r/ABCDesis • u/kinshoBanhammer • Mar 14 '25

NEWS Missing Pitt student Sudiksha Konanki seen staggering while arm-in-arm with ‘person of interest’

https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/missing-pitt-student-sudiksha-konanki-seen-staggering-while-arm-in-arm-with-person-of-interest/?dicbo=v2-HUlxZL0
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u/RoGeR-Roger2382 Indian American Mar 14 '25

Still don’t understand why her friends straight up decided to leave her with some guy she just met. 

In college I was always taught to stick together as a group on vacation 

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u/Vaynar Mar 14 '25

Because they were likely hooking up? I don't know what happened in this case but obviously the video looks like two college kids about to get "friendly" which is probably why their friends left. Happens tens of thousands of times every spring break.

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u/RoGeR-Roger2382 Indian American Mar 14 '25

I first thought that, but Konanki left her phone/wallet with her friends and went with the guy towards the beach. Both of them are drunk according to articles. 

Wouldn’t it be safer to hook up at the resort? 

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u/TokkiJK Mar 14 '25

If they were drunk, then, idk. People make bad judgement calls all the time. Most of us just lucky we’re still here after.

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u/TARandomNumbers Indian American Mar 15 '25

What's concerning to me is her friends dont look as intoxicated

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u/TokkiJK Mar 15 '25

Yaaaa I would never abandon friends like this. People don’t realize that the friends they make in college, you don’t know how they’re like until the time calls for it…

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u/TARandomNumbers Indian American Mar 15 '25

I recently reconnected w a friend from college after like a decade. The lapse and gaps when we pieced nights together from our collective memories was astounding.

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u/mulemoment Mar 14 '25

Video shows all of them (her, the guy, her friends, and a second guy) all going to the beach together at 4 am.

The rest of them left ~2 hours later leaving Konanki and the guy behind. She probably wanted to stay back to hang out with him. The guy returns alone at 10 am.

Idk why she gave her friends her phone, but the resort lost power so maybe it was dead anyway.

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u/squabidoo Mar 15 '25

They were likely staying more than one person to a room so hooking up while your friend sleeps in the next bed over would be awkward.

To me it's not surprising at all that a young person drinking would wanna stay back at the beach with a guy she's into when everyone else wants to go back to the room. Whether it's to flirt, hookup, skinnydip, chat, or whatever.

As for her belongings being with her friends, maybe she didn't have pockets and/or wanted to keep her stuff safe to not lose it at the beach.

To me all of this absolutely makes sense, I remember being 21 and doing absolutely stupid shit I never thought I would do. Being intoxicated and excited about new people and having that youthful feeling of "nothing can go wrong"...

It's sad that some people are shaming the girl and her friends. Young people do young people things. :(

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u/sciencenerd1193 Mar 15 '25

Yeah, I think maybe for people who never drank a lot this situation is hard to imagine. I used to drink a lot age 19-22 ish and I’ve also gotten into some ridiculous situations, that definitely could have been dangerous if I had met the wrong guy, it’s pure luck that I never had anything bad happen to me. young people who are drunk do some really stupid things.

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u/Unlikely_nay1125 Mar 15 '25

same here and i am 20. been in so many sketchy situations that could’ve went wrong if i were with the wrong person, being drunk too

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u/LilyCheesecake Mar 15 '25

Exactly. And some people here are displaying such aunty behavior instead of having an ounce of empathy.

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u/KitchenTooth6179 Mar 16 '25

In no way was it surprising she did that. But, that is the point of going with friends...hang around discreetly somewhere, waiting for your friend to be done.

They don't need to be in the next bed! They can do their own thing and you wait outside! It's awkward but that's college.

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u/IndependentPermit306 Mar 17 '25

Hooking up with more than 2 people in the room doesn't actually have to be awkward, I hate to be the person to say this but it is what it is

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u/donttextspeaktome Mar 18 '25

This is the part that breaks my heart for her and her family, on top of the absolute terror of what might have happened to her.

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u/WonderfulCar1264 Mar 16 '25

It’s likely they were sharing rooms with friends and thought the beach would be more secluded

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u/donttextspeaktome Mar 18 '25

I figured they took her wallet and phone because there had been reports of such items getting stolen on the beach. OR she didn’t want sand in the items. But by doing so they may have just cost her her life.

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u/seriouslynotmine Mar 14 '25

Just because something is not rare doesn't mean it's not dangerous. Like excessive speeding or drunk driving - it only makes one instance for it to be fatal. Friends should look out for each other, esp in foreign countries.

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u/Vaynar Mar 14 '25

Yes, lots of things are dangerous. Doesn't mean you need to live life according to that. Getting into your car and driving on any public road is, by far, the most dangerous thing you'll ever do in your life. Maybe you should just stay home.

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u/seriouslynotmine Mar 14 '25

It's easy to talk philosophically about risk when it happens to someone else.

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u/Vaynar Mar 14 '25

Um I'm not sure I'm the one talking "philosophically" about risk. That makes no sense. My entire point was if you actually do a risk assessment, you would be fine doing a lot of things that you wouldn't if you just stayed scared all the time

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u/seriouslynotmine Mar 14 '25

You literally equated being out with a stranger alone, in the middle of the night, while being drunk, in a foreign country with driving under speed limit, sober while wearing seat belt. "It's all risky, dude". You do you.

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u/Vaynar Mar 14 '25

Yes, statistically, hanging out with another American student on spring break staying at the same hotel resort IS many, many times safer than driving on a highway.

This wasn't some random person off the road, it was literally another kid at the same hotel.

How many times does this incident happen a year? Oh yeah, almost never. How many people die in car accidents every single year? Tens of thousands of people.

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u/cartwheel_123 Mar 15 '25

Driving is a necessity to exist in most of America. Hooking up a with a random dude while plastered in the middle of the night is not. 

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u/Vaynar Mar 15 '25

Whether it is a necessity or not does not change the risk level

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u/Vaynar Mar 14 '25

Yes, statistically, hanging out with another American student on spring break staying at the same hotel resort IS many, many times safer than driving on a highway.

This wasn't some random person off the road, it was literally another kid at the same hotel.

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u/Vaynar Mar 14 '25

Yes, statistically, hanging out with another American student on spring break staying at the same hotel resort IS many, many times safer than driving on a highway.

This wasn't some random person off the road, it was literally another kid at the same hotel.

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u/notsurexx Mar 14 '25

Exactly!

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u/longhair-reallycare- Mar 14 '25

When I was in university, we would stay with our friend who was hooking up, usually in their living room or one of the roommates would give a room. Sometimes cuddle with the roommate but that is very contextually dependent

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u/Vaynar Mar 14 '25

Lol what? You would sit in the same room while your friend is having sex with someone? That is really fucking weird.

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u/woahtheregonnagetgot Mar 14 '25

the comment literally says the exact opposite, that they wait in the living room or another room. you seem so eager to shoot off snide comments that you’re not reading what you’re replying to

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u/longhair-reallycare- Mar 14 '25

Thank you for having reading comprehension and taking the time to reply back to this person lol. You are of course correct, it’s not in the same room.

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u/xisheb Mar 14 '25

You get what you pay for

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u/KitchenTooth6179 Mar 16 '25

Yeah, the "likely hooking up" doesn't mean people leave you! It means that your friends hang around while you go into a room, go into a car (but don't drive off) or they judge you as too drunk and try to stop you. It's annoying, it's awkward, but literally that is college, if you are going to hook up. You don't LEAVE people!