Iowa family found dead in Mexico resort of Tulum

[Judi Lynn]

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

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Architectural ruins at Tulum:

http://architecturalmoleskine.blogspot.com/2012/12/tulum-and-what-will-really-happen-on-21.html

[catbyte]

1. Sounds very weird. They think it's "food poisoning or a gas leak?"

[JI7]

2. Carbon monoxide ?

Can't think of anything else since they said no foul play suspected.

Very sad.

[TexasProgresive]

3. "no sign of traumatic injury and no foul play is suspected at this time"

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]

4. There was another episode last year of a family getting poisoned with toxic fumes

Don’t 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]

5. I think in the other incident

It was a sprayed pesticide.

[Dave Starsky]

10. Lots of whole families get taken out by CO, sadly.

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]

6. I remember the 11 year old boy

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]

8. Vitas Gerulaitis, the professional tennis player, died the same way...

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. I love the Tulum area

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.

[oasis]

9. Sad. Cute kids. May they all rest in peace.