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Solve this mystery. first, let's go to trace gallagher who breaks it down for us tonight and gives us the very latest developments this evening on this. hi, trace. >> hi, martha, let's begin with the common denominator pulmonary edema and fluid on the lungs is heart disease. american college of cardiology one in four americans will die of heart problems yet seven of the eight americans who died in the dominican had a heart attack and/or pulmonary edema. we don't yet know the last person's cause of death. all of the townhouses we know who were generally healthy died of very similar causes which...

Counterfeit. and lord knows what they put in that stuff. i would look at that pesticides, insect at this sides and do a whole lot of introduce and also they have great surveillance cameras there. so there is a lots of potential to solve this case. i think they will do it. we will know what happened. >> martha: one aspect of it could be using pesticides that maybe we wouldn't use in this country that are poisonous. that would be -- that would look like it leads towards an unintentional cause. of the liquor has the possibility of leading towards something that could be much more devious. and you...

That have vacation there start to say, wait, i was in that hotel and i became violently illness long ago, there starts to be a lot of questions surrounding these. the state department isn't saying much right now, just that the fbi is -- has taken some samples from some of these people. they don't have the results of those yet. it's difficult to put them all together as time passes. what we do know is that there were four people who died in one of the hotel chains. there were two that died in another hotel chain. the seventh person we don't know. that is the brother of "shark tank" star barbara...

>> >> harris, both of these stories each day and both providing separate blows to tourism in the dominican republic. first to that new announced death of jonathan corcoran. keep in mind he died back in april. as of yet, there has been no real public proof put forward that links his death to the other six mysterious deaths of americans here on this island. no evidence that he was like the others taking a drink in a resort from a mini bar and then suddenly collapsed lungs, failure to breathe. and dying an agonizing death. that as of yet has not been put forward for corcoran. but we can see here ...

So as you can see, you know, drinking out of a mini bar, for example, is something that so many people will do while they're on a vacation in a hotel. it's tough to put together a common thread. there's enough there that there's scrutiny and investigation now surrounding these, jim. >> michelle kaczynski at the state department. thank you so much. six men in the dominican republic are now behind bars this morning accused of carrying out a hit attempt on boston red sox legend david ortiz. national police say the suspects were offered $7,800 to shoot ortiz. that's all of them together, by the ...