i cant decide who was mentality disturbed the people that killed her or the one that paid 1 million peso for her head. tough choice therem, but either way its a very sick way of how the story turned out unfortunately. at least they got the killer in their hand, hope he doesnt have millions around so he doesnt make permanent bail.

This looks drug war related.

Nobody does this type of crime unless they are trying to send a message.

The DR has turned into a drug cesspool, and the Domincan politicians have sold it to the drug lords.

She POd the wrong people.

RIP

"given to an individual "

Welcome to Mexico with a different accent.

This is shameful, why can't the actual people who caused this go to jail.

Because the DR is a failed state.

So sad. I wonder what she did or didn't do to deserve such fate. Hopefully DR justice will get to the bottom of this horrific crime.

In order to fill in the blanks you need to define bussiness woman.
Drug dealer, prostitute or buyer and seller of used cars.
She came back from Switzerland with money so how did she get it?
Murder is not pretty and it is regretable however lets get the facts straight.
Dr justice will probably find out why but the real criminals the politicainas that sold the DR to the Drug Lords are the real criminals.

Yes let us get the facts straight before we start shooting our mouths off .

Ricardolito,
You are best at shooting your mouth off when all you try to do is put a nice positive spin on anything negative that the Domincan politicians are responsible for.

Admit it Ricardolito that these jerk off politicians in the DR sold the Domincan soveringty to the drug cartels now you have a little Mexico in the DR.

I see a beautiful lady and her baby who was kidnapped and murdered,, I know no more but when I know more about the facts . then maybe I will be in a position to comment .
The great difference between me and you and gmiller is that I see a flawed country and you both see a failed country .

Well said, Ricardolito!!

Ricardolito,
You should have read the previous articles about this business woman before you shoot your mouth off with your stupid comments.

It is a failed state not a flawed state as you spin it.

Ricardolito - The first step in solving a problem is to acknowledge that the problem does, indeed exist. Your posts often appear as apologetic and in denial. There is no legitimate excuse for the mess that this country is in except for:

Corruption,
Incompetence,
Nepotism,
Perverted sense of right and wrong in the public space,

Leading to:

Poverty,
Ignorance,
Hunger,
Malnutrition,
Overcrowding,
Illness,
Insecurity,
Mistrust of the Police,
Etc,

If this does not make the DR a Failed State, I don't know what it will take to convince you otherwise.

how sad


justice for a citizen

Those responsible must be arrested and brought to justice like...... "they were armed and refused to surrendered" the rest is history. Giving in to demands only serves to encourage more future kidnappings, once the cat is out of the bag.....the DR will be a point of almost no return.

On any kidnapping for ransom situation there is never any guarantees.

I say that unused ransom money should be used for reward money with added bonuses.

I'm against the death penalty but let's face it there are certain crimes it should apply....
this is one of them.

My deepest prayers to the victim her family and daughter who will grow up never meeting / knowing her mother.

Juan santo domingo .. I do not like generalisations that have a genesis from a single incident ..for that reason I always prefer to comment on an article here without taking the next step of saying these comments are applied to many more people or situations . In this particular case I only know what I have read here or in the papers and do not know why the kidnapping took place nor by whom..JimH seems to know much more but I do not know how .
Higuey has a history of kidnapping and ,unlike JimH ,I have not the slightest idea if this was drug related or not and I can see no benefit in speculating .
Like riosm I prefer to offer my condolances and hope the culprits are found and punished soon

Very sad indeed. To me (my opinion onlyy), it appears that she was given a large sum of money by some European underground group (drug mafia) to go back home to the DR, as their agent/facilitator. She failed to do what she promised those badboys and paid with her life.

Ask yourself, how does a barrio girl go to Switzerland, "work" a few years and return back to the DR with a larger sum of money (appearing to be successful) and established herself as a "businesswoman". Someone set her up in a DR business as a front. Her real function back in the DR, was to work for them. She blew their/her money (as most barrio girls would) and didn't follow through on her end. She was murdered violently, to let others know, don't double cross the badboys in Europe who you made deals with !! Calling it as I see it.....

Ricardolito, I can accept that no single event should be used to generalize, however how many single events will it take for you to take the next step and acknowledge that we have serious problems here?

How many acts of corruption in government must take place before you are prepared to accept that the government is corrupt?

How many broken promises must take place before you are ready to accept that the government does not have any intentions of working for the people who pay their wages and fill their bank accounts?

How much BS will you accept from the mouth of this president before you can acknowledge that he is the puppet and not the puppeteer?

How much more can you take?

What was the motive? We are missing half of the story without motive! Motive please. M O T I V E. Motive! Motive! That's MOTIVE. You can't leave out the MOTIVE! I hope I made myself clear. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Juan ,,you need to look at my comments ,,,you can see them on file here...and you will see that I have been constantly saying that the corruption and lawlessness here now is a total disgrace and that LF has failed miserably in these two areas as well as in other social issues...I am in total agreement with you ..
However I have given praise to LF for keeping the Dominican economy flowing by encouraging investment here and by commencing many long overdue infra structure projects in the capital and in other cities.
I do not know how this all ties in with the article here which may or may not be related to the drug trade

Ricardolito,

You make a strong point......We'll never know all the facts in this case, but.....from what I've read

"head severed" more like sending a message ?

Rest in Peace. Don't hold you breaths if you guys think that there would be justice in this case,

Perez,

Even more sad to say.......I AGREE.

Ricardolito, there are just so many flaws before you become a FAILED country and the DR is way past that.

Look at Juansantodomingo's post. And he was being nice.

Who is this person who paid a million pesos to have her head? You don't think these f...en clowns know who he is. Of course they do.

I am sure if it was your head on a platter you'd feel it is a failed state when the person who orchestrated this is walking around with impunity.

thats like 65,000 US..how sad is that...

This a sad story; I read the other article the other day where she was reported missing.... now I come across this article where she is reported murdered. I don't know the full details or motives to this crime, so all I'm going to say is RIP.

Did not see this coming...

@Juango I think you are correct.

a lot of crimes in this country, it's the end of BUSINESS of tourist. It's the end, a lot of tourist have scare to come in DR.

kiskeyaman,

"a lot of crimes in this country" ...yet you write from Haiti.

"a lot of tourist have scare to come in DR" ...could this be the same excuse they use in Haiti.

Good thing Haiti will never experience this type of crime, but then again maybe......kidnapping for Haitian aide ransom.

And to think last week the U.S state dept. issued a travel warning for Haiti.

looks like a another murder that involed greed and drug lords that do no belong in this country, if the dominican republic had real adequate immigration laws , our citizens would not have this problem.

riosm
well, you saw, it's not only haiti who have crimes. Those days a lot of people are killed.
even a journalist are killed. You don't have really a democratic country.
soon a lot of country will give a warning at DR.
"a lot of crimes in this country" ...yet you write from Haiti.
ahahahah you usa
You have near 5 bilions by year, why you don't make a great advance?
a lot of crimes in DR, it's not me who told that.
Don't worry

its sad that would happen to any one.BUT! if she was involved in that activity in any way. it just goes to show, better decisions need to be made.

These kind of kidnapping crimes go on in Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Japan, Thailand, etc. I'm not sure its fair to say this is an example of a failed state; more like what Ricordo said.."It's an example of a "Flawed" state.""

Why would someone's opinion mean any less or more just because they're writing from Haiti, USA, Europe, etc.?

One million pesos is something like $26,000, not $65,000.

Dominican rep. is relatively safe despite the horror stories we read everyday in the newspapers. in fact, for 10 million people on just two-thirds of an island, i would call it "very safe." Crime and murder is almost exclusively by "Association" and not "Random" like many people are led to believe.

The DR is a great, beautiful country with fantastic warm and friendly people. and despite all the horror stories people regal each other with, these are relatively isolated incidents taking place among people in specific cirlces.

i work on the north coast in Cabarete, on the beach

continued....in bar, surrounded by people from all walks of life--tourists, ex-pats, and locals. And for the amount of people coming and going, i would hasten to say that its very safe. still, if you were to start running around with the wrong crowd, start delving into specific types of crime and other people related to specific types of crime, then as they say: "when you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas."

but for people whom are just going to work everyday, keeping their noses clean, and just doing the daily grind of life and work, almost nothing befalls on them like what we read here in the newspapers. crime is almost always a culprit of "Association."

Again, i'm working in a bar--5 years now, surrounded by people from all walks of life, and almost nothing is happening here on the scale of what you have going on in places like Mexico and Columbia, Brazil, and Venezuela.

From what i've read here, Ricordo seems to be pretty balanced and fair in his assessments.

RIP.

I'd suppose that the fundamental message is to stay away from drug trade....hope other will get it, before with have more decapitated bodies lying around.

MJEV.

Jim Harrington, Riosm, Gmiller, Juansantodomingo, etc. are all obviousily well read, intelligent, well traveled people. Still, its perplexing to me how anyone living and working here in this country can pick and choose isolated horror stories and then apply it to everything.

I work in a popular place on the beach in Cabarete, i get to meet a lot of Missionary and Peace Corps workers on the weekends. They're just kids--right out of college. They work and live in the most isolated, desolate, poorest of poor communities throughout the country. i find myself absolutely shocked, amazed, baffled, and pleasantly surprised by how many of them tell me how wonderful and kind dominicans and Haitians are in these unbelievably poorest of poor communities and shanty towns. i mean, it really takes me aback about how just amazingly generous people are. i would think these places would be crime ridden, crime infested. But it's not the case. infact, not even remotely. Its crazy but true: DR is safe.

A few things; This lady was a lady of the night (odds are) she got an offer for some hijinx from some Euro Trash, they made her do some awful things in some backwoods shack, then for their sick f*kcing twisted pleasure killed her and decapitated her for one of those phuckers trophy.

frank nice to have you here,,yes there are wonderful people in the DR and there is no need for anyone to trash the entire DR because of this

said it many times

drug trade brings chaos.
in the long run the local people get to suffer.
only a hand full ever come out on top, all u read is about murders, and police and army and government being involved in this trade
how can this be a good thing for the dr people?
{when the young hold these guys as heros so some kind"
they want to follow in their footsteps???
better they become doctors and help their own people then to travel down this low-life road of low=lifes and gangsters that cant shoot straight.

Written by: Ricardolito, 18 Aug 2011 10:48 PM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
frank nice to have you here,,yes there are wonderful people in the DR and there is no need for anyone to trash the entire DR because of this

YES THEIR ARE GOOD PEOPLE, BUT ITS TIME THE GOOD PEOPLE STOP SLEEP WALKING AND START TO DEMAND CHANGE SO THE SO-CALLED GOOD PEOPLE CAN LIVE A REAL LIFE AS HUMAN BEINGS.

its crazy but true: dr is safe.
yes its crazy its far from safe.
yes 1,000 of great honest people but they dont rule
its the gangsters that rule.and have for a long time.

where the f**k is the education and the luz for these very good people?

where is the chance for them to live like a real human? shit safe from what? u mean good but your reading it the wrong way.

i agree frank i have been to the dr manny times. and will return again the end of oct . i have never had any problems. and have been treated well where ever i have been there. i also dont drink drug or corouse around late at night looking for trouble.and that has worked for me.