The American College student disappeared in the Dominican Republic did not drown herself, says Natalee Hollowayi Pi

A 20-year-old student at Pittsburgh University who disappeared from a five-star resort in Dominican Republic They probably did not drown on the beach such as suggested, according to a private investigator who went to Aruba after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in similar circumstances.

Sudiksha Konanki, born in India, but is a legal permanent American resident of Virginia, was last seen entering the beach early Thursday morning at the Republic of Punta Cana, according to La Policia Nacional, The Country National police forces. She was with a friend who is currently under investigation, according to a translation of a statement in Spanish.

“I don’t think she drowned in the ocean,” said Ward, a private investigator who worked for Holloway’s parents after she disappeared on a trip, continued with high school colleagues to celebrate graduation. “I fully believe that someone knows something where she is, or someone took her or someone holds her somewhere.”

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Her where it remains unknown but ABC News She reported on Monday that she might have drowned, citing sources of law enforcement.

Ward rejected this theory, and Dominican police said he was investigating one of Konaki’s friends and wanted to confirm the claims of “young man” who was also in the water that night. They questioned more witnesses, including her friends.

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“If she had entered the water, she would have washed somewhere in the tide in a way that comes to the island,” Ward said.

The authorities searched the mainland, the air and the sea, and he said that the body was probably discovered in the water if someone was subtracted by the distant at sea.

Konaki’s family is also skeptical according to reports that may have drowned, according to Wtop newsexit based in Washington.

“It has been four days, and if she was in the water, she would probably be swollen to the shore,” her father said, Subbarayud Konanki, for the socket. “Not found, so we ask them to explore more options, such as abduction or abduction.”

In a complaint with the Dominican authorities, he asked them to explore potential drowning, as well as the ability or nasty game, the elder Konanki said his daughter and his wallet remained with his friends, who he said was “unusual”, the exit said.

Attempts to reach him from Fox News Digital were unsuccessful on Monday.

Konanki was on a spring crack to the Dominican Republic with five classmates, they said earlier.

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She arrived on March 3rd and was last seen at about 4:15 am on March 6, on a supervisory video, headed to the beach with her friends, to the local police.

Konaki’s disappearance shares some similarities to Holloway’s. Both young women traveled in Carp’s beach resort with classmates. They both disappeared at the beach at night, staying late after their friends returned to their hotels. Holloway’s case came to a terrible conclusion last year after the suspect, Joran Van der Sloot, admitted that he had killed her almost two decades after the fact.

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“They do not understand traveling in these other countries,” Ward said of US students who could be drawn to the idea of ​​going somewhere where they can legally drink under the age of 21.

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“There are problems with attacks, abductions and so on and so on,” he told Fox News Digital. “Young people simply do not understand the theory of what is happening in these other countries, and they think they can leave because they can drink and have fun and in younger times and escape with it and do things that they couldn’t do here in the US”

There are “major problems in the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean countries,” he said.

In 2019, at least 11 Americans died and thousands of more suffered food poisoning in the country, according to Berksshire Hathaway Travel protection. In the same year, legend Boston Red Soxa David Ortiz survived A shooting at a nightclub there.

“There are bad people in the middle of the night and I don’t know why she was at 4:30 in the morning, or where her friends were, but you can’t be alone, you walk in a country you don’t know about,” Ward said. “You have to stay in groups and where you won’t be the target.”

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“So, they need to understand that there are major problems with people who go to those countries here, spring vacations, because they think they have resources and that they can have a luxury and be able to do what they want without watching,” he added. “And people use girls there, and bad people on these islands on these islands, and need to be viewed, and police implementation know that.”

Police questioned several witnesses, including her friends and an unnamed “young man” whose story said they wanted to confirm.

Konanki is originally from India, but is a legal permanent resident of the US from Loudoun County, nearby Washington, DCaccording to the authorities. It is 5 feet tall, 3 inches, with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing brown bikini, groove earrings, bracelets and ankle.

The spokeswoman of Sheriff’s Loudoun County Sheriff also told Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the report that Konanki immersed perhaps “based on her last known place near the beach, but [there’s] There is no evidence to support that conclusion at this point. “

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Fox News’ Greg Norman and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.