An American, Joshua Riibe, who was the last person believed to have been seen with missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic was back in the United States on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after, he said, authorities forced him to stay in the Caribbean nation and confiscated his passport. NBC’s Jesse Kirsch has the latest from Punta Cana.
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I’m hoping and praying they find the body soon. Once it’s discovered, an autopsy will reveal everything.
50k can get you out of a murder situation in any developing countries that's what happened here
How does she just vanish so quickly? He said he didn’t see her and thought she left, but she was so drunk she left her sandals and clothing? Did he really save her the first time or he knew she probably drowned already and he couldn’t save her so he made up a story? But how could you be okay to walk to the beach chair and pass out, but if were exhausted and drunk, you should have passed out where you puked. It’s just weird. That’s all he remembers? I feel like she may have drowned, but not in the sense of what he’s saying. He may have had something to do with her drowning, or he saved himself rather than her, cus after seeing her in knee deep water, she just vanished in thin air?
Go with your gut!!!! This dude did something.
He told the truth. I'm glad he's home.
Her parents should continue with legal charges
DONT GIVE UP
He shouldn’t get away with it that quick as soon as he walks in he looks fir cameras
How on earth will they let him leave the country theres no body! Until she is found they should keep him
God bless Virginia America my home sweet home 🏡 🙏🏻 ❤ I'm in my first home Hawaii ❤ when I first heard this it broke my heart. God bless her soul, spirit, family ❤
That boy’s stories change more than the 5 o clock news…
I hope someone do something about that steroid creature walking around free
Her friends and the RIU resort employees need to all be investigated.
1. If her friends were in possession of her phone 📱, didn't come back to check on her and notified authorities 12 hrs later, how did they know she was missing to report it?
2. In an 2019 online article 📰, an American woman visited another resort in Punta Cana and told her story of an employee abduction she fell victim to. She stated that she was going to the beach 🏖️ from her room, passed the hotel bar area. As she was walking she was violently grabbed from behind and taken into a maintenance room and in return taken underground to a hidden room on the resort. She was tortured to assaulted and almost died. She survived to tell her story!
Joshua could be a Dr. Jekyl and Mr Hyde, but her friends to the RIU Resort have to be considered, I question if the resort released all of its surveillance footage of Sudisksa!!!!
Liar
Looks like he got away with justice incel
At first, I thought he was definitely guilty. But then again, he might not. Because he was in drunken state. He passed out and went back to hotel. he assumed that she got out of water, he thought that she was safe and too drunk to be of much help. He didn't really ask about her because they just met each other that night and also he was too wasted to even notice or realise on himself. Let alone the girl he barely knew. He was too wasted to help or even aware on what really happened. And that's why he gave a couple of different versions .I think this is accidental drowning. The friends should be blamed because they should be close enough with her to care and worried for her. Not the man who has just met the girl and especially when he himself was so wasted
I don't think he's the killer. Nobody who killed someone would have hang around at the same location for few hours and return back to hotel .u would have fled immediately. He passed out at the beach and she accidentally drowned
When Indian people going to foreign countries 🤡🤡🤡 when they forget to raise their kids in Indian culture the result will be like this ✅
His story does not make sense at all-
This white guy sounds shady !!
He did not answer 8 questions they asked him I hope the FBI sees that in DR money talks and you can buy peoples silence we want justice
If this strange man have a girlfriend where he lives back at his home and looking for friendship in DR. Can you trust this man. Sad sad sad for this girl. Indian girls are decent girls that’s all I know so sad sad for this girl and the parents
Let’s not judge , just because he was the last person with her. What about her friends? What they know?
Joshua riibe is the main culprit and US govt gave him new passport and bought him back to USA and this worst domanican police and court gave clean chit in this case…wow what a government… how could they leave riibe ,he is the last person who have seen sudiksha
Oh yes, act cool. Look up as if not guilty ….i oray her body shows up …Dear lord let this comebto light soon may her body be found dear God …justice forbthis young lady .its my opinion that he is guilty as hell
He is the killer everyone in the Dominican Republic is saying it.
God only knows
I think what happened was both were drunk, in water he forced her to go beyond a kiss which she denied. Both might have had a flight or slight struggle, and in anger, hurt her to death and he left the scene.
No se rindan padres, tampoco sean tan crédulos de ciertas opiniones. A Laci Peterson la llevaron mar adentro y aparecieron los cuerpos de ella y su hijo no nacido a los 4 meses, eso es en caso de que esté muerta. ¿No han pensado que puede estar viva? Alguien podía estar acechando y aprovechando la oportunidad de que estaba muy vulnerable haberla secuestrado.
😐🙄 yeah, and it's just makes him look so innocent. As if anyone really thinks that, what a joke.. History continues to repeat itself with these same situations.. smh r.i.p.
What case does he have to return to? I don’t understand
This Riibe looks like a modern day Joe Dirt
Something very wrong here, his actions and stories just do not pass the smell test.
HE GOT DETAINED IN PUERTO RICO
Where is Riibe now? did he reach Iowa or still detained in Puerto Rico because he left DR hurriedly with a new passport and with no exit stamp on it. No news about him yet.
I don’t understand why he has to murder her, while she is already hanging out with him. Otherwise he is psycho. If he really killed her, how did her body disappear? Not sure if they recovered her body yet.
If whatever he says is real, they both may have passed out on the beach shore and somebody (one or group) may have abducted her?? Possible right?
I don’t understand why he has to murder her, while she is already hanging out with him. Otherwise he is psycho. If he really killed her, how did her body disappear? Not sure if they recovered her body yet.
If whatever he says is real, they both may have passed out on the beach shore and somebody (one or group) may have abducted her?? Possible right?
Atención a la "Embajada Americana"… y también a las "Autoridades Locales" del país… Aquí hay gato entre macuto, y por lo tanto, ya no busquen mas esa muchacha adentro del agua, y mejor enfóquense en buscarla en la tierra, especialmente en las zonas boscosas y en los montes aledaños al hotel, porque después de tanta búsqueda por agua, ahora todo nos indica que ella no se ahogó, sino que ella fue enterrada y lo mas probable es que la encuentren enterrada debajo de la arena, no muy lejos del hotel. Que pena que eso sea así, y por lo tanto, atención a la "Embajada Americana" para que también vengan a investigar lo que esta pasando con los turistas y los extranjeros en "Santo Domingo", porque lo que paso con "Tekashi 69", y también con el empresario "Antonio Carbone" en "Santo Domingo" es solo la punta del "Iceberg", y no hablemos de lo que paso con "Luisito Comunica", porque eso fue demasiado ridículo. Ya a mi mismo me paso un incidente así y fue bastante desagradable. Eso fue en "La Playa De Cabarete" cuando fui de turista a vacacionar y 3 policías me vieron la cara de pendejo y trataron de acusarme de haber atracado a otro turista canadiense, y como yo no soy blanco, ni tampoco soy rubio, ni tampoco tengo los ojos verdes, me trataron como un ladrón. Yo se que en el fondo ellos lo hicieron para ver si yo me asustaba y les ofrecía dinero para que ellos me dejen ir, pero fue bien desagradable porque ellos hasta tiraron tiros para arriba con una escopeta para intimidar a uno. Sin embargo, por mas que ellos trataron de intimidarme, yo no les mostré miedo, ni les ofrecí nada, y al final de la noche, como a eso de las 11:30 PM fue que ellos finalmente me dejaron ir porque se dieron cuenta que yo no les iba a dar nada. Pero aun así, fue bien desagradable ir de turista a un lugar y que sea la misma policía corrupta de ahí quien te discrimine y te trate así porque se ve claro que es una excusa que usan como pretexto para extorsionarte a la fuerza y ver si te asustas y les ofreces dinero para que ellos te dejen ir. Por lo tanto, atención a la "Embajada Americana", para que vengan a investigar aquí porque ellos nos están provocando como hicieron con "Luisito Comunica" para hacer que uno se desespere y reaccione de alguna forma indebida para tendernos una "Trampa Legal" y hacer como le hicieron a "Tekashi" o hacer como le hicieron al empresario "Antonio Carbone", porque ese es el "Modus Operandi" que tiene esta mafia de policías delincuentes. Si el "Respeto" a la "Propiedad Privada" es la "Paz", si eso es así, entonces esto aquí es una denuncia publica que ahora nos hemos visto forzados a poner en el internet y ya notificamos al "FBI" y el "Interpol". Hagan click en el link que les he incluido abajo para que lean el reportaje completo y lean hasta que vean el video donde "Tekashi" dice que tubo que salir del país por Haití, porque lo que le hicieron a el, ya nos lo han querido hacer a nosotros y yo tengo las evidencias porque ahora mismo también nos esta pasando a nosotros aquí.
https://web.facebook.com/Jose.Hidalgo.Ritmovivo/posts/pfbid0h1tdzqTzjTnADsfUxaXMohvdHgWCntc9uCSDrBbmErM9uzMqazKb7XPTo9XHT1Xql