DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Following nearly five years of agonizing uncertainty for the family, the Public Ministry and the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif) have confirmed that skeletal remains discovered in a Sosúa villa belong to 22-year old Carli Franchesca Guzmán Roche. The missing person case has now been officially reclassified as a homicide.

Her grandmother, Paulina Gonzalez had filed a report of missing person with the Sosua police on 13 September 2021 when she was not able to contact her grand daughter since 5 September, the day the woman registered into the hotel. Guzman Roche had traveled to Sosua from her hometown in the municipality of Bani, in southcentral Peravia province.

At the time, the management of the hotel located at Calle Alejo Martinez in El Batey, Sosua had reported the woman had registered on 5 September in room #33 of the hotel. She did not check out...