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From the New York Post: A private eye who worked for Natalee Holloway’s family is offering to help in the disappearance of University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki — because he fears she’s likely been snatched.
TJ Ward, who helped Holloway’s parents when she vanished in Aruba 20 years ago, told NewsNation late Monday that he “made contact with the [Konanki] family” to “try to help them locate their daughter” in the Dominican Republic.
The private eye agrees with the missing student’s family that something terrifying may have happened.
“I don’t think that she drowned in the ocean,” Ward also told Fox News, saying that “drowning would be one of the last things I think of right now.”
“I totally believe that somebody knows something, where she is, or somebody took her away, or somebody’s holding her somewhere.”
Konanki was last seen on the beach, reportedly with a young man, around 4 a.m. after a night out with friends.
Local authorities are claiming the likely scenario is that she drowned, since she was last seen on a beach. However, Ward isn’t buying that theory, and is arguing that if she had drowned, her body would have washed up on the shore already.
Local officials have stated the man Konanki was seen with is not a suspect. He has claimed that they both went into the water and got caught up in a huge wave. Police believe the two were intoxicated. The man told police he later fell asleep on a lounge chair, and was seen on security cameras returning to the resort around 10:00 a.m.
Ward also warned, “There’s bad people out in the middle of the night, and I don’t know why she was out at 4:30 in the morning, or where her friends were, but you can’t be by yourself like that, walking in a country that you know nothing about. You need to stay in groups and where you’re not going to be a target.”
Below is the full interview with TJ Ward, as he shares his doubts about the story local officials are telling.
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