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A special FBI retired agent shared his analysis and critical steps researchers could be taking the search for a Missing American university student who disappeared from a beach in the Dominican Republic.
“The FBI cannot take charge of this research, but will use diplomatic channels to boost the Dominican authorities to prioritize the key research steps, provide forensic assistance and coordinate the exchange of intelligence that could discover new potential customers,” Jason Pack told Fox News Digital.
Pack, a special agent of retirement of the FBI, former leader of the FBI child -kidnapping rapid deployment team and a legal fixation, explained how US authorities are probably working behind the scene to help in the search for Sudiksha Konanki, 20, a student at the University of Pittsburgh who disappeared from A beach in the Dominican Republic In the early hours of the morning of March 6.
“The authorities should be cross references of surveillance images with telephone data and bank transactions to identify their latest known movements,” said Pack. “They should also use cognitive interview techniques about key witnesses to detect inconsistencies instead of accepting statements at the surface level.”
Local authorities are looking for the missing student Sudiksha Konanki in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, on March 11, 2025. Konanki, 20, was last seen on March 6 on a beach outside the Riu Riu Riu Five -Star Resort in the Dominican Republic. (Santiago Baez for Fox News Digital)
Pack added that there are “critical research steps” that must happen now and the important role that the FBI behavior analysis (BAU) and forensic experts should take.
“The Bau can help profile possible suspects, while FBI forensic equipment can help with DNA analysis, digital forensic monitoring and geolocation; the resources that local authorities may not have at their disposal,” said Pack.
Regarding supporting the Konanki family, Pack says that the FBI victim services division is probably already committed to the family, providing them with research updates, guidance to deal with the application of foreign law and support as they navigate this crisis.
Local authorities seek the missing student Sudiksha Konanki in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, on March 11, 2025. (Santiago Baez for Fox News Digital)
Police said Konanki, who is a resident of Loudon County, VirginiaHe traveled with five other people from the University of Pittsburgh to the Riu Republic Hotel in Punta Cana during the spring holidays of the school, which began on March 2 and ended Sunday.
He was last seen in the surveillance chamber with five other people who entered the beach at the five -star resort after 4:15 am on Thursday, the Dominican National Police said previously in a statement.
The images obtained by news without showing Konanki apparently clinging to a man while the group headed towards the beach.
It was the last time the authorities tracked Konanki before the resident of Virginia disappeared.
The former FBI special agent and Fox News collaborator, Nicole Parker, shared her analysis in the search for Konanki and said that what she thinks is the most important thing as a researcher is to determine who was the last view with.
Parker said that, since the researchers have the Konanki’s telephone and wallet, they will comb all that information and discover everything they can about the man with whom he was last seen.
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The authorities have not appointed suspects in the ongoing investigation. On Tuesday, the Dominican National Police said that “reintervings the directed persons who were in the vicinity of the victim at the time of their disappearance.”
The United States Embassy is conducting joint investigation into Konanki’s disappearance at the United States Embassy in the Dominican Republic, the Dominican National Police and the Dominican prosecutor’s office. The FBI It is also assistance.
Michael Ruiz de Fox News Digital and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer of Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers issues that include missing persons, homicides, national cases of crimes, illegal immigration and more. The advice and ideas of history can be sent to stepny.price@fox.com
