Overview
- ESPN reports that Mike Pennel is considered a person of interest in a Dominican Republic homicide investigation, though no one has been charged.
- The remains were discovered in January by a worker digging a trench on a Sosúa property that Pennel owned in 2021 and later sold in 2025.
- Authorities identified the body as 22-year-old Carli Franchesca Guzmán Roche using a DNA sample from her son, and they have not released a cause of death.
- Pennel denies any involvement, says he did not know Guzmán Roche and was not in the country when she vanished, and his attorney says he has offered full cooperation.
- The attorney general’s office says interviews are ongoing and no suspects have been publicly named, describing the probe as an early-stage homicide investigation.