This is a terrible story I learned today. One of my closest friend had a dear friend of hers move to Punta Cana about 2 months ago. This girl, from the NYC area, around 30 years old, took here first trip to Punta Cana, and fell in love with the place. She meets a man..... She returns to NY to decide that life isnt as it should be in NY, she is single here, and decides to pack up and follow one of her friends that already moved to the DR... she moves, her family is not happy with her decision, but she is a grown woman, and goes about her way. She gets an apartment in Punta Cana, is not working yet, and is seeing some guy. Time goes on, and she discovers that he has a live in girlfriend, so she ends it with him....now back home in NY her family has not heard from her in the past 3 days, so a family member calls the other friend who lives in the DR to say that they havent heard from her, please go check on her.... the friend goes to find her brutally murdered in her apartment. As the day went on it was learned that the boyfriend and the live-in girlfriend conspired together to have 4 of his friends to go in and rob and kill her! and this guy was in custody today.
What is so disturbing is that this poor girl was searching for happiness, she pack up to make a better life for herself, she was involved with the wrong guy, and now she is dead. Her brother is a NYC cop, and the NYC police have been in contact with Authorities in the DR making sure they could find out all they could.. I also heard(which I dont know if its true) that if you commit a crime such as a robbery in the DR, and if you are identified, you could be sentenced to death? Is this true? If it is is this why such a crime as robbery would be followed thru with killing the person, so then they could not identify the criminal?
For us women who think we are on vacation falling in love with strange men, be careful... let this be a lesson not to be so naive. we can easily be taken advantage of, robbed and even be killed. (I know people can find happiness and true love as well). But when vacationing in foreign countries, you must be very careful, everywhere. I have had 4 vacations to the DRin 8 months, and I have been crazy while I was there. My friend and I are thankful that nothing bad has happened to us, I was involved with someone that I learned had a live in girlfriend as well( and thank god I ended that) and you never know who your dealing with. All I know is that this poor girl is going to arrive back in NYC in a body bag... this is horrific and she did not deserve to die this way.
What is so disturbing is that this poor girl was searching for happiness, she pack up to make a better life for herself, she was involved with the wrong guy, and now she is dead. Her brother is a NYC cop, and the NYC police have been in contact with Authorities in the DR making sure they could find out all they could.. I also heard(which I dont know if its true) that if you commit a crime such as a robbery in the DR, and if you are identified, you could be sentenced to death? Is this true? If it is is this why such a crime as robbery would be followed thru with killing the person, so then they could not identify the criminal?
For us women who think we are on vacation falling in love with strange men, be careful... let this be a lesson not to be so naive. we can easily be taken advantage of, robbed and even be killed. (I know people can find happiness and true love as well). But when vacationing in foreign countries, you must be very careful, everywhere. I have had 4 vacations to the DRin 8 months, and I have been crazy while I was there. My friend and I are thankful that nothing bad has happened to us, I was involved with someone that I learned had a live in girlfriend as well( and thank god I ended that) and you never know who your dealing with. All I know is that this poor girl is going to arrive back in NYC in a body bag... this is horrific and she did not deserve to die this way.