BODY COUNT RISES: ANOTHER American Tourist Dead in the Dominican Republic
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The series of deaths at luxury resorts have created confusion and raised questions about |
| 0:15.6 | the island's safety. |
| 0:17.0 | 55-year-old Joseph Allen of Avenel, New Jersey, was the latest death. |
| 0:20.7 | He died in his hotel room earlier this week. |
| 0:23.0 | The authorities have not said how. |
| 0:25.0 | Here's what we do know. |
| 0:26.3 | So far this year, seven tourists have died on the island of non-accidental causes. |
| 0:31.1 | Five of them had similar symptoms of pulmonary edema, fluid in the lungs, and respiratory |
| 0:35.4 | failure, and occurred at resorts in Puntakana or La Romana. |
| 0:40.3 | What we don't know is what caused those symptoms. |
| 0:42.6 | The FBI is conducting their own toxicology tests on three of the deaths. |
| 0:46.5 | Two others have been deemed natural causes, both heart attacks, by island medical officials. |
| 0:50.8 | Like, I'm going to believe something an island medical official tells me when there is |
| 0:56.6 | a growing string of deaths of American tourists and Dominican Republic. |
| 1:02.6 | Oh, no, no. |
| 1:04.0 | And what a co-inquisiting that suddenly otherwise healthy people kill over with a heart attack |
| 1:10.1 | and add their names to the list of the dead. |
| 1:13.6 | I mean, it's he graced this is crime stories. |
| 1:16.4 | What the hay is going on in the DR? |
| 1:19.7 | The Dominican Republic. |
| 1:21.1 | He just can't keep ignoring one death after the next and the latest a teen girl falls |
| 1:27.9 | into a coma in the Dominican Republic, vacationing there as other vacationers suffer mysterious |
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