College Student Found Dead in Boarding Room

**Vedderman** · #1 ● 04-17-2024, 11:06 AM

21 year old Dewi Radja, a communications and English student at university in Undana Kupang, was found dead in her boarding room on the morning of April 14th.

She had been out shopping for clothing with her boyfriend and his sister the night before. The three of them had dinner and then she was dropped off. The boyfriend discovered her the next morning when she was not responding to his calls.

Police were called to investigate the scene and conduct interviews. Initially there was some suspicion on the boyfriend, as he had been both the last to see her alive and the one to find her dead. He gave testimony that he banged on the door after one of her neighbors said she hadn't been answering any knocks all morning. He eventually forced the door and found her lying prostrate on her mattress, fully dressed. When he approached, he said he noticed that she had wet and soiled herself, but when he reached out to shake her, her leg was cold and stiff.

He informed police that she had suffered from a seizure a few weeks earlier when they were out having dinner, which resulted in her blacking out and urinated in her pants. He assumed the same thing happened here and thought she was just unconscious.

Medical records did not corroborate any history of seizures, but the police investigation did get testimony from her family and another friend who said she'd mentioned the seizures to them also, but was not being treated for them. The boyfriend said she'd told him she'd had other seizures, but not many and that she thought maybe she was epileptic.

The police eventually ruled that she had likely died from SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy), which is quite rare, affecting only 1 in 1000 people suffering from the disease. However, no signs of violence or struggle were found and the autopsy produced results that were aligned with SUDEP.