The family of 41-year old Orlando Moore, who died when his car plunged into the Caribbean Sea, has set up a GoFundMe account for collections to help pay to return the remains of Moore to the United States.
The Daily Voice of New York says the effort is coordinated through the Jamaican Consulate, since Moore had entered the Dominican Republic on a Jamaican passport. The family explains that they are responsible for all costs associated with the returning of the body to the United States, funeral services, investigation and children.
As of Monday, the director of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif), Gerdo Rosales said the body of 52-year old US citizen Portia Ravenelle had not been repatriated because her relatives have not traveled to the Dominican Republic to complete the formality of identifying the body. The body has already been identified by the Dominican authorities. He also said the authorities are awaiting DNA proof to complete the identification of Orlando Moore. The intention is to ship both corpses back to the United States together.
The couple had vacationed in Samaná from 23 to 27 March 2019, when they went missing late in the evening. An investigation would reveal they were last seen crossing the Marbella tollbooth on the highway at 1:41am, when they had a scheduled flight at 1:30am from the Las Americas International Airport, about 6 km further to the east. The vehicle would be recovered from the sea on the airport drive. The Police investigators say the late hour, darkness, speeding to catch the flight, as explanations to the plunge into the sea. Ravenelle would die on 2 April at the Dario Contreras Trauma Hospital where she was taken by 911 on the day of the accident, but the remains of Moore would drift west and be recovered several days later near Sans Souci. He was identified by tattoos.
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Listin Diario
17 April 2019