Overview
- Dominican sources told ESPN on Saturday that investigators consider the former Chiefs lineman a person of interest in the reopened case of Carli Franchesca Guzman Roche.
- The attorney general’s office says it is treating the death as a homicide and is interviewing foreigners, and officials have announced no arrests or charges.
- A worker digging a trench in January 2026 found human remains on a Sosúa property Pennel once owned, and DNA matched Guzman Roche, who vanished at age 22 in September 2021; she left behind a young son.
- Sources told ESPN Pennel owned the home at the time of her disappearance and sold it last year in a gated community on the country’s north coast.
- Pennel denies any legal involvement, says he was not in the Dominican Republic when she disappeared, and his attorney says he has offered full cooperation to clarify the case.