At minimum:
This is a tourism country--they make many $$ from tourism.
PR matters and an incident of foreigners missing is never a good thing.
Both the airline and most likely the rental car company would have notified authorities when the flight was missed and the car not returned. You basically have a stolen vehicle and a missing American couple at this point. This is a BIG deal.
Now, since we have a rental car and the flight was out of this airport, LE knows this couple would have traveled to the airport as well as have known the route once checking which hotel they stayed at as well as a time frame.
Right on this highway on the correct day, a woman was found, a car was seen in the ocean and a crash was heard allegedly ON the road.
The rental car is seen at the toll booth and now one has a minimum area from the toll booth to the airport. In that area a woman was found, a car was seen in the ocean and a crash heard on the highway, on the correct date.
Yet family is told no accidents, no one in hospitals, etc.
Of course it seems like this all occurred and LE was never notified of a missed flight, a rental car missing, a woman on the road, an unidentified woman in the hospital from the very area one would look... Not told of "fishermen" hearing a crash, seeing a car in the ocean... Wow.
Days later though there are fishermen who they now talk to... After EIGHT days the woman dies. During that time they had family already inquiring...
Show me an article about the unidentified woman in the hospital, found on the roadway, etc. and show me one about the body washed up on shore on the 31st? From when they discovered them, where and about the fishermen finding a woman, seeing a car in the ocean, hearing a crash on Los Americos Highway, etc. A Dominican article from the dates of these discoveries.
I doubt there are any. It seems like pretty big news to me... Imo it is because they knew it was these American tourists and their car. It may not even be a cover up in the sense of something else happened but they are not going to publish that happened there if they do not have to--at minimum.
I am waiting for video of checkout and confirmation of check out time. I am also waiting for them to get their locations straight because thus far they are not. And much more. If this is not a criminal investigation, then there is no reason the facts cannot be shared.
What was the sound of the crash? What was hit? Who hit them?
I am sure it is even worse for the families and they deserve the questions answered.
All jmo.
