Posted on 06/05/2019 5:27:10 AM PDT by CaptainK
Another possibility is a killer in the area but the locals don’t want to acknowledge it thereby hurting tourism. I find that more feasible than a hotel employee poisoning random bottles of booze. Hopefully we will find out.
La Romana is a beautiful place.
Phosgene from a freon leak and heat from cigarettes or candles or?
Cyanide, maybe? It's quick, so much so that the victims might not have time to seek help, and I believe I recall reading that it's hard to detect post-mortem.
At this time, your explanation may be the correct one.
“The initial symptoms of methanol intoxication include central nervous system depression, headache, dizziness, nausea, lack of coordination, and confusion. Sufficiently large doses cause unconsciousness and death.
Adulterated whiskey at minibar?”
Isnt it cyanide that smells like almonds ???
Sounds to me like an old story.
CBS News July 27, 2017, 7:48 AM Tainted liquor may be responsible for tourist's death in Mexico, authorities say
I think so.
the all-inclusive Bahia Principe Hotel
I'm not leaving home.
5-Star Mexican resort served "poisonous" alcohol to woman who died, family says
Abbey Conner died at a resort in Mexico after allegedly drinking tainted alcohol. The family of the young woman who died after possibly drinking tainted alcohol is now suing the Mexican resort that served her. Abbey Conner drowned in a pool at an Iberostar hotel and resort in Riviera Maya after drinking while on vacation with her family in January 2017. Her family alleges that the resort knew the alcohol they gave the 20-year-old was "poisonous."
Conner's family said her death was an entirely avoidable tragedy, at the hands of an Iberostar hotel and resort. Now, nearly two years later, they have filed a lawsuit asking for the resort to be held responsible. Abbey Conner had only been at Iberostar Paraiso Del Mar for a few hours in January 2017 when her family says hotel staff served her and her older brother Austin tainted alcohol at a hotel pool.
Soon after, her family said, Abbey was found by hotel staff floating face down, while her brother was drowning nearby in shallow water. Abbey later died at a Florida hospital; her brother survived. According to the new wrongful death lawsuit filed in Florida and obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the resort knew "that alcoholic beverages being served" were "tainted, substandard, poisonous," and "unfit for human consumption."
A few months after Conner's death, her mother Ginny McGowan warned people about drinking in Mexico. "It's been a nightmare, it's horrific," McGowan said. "Be very, very careful of what you eat drink and you don't know what's necessarily in a drink or food." After Conner's death, Mexican authorities raided 31 establishments. They seized around 90 gallons of alcohol being kept in unsanitary conditions. In February, the Journal reports, tests found about 235 gallons of a different seized supply of alcohol contained dangerous levels of methanol, a chemical commonly used in windshield washer fluid.
Kathy Daley previously told CBS News, she believes she drank tainted alcohol while staying at an Iberostar Hotel in Mexico. "They said I couldn't get out of the pool and I wasn't even able to stand up in the pool," Daley said. "They said I was vomiting all over the place and they had to call the hotel doctor." Daley does not appear to be alone. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, since Conner's death, it has received more than 200 reports from U.S. tourists who had similar experiences at luxury resorts in Mexico. "We thought we were, you know, safe in a 5-star gated resort but it's apparent that you're not," McGowan said.
Iberostar Hotels and Resorts told CBS News in a statement it does not comment on pending or existing litigation. The State Department has previously warned travelers to consume alcohol in moderation in Mexico and immediately seek medical attention if feeling sick. © 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
My husband and I stayed at the same resort this past April. Was my first trip to this type of place. The water was amazingly beautiful and the highlight of the trip. The employees seemed eager to please and welcoming, but I just didn’t have the ‘feel goods’ about the Dominican. Definitely knew I was not in the US anymore.
It’s sad, because I think the tourism is benefiting the country as a whole, and stories like this are sure to hurt the industry.
She died from pulmonary edema
Couldnt breathe, lungs filled with liquid
Something that damaged her heart, rapidly and fatally
Same with other couple
A major fashion designer had a place there, Clintons used to visit him there. Can’t remember who it was.
Two other Americans died in April
Drove their rental car into the sea on way home to airport
Phones were turned off ... seems odd
Five dead Americans in 6 weeks
Should be reopened
https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-tourists-disappear-after-leaving-hotel-en-route-to-airport-in-the-dominican-republic-report
(2008) CNN: She was joined by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and their daughter Chelsea at the home of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, a Dominican native.
The Clintons have vacationed numerous times at the Caribbean resort since 2000, when Bill Clinton was closing out his second term in the White House.
A Freeper named Sionsar died of glycol poisoning about a decade ago. Drank the house wine from a little B&B in France, which was mixed with antifreeze. Ultimately took him weeks to die, because nobody could figure out what was wrong with him. It was a slow painful death.
“This is the sort of thing that looks terrible on Trip Advisor.”
Complementary NARCAN will bring those ratings back up.
Yep, they found them the week we were there. Very strange.
It had to be a concentrated gas that caused this IMO! Sporadic exposure such as an air conditioner leaking refrigerant is unlikely the cause.
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