Where Is Sudiksha Konanki? - SPRING BREAK MYSTERY

INVESTIGATORS SEARCH FOR A PREMED STUDENT WHO VANISHED WHILE VISITING THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

- LIAM QUINN and PRAXILLA TRABATTONI

The group of friends seemed to be living it up in Punta Cana, a popular spring break destination in the Dominican Republic. Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old premed student at the University of Pittsburgh, and five others were seen partying with other guests at the Hotel Riu Republica oceanfront resort, and, in what would be her last Venmo transaction, Konanki made a reference to Coco Bongo, a hopping nightclub in the center of town. But after heading to the beach in the early morning hours of March 6-a day when tall waves pounded the shore-Konanki vanished without a trace. The last person believed to have seen her alive is another tourist at the hotel, Joshua Riibe, 22, who accompanied Konanki and her friends to the beach that morning after a night of socializing together. He is now considered a person of interest in her disappearance by police in Loudoun County, Va., where the missing woman's family lives, and has been questioned repeatedly by police in the Dominican Republic. And while authorities there initially said they believed the young w