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(6 Jun 2019) Authorities in the Dominican Republic say the deaths of a Pennsylvania psychotherapist and an American couple five days later at the same resort appear to be unrelated incidents.
Tourism Minister Francisco Javier García says an autopsy shows Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, of Allentown, suffered a heart attack on 25 May.
Dominican police also are investigating the deaths of a Maryland couple found at another hotel in the same resort on 30 May. Officials said Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, appeared to have suffered respiratory failure and fluid in the lungs.
Authorities originally described the deaths as taking place in the same hotel.
García said authorities continued to investigate a third case that the victim recently made public on social media, detailing an hours-long assault by a man she said was wearing the uniform of an all-inclusive resort.
He said the investigation was complicated by the woman's inability to identify the attack from a lineup of all employees on duty at the time. Garcia also said there were inconsistencies between the woman's account of the events during the day of the attack, and her husband's account.
"It is the first time that the attention of the international press echoes a situation that could be qualified as worrisome," said Garcia saying that the island has had no tourist incidents in the last five years.
"We have never had to give a news conference like this to clarify nothing," he continued. It (deaths) is a coincidence, circumstantial fact that has ocurred."
The Dominican Republic's prosecutor's office said forensics experts are performing toxicological and other tests to determine the causes of death of Holmes and Day.
"They usually take about a month," reported Paola Rainieri, President of the Hotel Owners Association of the Dominican Republic, as to when to expect the forensic and toxicological reports.
Police said several bottles of medicines to treat high blood pressure were found on the scene of the couple's death.

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