I really want all the tide monitoring info...also I am looking at the side of the beach where you can easily access the road..when you cross over on the beach there are resorts on either side ...you can keep walking along the beach...there are hours unaccounted for . Wonder if there is any footage from the neighboring beaches and recreation areas. mOO
It is hard to believe that authorities could detain someone or restrict their movement for 11 days without probable cause to do so. We don't know what evidence Dominican authorities have gathered through investigation to establish that probable cause and continue the detention even with JR's lawyer present and the likely concerns and involvement of our government officials. That evidence likely includes the many interviews with JR, interviews with SK's travel mates and JR's travel mate, interviews of other resort guests and workers, review of SK's electronics, review of JR's electronics if voluntarily surrendered or gained by warrant, review of surveillance, examination of the area where SK was last seen or reported to have been and collection and analysis of the belongings she left behind there. Incoherent or inconsistent on known incomplete information raises questions for which they will seek resolution through further investigation.
11 days now and SK remains missing. Her body has not washed ashore nor has it otherwise turned up.
JR walked into the hotel alone around 4 hours after he was last seen by the group he'd been with that evening. JR told authorities he had been sleeping on the beach during that time subsequent to vomiting seawater he swallowed in the course of saving both SK and himself after a large wave washed over them as they were standing in waist deep water. JR told authorities that the water had pulled them away from shore and some distance down the beach and that when he looked up after vomiting, he saw SK walking in shallow water toward the beach and he assumed she had collected her things and gone back to the resort. He also claims the two of them had been kissing before the wave washed over them that required his rescue efforts.
Upon arrival at the hotel that morning, JR reportedly gathered his phone and room card key from his travel mate. We don't know what if anything he told his friend about his and SK's activities subsequent to the time the two of them had been with the larger group. AFAIK JR did not seek out SK's friends to inquire about her well-being - they were not alerted to SK's absence until they discovered SK was not at the resort when they returned from that day's planned outing.
That is, JR's concern for SK didn't appear to extend beyond SK having been a temporary "Spring break hook-up" to him. His standard of care for or protection of her was very low to nonexistent.
IF there had been foul play and IF SK's body was taken or concealed somewhere, it seems like the person doing that would need transportation as that person would likely not carry or drag a body a long distance. I assume that workers who maintain the resort grounds have some kind of vehicles to easily get around (golf carts or the like). Are keys left inside? Were any missing, or returned to a location different from where left? Do they have any tracking technology aboard?
It also seems like the person taking her or concealing her body somewhere would need some familiarity with the areas surrounding the resort. Had JR explored the surrounding area - either that trip or a previous one - sufficiently to discover potential places to secret someone or a body?
How familiar was JR with any locals? Had he befriended or transacted with locals (outside of typical resort business)? Someone with access to transportation - a car or a boat? Was this JR's first trip to Punta Cana?
I assume authorities are pursuing these various questions. SK nor her body has turned up. The risk of premature conclusion that SK was taken away by waves or tides never to be seen again is that her body turns up (or someone who knows something talks) and evidence of foul play becomes apparent with time having passed that endangers evidence that could have led to prosecuting criminality.
Finally, yesterday there were reports that the Chief Prosecutor was going to make a statement today. Has anyone seen any update as to what time?
