GFs. When a friend was murdered, detectives went ten+ years back into her history and interviewed many, many people she knew in an effort to glean any potentially relevant detail.

The FBI has been fired.

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Anonymous wrote:What is this about the friends taking a day trip – how would they have time for that when they didn’t go to bed till after 5 AM and reported her missing at 4 PM? Seems like a pretty quick day trip.

Was this reported that they went on a day trip?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's highly likely the poor girl drowned. You can see from the video both she and the boy are staggering as they walked. Likely it began as a hook-up, they were both drunk, they went into the water, and the power of the waves dragged them in different directions. He made it back to shore, she did not. He didn't realize she didn't make it out of the water, because he was drunk. Have any of you ever been that drunk college kid, or seen a drunk college kid? At that age kids make really dumb choices, like entering the ocean when they're so drunk they can barely walk.

Accusing the boy of foul play is misplaced.
Of course her family and friends are upset. But accusing the boy of murder without any basis is wrong.

Well i am surprised her body hasn’t washed from the shore . It’s been almost a week.

It’s like people don’t understand how tides and currents work. Why do you think they never found the airplane that crashed over the ocean all those years ago? Things don’t just nicely wash up on shore all the time.

Clearly YOU don't know how tides and currents work, poster.

A plane falling into the middle of the Indian Ocean hundreds of miles from a shoreline is not in any way comparable to a human body that is alleged to have gone under the water within a very short distance of shore.

A body that drowns first sinks, then within days the decomposition gasses will raise it back up to the surface and it absolutely WILL be carried by tides and currents to a nearby shoreline. People who live and work on bodies of water, and especially law enforcement/search and rescue folks are well educated on these things, and they are right to be concerned when an allegedly drowned person cannot be located after extensive searching with recognition of recent tides/currents.

By comparison, decomposing bodies trapped inside a steel airplane or boat hull will not be subject to such laws of nature and will continue to decompose trapped inside that obstacle.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's highly likely the poor girl drowned. You can see from the video both she and the boy are staggering as they walked. Likely it began as a hook-up, they were both drunk, they went into the water, and the power of the waves dragged them in different directions. He made it back to shore, she did not. He didn't realize she didn't make it out of the water, because he was drunk. Have any of you ever been that drunk college kid, or seen a drunk college kid? At that age kids make really dumb choices, like entering the ocean when they're so drunk they can barely walk.

Accusing the boy of foul play is misplaced.
Of course her family and friends are upset. But accusing the boy of murder without any basis is wrong.

Well i am surprised her body hasn’t washed from the shore . It’s been almost a week.

It’s like people don’t understand how tides and currents work. Why do you think they never found the airplane that crashed over the ocean all those years ago? Things don’t just nicely wash up on shore all the time.

Clearly YOU don't know how tides and currents work, poster.

A plane falling into the middle of the Indian Ocean hundreds of miles from a shoreline is not in any way comparable to a human body that is alleged to have gone under the water within a very short distance of shore.

A body that drowns first sinks, then within days the decomposition gasses will raise it back up to the surface and it absolutely WILL be carried by tides and currents to a nearby shoreline. People who live and work on bodies of water, and especially law enforcement/search and rescue folks are well educated on these things, and they are right to be concerned when an allegedly drowned person cannot be located after extensive searching with recognition of recent tides/currents.

By comparison, decomposing bodies trapped inside a steel airplane or boat hull will not be subject to such laws of nature and will continue to decompose trapped inside that obstacle.

Or it can be stuck in ocean debris or worse. WE don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One. Night. Stand. (ONS).

What’s not shocking is adults in their 20s having a ONS. Having a ONS during spring break is not shocking (it’s so common as to have become a cliché). A ONS at a beach resort is not shocking.

What is shocking?

- the number of people commenting on this story who are in total shock, disbelief, and apparent denial that women in their 20s in 2025 might want to have (and often do have) a ONS on vacation.

Get over yourselves. This is not the 1950s.

It’s really just the one poster.

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Anonymous wrote:This story is so sad. I feel like girls especially have it drilled in their head to look out for their friends and yet this sort of thing happens. I wonder if she had known the boy for a few days so had an illusion of safety and so did her friends.

I really don't like blaming the friends. She clearly wanted to stay behind with him. It was after 5am and the friends wanted to go to bed at last. If she didn't want to go with them, please tell me specifically what they should have done.

My understanding is they took her phone so find my phone would show her in the hotel room. They were doing what she wanted.

Is this understanding from anything official or simply the game of telephone (pun intended) being played in this thread?

Nothing official. More likely she didn't want her phone to get wet or sandy, or it was dying.

Right. We just know she asked her friends to take it, several possible reasons why.

Im new to the phone theories. I assumed it was on the beach chair. So the girls have it? That’s unfortunate if true.

If you have an older teenage child, you might be aware that they DO NOT like being tracked by their parents. Some have no choice, the parents are controlling. If the parents are not, some kids usually elect to turn off location sharing because, surprise, they like privacy. In this case, if there is controlling parent and she wanted to fool them into thinking she was with her friends whose parents might be in contact with her parents, she gives friends the phone to throw them off the trail of her hormonal intentions.

Haven't you seen posts from mid-life adults who's 80 year old mother will call because middle aged child was at a doctor's office 3000 miles away and pesters about middle aged child's reasons for being at doctor's office?

Ah, so she was thinking clearly enough until that point in the night/morning?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One. Night. Stand. (ONS).

What’s not shocking is adults in their 20s having a ONS. Having a ONS during spring break is not shocking (it’s so common as to have become a cliché). A ONS at a beach resort is not shocking.

What is shocking?

- the number of people commenting on this story who are in total shock, disbelief, and apparent denial that women in their 20s in 2025 might want to have (and often do have) a ONS on vacation.

Get over yourselves. This is not the 1950s.

It’s really just the one poster.

Don't think anyone on this board had been in disbelief. Maybe missed earlier posts about it?? It may have been something Konanki's family had mentioned in media that someone reported here?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's highly likely the poor girl drowned. You can see from the video both she and the boy are staggering as they walked. Likely it began as a hook-up, they were both drunk, they went into the water, and the power of the waves dragged them in different directions. He made it back to shore, she did not. He didn't realize she didn't make it out of the water, because he was drunk. Have any of you ever been that drunk college kid, or seen a drunk college kid? At that age kids make really dumb choices, like entering the ocean when they're so drunk they can barely walk.

Accusing the boy of foul play is misplaced.
Of course her family and friends are upset. But accusing the boy of murder without any basis is wrong.

Well i am surprised her body hasn’t washed from the shore . It’s been almost a week.

It’s like people don’t understand how tides and currents work. Why do you think they never found the airplane that crashed over the ocean all those years ago? Things don’t just nicely wash up on shore all the time.

Clearly YOU don't know how tides and currents work, poster.

A plane falling into the middle of the Indian Ocean hundreds of miles from a shoreline is not in any way comparable to a human body that is alleged to have gone under the water within a very short distance of shore.

A body that drowns first sinks, then within days the decomposition gasses will raise it back up to the surface and it absolutely WILL be carried by tides and currents to a nearby shoreline. People who live and work on bodies of water, and especially law enforcement/search and rescue folks are well educated on these things, and they are right to be concerned when an allegedly drowned person cannot be located after extensive searching with recognition of recent tides/currents.

By comparison, decomposing bodies trapped inside a steel airplane or boat hull will not be subject to such laws of nature and will continue to decompose trapped inside that obstacle.

Or it can be stuck in ocean debris or worse. WE don’t know.

Or carried out to sea. "While known for its beauty, Arena Gorda Beach does not have a prominent coral reef directly in front of it, unlike Bavaro Beach, which is protected by reefs and has calm waters."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One. Night. Stand. (ONS).

What’s not shocking is adults in their 20s having a ONS. Having a ONS during spring break is not shocking (it’s so common as to have become a cliché). A ONS at a beach resort is not shocking.

What is shocking?

- the number of people commenting on this story who are in total shock, disbelief, and apparent denial that women in their 20s in 2025 might want to have (and often do have) a ONS on vacation.

Get over yourselves. This is not the 1950s.

People here live in a weird bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:What is this about the friends taking a day trip – how would they have time for that when they didn’t go to bed till after 5 AM and reported her missing at 4 PM? Seems like a pretty quick day trip.

Was this reported that they went on a day trip?

Yes. It was why they didn't report her missing until 4pm.

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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.

Plenty of people on here let their kids go to beach week or have parties where they serve alcohol. A kid is sitting in Arlignton county jail right now after killing his friend from a drunk driving accident whole being so completely hammered and “supervising” a freshman high school party.

Most parents DO NOT CONDONE this. I never did. My adult sons are very successful and never felt the need to get wasted. As my son is in medical school this is frowned upon.

You don't know everything your children do. I am a very successful female adult, went to an Ivy, got great grades and never caused my parents any trouble. I didn't even drink for most of college. However, I made a ton of stupid naive mistakes in college that could've turned out poorly if things happened differently.

Yes, but you are an American. Sudiksha’s parents are culturally Indian and were raised in India.

In India, good girls (ie - the upper caste / intelligent girl), would never behave in such a fashion. What would happen if a girl were to behave in this way and word got out? The whole family could be dishonored by such shameful behavior. People talk you know.

No. Sudiksha is a good girl, as father has already stated.

If she's such a good girl, what's up with all those selfies of her in tight clothing, or scantily clad or looking to show cleavage?
This girl's parents may be culturally Indian, but she didn't seem to be given that she was engaged in what I consider slatternly American college girl behavior by going to some poor country that has nothing else going for it but notoriety for drunken spring break escapades.
It wasn't like she was in the DR for anthropology studies or looking to help the self-imploding Haitian nation next door.

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Anonymous wrote:This story is so sad. I feel like girls especially have it drilled in their head to look out for their friends and yet this sort of thing happens. I wonder if she had known the boy for a few days so had an illusion of safety and so did her friends.

I really don't like blaming the friends. She clearly wanted to stay behind with him. It was after 5am and the friends wanted to go to bed at last. If she didn't want to go with them, please tell me specifically what they should have done.

My understanding is they took her phone so find my phone would show her in the hotel room. They were doing what she wanted.

Is this understanding from anything official or simply the game of telephone (pun intended) being played in this thread?

Eh, this probably wasn't the first time she tried to get her stalking parents off her trail.


Nothing official. More likely she didn't want her phone to get wet or sandy, or it was dying.

Right. We just know she asked her friends to take it, several possible reasons why.

Im new to the phone theories. I assumed it was on the beach chair. So the girls have it? That’s unfortunate if true.

If you have an older teenage child, you might be aware that they DO NOT like being tracked by their parents. Some have no choice, the parents are controlling. If the parents are not, some kids usually elect to turn off location sharing because, surprise, they like privacy. In this case, if there is controlling parent and she wanted to fool them into thinking she was with her friends whose parents might be in contact with her parents, she gives friends the phone to throw them off the trail of her hormonal intentions.

Haven't you seen posts from mid-life adults who's 80 year old mother will call because middle aged child was at a doctor's office 3000 miles away and pesters about middle aged child's reasons for being at doctor's office?

Ah, so she was thinking clearly enough until that point in the night/morning?