A Dominican judge officially rejected the case against the American man who was the last person to see the University of Pittsburgh -Student Sudiksha Konanki before she disappeared.
Josh Riibe, 22, returned to the United States on March 22, after he had been in the center of the Chaotic cause and had seized his passport, so that he had to stay in the Dominican Republic under strict supervision.
He was the last person who was seen with Konanki before she was missing in the early hours of 6 March of the Riu Republica Resort in Punta Cana.
Riibe's lawyers submitted a writer of Habeas Corpus and demanded that authorities accused him of a crime or let him go home, who granted a judge on March 18.
The petition was established on the same day that Konanki's parents had called on the Dominican national police to declare her legally death.
Judge Edwin Rijo of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance of La Altagracia solidified the decision on Friday by releasing the full legal reasoning and officially completing the matter, Wjla reported.
Riibe was called a person of interest by the Dominican authorities who launched a total search for the 20-year-old Konanki after she had disappeared from a beach in the Riu Republica Hotel in the early morning of 6 March.
The five -star resort's security camera system showed Riibe with Konanki, his friend Carter Joseph and three girlfriends from Konanki to the beach at 4:15 am.
Josh Riibe, 22, returned to the United States on March 22 after he had been in the center of the chaotic cause
He was the last person who was seen with Konanki before she was missing in the early hours of March 6 in the Riu Republica Resort in Punta Cana
Two from Konanki's friends were returned to their rooms at 4:55 am, followed by Joseph and another young women at 5:05 am.
The same camera grabbed a shirtless and barefoot Riibe on the way to his room at 8:54 am without Konanki in sight.
Riibe had seized his mobile phone and passport by the authorities, who forbidden him to leave the country and kept him in the resort under strict supervision.
The former high school whore, who has a friend in the United States, gave conflicting and confusing statements of what happened on the beach.
He told the police that he and Konanki were going to swim and were eliminated by a large wave. He claimed that he used his lifeguard training to drag her back to the coast, but that the last time he saw her, she was deep in water.
He managed to get out and fainted on a sunbug, he said. Konanki was never seen again.
Riibe was admitted on 12 March for another round of questions and told a public prosecutor that he and Konanki drank on the beach and then in the Ocean Kuden when they were swept by waves.
He refused to answer several questions, where the public prosecutor was looking for him about how they could be sure what he was honest.
He was also asked if he knew if Sudiksha was able to swim, whether she gestured or cried in the sea, when he called the police or told the hotel, whether he had told his friends about what happened and also asked how he felt about the situation.
Riibe was recorded on security video with Konanki and a group of her friends who walked to the beach in Punta Cana around 6 am on March 6
Riibe claimed that they had kissed in the ocean before they were almost swept away and had to save her from drowning. Riibe (depicted the next day) said he fainted and woke up on the beach
Every time he replied: “My lawyers advise me not to answer that question and I follow their advice before he is silent.
The grieving parents of Konanki said they now believe that it is likely that their daughter died by drowning and that Riibe was not involved in her death.
“Both parties of the authorities showed us how high the ocean waves were at the time of the incident, and both sides of the authorities made it clear that the person was of interest was not a suspect from the start,” her father told Subbarayudu Konanki to the New York Post.
“It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that we come to terms with the fact that our daughter has drowned,” he said. “This is incredibly difficult for us to process.”
They also asked that Riibe could leave the Eilterland and return home.
Riibe claims that he spoke with Konanki's destroyed mother and revealed in the court that she hugged him and thanked him for dragging her daughter from the ocean prior to her amazing disappearance.
