El Siglo reported that the District Attorney of Santo Domingo discarded the complaint against Canadian Keith Coutlee pressed by family members of the late Yolanda Pérez Paulino and her maid María Vicente Cordero who had accused Coutlee of possible homicide. The investigations confirmed that the two women died in a bizarre accident whereby the Mitsubishi jeep driven by Pérez fell into the pool of the family house in the exclusive Los Pinos residential area. District attorney officers confirmed the findings of the director of the forensic pathology institute, Dr. Sarita Valdez, that the two had drowned and that the bodies showed no signs of violence. Once the D.A. made known the conclusions, the father of the late Yolanda Pérez, Braulio Pérez, told the police that it had been an accident, and that his 32-year old daughter had lived a happy family life with her husband. Her husband is the owner of Reciclaje Santo Domingo. His wife worked as his secretary. They had had no children.
