The disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student, disappeared during a vacation in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic in March 2025, setting off a search by land, air and sea.[1][2]She was last seen on a beach early in the morning with another student, who told police he passed out and woke to find her gone; her parents later asked that she be declared dead.[3][4][5]
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She was last seen on a beach early in the morning with another student, who told police he passed out and woke to find her gone; her parents later asked that she be declared dead.[3][4][5]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
15%0%
Mar 20252026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 1 more outlet off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (3 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Mar 17, 2025
3
14
4
21 of 195
11%
Mar 10, 2025
7
18
5
30 of 198
15%
Mar 3, 2025
1
2
2
5 of 202
2%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Mar 17, 2025 · first reported · Headline from NBC 6 South Florida
Konanki had been with six other people on the beach before most of them left, while she and one other person stayed into the morning.[3] Dominican authorities interviewed that man,[6] identified by the AP as Joshua Riibe, a Minnesota college student, who later left the country.[7] Nearly two weeks after she vanished, her parents asked authorities to declare her dead.[5]
