The person of interest in the case of the mysterious disappearance of Sudiksha Konaki, Joshua Riibe with whom she was last seen has now claimed that he saved Konanki from the rough Caribbean waters as she was almost drowning but Riibe could not tell cops what happened next and how Konanki vanished into thin air. Search for Konanki, the Indian-origin 20-year-old student of the University of Pittsburgh, entered the eighth day with no breakthrough.
Joshua Riibe last person seen with Konanki: Here’s what he said
Konanki was last seen on March 6 in surveillance footage of the resort where she was staying. In the footage, she was seen with Riibe walking arm-in-arm. Riibe said he went to the sea with Konanki when a big wave came and hit them. As the sea turned rough, they cried for help but there was no one else on the beach as it was in the middle of the night. He and Konanki were tired from swimming but he did not give up and put Konanki under his arm and made it to the shore. He swallowed a lot of seawater during the process, he said. Riibe told the police that Konanki told him that she was going to get her belongings as those were displaced by the waves. “The last time I saw her, I asked her if she was OK,” Riibe said. “I didn’t hear her answer because I started vomiting all the sea water I had swallowed.”
Riibe said he might have fallen asleep and when he woke up by mosquitoes biting him, he did not see Konanki around. He returned to the hotel room and fell back to sleep.
The Dominican Republic police initially thought Konanki got drowned though her body was not found in the weeklong search and her family insisted that she had not drowned. Now the cops are investigating the angle of a foul play as well.
Joshua Riibe declines police questions, says…
Though Joshua Riibe has not been named as an accused in the case and is only a person of interest, his action has become suspicious as he declined to answer police questions about Konanki and told the cops that his lawyers advised him not to answer the questions,
The police asked him more about how everything unfolded and what he did after he could not find Konanki, what he thinks about her disappearance, whether Konanki knows swimming, what he told his friends and the resort authorities after he found out that Konanki was missing etc.
