Mexico Mexico - Dana Rishpy, 24, Israeli student, Tulum, 30 March 2007 *POI American or Australian*

An Israeli college student named Dana Rishpy disappeared two years ago during a trip to Mexico’s Riviera Maya and now her family has traveled to Houston to attempt to find a family of good Samaritan tourists who might be the last people to have seen their daughter alive.

Rispy’s parents, Dania and Dror, believe that a family from the Willowbrook area in Houston tried to help a woman resembling their daughter, after the family found her unconscious and apparently drugged in a roadway in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, in early April 2007. But then a man who claimed to be her boyfriend took her away, the family has told authorities.

Finding the Houston family won’t be easy since the Rispy’s have no names or good descriptions. But the missing person unit at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office has offered to help.

The family of tourists, which included a mother and father, two older daughters and two sons, apparently was visiting Mexico on a cruise ship that docked in Playa Del Carmen in April 2007, according to Harris County Sheriff’s Capt. John Martin.

The family might be members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the youngest son, who was about 14 in 2007, may have Down syndrome. Witnesses say the family took the girl they found to a beach restaurant and gave her ice and water and tried to revive her. But later Mexican tourist police released the girl to a man who claimed to be her fiance or boyfriend.

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Dana Rishpy traveled to Mexico for a break in March 2007 after visiting the United States to look for graduate schools. While there, she accepted the invitation of an American to stay at a cabaña in Tulum, a smaller beach town south of Playa del Carmen on the Yucatan Peninsula, according to witnesses and e-mails she sent her family. She was seen by many people at a party in Tulum in late March but then disappeared.

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Date(s) of Birth Used:
May 26, 1982
Place of Birth:
Israel
Hair:
Brown, Long, Wavy
Eyes:Blue
Height:5'7"
Weight:120 pounds
Sex:Female
Race:White
Nationality:Israeli
REMARKS
Dana Rishpy is a dual citizen of Israel and Germany

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Dania Rishpy places little hope in the latest Mexican gestures, given that the man whom the Israeli consulate and the Rishpy family wants for questioning — an American who was last seen with Dana — has never been interrogated by the Mexican authorities and has left the country and now lives in the United States.

Dana Rishpy grew up in a well-heeled Haifa family with three older siblings. Her father was an El Al pilot who worked for the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin during the 1960s.

After her army service Rishpy toyed with a number of artistic careers; during one stint, she helped dub children’s cartoons from Japan. Before flying to Cancun in March of this year, she had been in California, looking at potential schools where she could study computer animation.

Two days after arriving in Mexico, on March 26, Rishpy sent an e-mail to her family, saying she had met foreign tourists and was planning to take a boat trip to a nearby island. This would be her last communication with them.

The next time Dania and Dror Rishpy heard about Dana was April 7, when the phone rang at the Manhattan apartment where they live for a few weeks a year.

Dania says she answered and a man who identified himself as “Mati” told her that Dana had left her backpack with him. Dania told him to leave her daughter’s belongings at the reception of the hotel with a note for her. She then wrote her daughter an e-mail urging her to get in touch and passing on the message that Mati had called and left her bag at the hotel lobby.

After several follow-up e-mails went unanswered, Dania went into Dana’s e-mail account and saw that she had not used it in two weeks. She also came across an e-mail from “flower power.” The author was Mati, and the e-mail was sent a few hours after he had called the Rishpys in New York. In the e-mail, Mati informed Dana that he was leaving and that he had left her bags at the hotel.

The Rishpys now believe that Mati’s phone call and e-mail from April 7 were meant to serve as an alibi for Mati, whose real name, according to the Israeli consul, is Matthew Walshin. But at the time, they saw him as a helpful hand and wrote back, urging him to get in touch. He answered by e-mail that he had not heard from Dana since March 31, when she told him she was going to visit the Mayan ruins of Tulum, possibly with some young people from Quebec. The parents then asked him for the name and location of the bungalow where Dana had stayed. His April 21 answer was the last contact the Rishpys had with him.

The parents eventually called the local Mexican police, who found the hotel and Dana’s backpack April 24 with her belongings, her money and her passport. They also found her diary. The last entry was dated March 30. Dana wrote in Hebrew that she had come back to Tulum from the island with two Swiss and an American. The American, who she identified as Mati, offered to share his cabin.

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TULUM.- A person of Hungarian origin residing in Tulum, linked to the disappearance of the Israeli tourist Dana Rishpy, which occurred on March 30, 2007 and prosecuted for drug trafficking in 2008, he disappeared mysteriously with everything and vehicle in recent days , so your partner and opened the only folder investigation by the ministerial authorities.

The Hungarian who was involved in the disappearance of Dana Rishpy, arrested as suspected drug trafficker probably disappeared last June 15, although it may have been arrested by any police unit, to have outstanding accounts with justice.

They were met eight years of incompetence and arbitrariness in relation to the disappearance of Dana Rishpy, Israeli girl missing since March 2007, according to the file number T-386/2007 formally presented by probably criminal acts (HPCD).

Where Matthew Ryan Walshin, an American, was the prime suspect of the facts together with the Hungarian Zsolt Fejer currently about 45 years, now allegedly disappeared, since according to the investigations of the authorities at the time, were he saw them together when they left a party in a hotel-restaurant called "Mezzanine" located in the vicinity of Tulum National Park

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Rishpy, an Israeli citizen, was last heard from on March 28, 2007, while vacationing in Mexico. In an email to her parents, she wrote that she had arrived in Cancun and was planning to travel in the area for several weeks.
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The Mexican website SIPSE reported that a deep pit was discovered during excavations that had begun Tuesday night after new evidence regarding Dana's disappearance came to light. Authorities suspect Rishpy was buried illegally and the pit may hold her remains.
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Until recently, Mexican law enforcement officials had shrouded the Rishpy investigation in silence, dubbing their investigation the "Tulum Wall of Silence."
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Rishpy's boyfriend, U.S. citizen Matthew Walshin, was the last person to see Dana alive. He remains a prime suspect in what authorities believe to be a murder case.
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Law enforcement officials suspect that Walshin lead Rishpy to Tulum, and once she gave him her documents and personal belongings, he killed her and buried her in the pit.
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Dana Rishpy is a dual citizen of Israel and Germany.


Details:
On the night of March 30, 2007, an unidentified man was seen and photographed with Dana Rishpy, an Israeli National, at the Mezzanine Hotel in Tulum, Mexico. Dana Rishpy has not been seen since that night. The FBI and Israeli National Police are seeking the public's assistance with identifying the man. He is described as a White male with a thin build. He appears to be either North American or possibly Australian. He is not a fugitive from the law. This information could help in locating Dana Rishpy and/or provide new information about her disappearance.


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Momoffourboys said:

Interesting about Matthew Walshin
http://yourfreepress.blogspot.com/2007/10/matthew-walshin-busted-again.html

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