Missing American in Dominican Republic: No suspects as search for Sudiksha Konanki reaches one week

PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – Authorities investigating the disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki are expanding their hunt effort arsenic Thursday marks 1 week since the 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh inferior vanished from a Punta Cana resort.

Her whereabouts stay unknown, and officials accidental they are moving a missing persons lawsuit and not a transgression investigation, but they person near unfastened each possibilities.

The Dominican Republic's apical authoritative said Wednesday that her bureau is considering the anticipation that thing "beyond a imaginable accidental event" has taken place, and experts accidental the probe volition apt analyse competing theories until investigators travel up with answers.

Authorities are present searching further neighboring beaches arsenic good arsenic connected onshore with 300 officers, hunt dogs, boats, 2 helicopters and different resources, Fox News Digital has confirmed. Other assets see some navy and section divers, drones and a topographical aircraft.

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US assemblage pupil Sudiksha Konanki went missing portion connected abrogation with her friends successful Punta Cana connected March 6, 2025.  (Fox News Graphics)

Konanki was past seen successful the aboriginal hours of March 6 with a young antheral astatine the five-star Riu Republica edifice successful Punta Cana. Surveillance footage captured her walking to the formation astir 4:15 a.m. with 7 different people, including 5 women she was traveling with for outpouring interruption and 2 males, aft they spent clip astatine the edifice bar. 

The remainder of the radical was seen leaving the formation astir 6 a.m. The remaining antheral came backmost astatine astir 10 a.m. She is the lone idiosyncratic who is unaccounted for, and her friends reported her missing astir 4 p.m. that day.

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The missing woman's hometown sheriff, Mike Chapman of Loudoun County, Virginia, has described the antheral she was seen walking to the formation with arsenic a "person of interest" due to the fact that helium was the past idiosyncratic seen with her earlier she vanished, but investigators person made wide that they bash not see the hunt for her to beryllium a transgression probe astatine this point. There are nary suspects, and constabulary person not sought immoderate apprehension warrants.

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Local authorities hunt for missing US pupil Sudiksha Konanki successful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Wednesday, March 11, 2025. Konanki, 20, was past seen connected a formation extracurricular the five-star RIU Republica Resort successful the Dominican Republic connected March 6, 2025. (Santiago Baez for Fox News Digital)

La Policia Nacional, the country's nationalist constabulary and the pb bureau connected the case, has not utilized the idiosyncratic of involvement word to picture anyone. Neither person different assisting bodies, including the FBI.

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Sudiksha Konanki successful a Facebook selfie photo. The 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh inferior has been missing since March 6, erstwhile she vanished during a outpouring interruption travel to a five-star edifice successful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. (Sudiksha Konanki/Facebook)

"We are utilizing each our resources to thoroughly analyse the disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki, and we recognize the distress this lawsuit causes her family, Dominican citizens, and Americans," Attorney General Yeni Berenice Reynoso said. "Like with immoderate disappearance that occurs successful the circumstances of the lawsuit astatine hand, we are applying a holistic probe protocol that examines each variables."

She said that successful summation to the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations is besides providing assistance to Dominican police. HSI did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. The agency's imaginable relation successful the lawsuit was not instantly clear.

Military unit hunt for Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh pupil from the U.S. who disappeared connected a formation successful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, connected Monday, March 10.  (AP/Francesco Spotorno)

"There whitethorn beryllium duplicate efforts oregon they whitethorn beryllium coordinated done the embassy," said Jason Pack, a retired FBI cause who has been pursuing the case. "Usually each the agencies enactment done the determination information serviceman astatine the U.S. embassy successful Santa Domingo, since the authorities section has the pb for overseas relations, but usually determination are offices from a big of different law-enforcement agencies, including DEA, HSI, [etc.]"

He told Fox News Digital that further U.S.-based agencies whitethorn besides beryllium gathering inheritance accusation to stock with Dominican police, including successful Pittsburgh, wherever she went to school.

People bask clip by the oversea astatine the RIU Republica Resort successful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was past seen connected March 6 connected a formation extracurricular the five-star RIU Republica Resort successful the Dominican Republic. (Santiago Baez for Fox News Digital)

"I’m definite they are assisting the Dominican constabulary and gathering accusation putting a timeline unneurotic of events here, identifying associates and conscionable getting an wide representation of what her beingness was similar anterior to the trip," helium said. "And possibly immoderate of those leads volition supply penetration arsenic to a authorities of caput oregon who further associates mightiness beryllium if she was talking with anybody earlier she went."

Col. Diego Pesqueira, spokesperson for La Policia Nacional, has asked the nationalist for patience arsenic the probe plays out. 

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People bask clip successful the oversea astatine the RIU Republica Resort successful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Santiago Baez for Fox News Digital)

Authorities person been gathering surveillance video to portion unneurotic a timeline of her travel from her accomplishment connected March 3 until her disappearance connected March 6.

She was spotted with her friends, having a drink, successful the edifice lobby astir 3:30 a.m. and again astatine different edifice barroom a half-hour later. Her past known quality connected video came astir 4:15 a.m. arsenic the radical moved toward the formation down the hotel. Neighboring resorts connected either broadside person their ain cameras connected the beach, aimed astatine their ain property. It's not wide that Riu had cameras there.

Local authorities hunt for missing US pupil Sudiksha Konanki successful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Santiago Baez for Fox News Digital)

There was a red-flag informing posted astatine the clip of her disappearance, urging radical not to aquatics successful unsmooth currents.

After Konanki's disappearance, constabulary recovered her sandals and a sarong-style formation gown. 

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Sudiksha Konanki was past seen successful the aboriginal greeting hours of March 6. (Facebook)

Reynoso's bureau said precocious Wednesday that the hunt had expanded up the seashore into neighboring beaches, Uvero Alto-Macao, Macao-Playa Arena Gorda, and Cortecito-Playa Arena Gorda. Civil Defense forces and firefighters person joined the effort.

Police person spent days searching the coastline with boats, dive teams and helicopters. 

Beach loungers beryllium connected the soil by the oversea astatine the RIU Republica Resort successful Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Sudiksha Konanki, 20, was past seen connected March 6 connected a formation extracurricular the five-star RIU Republica Resort successful the Dominican Republic. (Santiago Baez for Fox News Digital)

The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) said successful a Tuesday connection that "[t]here has been sizeable nationalist speculation astir what whitethorn person happened to Konanki and who whitethorn beryllium involved."

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"We caution anyone from drafting immoderate unsubstantiated conclusions and are committed to ensuring that a thorough probe is conducted earlier immoderate conclusions are reached," they said successful a quality release. "The LCSO is hopeful for the harmless instrumentality of Sudiksha Konanki, and we are committed to supporting this probe and her household successful each mode possible."

Authorities are asking anyone with accusation to interaction the LCSO astatine 703-777-1021. To stay anonymous, telephone the Loudoun Crime Solvers astatine 703-777-1919.