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    Default Couple both die of respiratory failure, in Domician Republic?

    An American couple visiting the Dominican Republic found dead in their hotel room died of respiratory failure, the country's national police said.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...cid=spartandhp

    That sounds a little far fetched, one ok but both at the same time?????

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    Hmmm, seems really far-fetched. Could the cops be protecting the hotel/resort?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Hmmm, seems really far-fetched. Could the cops be protecting the hotel/resort?
    Mrs. Grumpy and I wonder what is being covered up also. Could they have been drowned? I think the US should investigate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post
    Mrs. Grumpy and I wonder what is being covered up also. Could they have been drowned? I think the US should investigate.
    I agree. I hope that their families raise a stink.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Hmmm, seems really far-fetched. Could the cops be protecting the hotel/resort?
    Very fishy. Carbon monoxide maybe?


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    Very fishy. Carbon monoxide maybe?
    Not sure how since they sure wouldn't be using a heater down there, unless their room was near a garage or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Not sure how since they sure wouldn't be using a heater down there, unless their room was near a garage or something.

    True, when I read more it said they had water in their lungs.


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    True, when I read more it said they had water in their lungs.
    The news tonight reported a third American in that same hotel who died allegedly of the same thing.... plus a young American couple in Fiji who got some illness (or poisoning) and died.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...lness-n1013556

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    The news tonight reported a third American in that same hotel who died allegedly of the same thing.... plus a young American couple in Fiji who got some illness (or poisoning) and died.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...lness-n1013556
    This is scary. It's going to make people think twice about vacationing in those places.


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    Quote Originally Posted by christiefan915 View Post
    This is scary. It's going to make people think twice about vacationing in those places.
    I don't know why anyone would want to go to the DR anyways. Sister- and brother-in-law went there a few years ago with some church group. Their stay included a tour of some obviously-staged "poor villagers who need our prayers" ppl in their ramshackle huts. It almost made me sick. But mostly they were in the safe and protected resort far from the criminals and the truly destitute.

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    4th American Dies In Dominican Republic After Drinking From Hotel Minibar
    Monday, June 10, 2019

    Travel advisories have been issued for Americans on vacation in the Dominican Republic after a fourth American tourist died there.


    The U.S. State Department's travel advisory lists the Dominican Republic as a Level 2 destination, advising travelers to exercise caution after a 4th American died under mysterious circumstances.

    Robert Bell Wallace, 67, of California, took ill in his hotel room and died after having a drink from the minibar, his family confirmed to Fox News.

    Wallace complained of abdominal pain, urinated blood and died after drinking a whiskey from the minibar in his room at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino resort in Punta Cana, his niece, Chloe Arnold, told Fox News on Sunday.

    Wallace died about a month before the deaths of 3 American tourists at other hotels in the Caribbean nation.Arnold said Wallace was in Punta Cana to attend his stepson's wedding in April. She said her uncle had been in good health when he died unexpectedly.

    Almost 4 weeks later, another American tourist, Miranda Schaup-Werner, of Pennsylvania, died suddenly after she had a drink from the minibar at another hotel.

    After hearing about the recent deaths, a Maryland widow went public about the death of her husband, David Harrison, last year.

    Dawn McCoy said she, her husband and their 12-year-old son were celebrating the couple's anniversary in Punta Cana last July when Harrison took ill and died suddenly.

    "My husband was a very fit, very healthy person when he passed away," she told Inside Edition. She said he took anti-hypertension medications to keep his blood pressure under control.

    She now questions her husband's mysterious death after another Maryland couple was found dead at a resort next door to the hotel where Schaup-Werner died.
    On May 30, engaged couple Edward Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Day, 49, died in their room at the Bahia Principe La Romana. A hotel employee found them unresponsive after they failed to check out.

    Dominican medical examiners conducted either preliminary or final autopsies on the dead Americans. Eager to protect their tourism dollars, Dominican authorities insist they all died of natural causes.

    But families have their doubts and have hired attorneys. Additional autopsies are planned when the bodies are returned to the U.S.

    Dominican officials said Schaup-Werner, Holmes and Day had a buildup of fluid in their lungs, a condition called pulmonary edema.

    They said Schaup-Werner, 41, who collapsed after taking a drink from the minibar at the Grand Bahia Principe Bouganville, suffered a heart attack. Her hotel was adjacent to the sister hotel where Holmes and Day died.

    Schaup-Werner and her husband Daniel were celebrating their wedding anniversary when she died. Her grieving husband confirmed she had a heart condition, though her family said she was healthy.

    The U.S. State Department and several international agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sent teams of experts and inspectors to conduct their own independent tests at the properties where the tourists died.

    The FBI confirmed to Fox News on Friday it was also conducting an investigation into the deaths.

    Forensics tests are pending, but the prevailing theory is the tourists were poisoned.

    Experts say it is common practice for hotels in developing countries to cut costs by diluting alcoholic beverages with methanol, a common ingredient found in windshield washer fluid.

    Methanol is a tasteless, odorless methyl alcohol that is potentially deadly to humans. As little as 1 tablespoon of methanol can kill a man. Ingestion of small amounts of methanol can lead to blindness, brain damage, kidney failure and death from cardiac arrest.

    Symptoms begin within hours after ingesting and may include disorientation, confusion, headache, dizziness, vomiting, abdominal pain, and a specific odor on the breath.

    Methanol is sold at all auto parts stores and costs less than $2.00 a gallon. Hotels and resorts in developing countries are known to mix home-brewed moonshine as a cheap alternative to purchasing liquor from commercial distributors.

    Travelers to developing countries are advised to avoid buying mixed drinks or cocktails from hotel bars and to only buy liquor in sealed bottles or cans. Tourists are also cautioned that labels on bottles may not accurately reflect the contents inside.

    Relatives of Yvette Monique Sport, 51, believe her death at a Punta Cana resort was the result of foul play. The family told Fox 29 Philadelphia she was visiting the popular tourist destination last June, when she had a drink, went to bed, and never woke up. Her death certificate listed her official cause of death as a heart attack.

    "It's a complete fabrication," Sport's sister, Felecia Nieves, said, "that you could have as many people and they all have the same cookie-cutter outcome. It's impossible."

    http://sandrarose.com/2019/06/4th-am...hotel-minibar/

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    I knew a couple of guys who went on a ski trip and died, The heater in their room malfunctioned and carbon monoxide killed them in their sleep. That was in Michigan.

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