ESPN Retracts Article About NFL Player And Dead Woman In Dominican Republic

ESPN retracts story linking former Bears DT Mike Pennel to Dominican woman's death

An ESPN story published June 18 that explored the connection between Pennel and the death of a Dominican woman contained errors, the web site wrote Wednesday, and has been deleted.

ESPN Retracts Article About NFL Player And Dead Woman In Dominican Republic

On June 18, ESPN published a report that connected NFL free agent Mike Pennel Jr. to the death of a woman in the Dominican Republic. This week, the network retracted the article and issued a brief statement. The article, bylined by T.J. Quinn and Juan Recio, claimed that Pennel had "an ongoing relationship" with Carli Franchesca Guzmán Roche, who disappeared in 2021 and whose body was discovered in January 2026 on Pennel's property in Puerto Pla…

ESPN retracts story linking former Bears DT Mike Pennel to Dominican woman’s death

An ESPN story published June 18 that explored the connection between former Bears defensive tackle Mike Pennel and the death of a Dominican woman contained errors, the website wrote Wednesday, and has since been deleted. In a remarkable post explaining the retraction, ESPN wrote that Pennel’s representatives provided the website with “documentation, including travel and financial records, supporting Pennel’s statements to ESPN that he was not in…