The story says no foul play suspected??? Here is the story:
CRESTON, Iowa -- A family of four reported missing after they did not return home on Wednesday from their vacation in Mexico have been found dead inside their vacation condo, according to WHO-TV.

In a police press release, officers confirmed the four members of the family were found dead inside the condo.

Investigators do not suspect foul play at this time.

"Autopsies are being performed in Mexico and results are pending," Creston police said in a statement.

The family was reported missing early Friday morning when relatives told police they never returned home from vacation.

Police entered the family's names into a nationwide database. On Friday, a member of the U.S. State Department visited the condominium for a welfare check and found the bodies of Kevin Wayne Sharp, 41, his wife Amy Marie Sharp, 38, Sterling Wayne Sharp, 12, and 7-year-old Adrianna Marie Sharp.

The family was scheduled to return to the U.S. on a flight to St. Louis on March 21 and attend the Southwest Community College basketball game in Danville, Illinois on Thursday.

Ashli Peterson, a family friend who originally shared a post on Facebook asking for information about the family's whereabouts, updated her post saying all four family members were found deceased in their condo.

"The Sharps have been located. They were found last night in their condo deceased. There was no foul play! At this time that is all the information we have."

LINK:http://wgntv.com/2018/03/23/iowa-family-found-dead-inside-vacation-condo-in-mexico/

Carbon Monoxide from a faulty furnace?

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Carbon Monoxide from a faulty furnace?

That would be my first guess...if indeed there is no foul play involved...sad story.

So because they suffered “no foul play” in Mexico, that makes it a story to share internationally?

Daily Mail claims it was a carbon monoxide leak.

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...eported-missing.html

Terrible, one more reason to not go there.
What a tragedy.

When we were planning our vacation this year the wife asked if I had a destination in mind. I said, “Not Mexico.” I got an exasperated look until I showed her the number of kidnappings and attacks happening even at resorts. This is just another reason I was right to refuse going to that shithole.

Very sad.

There was another family that died earlier this year, in AZ I think, from a faulty furnace in a cabin or condo that they were renting for vacation.

Going forward, I am probably going to bring along on vacations, etc., a combo CO2 / smoke detector that is battery and plug-in operated.

Seems like cheap and sensible insurance for the prevention of such a tragedy.
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Do I recall there was a family poisoned by the exterminator just a few years ago?

Yup, here it is. Caribbean vacation.


poisoned

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Originally posted by Leemur:
When we were planning our vacation this year the wife asked if I had a destination in mind. I said, “Not Mexico.” I got an exasperated look until I showed her the number of kidnappings and attacks happening even at resorts. This is just another reason I was right to refuse going to that shithole.

Wife and I vacation seperatly because she loves going to Mexico. She goes with the daughter and daughter in law and another girlfriend so it's a ladies vacation any how. She goes every winter.
I go to North Dakota ice fishing!

I've always warned them about what goes on down there and they aren't really as safe at the resorts as they think they are. But they don't get it.
Do you have a link to any statistics on crime at the resorts?

Mexico is well represented on the list of the most dangerous cities in the world.

Of course with this family from Iowa, could of been simple CO poisoning.

https://www.worldatlas.com/art...es-in-the-world.html

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Carbon Monoxide from a faulty furnace?

The article doesn't say which part of Mexico. Mexico City, at 7000' elevation, would be cool to cold at night, but Baja or the Yucatan would not.

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Originally posted by egregore:

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Carbon Monoxide from a faulty furnace?

The article doesn't say which part of Mexico. Mexico City, at 7000' elevation, would be cool to cold at night, but Baja or the Yucatan would not.

I saw a different story last night about this that said it was an oceanfront resort. I wondered about the C0 from a furnance, but my wife pointed out that it could also have been from a gas powered stove or hot water heater.

Anyone who opts to vacation in Mejico needs a frontal lobotomy.

Ship we were on made a stop in Cozumel (not far from where this happened) last week. They did have some unusually cooler weather down there earlier last week.

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Originally posted by lastmanstanding:
Wife and I vacation seperatly because she loves going to Mexico. She goes with the daughter and daughter in law and another girlfriend so it's a ladies vacation any how. She goes every winter.
I go to North Dakota ice fishing!

I've always warned them about what goes on down there and they aren't really as safe at the resorts as they think they are. But they don't get it.
Do you have a link to any statistics on crime at the resorts?

Show her the proper literature to support your position in the form of a substantial Term-Life policy naming you as beneficiary

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Originally posted by Todd Huffman:

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Originally posted by egregore:

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Carbon Monoxide from a faulty furnace?

The article doesn't say which part of Mexico. Mexico City, at 7000' elevation, would be cool to cold at night, but Baja or the Yucatan would not.

I saw a different story last night about this that said it was an oceanfront resort. I wondered about the C0 from a furnance, but my wife pointed out that it could also have been from a gas powered stove or hot water heater.

Or refrigerator?

flashguy

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Investigators do not suspect foul play at this time.

I'm a bit skeptical.

Shit happens. Funny how so many people are convinced otherwise. Either way it's quite tragic.

Tulum is on the coast, just south of Cozumel. This is the Caribbean, south of Havana and slightly west. I would find it unusual that persons from Iowa would want to turn on a heater there. Smaller hotels probably have no heat, just A/C if they have that.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/ar...hile-on-12778720.php

Last month, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an investigation that identified more than 150 reports from travelers who said they blacked out or became violently ill after having just one or two drinks at dozens of Mexican resorts in Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Puerta Vallarta and Los Cabos. It's unclear whether those tourists were deliberately drugged or became random victims of tainted alcohol, according to the investigation.

Personally I would think it more likely that they were drugged, so that they could be robbed rather than died of CO poisoning. I spent a year down south of the border, and I know that there is no shortage of crime and corruption in Mexico.

I'll bet a dollar it is CO.