DOMINICAN REPUBLIC RESORT DEATHS: INSECTICIDE IN THE A/C?

As authorities investigate the unexplained deaths of three Americans at a resort in the Dominican Republic, a Colorado couple who stayed at the same facility last year said they became violently ill after being exposed to what they suspect were insecticides spread through the air conditioning system. Kaylynn Knull, 29, and her boyfriend Tom Schwander, 33, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the owners of Grand Bahia Principe Hotel La Romana, blaming them for causing their sickness in June 2018. Last month, Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63 and Cynthia Day, 49, were found unresponsive in their hotel room at the resort in La Romana. Authorities in the Dominican Republic said a preliminary autopsy found that the couple suffered respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, caused by excess lung fluid. Day also suffered a cerebral edema. Five days earlier, 41-year-old Miranda Schaup-Werner died in her room with her husband nearby. The couples checked in on the same day — May 25. A spokeswoman for the hotel would not comment on Knull and Schwander’s allegations, citing the pending litigation. She said the deaths of three Americans were isolated events and that there “are no indications of any correlation between these two unfortunate incidents.”
* This has been a message from the Dominican Republic Board of Tourism.
* I don’t think I want to be murdered by my vacation hotel this year. Let’s go to Orlando instead.
* You’d think the main mission statement of the resort would be “Let’s not kill the guests.”
* What do you tip for maid service when that happens?