Another one ladies. This woman died a few days before the recent couple. Same alleged cause of death at the same resort.
Another American had died of respiratory failure days before couple at same Dominican Republic resort, hotel says
By Julia JacoboJun 4, 2019, 5:42 PM ET
An American woman died of respiratory failure in her
Dominican Republic hotel room days before a Maryland couple was found dead of the
same cause at the same resort, a hotel staff member told ABC News.
Miranda Schaupp-Werner was found dead at the Grand Bahía Príncipe hotel in La Romana on May 25 -- five days before Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, were found dead in their hotel room.
Schaup-Werner died of
respiratory failureand pulmonary edema, according to the hotel. An autopsy performed on the couple determined that they died of the same causes, according to the Dominican Republic National Police.
American couple Edward Nathael Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, died while staying at the Playa Nueva Romana resort in the Dominican Republic.
The U.S. Department of State confirmed to ABC News that Schaupp-Werner was an American. Police said they are aware of Schaupp-Werner's death but have not opened a criminal investigation into it because her death does not appear to be suspicious.
Police are investigating the deaths of the couple, as they were initially considered suspicious since Holmes complained of chest pains the day he died but refused to see the doctor that was called, police said.
A photograph posted to Facebook on May 28, 2019, shows Americans Nathaniel Edward Holmes and Cynthia Ann Day on vacation in the Dominican Republic, before they were found dead at a hotel there in late May 2019.
The couple's bodies showed no signs of violence, police said.
Holmes and Day arrived at the hotel on May 25 and were scheduled to depart on Thursday, police said. They were found unresponsive by hotel staff after they missed their scheduled check-out time on Thursday, according to a statement from the hotel.
"We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss," a State Department official said on regards to Holmes' and Day's deaths.
Additional information was not immediately available.
ABC News' Conor Finnegan and Aicha El Hammar Castano contributed to this report.
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Pennsylvania woman died days before Maryland couple at the same hotel in the Dominican Republic
(CNN) — Five days
before a Maryland couple were found dead in their hotel room in the Dominican Republic, a Pennsylvania woman collapsed and died at the same resort shortly after she checked in, a family spokesman says.
Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, had just checked in May 25 and enjoyed a drink from a minibar at the Bahia Principe Hotel in La Romana, family spokesman Jay McDonald
told CNN affiliate WFMZ.
She and her husband, Dan Werner, were celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary when she suddenly collapsed in her hotel room, he said.
"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," McDonald said.
"He was understandably in shock, but the whole thing was just so stunning."
Paramedics were called, and first aid was provided, but Schaup-Werner died in the room, Dominican Republic National Police Col. Frank Felix Durán Mejia told CNN.
A cause of death has not been determined, and a toxicology report is pending, but no violence was involved, Durán Mejia said.
Prosecutors are investigating the circumstances of her death, the Dominican attorney general's office said Wednesday.
Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, collapsed and died in her hotel room May 25.
Couple die nearly a week later
Five days later, on May 30, Maryland couple Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, missed their scheduled checkout time at the same resort. Hotel employees later found them dead, police said.
When Schaup-Werner's family heard about the couple's deaths, they notified the US State Department of the similarities and requested an investigation, according to McDonald. He said Schaup-Werner was healthy before her death.
"What we thought was a freak event now we don't know," he said.
CNN has reached out to the resort for more information.
Maryland couple Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, were found dead May 30.
3 Americans in 5 days
The two families are searching for answers after the loss of their loved ones in the same resort five days apart.
In a statement to CNN, the State Department confirmed last month's deaths of the three US citizens.
"We offer our sincerest condolences to the families for their loss," it said.
After Day and Holmes died, the Dominican Republic National Police said an autopsy concluded the couple had respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the lungs.
Medications meant to treat high blood pressure were found in the room, police said. There were no signs of violence in the room.
All 3 checked in on same day
Holmes and Day were engaged, and were from Prince George's County, Maryland, relatives told CNN affiliate WBAL. They were supposed to fly back home the day they were found.
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Days before their deaths, Holmes posted Facebook photos of him and Day enjoying their time in open waters.
"Boat ride of a lifetime!!!" one caption said.
The three Americans all checked into the hotel May 25 -- the same day Schaup-Werner died, the affiliate reported. The couple were checking out five days later when they were found.
The bodies of all three Americans were transported to forensic science institutes in the Dominican Republic for examinations, officials said.
"We are deeply saddened by the incident at one of our hotels in La Romana, Dominican Republic, and want to express our deepest condolences to their family and friends," Bahia Principe Hotels said in a statement after the couple's death.
La Romana is on the Caribbean coast and has a population of about 130,000.
CNN's Rebekah Riess, Andrea Diaz and Rosa Flores contributed to this report.
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