Chapman noted connected NewsNation that since the incidental occurred successful different country, Loudon County is "engaged" with their counterparts from the Dominican Republic, the U.S. Embassy successful the Caribbean region, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

While Chapman shared that helium doesn't person "any nonstop connection with the witnesses myself oregon immoderate firsthand knowledge," his bureau has learned a batch from the national officials conducting the interviews. He added, "There is immoderate concern, obviously, with inconsistencies successful the stories, and it is starting to truly evolve."

"It is simply a associated effort down there, and we are trying to get to the bottommost of it," helium emphasized. "We're trying to get immoderate consistency with the statements here. If you springiness inconsistent statements, that means that you're not telling the information there. What we got to bash is get to the facts present and spot what's going on."

Despite 3 officials from the Dominican Republic progressive successful the probe telling ABC News that they judge Konanki, whose assemblage has not been recovered, died by drowning, Chapman emphasized that determination is nary conclusive reply yet.

"I deliberation it's mode excessively premature to marque an presumption similar that," helium explained. "There has been nary sighting of her successful immoderate capableness here. So, it's precise important that we spell done each this similar we bash immoderate elaborate investigation. We are moving intimately with Dominican authorities."

"We bash person our folks that are hand-in-hand with them down there, truthful we're trying to get the champion accusation we can," helium continued. "But we're not the pb connected it. It's their state and until we get thing much concrete, it's a small hard moving done idiosyncratic else."

Although Chapman is grateful that truthful galore resources person been poured into the search, helium besides noted that it has its ain problems. 

"We privation to effort to bash everything successful our powerfulness to get to the bottommost of it," helium explained. "It's been challenging due to the fact that it's bully that we person truthful galore radical moving connected it, but it's besides hard due to the fact that that besides creates confusion." 

Read connected for a afloat breakdown of the ongoing hunt for Konanki.