W’chester woman ID’d as vic in D.R.

A Westchester tourist who vanished along with her boyfriend while on vacation in the Dominican Republic was identified Wednesday as a woman who died in a hospital on the Caribbean island last week — raising questions about a response that’s angered and confused her family and hometown officials.

Portia Ravenelle, 32, was found unconscious March 27 on a road leading to the airport in Santo Domingo, police said.

The Mount Vernon woman was rushed to a local hospital, where she died April 4, Dominican National Police spokesman Frank Felix Duran Mejia told Diario Libre.

Ravenelle was identified by her fingerprints, Duran Mejia said.

But Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas believes there’s still vexing questions that haven’t been answered — and that there should have been notification when an unidentified woman showed up at a Dominican Republic hospital.

“It doesn’t add up that contact was made the day they disappeared, and it doesn’t add up that Portia survived an accident but nobody knew where she was, and she was in a hospital alone,” said Thomas. “It’s just frustrating to know that there could have been a chance for the family to go down to the Dominican Republic to be with Portia and she didn’t have to be alone.”

The body of a man was found in the ocean March 31 — about 20 miles from where Ravenelle was found. Authorities believe it is her boyfriend Orlando Moore.

The corpse was decomposed, and fingerprints can’t be used to identify the body, Duran Mejia said.

Instead, photos of tattoos inked on the man are being sent to Moore’s brother for identification, police said. Moore sported a “MILANO” tattoo on his arm.

Authorities believe the couple crashed and went off the road into the ocean as they headed back to the airport just before 2 a.m. March 27 to fly home. Their rental car, cops said, is in the sea.