Another American died in the Dominican Republic: families of victims insist on the similarity of all cases

A tourist from the United States died after suddenly and severely ill at an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. This happened about a month before four more Americans died in their hotel rooms for various reasons. Having learned about other deaths from the news, the family of the deceased decided to share this story with the media.

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Robert Bell Wallace, 67, of California, fell ill almost immediately after drinking scotch from the in-room minibar at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana, reported Fox News his niece Chloe Arnold. A man flew to the Dominican Republic to the wedding of his stepson.

A woman reported that her uncle, an avid traveler, had relatively good health. Just a month ago, he was skiing on Lake Tahoe.

Arnold said the family was disturbed by news of other deaths. One death was similar - almost four weeks after the Wallace tragedy, another American woman, Miranda Schaupp-Werner from Pennsylvania, died after drinking an alcoholic drink from her minibar at another hotel, the Bahia Principe Resort. By the way, all previous deaths occurred there.

“He was fine,” the niece said of her uncle, who owned a construction business. — He and his wife arrived there around midnight on April 10. On April 11, he drank scotch from the minibar. He became very ill and blood immediately appeared in his urine and stool.”

On the subject: The fourth death of an American in the Dominican Republic: they all occurred in the same hotel.

According to the woman, the doctor at the hotel examined Wallace and only 13 of April decided that he should be hospitalized. Wallace died April 14. Dominican authorities have not yet named the cause of death.

“We have so many questions,” Arnold says. “We don’t want this to happen to anyone else.”

The US State Department, responding to questions about Wallace's death, told Fox News: "We can confirm the death of a US citizen in April 2019 in the Dominican Republic. We express our sincere condolences to the family. Out of respect for the deceased's loved ones, we are unable to provide further information at this difficult time."

The other day, a Maryland resident spoke about how her husband, David Harrison, died under similar circumstances last year at the same Hard Rock resort. The family was there with their 12-year-old son and celebrating their wedding anniversary. According to the widow, her husband was “a very healthy man.”

“I saw other people die under the same circumstances, and now I no longer feel like my husband died from natural causes,” the widow told local TV station WTOP. “We came there as a happy family.” I returned as a widow, and my son lost his father.”

Attempts to get a comment about the death of Harrison and Wallace from a hotel in Punta Cana were unsuccessful.

Wallis and his wife. Photo: Wallace family

The authorities of the Dominican Republic reported that, according to the autopsy, all American tourists who died in the Dominican Republic died from natural causes and that these were isolated incidents, but families expressed doubts about the reliability of these data. Some have hired lawyers and have planned additional autopsies and analyzes in the United States.

Statistics show that almost half of the 5 millions of tourists visiting the Dominican Republic each year come from the United States.

Teams of experts and inspectors from several international agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI, have headed to the hotels and are conducting their own investigations there. According to the first data received, Dominican authorities are considering the “possibility” of other causes besides natural ones.

On the subject: “It was painful and scary”: an American was severely beaten and left to die at the resort

30 May, an engagement couple from Maryland, 63-year-old Nathaniel Holmes and 49-year-old Cynthia Ann Day, died in their room at Bahía Príncipe at Playa Nueva Romana. The hotel employee found them without signs of life.

Dominican officials said Schaupp, Holmes and Day had pulmonary edema, a condition in which the lungs fill with fluid. They said Schaupp, 41, whose hotel was next door to the hotel where Holmes and Day died, died of a heart attack, although her family believes she was healthy.

The other day, relatives of 51-year-old Yvette Monique Sport said that she went to a popular tourist destination last June and stopped at the Bahia Principe Resort in Punta Cana. They say that she drank something from the mini-bar in her room, then went to bed and did not wake up anymore. The documents say that her official cause of death was a heart attack.

“This is completely fabricated,” said the victim’s sister, “when so many people die and everyone has the same result, it’s simply impossible.”

The woman says she will turn to other families and demand a response from the authorities.

“This is about justice for the people we love,” she said. “We will never get them back, but we can give them their due.”

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, from Prince George County, Virginia, were found in a room at the Bahía Príncipe in the resort of Playa Nueva Romana, on the south-east coast of the country. The cause of death has not yet been established, but the police found no signs of violence.
• On the same day it was reported that young spouses from Texas died of a mysterious diseasewhile on “amazing holidays” in Fiji. 3, a State Department spokesman, confirmed their death in a special press statement, but was unable to provide details of the situation.
• Miranda Schaupp-Werner was found dead in a hotel Grand Bahía Príncipe in La Romana 25 May - five days before 63-year-old Edward Holmes and 49-year-old Cynthia Ann Day were found dead in their hotel room.
• Relatives of 51-year-old Yvette Monique Sport told that she went to the resort last June and stopped at the Bahia Principe Resort in Punta Cana. In the room she drank a drink from the minibar and died that night.
• Delaware Woman severely beaten and left to die at a resort in the Dominican Republic. Tammy Lawrence-Daily said she wants to share her story "in the hope that women will be more knowledgeable."
• She said that on the second night of her vacation in January at the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana resort, where she arrived with her husband and two friends, she went to the next building to have a snack. She was attacked. The woman's nose and arm are broken, she has partially lost her hearing.

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