Cancun, Mexico - Mexican authorities said Tuesday that they were searching for a US citizen in connection with the disappearance of an Israeli tourist in March near the eastern Mexican resort town of Cancun.

Public prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez told Cancun's Enfoque Radio that he has asked Mexico's Foreign Ministry and Interpol to find Matthew Ryan Wilson, believed to be back in the United States.

Israeli citizen Dana Rishpy, 25, had arrived in the Latin American country four days before she went missing on March 31. Her family reported her missing 15 days later.

Wilson was the last person seen with the young woman. His van, with Oregon state licence plates, was found abandoned on Saturday near the Mexican city of Tulum, with blood stains and a broken window, Melchor Rodriguez said.

Preliminary investigations on Wilson by US authorities indicate that he has a criminal record for sexual assault in the state of Oregon.

Wilson, who is known in the area around Cancun, stayed in Mexico's Mayan Riviera between February 13 and April 7.

Over her first few days in Mexico, Rishpy visited Isla Mujeres and Playa del Carmen, on the Caribbean. On March 31 she moved on to Tulum, near Cancun, where she was last seen at the nightclub of the Hotel Mezanine.

Rishpy's belongings, including all her travel documents, were found in her hotel.

Several foreign tourists have been murdered or died in accidents near the resort of Cancun.

Last year, a Canadian couple was brutally murdered in their room at the hotel Barcelo Maya de Playa del Carmen, in a case which has not yet been solved. Authorities suspect that people who travelled with them were in involved in the crime.

Months earlier, the dead bodies of a Spanish woman and an Italian man were found near the Tulum archeological site. The woman had been raped, and two young Mexican men were arrested in connection with the case.
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Hello everyone
Dana Rishpy, 25 years old, from Haifa, Israel, Is on a trip in Mexico, and has been missing for 0ver 6 weeks (since March 30).
She was seen last in Tulum, South East Mexico (photos attached).
Dana is about 1.7 feet, she has very long brown straight hair, green eyes (speaks english and hebrew).
If you have people you know in Mexico or in any other country, please contact them and send them this mail.
If you have seen her, or know of people traveling in the area, please urgently contact tel. no. 52 -1-5554840490 (Mexico)
or Dalit at (972)-54-6353802 (Israel) , or by mail: mayator@netvision.net.il Please pass it to relevant people
Thank you for your time

Danna Rishpi, 25, Missing in Mexico


A 25 year old Israeli woman, Danna Rishpi, has gone missing in Mexico. She was last seen by a friend on March 31st.

Rishpi had been staying with a tourist friend on the beach at Tulum, a beach town. She told the friend that she was going to meet Canadian friends at Tulum's archeological site and would be back in 90 minutes. She never returned.


The Israeli consul in Mexico is now searching the area for Rishpi, together with a team of ten that joined him for the mission. Rishpi is slender and petite with long dark hair.

As Dana Rishpy turns 25, her family search for her the world over. Israeli woman went missing in Mexico two months ago
Article from: Jerusalem Post Article date: May 25, 2007 Author: SHEERA CLAIRE FRENKEL More results for: Dana Rishpy


Jerusalem Post

05-25-2007

Headline: As Dana Rishpy turns 25, her family search for her the world over. Israeli woman went missing in Mexico two months ago
Byline: SHEERA CLAIRE FRENKEL
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 03

Friday, May 25, 2007 -- Dana Rishpy's relatives are not quite sure what they will be doing to celebrate her 25th birthday this Saturday.

For years, the family has come together at their Haifa home to mark the youngest daughter's birthday. But this week, relatives are spread out across the globe, trying to track down any information that might explain why Dana disappeared more than a month ago from her cabana in Tacum, Mexico.

The last time Rishpy's parents heard from Dana was in an e-mail dated March 28. She wrote that she had arrived in Cancun and was planning to travel in the area for several weeks. Two days later, she headed for the Southeastern town of Tacum. She left her belongings with a fellow American backpacker named Mathew and went off to a party at a nightclub.

Her parents have heard accounts of all of this. They have even seen photos of Dana dancing in the club and listening to a drum show there. The last time anyone saw her was at 1:30 a.m. She had taken a water bottle and was preparing to leave the club with a young American-born male who had an apartment nearby.

"No one knows what happens next, and the police don't seem to be trying too hard to find out," said her sister, Dalit Rishpy-Tor. "Everything we have done to try and find her, we have done on our own. For the Mexican police it is just another young woman - just another name."

Rishpy-Tor said that her family had been petitioning the Mexican police to do more to investigate the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance. While they have been "overwhelmingly disappointed" with the local police efforts, they have been even more devastated by the Israeli police, said Rishpy-Tor.

"They have a whole department here that is supposed to deal with emergencies like this. But since my sister disappeared we have gotten nothing, no help whatsoever, not even a phone call from that so-called department," said Rishpy-Tor.

The Israeli consulate in Mexico has been extremely helpful, Rishpy-Tor said, but her family knows that it will take a real police investigation to get to the bottom of Dana's disappearance.

"We have been doing everything on our own, out of our own pocket. We have interviewed people, taken evidence, even sent out for DNA testing and other lab testing. These are things that the police should be doing," said Rishpy- Tor.

The family even managed to track down the car and home address of the young man with whom Rishpy was seen leaving the club. They passed the information along to police, but they say that the police responded by asking them, "What are we supposed to do about this?

"We don't know what to do next. We have asked everyone for help. We need help with this situation... which could happen to anyone. We just don't know how to come to terms with it," said Rishpy-Tor.

Since Rishpy's disappearance, the family has aired radio and TV spots on local Mexican stations, in the hope that someone there would provide more information. They also created the Web site www.findana.com, with photos and potential leads. They ask that anyone with information or contacts in Mexico get in touch with them through that Web site.

There is no lack of footage of the vivacious Rishpy posted on the Web site. In photos, the slender, brown- haired, green-eyed Rishpy frolics on the beach in a bikini. On YouTube, a video-hosting Web site, there is a video that Rishpy created four months before she disappeared. In it, she is dancing and singing along to a song that she composed herself.

"A song for all the girls out there who are sick and tired of being nice to boys who just can't take a hint," Rishpy wrote as her description of the song. The homemade video shows her having pillow-fights on her bed, and wrestling with a pink blow-up shark in a pool.

Below the video are comments posted by people hoping for Rishpy's well-being. "She has the word 'alive' on her T-shirt, that's what it says," wrote user dardas47. "She is still missing."

"She is the type of the girl who will get anything into her head to do, and just do it," said Rishpy-Tor. "She would compose songs, and after the army she wanted to be an athlete so she got into running... Before going to Mexico she was traveling in the United States looking into schools there where she could study computer animation. She was so talented and diverse."

Most of all, said Rishpy-Tor, the family is worried that people will just "forget about it" and that they will never find out what happened to the "little baby of the family."

"We can't believe she won't be with us this Saturday," she said. "We just want her to be with us again."

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