5 Americans have died in the Dominican Republic since the beginning of the year

Portia Ravenelle, 52, and Orlando Moore, 40, were reported missing after they missed their flight from the Dominican Republic to Newark, New Jersey, on March 27.

Police found a car that matched the couple’s rental crashed at the bottom of the sea in April.

Officials had previously found an unidentified woman believed to be Ravenelle injured on the highway near where the car was later found. She was admitted to the hospital and died on April 4.

Dominican Republic national police chief spokesman Col. Frank Félix Durán Mejia told CBS News that a decomposed body was found on March 31, about 19 miles from the accident scene. Police believe the body was Moore’s.

Roads in the Dominican Republic are notoriously dangerous, dark, and close to the sea, according to the Rockland Westchester Journal News.

The US State Department alerted drivers to be safe on Dominican Republic roads in its 2018 Crime and Safety Report.

“Travel at night on intercity highways and in rural areas can be highly dangerous and is not advised due to animals on the road, poor road conditions and vehicles being driven at either very slow or excessive speeds, often with malfunctioning headlights or taillights,” the report read.