India, March 12 -- A private eye who worked for slain Natalee Holloway's family has reportedly offered to help in the case of University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, a 20-year-old Indian-origin woman who vanished while on a spring break holiday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. She was last spotted at the Riu Republica Resort beach on March 6 around 4:50 am.

TJ Ward, who helped Holloway's parents when she went missing in Aruba 20 years ago, has "made contact with the [Konanki] family" to "try to help them locate their daughter" in the Dominican Republic, he told NewsNation. Ward does not think Konanki drowned, and agrees with the missing student's family that something more sinister has happened.

"I don't think that she drow...