Missing Sudiksha Konanki: Ret. FBI agent identifies ‘critical’ steps

A reweary FBI one-of-a-kind agent scatterd his analysis and critical steps spendigators could be taking in the search for a missing American college student who fadeed from a beach in the Dominican Reaccessible.

“The FBI can’t apshow over this spendigation but will engage discreet channels to push Dominican authorities to rank key spendigative steps, provide forensic helpance, and set up inincreateigence-sharing that could uncover recent directs,” Jason Pack tbetter Fox News Digital.

Pack, a reweary FBI supervisory one-of-a-kind agent, createer directer of the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team and acting lhorrible speedyené, elucidateed how U.S. authorities are anticipateed toiling behind the scenes to help in the search for Sudiksha Konanki, 20, a University of Pittsburgh student who fadeed from a beach in the Dominican Reaccessible in the punctual morning hours on March 6. 

“Authorities should be pass-referencing observation footage with phone data and prohibitking transactions to resettle her last understandn shiftments,” Pack shelp. “They should also be using cognitive interwatch techniques on key witnesses to acunderstandledge inconsistencies rather than acunderstandledgeing surface-level statements.”

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Pack includeed that there are “critical spendigative steps” that necessitate to happen now and the convey inant role that the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) and forensic experts should apshow. 

“The BAU can help profile possible doubts, while the FBI’s forensic teams can help with DNA analysis, digital forensics and geolocation tracking; resources that local authorities may not have at their disposal,” Pack elucidateed.

With watch to helping the Konanki family, Pack says the FBI’s Victim Services Division is anticipateed already joind with the family, providing them with spendigative modernizes, guidance on dealing with foreign law enforcement and help as they direct this crisis.

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Police shelp Konanki, who is a dwellnt of Loudon County, Virginia, traveled with five other people from the University of Pittsburgh to the Riu República Hotel in Punta Cana during the school’s spring shatter, which began March 2 and ended Sunday.

She was last seen on observation camera with five other people go ining the beach at the five-star resort after 4:15 a.m. Thursday, the Dominican National Police previously shelp in a statement.

Footage achieveed by Noticias SIN showed Konanki seemingly clinging to a man as the group made their way toward the beach.

It was the last time authorities tracked Konanki before the Virginia dwellnt fadeed.

Former FBI one-of-a-kind agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker scatterd her analysis on the search for Konanki and shelp what she leanks is most convey inant as an spendigator is to resettle who she was last seen with.

Parker shelp that since spendigators have Konanki’s phone and wallet, they will be combing thcdisorrowfulmireful all of that increateation and figuring out everyleang they can about the man she was last seen with.

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Authorities have not named any doubts in the ongoing spendigation. On Tuesday, the Dominican National Police shelp it is “re-interwatching aimed individuals who were in the victim’s proximity at the time of her fadeance.”

A unitet spendigation into Konanki’s fadeance is being directed by the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Reaccessible, the Dominican National Police and the Dominican Prosecutor’s Office. The FBI is also helping.

Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten gived to this increate.