Joshua Riibe, a 24-year-old tourist from Iowa, has come under the spotlight, with investigators naming him a 'person of interest.'

As the search for missing Loudoun County woman and University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki continues in the Dominican Republic, Virginia authorities named a “person of interest” in the case Wednesday.

A person of interest has been identified in the disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student who vanished while on spring break in the Dominican Republic last week.

Virginia authorities on Wednesday confirmed Joshua Riibe may have been the last person to see Sudiksha Konanki prior to her disappearance.

The hometown sheriff’s department of Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student who went missing while on a spring break holiday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, has named a person of interest in her disappearance.