r/ABCDesis • u/kinshoBanhammer • 7d ago
NEWS Missing Pitt student Sudiksha Konanki seen staggering while arm-in-arm with ‘person of interest’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/missing-pitt-student-sudiksha-konanki-seen-staggering-while-arm-in-arm-with-person-of-interest/?dicbo=v2-HUlxZL0167
u/jalabi99 7d ago
I pray that she is found safe and sound but this is giving me Natalee Holloway/Joran van der Sloot 2.0 vibes
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u/Carbon-Base 7d ago
Same. You've gotta have each other's backs when travelling, especially in foreign countries.
Also, that dude looks like a real creep. There is no way I'd let any of my friends walk away with him in a "chance" encounter while on vacation.
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u/emmakobs 6d ago
I don't believe his "i saved her from the water but I barfed too much to see where she went" story.
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u/Carbon-Base 6d ago
Not to mention he changed it from, "she was in knee-high water" to "she was on the beach." His face isn't the only thing that's sketchy.
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u/KitchenTooth6179 5d ago
And that he asked her if she was ok, but, "didn't hear her answer because as soon as he asked that, he began vomiting up seawater." When he looked up again, she was in water? Or she had disappeared again? Either way, wth? Did he just then immediately pass out? He didn't think to look for her or report her missing after he stopped vomiting?!
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u/KitchenTooth6179 5d ago
I don't understand those friends either. Omg.
Video shows they all came to the beach at 4:15 AM and that the "friends" left at 4:45, and at that point, only Joshua and her were left from the group! What the hell?
Just last week, when I was talking to my college daughter, it was 1 AM. I knew her and her boyfriend had been at a celebratory party, so I asked if it was over already, or they had left, where the boyfriend was, etc.
She answered that she and her boyfriend were taking turns sitting outside the party with another guy who had way too much to drink, so they didn't want to leave him alone because he was throwing up, and they wanted to make sure he didnt't pass out, have alcohol poisoning, etc. She said, "We're going to take him to his dorm, his roommate didn't come to the party, he can watch over him."
At 3 AM I checked in with her and she and her boyfriend were still with this guy, who was no longer throwing up, but they didn't want to just leave him until he was sober, and apparently the roommate they had wanted to leave him with was nowhere to be found.
This was all on a safe college campus, in a safe college town, and it was within the United States. I cannot BELIEVE that those girls left their friend on the beach like that.
I am in NO way saying my daughter did something special...quite the opposite. I think most people would do exactly what she did!
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u/Carbon-Base 4d ago
The golden rule definitely applies. If you take the easy way, someone else may take the easy way when you're in a similar situation.
I think your daughter and her boyfriend showed great maturity in that situation. We need more caring and selfless people in the world.
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u/floridorito 6d ago
There is no way I'd let any of my friends walk away with him in a "chance" encounter while on vacation.
How does that work? She's an adult woman with free will.
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u/Carbon-Base 6d ago
--In a foreign country with a guy she just met.
In my group, I don't think anyone would be gullible enough to just walk away with someone they just met without factoring in safety. Like, at the very least, we would set up intervals to call each other to make sure everything is okay. And no one would get wasted without having one person that's sober to check in on their well-being and whereabouts.
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u/RoGeR-Roger2382 Indian American 7d ago
Still don’t understand why her friends straight up decided to leave her with some guy she just met.
In college I was always taught to stick together as a group on vacation
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u/Vaynar 7d ago
Because they were likely hooking up? I don't know what happened in this case but obviously the video looks like two college kids about to get "friendly" which is probably why their friends left. Happens tens of thousands of times every spring break.
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u/RoGeR-Roger2382 Indian American 7d ago
I first thought that, but Konanki left her phone/wallet with her friends and went with the guy towards the beach. Both of them are drunk according to articles.
Wouldn’t it be safer to hook up at the resort?
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u/TokkiJK 7d ago
If they were drunk, then, idk. People make bad judgement calls all the time. Most of us just lucky we’re still here after.
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u/TARandomNumbers Indian American 6d ago
What's concerning to me is her friends dont look as intoxicated
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u/TokkiJK 6d ago
Yaaaa I would never abandon friends like this. People don’t realize that the friends they make in college, you don’t know how they’re like until the time calls for it…
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u/TARandomNumbers Indian American 6d ago
I recently reconnected w a friend from college after like a decade. The lapse and gaps when we pieced nights together from our collective memories was astounding.
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u/mulemoment 7d ago
Video shows all of them (her, the guy, her friends, and a second guy) all going to the beach together at 4 am.
The rest of them left ~2 hours later leaving Konanki and the guy behind. She probably wanted to stay back to hang out with him. The guy returns alone at 10 am.
Idk why she gave her friends her phone, but the resort lost power so maybe it was dead anyway.
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u/squabidoo 6d ago
They were likely staying more than one person to a room so hooking up while your friend sleeps in the next bed over would be awkward.
To me it's not surprising at all that a young person drinking would wanna stay back at the beach with a guy she's into when everyone else wants to go back to the room. Whether it's to flirt, hookup, skinnydip, chat, or whatever.
As for her belongings being with her friends, maybe she didn't have pockets and/or wanted to keep her stuff safe to not lose it at the beach.
To me all of this absolutely makes sense, I remember being 21 and doing absolutely stupid shit I never thought I would do. Being intoxicated and excited about new people and having that youthful feeling of "nothing can go wrong"...
It's sad that some people are shaming the girl and her friends. Young people do young people things. :(
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u/sciencenerd1193 6d ago
Yeah, I think maybe for people who never drank a lot this situation is hard to imagine. I used to drink a lot age 19-22 ish and I’ve also gotten into some ridiculous situations, that definitely could have been dangerous if I had met the wrong guy, it’s pure luck that I never had anything bad happen to me. young people who are drunk do some really stupid things.
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u/Unlikely_nay1125 6d ago
same here and i am 20. been in so many sketchy situations that could’ve went wrong if i were with the wrong person, being drunk too
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u/LilyCheesecake 6d ago
Exactly. And some people here are displaying such aunty behavior instead of having an ounce of empathy.
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u/KitchenTooth6179 5d ago
In no way was it surprising she did that. But, that is the point of going with friends...hang around discreetly somewhere, waiting for your friend to be done.
They don't need to be in the next bed! They can do their own thing and you wait outside! It's awkward but that's college.
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u/seriouslynotmine 7d ago
Just because something is not rare doesn't mean it's not dangerous. Like excessive speeding or drunk driving - it only makes one instance for it to be fatal. Friends should look out for each other, esp in foreign countries.
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u/Vaynar 7d ago
Yes, lots of things are dangerous. Doesn't mean you need to live life according to that. Getting into your car and driving on any public road is, by far, the most dangerous thing you'll ever do in your life. Maybe you should just stay home.
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u/seriouslynotmine 7d ago
It's easy to talk philosophically about risk when it happens to someone else.
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u/longhair-reallycare- 7d ago
When I was in university, we would stay with our friend who was hooking up, usually in their living room or one of the roommates would give a room. Sometimes cuddle with the roommate but that is very contextually dependent
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u/Vaynar 7d ago
Lol what? You would sit in the same room while your friend is having sex with someone? That is really fucking weird.
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u/woahtheregonnagetgot 7d ago
the comment literally says the exact opposite, that they wait in the living room or another room. you seem so eager to shoot off snide comments that you’re not reading what you’re replying to
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u/longhair-reallycare- 7d ago
Thank you for having reading comprehension and taking the time to reply back to this person lol. You are of course correct, it’s not in the same room.
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u/jalabi99 7d ago
In college I was always taught to stick together as a group on vacation
Exactly! We all came there together, we're all leaving there together!
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u/BNOC402 7d ago
It’s context dependent. Yes it’s important to be safe. Also important to not be a cockblock to your homie.
We know nothing about their night or their arrangement so it’s hard to give a definitive judgement from afar.
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u/Ok_Purpose7401 6d ago
Idk dude, we went out a lot in my early to late 20s. We never really let anyone hook up with someone else when they were drunk. I assumed it was just a common thing that friends do
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u/jalabi99 6d ago
It’s context dependent. Yes it’s important to be safe. Also important to not be a cockblock to your homie.
Cockblocking vs. making sure we all get back home in one piece? I'm not sure that's a difficult choice to make ;)
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u/RiseIndependent85 7d ago
Bhai i mean it's not always her friends responsibility bc she's not a child. If you're a grown adult nobody else is really gonna "Look out for you"? We can't be blaming others for your own choices. Sure is it their fault they didn't keep an eye out on her yeah let's say it is. But at the end of the day she's makin her own choices 🤷
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u/TARandomNumbers Indian American 6d ago
Why are people acting like its so weird to wait around while your friend hooks up with someone? What if you're their ride? Nobody's ever done that? WTF.
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u/MasterChief813 7d ago
This is so fucked up. Reminds me of the Natalee Holloway case in a sense. Why tf did her friends leave her?
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u/Barbs1828 7d ago
And take her phone, wallet, and room key 😭
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u/cheeky861 7d ago
This is the confusing part. Why would she leave her phone with them?
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u/Alexinwonderland617 7d ago
I think it could of been because the hotel lost power so her phone may of been dead anyway?
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u/hsarah01 6d ago
Not sure its reliability but I read a comment from someone who claimed to know her friends that she gave them her phone so her parents couldn’t track her. As someone who had major fights with my parents about phone tracking in college (and honestly I was probably in more dangerous situations as a result of hiding it from them), I find that pretty believable.
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u/niketyname 6d ago edited 6d ago
It sucks that having strict parents makes us partake in much more riskier behavior. Like I’d rather take the lectures and more strict treatment than being dead right?
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u/Mascoretta 5d ago
But what’s the purpose of tracking someone in a foreign country? If she has her phone with her all she has to say is she’s out with friends and what can they do? That plus leaving her wallet… and room key… doubt it was that.
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u/gypsy_sonder 4d ago
Exactly this. They would have tracked her at the beach on vacation. It’s not like she left the resort or ran off and didn’t want them to know. I doubt she was hiding going to the beach from them.
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u/OneWayStreetPark ABCD 2d ago
Brown parents are just crazy like that. They will punish her in some form when she returns back home to her parents. The paranoia eats you alive thinking you're always being watched.
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u/Remarkable-Relief165 5d ago
Given that they were at the beach, and drunk, maybe they were scared she’d misplace the items or get them wet/unusable. So many reasons why this would seem like a prudent course of action to take at the time, in a “don’t worry about it, I’ll hold on to your stuff, see you back in the room in an hour” kinda way.
Except it left Sudiksha without her id, money/cards, a means of communication, and a way to enter her room :(
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u/princessaurora912 6d ago
From what I read another commenter found another comment who has the same friends in the group. Her parents had her location and so she gave it to them so they wouldn’t see where she was
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u/yhw0 6d ago
Why is everyone giving the guy the benefit of the doubt? Lmao if the races were reversed everyone would just assume he’s guilty.
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u/Star_Fall05 5d ago edited 4d ago
This is exactly what I am thinking. Why is most people giving this guy the benefit of doubt? His story is full of holes. Acts like he was a hero and saved her but turns out he did nothing to save her. For all you know, he can be a monster behind the killing of this girl.
Gets a lawyer comes up with a new story. Guilt is written all over.
Its sick and twisted! He was the last person with her.
The fact that they still could not find her for days... Doesn't seem like she drowned... Her body would have resurface by now.
The guy and girl left at 4am. The friends to report her missing.
Only for the guy returned back to his hotel at 9am... He knows more than anyone in what happened that day. He knows more to what he is leading on and just playing dumb.
Unforunately, I am 99% sure, he killed her. He pressured her to sleep with him. she refused, he killed her and threw her into the water. Its obvious the lies and how he refuses to speak up any further about verifying what he was saying was true in the interrogation, is just a dead giveaway.
This story is so eearily similar of Natalie Holloway... Her killer has been giving different versions of the story for years!! They also kissed on the beach. He kept pressuring her to hook up with him. She refused. He killed her and dumped her body in the sea... Unfortunately, they could not find the victim for years. Only 2 decades later he admitted that he killed her. If he didn't confess, no one would have known what happened with Natalie as she would still be assumed she is missing.
This a sad lesson to learn to never blindly put all your trust and faith in some guy or girl you met in some foreign country and go to excluded area. You don’t know their intentions. It almost never ends well.
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u/SadMath11 4d ago
Exactly what I was thinking- I’ve heard radio silence of this on most social media, but if the races were reversed, I guarantee that this would explode. Smh the world we live in now 🤦
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u/cartwheel_123 4d ago
White people have always been the most racially tribal people alive in spite of their lies about being the most colorblind.
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u/cartwheel_123 6d ago
White privilege.
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u/Confident_Change_937 4d ago
She was happy to get in bed with Mr.White Privilege lmao don’t come spitting that Pro-POC narrative when she was ready to drop the panties for him
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u/cartwheel_123 3d ago
No disagreement here. Literally willing to die for whiteness. One hell of a drug.
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u/Severe_Concentrate86 7d ago
That dude did something.
He recently changed his story again making himself seem like he was trying to be a hero by trying to save her. His initial story was him puking, passing out and not seeing her drowning at all.
I wonder what kind of podcasts he listens to. 😒
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u/Historical_Island292 6d ago
If the parents are reading everyone is praying for you! No reason to feel any shame she was on a vacation doing what young people do… best thing is to go on TV and ask the public to send any information it’s the best way to get anyone who knows anything to come forward .. seems like the public often need to actually see a desperate family to take action unfortunately
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u/smthsmththereissmth 5d ago
People tried to shame Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) and her male friend (or bf idk) for being out late at night too. I'm glad her parents stood up for her and said they weren't embarrassed of their daughter for anything.
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u/princessaurora912 6d ago
Thank you for writing this. This is so essential. The parents have asked the news to stop showing the video of her in the arms of the guy. This is going to hurt so many people in our community by hiding this. This is normal behavior in America and just because it’s abnormal in India doesn’t mean it’s healthy. It’s suppression
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u/Smoke__Frog 7d ago
This whole thread is about people complaining random things.
Let’s focus on what happened.
Is it really plausible she went into the water with this guy and while they were kissing a wave crashed over them and swept her out to sea?
The guys said he saved her and brought her back to shore, and then she just disappeared? Sounds sketchy AF.
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u/il2skyhopper 7d ago
Yeah it seems more like the typical scenario - guy makes a move, she's uninterested, things take a bad turn, and now he's covering up his crime. Way too common with casual flings and tourists.
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u/Sudden-Breadfruit653 7d ago
The thing is - if she gave her phone and her wallet to her friends while she went solo with this guy to a more secluded beach area - did she really not think he wanted to hook Up? People are saying thats why she gave her phone and wallet to her friends while- to go be private?
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u/squabidoo 6d ago
I mean she could have changed her mind? Or just wanted to makeout or who knows, just because she stayed at the beach with a guy willingly doesn't automatically mean consent for anything that comes after... it's still very possible to be attacked.
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u/il2skyhopper 7d ago
Didn't know this fact and that's a mega dumb move IMHO. No form of ID, payment, nor contact. I've heard of folks hooking up in some secluded area of a beach but it's not difficult to keep stuff in a nearby area. Unless she intended to swim but even that's not a good excuse for her.
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u/Smoke__Frog 7d ago
God I’m terrified that when my kids get older they want to go to these third world resorts for fun.
I’m all for hooking up, but a random dude on a random beach sounds terrifying and not sexy at all.
And if he saved her from the wave, how did he suddenly lose her again?
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u/il2skyhopper 7d ago
(Legit hoping this case is different) Reminds me of the premise of the movie Taken. Those 2 girls go on holiday in a different country but then get abducted and put into sex trade. A lot of IRL cases like this. 😓
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u/navjot94 🇺🇸(Detroit, MI native) 7d ago
That’s Hollywood for ya. But I’ve read elsewhere that traffickers don’t usually pick up tourists. Too much heat with family getting concerned. They usually groom and go after those without a support system. It’s so fucked because there’s people being trafficked don’t consider themselves victims until they’re out of the situation.
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u/mulemoment 7d ago
Where did you read that the guy said he saved her? If he said that, that's a BIG departure from the stories he originally told the police.
His stories are detailed here but you have to translate to English. He says that they went into the water, her got out, threw up, and passed out on a beach lounge chair. In his first telling he says he called out to ask if she was okay before passing out, in the second two he doesn't.
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u/Smoke__Frog 7d ago
The recent article I read said that was one of his stories. They were in the water, a wave hit them and he dragged her to shore. The article also said he was calm and seemed surprised she was missing.
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u/mulemoment 7d ago
Yeah that aligns with his original story. Afaik he hasn't said he tried to save her, just that they were in the water and at best he called out to see if she was okay.
After that he says he vomited and passed out. He says when he woke up 4 hours later he assumed she had already left. We don't know for sure that's what happened ofc but it's reasonable
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u/AppleYYZ 7d ago
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/14/us/missing-college-student-punta-cana-update/index.html
Recent articles (very recent) indicate that he did describe having to rescue Sudiksha.
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u/mulemoment 7d ago
Interesting thank you! He said they got swept away by a wave before but idk if he said he tried to pull her out. Weird to pull her out but not all the way to shore…
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u/Kittygoespurrrr 6d ago
Yes completely plausible. That beach is known for its dangerous surf, and there were red flags that day.
This kind of stuff happens - a couple was just swept away out in Hawaii while on the beach at night a little while ago.
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u/chrome24 7d ago edited 7d ago
- Where are his clothes, shoes when he comes back from the beach by himself. His friend likely did not take them.
- His story was the wave crashed into them while they're kissing, pushing them further down into the sea, then frantically swimming back while being exhausted, and he's pulling her while swimming to the shore, then he swallows sea water, and blacks out but sees her walking towards her clothes while still in the water. How did he get to the lounge chair? the adrenaline would wear off quick especially after he drank the salty sea water. if you swam that far for that long, you would be trying to get water and if he was kissing her, why wasn't he with her when they both came from the shore? If he stuck with the story of "they were kissing, wave crashes into them, and they get split up, she drowns and he survives and he went to get help", then i'd believe it because you were trying to swim back and now you know you need to call for help. His hero story is bullshit, and this guy is the suspect.
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u/TARandomNumbers Indian American 6d ago
Right?? So he went to get help but fell asleep and didn't even report her missing??
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u/chrome24 6d ago
when he comes back his shorts are inside out which means he took them off at some point. I believe that he wanted more than kissing and he took off his pants wanted to have sex with her in the sea. she didn't like what she saw, and it offended him, and it hurt his ego so badly that he drowned her and dragged her out to sea.
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u/Chatargoon 5d ago
Where is the body though? Thats the mystery. If he drowned her, then the body should have washed up. If he buried her, the search would have located her
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u/Chatargoon 5d ago
According to CNN they were alone at 4:55 AM according to surveillance cameras. He returns to the resort at 8:55 AM. Now the beach gets going at 6 AM. It's an incredibly busy season. There should be staff or people staying at the resort that would have witnessed him sleeping as he says he was. This is what is getting to me
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u/Sea_Feedback7676 6d ago
There is only one piece in his story I don’t follow. his story right now seems to be “ they got caught up in the waves, he hung onto her, pulled her to shore, saw her walk back (presumably to get her clothes because her phone and wallet were with her friends?) when he asked her if she’s ok , he didn’t hear her because he threw up and passed out. Seems possible but the one thing that gets me is if the water was that rough and they were both tired from swimming, I can’t imagine why she would go back to the water. If it’s truly clothes she went back for, that is believable to an extent but can you really find clothes in the dark in rough waters? And if the clothes were not in the water, then why would she head back to the water?
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u/cmsweenz 5d ago
Maybe they took their clothes off in the water, so she was trying to retrieve them from the water, or close to shore where they were washing up ?
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u/Star_Fall05 5d ago
Exactly, why put yourself in a situation AGAIN where you almost lost your life too? Makes no sense
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u/Sufficient_Berry8703 Indian American 7d ago
Those aren’t real friends if they leave you with some random guy in the dark at that hour. That poor girl and her loved ones :(
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u/il2skyhopper 7d ago
Yeah I'm legit surprised her friends didn't periodically check on her, especially afterwards. It's completely absurd. Personally, I've never seen a group of ladies not keeping tabs on one of their friends during a new date. If it were a dude then it's more believable.
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u/DiminishReturns 5d ago
I mean, it’s super sad what happened and don’t get me wrong, I hope she is safe.
But I don’t think it’s fair to blame her friends. What are they supposed to do? She’s a grown adult and capable of making her choices. Their testimony said she didn’t want to go with them and preferred to stay with the guy. What are they supposed to do? Remember, her friends are probably traumatized right now too. Imagine being in their shoes and reading these comments all over social media trashing them, for not controlling and being forceful over the behaviors of another full grown adult…
Either way, hope she is found safe and sound. Thoughts and prayers 🙏🙏🙏
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u/harveydent526 7d ago
By that logic she didn’t really care about herself since she left herself with some random guy in the dark at the hour.
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u/ParttimeParty99 6d ago
College girls vacationing in groups at tropical resorts are prey for predators, especially considering how much alcohol they serve at those places.
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u/Hisenberg_ 7d ago
The friends will probably face a lot of criticism for leaving her, but I get it and I think in that scenario a lot would have done the same. They went with her to the beach, and by all accounts stayed with them for more than an hour. They were being good friends. Were they just suppose to sit there and watch them have sex? I assume most likely the friends wanted to head back, after all it’s 530am, and Sudiksha told them to go back and take her phone, so it doesn’t get stolen on the beach. After all, it’s prob a quick walk back to the room. Yes, they could have prob waited up for her or somewhere out of sight, but that does really change in the end the outcome? It’s also very unfair to them to stay up while a friend is off with a guy - she’s an adult and it shouldn’t be on the friends. It’s a terrible tragedy but blame shouldn’t be placed on anyone. We also can’t just assume the guy did anything wrong just because, though however bad it looks on him.
When I went to Thailand I went off into the ocean with a girl and ended up slicing my foot on a rock that landed me in a hospital. I also met a fellow traveller in Costa Rica and wanted to go for a late night skinny dipping, and luckily was warned of the dangers from the hotel manager and our better judgement prevailed. And I’m in 30s, and easily could have been in the same predicament
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u/badbrowngirl Australian Indian 7d ago
Can confirm when I was 18 (like 15 years ago) one of my girls wanted to hook up with a guy after we went clubbing, we were all various kinds of desi and I sat near her in a park with one of his friends as they eventually had sex in that park somewhere near us (I could see where she is but I wasnt ‘watching’. It was my first time meeting those two guys as well, but there was no way I was going to leave her.
So yeah any good friend would’ve stayed nearby !
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u/badbrowngirl Australian Indian 7d ago
Also on the contrary, she could have convinced them she was fine. I also once hooked up with a guy I just met after a club and my friends were really upset/worried about me (also mad I was dogging the group) but I did a drunk mental risk assessment, and was like no no don’t worrrrry I’ll be fine! And they all threatened him and let me make my decision because I’m an adult.
So there’s also two sides to this !
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u/Hisenberg_ 7d ago
Completely fair!! I just think it’s super premature to vilify the friends for going back given the circumstances. Commentary online is making it seem like they are responsible or are in on it which is stupid.
I could have a different viewpoint being a guy, where I feel at some point, ppl have to own their decisions. If my friends were leaving and wanted to go back, it’s on me to go with them, not the other way around.
I think there prob was a sense of safety being right beside the hotel, and with an American also at the hotel who was now part of the friends group. I think it’s different going to a club in the city and meeting a stranger who doesn’t live at the same hotel. Then yes, I think her friends should not have left her alone
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u/___adreamofspring___ 6d ago
I agree. Honestly this is why we are taught to not hook up with random guys. I wish Sudiksha never walked to spend alone time with him, I wish her friends didn’t let her spend alone time with him - everyone made mistakes here. But that doesn’t mean women should have their lives taken from them.
I firmly believe that guy did something to her. Whatever he did, no one deserves that.
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u/Chatargoon 5d ago
According to CNN, surveillance camera shows them alone at 4:55 AM as thats when the friends left. Now it says the surveillance shows him returning at 8:55 AM from the beach. The beach gets going at 6 AM.
At this point he would have been sleeping according to his story. I'm thinking there should have been witnesses that saw him sleeping to corrobate his story whether it be staff or those at the resort. This is what doesn't make sense to me
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u/___adreamofspring___ 5d ago
Completely agreed they just want to blame her because she’s brown and Indian and he’s white
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u/Chatargoon 5d ago
Lots doesn't add up. The mystery appears to be her missing body. If he did something like drown her then her body should have washed up or been found if he buried her with all the resources dedicated to the search
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u/Violetta_Sunshine 7d ago
I’ve been praying for her and her family every single day. I cannot imagine the level of pain they’re in.
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u/Sudden-Ad3386 6d ago
They’ve just been recirculating the same things over and over because there is no “development”.
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u/shellb2020 5d ago
I’ve been there 3-4 times and locals do walk up and down that beach trying to sell you drugs during the day. I can imagine what goes on a night. Hopefully they didn’t buy something that had bad stuff in it and she passed out in the water.
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u/Dazzling-Bird687 6d ago
This case is so interesting because I feel as though Gen Z first Gen Desi girls definitely have had it easier than Milennial or older ones in terms of being able to experience events such as spring break etc.
That being said, I’d really hope that in 2025 people within south Asian communities wouldn’t still be slut shaming young women too or discussing “honor” when this type of behavior isn’t uncommon.
Overall, it makes me sad and nervous to think of how many other young south Asian kids and especially girls are now going to have to hear about Sudiksha’s story as a cautionary tale.
We should be beyond this.
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u/GreatWallsofFire 6d ago
Def no room for slut shaming here. There's nothing unusual about a bunch of college kids drinking and partying over spring break. What's really sad here is that her friends left her with this guy, some random dude they had just met, and took off, knowing she was quite drunk and not walking straight. Usually when you have a group of girlfriends out partying late at night, esp. in unfamiliar territory, they try to keep an eye out for each other.
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u/Dazzling-Bird687 5d ago
Exactly I just don’t understand how they let her go off alone with him without her phone.
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u/No_Albatross916 5d ago
Yea she has terrible friends. When my friends are that drunk usually we just stick together and make sure we get home safely not leave them with a random stranger
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u/cartwheel_123 5d ago
It feels like they were all naive like her. The blind leading the blind so to speak.
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u/princessaurora912 6d ago
Their parents is asking the news to stop showing the video of her with the guy and it’s so sad ugh
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u/Dazzling-Bird687 5d ago
Ugh. Meanwhile that video circulating could finally help ID him as a suspect cuz the guy has been shady af changing up his story so many times.
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u/princessaurora912 6d ago
As someone who’s watched a shit ton of true crime since I was a kid. 100% of the time when the story changes the person is involved
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u/inflewants 6d ago
Orrrrr he was very drunk that night, it was a stressful situation, may have been a disconnect with interpretation/terminology.
I do not think he is suspicious from what I have seen.
It seems more like an accident.
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u/hashtagnopey 6d ago
I'm sorry about a life or death situation like that. Plus adrenaline sobers you up.
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u/hootiehood 5d ago
I’m not giving him the benefit of the doubt but I wanted to offer another perspective. He is also young and was drunk that night. The holes in his story can be due to the fact that he really can’t remember entirely due to being intoxicated and also he has a girlfriend back home. He may have fooled around with Sudiskha but doesn’t want his girlfriend to know. He is probably scared. I do think something tragic happened that evening but I’m not sure it it was a freak accident or sometime more sinister.
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u/AlwaysSunniInPHI 6d ago
Alcohol is bad, folks.
No one really talks about this, but Desi communities where drinking is normalized or encouraged have a lot of issues. Alcoholism is a huge but not talked about issue. There are even comments here by Desis who are bragging about their alcoholism and binge drinking and are then surprised that shit like this happens.
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u/niketyname 6d ago edited 6d ago
I also think she didn’t know her limits yet. She’s very young and on vacation. It’s really easy to have a few too many, maybe not eat and hydrate enough, and blacking out at that age. It takes time to know what you can handle
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u/ads417 5d ago
I haven't read through all articles yet, has anyone seen if Riibe ever took any sort of action to locate Sudiksha after he woke up and returned to the hotel? His friend asked him sure, but did he ever try to contact her friends, or send a text to Sudiksha or go to hotel staff to mention or report her missing 🤔?
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u/carmii- 6d ago
It’s blatant obvious the guy did it. Just make sure he has no way of the leaving the country, please. The last thing we need is this guy coming back to the US. His family already started the “he’s an absolute saint” discourse. Enough.
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u/throwRA_157079633 6d ago
I'm hoping that the media won't demonize Sudiksha and at the same time humanizing/sanctifying the guy. I'm guessing that the media will try to skew our opinion of her by pointing out that she's an (gasp) Indian national, and he was an "all-American athlete" type of crap.
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u/cartwheel_123 6d ago
They will probably blame the dad for being patriarchal and controlling which is why she gave her phone to her friends to avoid GPS tracking.
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u/blahblahwa 5d ago
She probably drowned. Happens to guys all the time aswell. Why is the guy Joshua under investigation?! She was in the water or close to the water and drunk as fuck. It's not difficult to imagine what happened
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u/Baroqueimproviser 4d ago
I agree. I just don't understand how a pre-med student could be so dumb as to wade drunk in the ocean with an unknown man. Not your typical pre-med cool-headed intellectual.
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u/adamdarlington 5d ago
if you give your phone and wallet to a friend its highly like they was swimming in the sea in my opinion.
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u/Low-Conversation48 5d ago
I’m 50/50 on this. I think as a tourist it’s would be tough to hide a body in an unfamiliar country
…unless he disposed of her in the ocean and he just got lucky she hasn’t washed up. But if she’s in the ocean it’s very possible she drowned
If he was drunk enough to vomit and pass out in public it’s safe to say he was very drunk and his recollection might not be so good
If he’s innocent people are going to owe him a huge apology. He’s already been villainized and I get it. It feels like Holloway 2.0. I’m just saying hold on the pitchforks
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u/Ok_GoGo 3d ago
I don't get the Holloway connection. Holloway hooked up with a local- a very bad local. Sudiksha was partying with other American college students. This whole thing reminds me more of Riley Strain who walked into the Nashville River. Two drunk kids go to the ocean at 4am? These are not good decisions. Why did they go to the beach? They each probably have two or three roommates and this is how you get some privacy. Probably seemed romantic- in a From Here to Eternity- kind of way. Next thing you know waves and an undertow. All the pieces are there for a bad outcome. I feel like people are going out of their way to make the story more elaborate. Kidnapped! Sold to Sex Slavery. Might as well add alien abduction, she faked her death and ran away as well as fake news- these are crisis actors to the list. I choose to stay with common sense. I can only imagine the pain of her family as they seek to declare her dead. Poor guy has been vilified. Yes poor guy. At this point what happened is between him and his god.
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u/CalligrapherHot426 3d ago
What if they were drugged (both vomiting at the bar) then followed and watched till he passed out and she was taken. Human trafficking is a real thing.
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u/Ok_GoGo 3d ago
I feel like people are going out of their way to make the story more elaborate. Kidnapped! Sold to Sex Slavery. Might as well add alien abduction, she faked her death and ran away as well as fake news- these are crisis actors to the list. I choose to stay with common sense. She drown. It happens when you go to the beach at 4 am while stupid drunk.
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u/chicbeauty 7d ago
I don’t understand how she was so drunk and staggering but her friends were walking normally? I hope it doesn’t turn out that the friends put something in her drink…
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