Abbey and her brother Austin were holidaying in Mexico with their parents. The family were staying at the luxury five-star resort, Paraiso del Mar.
Before dinner, 20-year-old Abbey and 22-year-old Austin decided to get a few drinks at the poolside bar.
When the pair didnโt show up to meet their parents, John and Ginny asked reception to phone their childrenโs rooms. It was then that they found out Abbey and Austin had been rushed to hospital after being found floating unconscious in the hotel pool.
Though Austin managed to survive, Abbey was in a coma and later announced brain-dead.
Six months later, her heartbroken family still doesnโt have answers as to how their children ended up in the pool.

Abbeyโs death certificate declared the young woman had died from an โaccidental drowningโ. But her blood alcohol level was 0.25, leaving her family to believe she may have been drugged, reports The Daily Mail.
Austin says the last thing he remembers is drinking a shot of what he thought was Jagermeister and Red Bull with a group of men they met at the bar. They had planned to meet their parents at 7pm, and werenโt wanting to get too drunk beforehand.
โIโve been in college for five years and had my fair share of drinks before,โ Austin said. โNo way in hell Iโm putting my face down in a pool and going to sleep.โ
โKnowing that we got played or are victims of some sick person drugging us is almost surreal,โ he said.

While the drowning itself is already bizarre, the way authorities dealt with the event is even more so.
Mexican investigators only interviewed three hotel staffers in relation to the incident, the Journal Sentinel reports, and furthermore, police notes failed to document where the interviews took place.
Grieving mother, Ginny said no one from the luxury resort spoke to them after her daughterโs death.
Her husband, Bill, says he is still waiting for his daughter to walk through the door.
โIf it was an accident, where was everybody? It just doesnโt make sense. There are too many open ends,โ the familyโs lawyer Florentino Ramirez told The Daily Mail.