Iowa family found dead in Mexico resort of Tulum
Source: BBC News
2 hours ago
A family of four from Iowa have been found dead inside their rented holiday home in Mexico, authorities say.
The Sharp family had been expected to attend a basketball game in Illinois on Wednesday. A missing person report was filed after they did not show up.
The incident took place in the popular resort of Tulum, according to the Mexico Tourism Board.
Mexican and US police say there was no sign of traumatic injury and no foul play is suspected at this time.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43523000
Architectural ruins at Tulum:
http://architecturalmoleskine.blogspot.com/2012/12/tulum-and-what-will-really-happen-on-21.html
catbyte
(34,406 posts)JI7
(89,252 posts)Can't think of anything else since they said no foul play suspected.
Very sad.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)So is fiction coming to life and it was the Avada Kedavra curse. Not meaning to be flippant but a young family of four found dead has to be suspicious. If not foul play than something like the family that was killed by a fumigant. I forget where that happened, maybe Jamaica?
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Dont remember exactly where, possibly Caribbean but not sure.
This might have been almost anything. But, for the whole family to be taken out it had to be gas or toxins.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)It was a sprayed pesticide.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)If you're burning ANYTHING to stay warm, you must have a CO detector in your home. It can save your life. It has saved mine.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Who died in a hotel room in Boone N.C. A few years back. They had a room near the swimming pool and a leak cause carbon monoxide to enter the family's room.
I'm sure this is something Mexico is considering. Article about the North Carolina incident below.
http://www.wral.com/boy-died-from-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-family-settles/17282771/
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)He was killed while he was sleeping in a friend's guest house out in the Hamptons, by carbon monoxide fumes seeping from a nearby pool heater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitas_Gerulaitis#Death
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)Stayed in a little beachfront straw cabana and ventured into the jungle and clear blue seas; the Mayans who live there are a sweet people. No crime in the area to speak of but that has been a few years.