The university senior who interviewed about the disappearance of ferry breaker Sudiksha Konanki would not hurt a fly ', his desperate aunt told DailyMail.com.
Josh Riibe, 24, was the last person who saw Sudiksha before she was missing in the Dominican Republic in the early hours of 6 March.
Riibe told the police in the Caribbean country different versions what happened after the two were seen with their friends and on their way to the beach.
But in his small hometown of Rock Rapids, Iowa, and in southern South Dakota from where his family comes, no one buys that he can injure the 20-year-old Indian national.
His aunt Theresa Riibe said: “He is a great child. He would not hurt a fly. '
And his neighbor Laurel Schreiver said to Dailymail.com: 'I bet my life on it that Josh didn't hurt that girl.
“I have known Josh since he was a young boy,” she added. “There is no way he would harm her or have something to do with her disappearance.”
Riibe was powerfully built a wrestler who made the Iowa State Championships when he was in high school. He also played a guard in his high school football team and participated in Discus and Schot placed for Baan en Veld.
Josh Riibe, 24, was the last person who saw Sudiksha Konanki, 20, alive before she disappeared in the early hours of March 6. His loved ones are adamant
Surveillance -Vide images showed Riibe (left) and Sudiksha who followed their friends to the beach of the Riu Republica Hotel before Konanki disappeared
Researchers in the Dominican Republic stated that they believe that Sudiksha has drowned and have not currently declared a criminal investigation into her disappearance
He was called a person of interest in Sudiksha's disappearance through the Sheriff of Loudoun County, Virginia, where she lives, although they later clarified their statement.
Researchers in the Dominican Republic said they believe they drowned, and although they have interviewed Riibe, they did not say that he will be suspected of any crime.
Riibe was caught on security video with Sudiksha and a group of her friends who walked to the beach in Punta Cana around 4 am last week.
Her friends left two hours later to go back to their room, leaving Riibe and the University of Pittsburgh Med -student on the beach.
In one version of the events, the 24-year-old police officers told that he and Sudiksha went into the sea and were wiped out by a wave.
He also told them that he felt sick, so stepped out of the water and went back to his hotel room. The former wrestler also said that he fell asleep on the beach.
The other story that Riibe reportedly said that the authorities was that he saw Sudiksha walk along the beach with the water until her knees in the direction of where she left her cover on a lounge chair.
Riibe was caught on the camera that returned to his room at 9.55 am and without his shirt.
Problem built Riibe was an all-round athlete in high school. He even made the Iowa State Championships to struggle
Riibe was a wrestler champion at Central Lion High School in the small town of Rock Rapids, Iowa
Riibe was seen with law enforcement on the beach next to the Riu Republica Hotel in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic on Monday. He changed his story about what happened that night, the authorities said
DailyMail.com accompanied officers of the National Police while on Tuesday afternoon they trace a piece of 2.5 miles off the coast through the motorboat to look for signs of her
Dozens of uniformed agents and soldiers gathered in Arena Gorda Beach to help you search for Sudiksha
Jensen Sánchez, a spokesperson for the civil defense in the dr, said: “According to the boy who was with her, the waves wiped her way, but that is under police investigation.”
President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic told reporters on Monday: “We are worried. The last information we have of one of them, from the last person who was with the young woman, what he says according to the reports, is that a wave while he is on the beach, crashed to them. '
The friends of Sudiksha left for an excursion the next day and returned around 4 p.m. When they realized that their friend had not returned, they reported hotel staff and the authorities who launched the subsequent search.
Riibe is a senior at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. His uncle Richard told DailyMail.com that he had a friend at the school, 65 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
“Josh and his family have been living next to us for several years,” Buurman Schriever told DailyMail.com. “There was no way he would harm her or would have something to do with her disappearance. I am shock in total about what I have read.
“He was a good friend of growing up my son. He is a super good child.
“If he was drunk as I read, it wasn't the smartest thing to do, but he's at the university on the spring break.”
Schriever said that she remembers that he repeats' friendly and a good student ', there is no way he would have hurt the girl.'
Riibe received a Land Surveying Scholarship from Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The 24 -year -old is the second of three children of Mike and Tina Riibe. Mike went to the Dominican Republic after student Sudiksha Konanke was missing
The Riibe family lives in a house with five bedrooms and one floor in Ranch style a lively burgundy color and sits next to a funeral center
Riibe was caught on the camera that returned barefoot to his room at 9.55 am and without his shirt. A source close to the investigation told DailyMail.com that Riibe was 'cooperative' and stays in the resort where he was accompanied by his father
“I'm sure both families have been destroyed. The Josh family is wonderfully typical people in the midwest in small city. '
She said the family has been out of town for a few days.
Riibe is the second of three children born from Mike and Tina Riibe, both 46. They live in a house with five bedrooms and unambiguous, ranch style in a lively bordeaux-red color and sit next to a funeral center.
He went to Central Lyon High School in Rock Rapids, a city with only 2,600 people. He then went to Southeast Technical College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he earned a stock exchange for country research before he started at St. Cloud State.
Last August his mother posted on Instagram: 'Josh left last week and today was his first day of his last year at St. Cloud State University!
“I am sure that he will spend most of his time in the library in the books in the books !!” she added.
Riibe is still in the Dominican Republic where he is accompanied by his father.
The Sheriffs office of Loudoun County in Virginia, where the Sudiksha family lives, Riibe called it important, but later clarified that it is still an investigation into a missing person and not a criminal
The Riu Republica Resort in Punta Cana, where Konanki and her friends stayed
“We are not going to comment on other people, but we do believe that (Riibe) may have been the last person to have seen or to be the missing person,” said Seriff's spokesperson Thomas Julia in a statement.
“This is still an investigation into missing person, not a criminal investigation, so he is not a person of interest nor suspected for the latter goal.”
But the internet buzzed with theories about how Riibe could have been involved in Sudiksha's disappearance.
The speculation seems to be based on the story of Riibe to the police on exactly what happened in the night of their alleged late night swimming.
One person on Reddit said: 'The man saw her being swept away and no one warned until 4 p.m. that day. How can someone be so heartless? '
The user below clarified that they read that the couple had been in the water and that Riibe got sick before fainting in a 'beach chair'.
But the discourse back and forth on this message took a turn, in which people said that this was just one story from his 'multiple versions' that he reportedly told the police. Some sympathized it was a “terrible accident with very drunk young adults.”
The National Police said on Monday that a high -level task force had considerably expanded the search, with improved participation of 'the FBI and the American embassy company'.
They said they have analyzed extensive security cameras since Sudiksha and her friends have arrived in the country.
The police also look at everyone who was previously at Sudiksha, including hotel staff.
The FBI refused to describe its involvement in the case.
