Kaylie Pitzer and Zara Hull made news after they collapsed after requesting water at a pool bar in a Cancun resort.
The family and friends of two Oklahoma State University students who became violently ill after being possibly drugged while on vacation in Cancun at the Ocean Spa Hotel are describing their accounts of a life-altering experience.
“This is really hitting home tonight as I sit here and think about just one week ago today our worst nightmare started,” said Stephanie Snider, whose son Jake is dating one of the girls who was allegedly drugged. “This time last Friday night we were in constant contact with my son on the phone while his girlfriend was in the so-called ICU in a Mexico hospital…so sedated that she couldn’t open her eyes or speak.”
The last known photos of Zara and Hull show the two having ice water at their hotel in August.
“I had called my mom at like 10 that morning to tell her how beautiful the resort was and how amazing it was. By 4:30, Jake called her and let her know that I was completely incoherent, like I was gone, like I was unconscious,” Hull told Fox 32 News.
Hull and her friends were going on a four-day trip in Cancun when the vacation took an ugly turn for Hull after she and Pitzer consumed what they think is infected water.
From there, Snider said the nightmare only got worse once Jake brought the girls to a hospital.
“My son was not allowed to stay with her. We had to pay $200 for him to have a room upstairs for the night. It was the 2nd floor of the hospital and the floor was completely VACANT. The room was merely a hospital room. The door would not lock from the inside-only the outside,” Snider said.
Snider said Jake was so afraid to sleep, scared someone would come into the room and hurt him. The next morning was the first time he saw Hull again.
By the time Jake was able to see Hull, she had been intubated and healthcare workers told him they would need to transfer her for an MRI.
“He told them to STOP EVERYTHING he’s taking her out. We told him, “do NOT let them take her, do NOT let them do anything else to her-we were working on getting them out!” Snider said.
“We believe they were planning to take her away to be trafficked or perhaps even to take her organs (which is what we were later told is a common thing that is done). They most likely would have done something to my son as well, possibly even death,” Snider continued.
“This is happening a lot, folks. To people all the time. It could be you or your family next time. PLEASE be aware. As parents of Jake, and Zara’s and Kaylie’s parents, we still can’t close our eyes at night because these things are still haunting us,” Snider said.
“For Jake, he is never going to forget the hell he went through to get Zara and himself out of there alive. For Zara and Kaylie, they have horrible feelings of only what we told them happened to them and yet no memory at all during the ordeal-but are tortured by the fact it happened to them,” Snider continued.
After the nearly 27-hour ordeal, and thousands of dollars in expense later, Hull’s family managed to work out a deal with the U.S. Embassy for her transportation on board an airplane packed differently this time around back home – where she continues to receive care from doctors in Oklahoma.
The resort and hospital names are not being shared due to legal and privacy issues.
