A 51-year-old Pennsylvania woman died while on vacation in the Dominican Republic in similar circumstances as the three Americans who were recently found dead there, her family said.
Yvette Monique Sport was staying at the Bahia Principe hotel with her fiance, Howard Taltoan, when she suddenly collapsed in June 2018, her sister, Felecia Nieves, said.
Sport got a drink from the mini bar in her hotel room before going to bed and never waking up, her family said. Her cause of death was listed as heart attack.
"It makes me question at this point is this cause of death even true," Nieves said. "We were promised within three months that we would receive a toxicology report to this day, which is almost a year now we’ve got nothing."
The U.S. State Department listed 13 American deaths in the Dominican Republic last year but Sport was not among them, a fact Nieves called "disturbing."
Schaup-Werner was with her husband Daniel Werner at Bahia Principe in the Playa Nueva Romana resort on May 25 when she suddenly collapsed.
The cause of death was said to be respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, which is caused by excess fluid in the lungs.
“That’s not something that we were aware of prior and we really want an independent medical review here in the States,” McDonald said.
It was the same cause of death listed for Day and Holmes, who were engaged. They were found dead in their room at Bahia Principe on May 30.
“The family of Cynthia Ann Day would like to thank the community for their condolences and support in the loss of their beloved daughter, mother, and sister," family attorney Steven Bullock said in a statement.
"We are continuing to investigate the exact cause of death. The family is determined to find out what happened and why. At this time the cause of death remains a mystery. The various theories that have been reported have yet to be substantiated. Thank you.”