A Pennsylvania woman died at a hotel in the Dominican Republic just days before a Maryland couple was found dead in their room at the same resort.
Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, was celebrating her ninth wedding anniversary with her husband at the Bahia Principe Hotel in La Romana when she collapsed in their hotel room.
“At one point, she was sitting there happily smiling and taking pictures and the next moment she was in acute pain and called out for Dan and she collapsed,” family spokesman Jay McDonald told WFMZ.
Schaup-Werner had a drink from the minibar before she collapsed. McDonald said Schaup-Werner was healthy before her death.
The cause of her death has not been determined, but violence is not suspected, Dominican Republic National Police Col. Frank Felix Durán Mejia told CNN.
Five days after her death, Maryland couple Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, were found dead in their room by hotel employees after they failed to check out.
Autopsies on the couple concluded they had respiratory failure and an abnormal buildup of fluid in the lungs.
