Detailed Timeline.... June 29 - 30, 2005.... the start of the long road of the assassination of Aruba - Dutch "justice"

The Natalee Holloway Timeline

of her vanishment while in Aruba

detailing persons, places, organizations,
deliberate & accidental actions & in-actions,
events & supposed events, witnesses,
known suspects, outright lies,
corruptions, and crimes

6-29-05

On 6-29 Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE gave the following statements to his ARUBAN Police Interrogators:
(Thank You and Hat Tip to "Scared Monkeys" blog and “Debbie”)

PROCES-VERBAALWe, Clyde Anthony BURKE and Marton Rolando GUMBS, respectively sergeant first class and head Police-officer with the Korps Politie Aruba, first mentioned is part of detective unit district 2 and the latter with the Detective Cooperation Team, declare the following.On Wednesday, June 29th 2005 at about 12.40 hours we, the reporting officers, interviewed the suspect Deepak.S. KALPOE, for further information.Before the interview/interrogation started the suspect was informed that he was not obliged to answer the questions.His interview went as follows;"Although I am aware I am not obliged to answer your questions, I am willing to make a statement."On your question how much money I make with my job, I can say the following. I am not going to answer that question. I am of the opinion that my wage has nothing to do with this case. I am not going to answer questions about how much I make. I am angry. I have already agreed with my lawyer that I would no longer make any statements. I know I am innocent.On the question what my lawyer had told me regarding not making statements, I can say the following. He had told me that I should just say the truth.On your question whether or not I have a job, I can say the following. Yes, I have a job.On your question where I work, I can say the following. I work at the Cyber Zone Internet café.On your question whether I have a savings-account, I can say the following. I am not going to answer this question.On your question with what bank I have a savings-account, I can say the following. I am also not going to give an answer to this question.On your question if I have another source of income, I can say the following. I do not have another source of income.On your question what my expenses are, I can say the following. I am not going to answer this question. On your questions whether I was present at Joran's apartment when Joran told the story to Freddy, I can say the following. Yes, I was at the apartment that day. It was on the 31st of May in the evening hours.On your question which of the stories Joran had told Freddy, I can say the following. I am not answering that question, because I already made a declaration/statement regarding this.I am not going to declare anything until the office of the DA is going to end my restrictions, then I will cooperate and make a statement.On your question if I can explain which route I had driven, on the night from May 30th 2005 to May 31st 2005, when were were called by Joran's father, I can say the following. I am not sure but I think I took the Juancho IRAUSQUIN Boulevard that runs in front of the big hotel, about where Tango's is I turned right on the road that runs in front of Mc Donalds till you get to the lights. Here I crossed the intersection into the road that leads through Palm Beach till I got to the lights at about where the Police-station is in Noord. Here I turned right into the road Shaba-Tanki Flip till I got to the Femiins Bar, there I turned left onto the road leading through Montana till we got to Joran's house.On your question whether I heard Natalee say in the car that her mother was Hitler's sister, that they owned a plantation and that they had black people as employees. I had only heard the word Hitler. The rest I did not hear. Joran told me later all the things the girl had said.On your question if I called Joran in the night of May 30th, I can say the following. I am not going to answer this question, because I have already made a statement about this in another declaration.On your question what Joran told me about his sport-shoes, I can say the following. Joran had told me that he left them on the beach.On your question whether I thought it strange that Joran had left his sport-shoes on the beach, I can say the following. I did find it strange, but they were his shoes so not my problem.On you question if I know the make of his shoes, I can say the following. I don't know the make. The only thing I know is that they were white sport-shoes.On your question for whom I bought sport-shoes that I presumably bought at "The Athlete's Foot" , I can say the following. I did not buy sport-shoes. I had to buy these before the case of the missing girl come up. I would also like to know since when it is a crime to buy sport-shoes.You are telling me that John Charles CROES has stated that I wrote while I was chatting with him that I had written that the girl had put her hands in/down my pants, I can say the following. I did this to frustrate/mess up the investigation. I wanted to direct the focus of the Police on myself and Joran because we were afraid that Satish would get the details wrong with regard to the "Holiday Inn" story. I was almost certain that our telephone conversations were being taped and I was certain that my computer was being monitored too. On your question what made me think that the Police would be monitoring our phones, I can say the following. I thought this might happen earlier and Joran had said the same thing to me on Tuesday May 31st 2005*. The purpose of the chat traffic was to help the Police and the Office of the DA with regard to the investigation so that they could see that I was indeed home in the night from Sunday to Monday. But I have understood that they do not have the chat traffic from that night but that they do have the one from Tuesday. I know the technical procedure, so if they have the one from Tuesday than they should be looking for the one from Sunday to Monday. If I had anything to hide than I would have never told the Police about John Charles CROES. Because that just worsened the situation. Even though this never happened, about the girl putting her hands in/down my pants, I would like to know what kind of crime this is. I am again saying this never happened, but it is just my question to the district attorney.You are saying to me that I don't want to say untrue things about Joran, but that I did help Joran come up with the story about the "Holiday Inn" like the guards issue and that Joran has been telling untrue things about me and my brother Satish and what I can say about that. The story about the "Holiday Inn" was before he started making up stories against me and my brother. I am only stating the truth. On your question about what Joran told me after he left the girl on the beach, I can say the following. Joran told me that he had left the girl "passed out" on the beach.On your question about what I understood "passed out" meant, I can say the following. I understood that the girl had fallen asleep. I did not ask him what he meant by "passed out". He had further told me that after this he walked home on his bare feet.On your question if I could describe the clothes that Joran was wearing on May 29th 2005, I can say the following. I have already made a statement about what he wore. On you question if I could seriously think and remember what clothes he wore, I can say the following. I cannot do this. They are the same clothes of which I spoke in my earlier statement.***Note from translator:* this part of the conversation I translated as literally as possible but as this is dutch, it is not always possible to view it completely literal. In English most likely this sentence would be written as:I already thought earlier that Tuesday that our phone-calls would be getting monitored, even before Joran said that same thing to me on Tuesday May 31st 2005.if one looks at the dutch and is not proficient in the language one might think that Deepak had already taken this possibility into consideration before it happened.***On your question whether or not I would lend my car out to someone else, I can say the following. I myself and my brother are the only ones who drive my car..On your question whether or not I can remember at what time we stopped playing at the "Raddison Hotel". I think that it was about 02.15, but I am not sure but this you will be able to determine with the help of the surveillance tape of the casino. On your question at what time we arrived at the "Wyndham Hotel", I can say the following. I estimate that we arrived there about 02.20 hours..On your question what Joran's mom meant by telling us that we should stay away from the "Marriot Hotel", I can say the following. With this she meant that the Police was monitoring that area and that we were already in trouble. So avoid the area and that it was best to head home.You are telling me that during my chat session with John Charles Croes I told him that I was trying to get in contact via the telephone with a friend of mine and what I meant by this. I meant Joran. I could not call him because I didn't have any more phone-minutes left and it is not possible to call a mobile phone from our home-phone. After this I received an SMS from Joran which said "Hey Swa I am home already, thanks for waiting".On the question what Joran meant with the remark "thanks for waiting", I can say the following. With this he meant that he wanted to thank me for waiting online.On your question whether me and Joran had agreed that I would wait until he was home, I can say the following. It was agreed that I would wait until he came online.D.S.KALPOE After the suspect D.S. KALPOE had read his statement he stated that he would not sign it. He refused because he had reviewed his previous statements in the presence of his lawyer before signing it and that this hadn't happened with this interview/proces-verbaal.Of this, we the reporting officers, on our oath as officers have written this proces-verbaal, closed and signed in Oranjestad on June 29th 2005.The reporting officers.Burke Gumbs



On 6-29 CHARLES CROES stated to FOX News:
(click HERE for CHARLES CROES video)

Paul van der Sloot's Changing StoryGRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Stunning new information about Joran van der Sloot's (search) lies. Less than 24 hours after Natalee Holloway (search) disappeared, before he was questioned by police, Joran van der Sloot had already made up a story about what happened that night.Charles Croes spoke with Joran in the early morning hours of May 31. Earlier today, Charles told us about that conversation.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
VAN SUSTEREN: Charles, take me back to May 30th, which is several hours after Natalee missed her flight. How did you first get wind of the fact that Beth Holloway-Twitty (search) was looking for her daughter?
CHARLES CROES, TALKED TO DUTCH SUSPECT: A major friend of mine called me up. He was working with Natalee's mom to help them find Natalee.
VAN SUSTEREN: Why would he call you? What is your occupation that would be a reason he would call you?
C. CROES: Well, I have a cell [cellular phone: my insertion] rental company. And there was apparently a phone call made. And he was calling me betting or hoping that the phone call was made from one of our phones, and so that's why he called me.
VAN SUSTEREN: About what time did he call you?
C. CROES: He called me at 11:30.
VAN SUSTEREN: What did he say to you?
C. CROES: He told me that he needed my help. And I asked him what it was about. And he told me that it had to do something with a cell phone. And I didn't relate it to anything but work at that point.
And then he said, "There is a possibility that a phone call was made using one of our phones." And I said, "OK." And he said, "It's very, very important." I said, "Fine," and I asked him to go into further details, and he did. And then I made arrangements to go see him.
VAN SUSTEREN: When you got to the gas station, did you talk to Beth?
C. CROES: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did Beth have any idea at that point, as far as you knew, who her daughter had been seen with or who she had last been known to be with?
C. CROES: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: What did she tell you?
C. CROES: Specifically, she told me that her daughter went to Carlos and Charlie's, and that, while there, she had met up with a young guy and asked him to take her home, and that she got into a small silver or gray car that had a large exhaust on the back and tinted windows, and had left.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did she have names for any of these people or just that description?
C. CROES: She had a description of the car and she had a description of one tall Dutch guy. And at that time, she said, with darkish hair.
VAN SUSTEREN: During the time that you were talking to Beth at the gas station, did the discussion of that phone call come up again?
C. CROES: Yes, it did.
VAN SUSTEREN: After you and Beth listened to that phone call several times and hung up with the person in the states, what did you do next?
C. CROES: After that, we spoke a while. And then we left that location with the intention of going to the "Holiday Inn" to continue meeting. On the way there, a young man and I were sitting in my car. And on the way there, instinctively, I wanted to go to drive off, pull over to the cabana area, just to look to see if perhaps she was there.
VAN SUSTEREN: Then where did you go?
C. CROES: Then we continued on track over to the "Holiday Inn." And we were supposed to turn over to go into the "Holiday Inn." And I had made a decision not to and went straight ahead. And going straight ahead, I made another decision to go to the beach area.
VAN SUSTEREN: What happened when you got there?
C. CROES: When I got there, there were three cars there. One was pulling out. It was a black car. There was another car parked there. And there was a car with kids in it. And I made the decision to talk to the kids. I got out of the car and, in talking to the kids, and describing what had happened, and explained to them why it is I was approaching them at this hour of the night and asking these questions.
I then described Joran. At this point, I wasn't sure about his name. And they asked me what kind of car he drove. And I wasn't sure. And I said, "But we do know that he was in a silver or gray metallic car, small car with a large exhaust." One of the guys says, "Oh, that's Joran."
I then spoke to him, and I said, "Would you kindly lead us to his home? Do you know where he lives?" And he said, "Sure." And he got in our car. And we went over to the house.
VAN SUSTEREN: So you drove over to the van der Sloot home. And any idea about what time you arrived there?
C. CROES: Close to 3:00.
VAN SUSTEREN: Prior to that time when you went to the house, had you ever heard of the van der Sloot's or had you ever been to their house before?
C. CROES: Never.
VAN SUSTEREN: So then what happened next?
C. CROES: What happened next was that, in the interim of doing that, we had notified the family that we had found a house. Then they asked us to meet them at the Police station. So we went back over to the Police station.
VAN SUSTEREN: About how far is the Police station from the van der Sloot house?
C. CROES: Actually very close.
VAN SUSTEREN: So what did do you next? What time did you leave the Police station about?
C. CROES: Some time between 2:40, 2:30, 2:45… at that time.
VAN SUSTEREN: A.M.?
C. CROES: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: And where did you go?
C. CROES: Right to the house.
VAN SUSTEREN: Who went?
C. CROES: All of the people that were there, myself included.
VAN SUSTEREN: Meaning Beth and her husband, the Police… were there some other friends from the United States with them?
C. CROES: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: What happened when you got to the house?
C. CROES: When we got to the house, the Police asked us to stay back. And they went to the front door, or the entrance. And they beeped the horn. No one responded. And they then did their Police siren kind of thing. And no one responded. They did it several times, and then finally Mr. van der Sloot came out.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did you hear what he said?
C. CROES: I heard bits of the conversation but not the whole conversation, because I was still back.
VAN SUSTEREN: What bits did you hear?
C. CROES: I heard bits that he didn't know where his son was. I heard bits that referred to him having picked up his son at a McDonald's, those kind of things. There was nothing that was tied together, just little bits of conversation that were coming out.
VAN SUSTEREN: What did you then do next?
C. CROES: We went to the Wyndham Hotel.
VAN SUSTEREN: Why did you go to the Wyndham?
C. CROES: There was a feeling that Joran may be there playing poker.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did Paul van der Sloot go with this entourage to the Wyndham Hotel?
C. CROES: Yes, he did.
VAN SUSTEREN: Who did he travel with?
C. CROES: I believe he went with the Police.
VAN SUSTEREN: What happened when you got to the Wyndham? What did you do?
C. CROES: We went up to the casino area, and it was closing down, talking to some people. And they mentioned that they thought they had seen them there. They thought they had seen Natalee there, but there was no level of certainty.
VAN SUSTEREN: After all of you were at the Wyndham, and you learned that Joran was not there, what was the next thing that happened?
C. CROES: We then went back over to the van der Sloot's' house.
VAN SUSTEREN: Prior to arriving at the van der Sloot's house, did you hear Paul van der Sloot say anything at all about Natalee, about the disappearance, or any information? Did he seem to know anything at all about the disappearance?
C. CROES: No.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
VAN SUSTEREN: Much more of our interview with Charles Croes is coming up in just a moment. He's going to tell us what happened when they got back to the van der Sloot house that night, or that morning.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
VAN SUSTEREN: Earlier today, we spoke with Charles Croes, one of the first people to speak with Joran van der Sloot after Natalee Holloway disappeared. Charles told us that the night after Natalee vanished, he, Natalee's family, and Paul van der Sloot went searching for Joran at the casino but they didn't find him. I asked him what happened when they returned to the van der Sloot house in the very early morning hours of May 31st.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
C. CROES: When we got back, all of us got back to the van der Sloot home, Joran was there, as well as the father, of course. And then Joran came out, spoke to the Police.
VAN SUSTEREN: When you first saw Joran and his father, where were there and where were you?
C. CROES: They were standing by the gate area. And I was arriving in the car I was driving, and I saw them. And then I parked the car, and got out, and walked over to the side.
VAN SUSTEREN: Tell me next what you heard, what you saw.
C. CROES: I heard that there was some questioning going back and forth. And I heard the father several times say, "You know, is there anything we can do? You know, we're here to help." I heard Joran say, you know, "I'm willing to help, I'm willing to help, I'm willing to help."
VAN SUSTEREN: Did you hear Joran tell what happened that night, the last he'd seen of Natalee? What did he say?
C. CROES: Yes, I did hear him. And what he said was that they picked him up — or Natalee got into the car with them.
VAN SUSTEREN: At what time?
C. CROES: I'm not sure that he gave me the time. I have heard since then that it was 11:00ish or so.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did he say whether he knew Natalee from any earlier experience?
C. CROES: Yes, he did.
VAN SUSTEREN: What did he say?
C. CROES: He said that he had been gambling and that he met Natalee. And Natalee told him that she had lost some money and was trying to recuperate it before she went home. And he apparently was a good poker player, or blackjack player, whatever it is, and that he helped her recoup some of her monies, and gave it back to her. And she then considered him her lucky charm.
VAN SUSTEREN: When does the story pick up again? When does he next see her, that you know?
C. CROES: Well, he next told me that he was at Carlos and Charlie's, and that they were dancing. And then that she asked for a ride home.
VAN SUSTEREN: Can you give me the details, every single word exactly how he said it, that you recall?
C. CROES: That I recall, in the details was that he told me that she was coming on to him, and dancing provocatively, and then she said she wanted to have him take her home. He then agreed to that. And they went out, I guess, and they got in the car. She got in the car, and they drove off.
VAN SUSTEREN: Was there any sexual discussion at all?
C. CROES: Yes, there was.
VAN SUSTEREN: What was your observation of his demeanor at the time he was telling you these things?
C. CROES: Very uncomfortable young guy, very, very nervous, very uncomfortable.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did he describe whether or not she seemed to have had too much to drink or anything that night?
C. CROES: Yes, he did. He told me that she had been doing drugs and possibly been drinking, too.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did he indicate whether he was doing drugs or drinking?
C. CROES: He said that he had been drinking.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did he say how much he'd been drinking?
C. CROES: No.
VAN SUSTEREN: So what did Joran say happened to Natalee? I mean, at some point, the story continues.
C. CROES: Yes. He then said that they made a decision — that they were driving around. They made a decision to take her to the lighthouse to show her the lighthouse. They went up to the lighthouse, were there for a little while.
And then she was acting so crazy that he just wanted to take her home, back to the hotel. And that he took her to the hotel, pulled into the front, and opened the door, and that she got out. And when she got out, she tripped and fell.
VAN SUSTEREN: Then what?
C. CROES: And then got up, continued to walk into the "Holiday Inn" hotel.
VAN SUSTEREN: And is that where he said he last saw her?
C. CROES: That's exactly what he said.
VAN SUSTEREN: It's about 5 o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, May 31st. She missed her flight on Monday, the 30th, midday.
C. CROES: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: There's been absolutely no news, no newspaper cycle, to indicate that Natalee Holloway is missing, right, at that point?
C. CROES: OK.
VAN SUSTEREN: So somehow Joran decided to come up with this lie about the "Holiday Inn," assuming that's a lie, and I guess that's pretty much been accepted as a lie?
C. CROES: All right.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is there anything that he told you or he said that would suggest that he had any sort of inkling that she was missing and there was some foul play?
C. CROES: No. What he said to me — he repeated to me over and over again was his desire to help find her, that if there's anything he could do to help find her, he would, just please ask him, that kind of thing. It was a very — at that point, it was a scared young guy who seemed to be wanting to help.



CHARLES CROES specifically told FOX News on 6-29 (click HERE for CHARLES CROES video) that at 5:00 AM on 5-31 CROES heard Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT explain the following to the Police and TWITTY’s : Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims NATALEE had lost some money in blackjack gambling, and NATALEE asked Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT if Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT would help her win the money back, and Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT helped her recoup the money; after which Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claimed NATALEE considered Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT a “lucky charm.” Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims NATALEE asked Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT if Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT would be going to "Carlos 'N Charlie's" later. Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims NATALEE had been “doing drugs.” Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims NATALEE had been drinking to the point of being drunk at "Carlos 'N Charlie's.” Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims NATALEE was flirting with Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT. Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims NATALEE was “dancing provocatively” with Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT at "Carlos 'N Charlie's.” Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims NATALEE asked Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT for a ride to the “Holiday Inn” while they were still at "Carlos 'N Charlie's" ( Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT has since admitted this was nothing but a total lie) Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims there was talk about sex. Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims NATALEE was “acting crazy” after Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT , Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE , and Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE went to the “California” lighthouse, and when Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT saw her acting crazy, Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT wanted to take her back to the “Holiday Inn” at that point ( Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT has since admitted this was nothing but a total lie) Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims They drove NATALEE to the “Holiday Inn,” arriving there around 2:00 AM, and when she got out she tripped/stumbled to the ground. Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claimed he tried to help her but she refused, saying, "I can stand on my own," then NATALEE got up and walked towards “Holiday Inn”, seeing a black security guard carrying a radio and clothed in black approaching NATALEE as the boys drove away. (NOTE: “Holiday Inn” security guards wear green pants and khaki shirts) ( Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT has since admitted this was nothing but a total lie)
On June 15, 2005 BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated to FOX News that during the 5-31 early morning encounters with Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT and then Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT that she never spoke to either of them.
In a FOX News interview on June 21, 2005 BETH stated, “Well, it was very limited, but when the van der Sloot young man approached the vehicle that I was seated in, he had the most condescending, arrogant, somewhat powerful attitude of any 17-year-old male I have ever seen.” “When he approached the car, I was holding a picture of Natalee. And I said, I want my daughter. I want her now. And he just threw his head back and hit his chest, and he said, What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do?” In a FOX News interview on 6-29 BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated that this same exchange between her and Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT occurred 5 times in a row. BETH also believes that when Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s attitude was combined with his words when he kept saying this and beating his chest, he was really telling her, “What do you want me to do? It is already too late for NATALEE.” (BETH also said she showed a NATALEE’s senior year picture to SLOOT’s at this meeting)
((…. On July 15, 2005 BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY described being at the “Holiday Inn” breezeway lobby car entrance at 3:30 to 4:00 AM on 5-31 when she had the confrontation with Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT. BETH stated she might not have seen the facial cheek bruise several witnesses have said he had because the lighting at that spot was dim)) …. BETH stated 7-13 that she has found out that on 5-31 when Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT claimed the Police that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT was at the “Wyndham Hotel” gambling at 3 AM, that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT was not actually at the “Wyndham Hotel.” (BETH did not elaborate) At one point during the 5-31 at 5:00 AM meeting with the Police and TWITTY’s, Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT quickly intervened and told Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT , “You say nothing. You have to say nothing.”
On 6-29 when CNN asked BETH if she thinks ANITA VAN DER SLOOT “knows what’s going on?”, BETH stated "You know, either she's an excellent actress or she's in complete and total denial. And I might go with total denial, because, here is a 17-year-old male that is at Carlos n' Charlie's, buying alcoholic drinks for their patrons. And here is a young 17-year-old male who's seated at a Texas hold'em table that I see on video footage myself. And here's a 17-year-old male seated at a poker table with his father in a tournament. I mean, you know--and he's out until 3:00 a.m.?! How many night as week can a 17-year-old male be out running the streets at 3:00 a.m. and the father say that he ‘sneaked out.’”
On 6-29 CNN reported "We talked to an awful lot of people on the island and people who have frequented that particular bar, Carlos n' Charlie's as well, and they say that he is a regular. He's a 17-year-old young man, although he told some of the ladies on that night that he was older than that. Some 19, some 23, interestingly enough. They say he does what a lot of the young men on this island do, they almost get to know the schedule of when the cruise ships are going to come in. They know when some of the parties are going to be held there and they show up hoping that they will meet, you know, a young lady and do often times what young people do, establish some type of relationship, be it long term or short term."
By 6-29 ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN replaced MARIAINE CROES as the lead prosecutor of the case.
???? Which ARUBAN and/or DUTCH judicial authority(ies) person(s) senior to MARIAINE CROES ordered that she be replaced by ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN???? Exactly WHY was she replaced? Is CROES investigation deemed inept, and so higher authorities ordered her to be replaced?…or…Was CROES getting too close to solving the case and so, in a cover-up move, higher authorities (possibly known to and/or being blackmailed by Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT because of what he *knows* about ARUBA’s seamier side) moved to replace CROES (possibly issuing ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN her cover-up “marching orders“)?
On 6-29 ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN reported that the Police “are starting to talk to his ( Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s) classmates.”
On 6-29 CNN reported “Well, what Joran van der Sloot may or may not have said is always subject to his latest statement. In fact, the chief prosecutor on the island, Karin Janssen, told us today that Joran van der Sloot has once again changed his story. You’ll remember that he did say that he’d walked home from the beach after leaving Natalee. Now Karin Janssen tells us he’s changed that story.”
On 6-29 CNN reported:

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And hundreds of searchers, multiple searches, but no results. Now Aruba wants more help to find Natalee Holloway.
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More help may be on the way in the search for Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. Aruba's prime minister has asked for a new contingent of Dutch Marines to join the search. Three suspects remain in custody.


On 6-29 CNN reported:

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: … Aruba is asking for more help in the search for Natalee Holloway. Dutch Marines have apparently joined efforts to help look for the missing Alabama teenager. A Texas group has been conducting numerous searches, as well. Three suspects remain in jail in connection with Holloway's disappearance. No formal charges have been filed.



On 6-29 CNN played a film of ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN saying “However, in this stage of the investigation, we cannot exclude the possibility that something happened to Natalee. We are determined to find a truth, to find Natalee, and in case somebody harmed her, to find those who are responsible. Out of respect for the family Holloway, we did not want to speak about murder and homicides because we did not want to hurt their feelings. It’s human, you know? And because, in that early stage, they were searching for their girl alive. And it was at that time just not suitable to talk about that.”
On 6-29 CNN reported “It was exactly that, Nancy. In fact, talking to David Kock, the defense attorney for Satish Kalpoe, he backs up what Steve is, in fact, saying, in that Deepak and Joran van der Sloot, first of all, cooked up a lie to cover their tracks that night in two or three days subsequent to Natalee’s disappearance. They then contacted Satish and explained the cover story to him. What David Kock says at that stage is that they invented this cover story because they realized that Natalee had disappeared. And although David Kock still insists on the innocence of Satish Kalpoe, he does say that all three boys were very worried that they were the last three to have seen a girl who had then disappeared.”
On 6-29 CNN reported “Well, David Kock, again, the defense attorney for Satish Kalpoe, has a right to see a number of statements from the other suspects which are presented to him as evidence against his client. He told us that in the file that he had, as of Sunday, bearing in mind that he gets witness statements and suspect statements approximately four days after they’re made, he said, until that point, he had eight different statements by Joran van der Sloot, four of them were substantial changes in the story.”
On 6-29 CNN reported “We do know that the Aruban Police and Investigators have seized cell phone and Internet records. In my conversations with David Kock, the defense attorney for one of the three suspects, he was referring specifically to cell phone records from earlier, the night and early morning of Natalee’s disappearance. That when supposedly Joran van der Sloot, according to cell phone records, called Deepak Kalpoe. And according to Deepak Kalpoe’s statements in that conversation, which was about 2:40 a.m., Joran said, ‘I’ve left Natalee at the beach. I’m walking home.’ And then, about 40 minutes later, what the cell phone records show is that Joran van der Sloot sent a text message to Deepak Kalpoe saying, ‘I’ve arrived home.’ And then, of course, the Internet records which show, at the time that the text message was sent at about 3:20 a.m., at that time, Deepak Kalpoe was at his house and on the Internet in a chat room at the time, Nancy.”
On 6-29 BETH was on CNN and said that she was sure that the 3 boys in custody had something to do with NATALEE’s "kidnapping"
On 6-29 BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated on ARUBA radio station “Magic 96.5” “I demand answers, expect answers and we will have them.” She said that NATALEE’s Loved Ones are not financially backing “Texas EquuSearch.” She also said that as of today she believes that NATALEE has been kidnapped, but there have been no ransom demands. She said she would like to know about any prayer vigils. BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated that NATALEE has earned her parents trust of making mature decisions and has been on foreign trips to the Caribbean with other friends and she has traveled to Austria and Germany.
9 of the 27 member “Texas EquuSearch” team (which included volunteers) and 2 of the cadaver dogs left ARUBA on 6-29, with the team saying those 9 persons would be replaced.
Interview with Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT and ANITA VAN DER SLOOT on 6-29 by DUTCH TV “Nova.“ Here is the transcript
(special Thank You and Hat Tip to “dugo” for translation)
NOTE: the “Nova” Host was JEROEN PAUW, the “Nova” Reporter was TWAN HUYS, PvdS: a Current Murder Suspect and father of Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT , AvdS was ANITA VAN DER SLOOT , mother of Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT )
Voiceover: Paul and Anita van der Sloot speak for the first time about the dramatic disappearance of Natalee Holloway and the possible connection with that disappearance and their 17-year-old son, Joran.
PvdS: Because Joran didn't tell the truth immediately, he has brought himself into a difficult position, because of which, of course, there will be doubts about his later declarations.
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HOST: Good evening, welcome to Nova. The disappearance of Natalee has now been over a month. Later, we have an exclusive interview with Paul and Anita van der Sloot, the parents of Joran, the Dutch main suspect. Paul was released from prison Sunday night. But, first, the facts of a month of stress, misery and the American media circus on the island of Aruba.
Voiceover: May twenty-fourth, Natalee Holloway, an eighteen-year-old schoolgirl goes with a hundred of her fellows to Aruba for a five-day vacation. May thirtieth, on the last vacation evening, she goes to Carlos 'N Charlie's bar. Friends see her step into a car around one o' clock. May thirty-first, the next morning, she doesn't show up for the flight back to America. The Police find her packed bags and her passport in her hotel room. June second, her family starts a search action and offers a reward of fifty thousand dollars for tips.
[Video clip of Beth Holloway talking and showing prayer cards for Natalee Holloway she gives to adults and children]
Voiceover: June fourth, there are three young suspects. They say they have dropped Natalee at her hotel at two am. Security cameras did not record that. One of the three boys is the son of an Aruban judge.
Mariaine Croes: The stories among them also didn't match. Then they were marked as suspects. Reporter: The three witnesses became suspects and spoke against each other’s statements? Mariaine Croes: What I can say is that the declaration they made as witnesses weren't right. No.
Voiceover: June eighteenth, the Aruban Police question Paul van der Sloot, judge-in-training and father of one suspect, Joran. June twenty-third, the father is even arrested and held for three days. June twenty-sixth, the day before yesterday, Paul van der Sloot, the father of Joran becomes free again.
Arie Swan (attorney for Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT ): He wants to process this. I believe that as a human he has the right to process this. He wants to go to his home as fast as possible, be with his wife and does not want to comment now. He does not want to say things he will regret later or will be interpreted differently by people.
HOST: Ok, that was then, I am going to talk with Twan Huys in Aruba, because now the family van der Sloot has spoken. You have been there. How was the situation?
Reporter: We just came from the house. First to explain, on the request of the father, van der Sloot , we mention his full last name. He told me, "I am no longer a suspect and I have no objections if the family name comes into publicity now." Then, the situation in front of the house there, an absurd situation. There are a number of phones, mobile phones that are ringing every second. Every producer here of an American network tries to get an exclusive interview with the family. Sometimes, camera crews show up in front of the fence of the house. The family barely dares to leave the house, because the moment they leave their house, camera crews are waiting for them and ask for comments. The other view inside the house is that there are many bouquets of flowers from people on the island and friends, also from the Netherlands, who want to support the family. What I noticed, the hours we were there, is that the parents feel locked up in that house. They are being assisted by two friends, lawyers from the Netherlands. They try to help, but it is, also for them, a matter of waiting of what is going to happen.
HOST: How long did you speak with the parents?
Reporter: We entered at eight o clock, Aruban time, and it wasn't certain we were going to get this interview. They wanted to have an orientation talk first, and eventually after a few hours they agreed to a talk, the reason being that they wanted to offer counterweight against all the publicity from the family of Natalee Holloway. Most of all, because the American media for weeks, on and on, every evening, pays so extremely much attention to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, and so also to the honor of the van der Sloot family. Indeed, my first question was, "Why this interview today for NOVA?"
PvdS: Actually, I didn't want to speak about this case at all. What is at hand is that girl is found and brought back. That is where all the attention should be directed. In fact, me, the family, we are side issues.
Reporter: Why are you doing it anyway? Why do you speak about the case?
PvdS: I am being forced now, because of the enormous media circus that is being built around it. That puts Joran and my family in the picture.
Reporter: I just saw you are wearing a bracelet.
AvdS: Yes.
Reporter: "Hope for Natalee" is written on that. Why do you wear that?
AvdS: Because, I really, really hope that girl appears. I have a very positive feeling she is alive, that she is somewhere, and I hope she appears, and that is something we all want. That is what we thought from the start, wanted and hoped.
Reporter: Which function do you have here at the island? Because many stories go around about that. What is your function?
PvdS: I am a replacing member of the joint court of justice of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba [plaatsvervangend lid van het gemeenschappelijk hof van justitie van de nederlandse antillen en Aruba] and I am appointed for a period of three years, from January the first, 2003, until January the first, 2006.
Reporter: So, you are replacement judge?
PvdS: Yes.
Reporter: Do you know the people very well, for example, the people here from the public prosecutors' office that ordered your detention?
PvdS: Yes, for sure, because, before that, I have worked for eight years as chief of the cabinet of the prosecutor general [kabinetschef van de procureur generaal].
Reporter: So, you also know the current prosecutor general?
PvdS: Yes.
Reporter: Mrs. Croes.
PvdS: Yes.
Reporter: Yes, and what does that mean when your colleagues stop by to arrest you?
PvdS: That gives a feeling of absurdity. It is indeed almost unimaginable that by someone you actually know very well, where you worked together with for a long time, that one comes to tell you that you are suspected of complicity to murder.
Reporter: Who was that in your case?
PvdS: That was, in this case, that was the leader of the team of Police commissioners.
Reporter: Jan van der Straten.
PvdS: That was Jan van der Straten, yes.
Reporter: And you know each other very well?
PvdS: Yes.
HOST: Twan, let's go back to Monday evening, the thirtieth of May. That was a crucial night. What happened then?
Reporter: It is the evening, Jeroen, on which the parents of Natalee fly into Aruba. More precisely, the mother and the stepfather. They don't believe she just walked away, or that there is nothing wrong. They are sure something serious is going on. So they take the first plane from Alabama, where they are from, to here, Aruba, and arrive in the evening. They go to the Police and together go to the house of Joran, of the van der Sloot family . Then, it is night already, around two. In the middle of the night, they arrive there with a company of Police and other people and they ring. The father, van der Sloot is sleeping, he opens the door and asks, "What is going on? Why are you here?" " For our disappeared daughter, who was last seen with your son." He doesn't know all that yet. The father van der Sloot goes to an apartment, next to the house, where Joran always sleeps and opens the door and Joran is not in his apartment. He is not sleeping there. And then, the father picks up the mobile phone, he calls his son and he appears to be in a casino somewhere here on Aruba at that time. And that is where we pick up the story. The son is in a casino and eventually there is a meeting at the house of van der Sloot with all these people. The parents of Natalee, the son and the father.
PvdS: He was, at that moment, again, not at home without me knowing it. Then, I called Joran on his mobile phone, and then he said that he was by the Wyndam. That is also a casino here in the neighborhood. Then, we drove there immediately, but he had, he said that he had misunderstood me, because he came home already. So, then all of us went back home, and around three, with quite a group, we spoke with Joran that night.
Reporter: How did that conversation go?
PvdS: Understandably, these people were quite excited [also translates into “more aroused”]. I tried to calm these people down as much as possible. I also said to Joran, he has to direct himself as much as possible to the Police officers and not to the people of whom it was uncertain what their status was.
Reporter: You didn't want him to let himself be interrogated, or maybe started saying things that were not right to total strangers?
PvdS: Yes, I think, anyway it was, for me, more trusting, if he would direct himself to the Police officers.
Reporter: Did it become clear for you what happened that night, with Joran in relation to Natalee?
PvdS: Yes, that became clear to me.
Reporter: Which story did he tell you then?
PvdS: That he initially met her earlier that day in the "Holiday Inn" casino, where he was, as well, to play a free tournament. That, then it was agreed to meet in Carlos and Charlie's. That, he initially did not want that, but that he went there anyway, and that he met her there, in Carlos and Charlie's. That, then, with his two friends, Deepak and Satish, drove around a bit with her around the island, that they were “making out” [“vrijen,” implies some intimacy and implies sexual acts being consensual] some on the backseat and that in the end he dropped her off at the Holiday inn. That was the story.
Reporter: And you thought, "This is it, now it is done."
PvdS: Yes, I continued to believe in that story. I had never, all these days after, received a clue that it would be incorrect.
Reporter: When did you find out that it was, nevertheless, different than how it was told by your son in the first place?
PvdS: He was arrested and then he changed his declaration.
HOST: Ok, Twan, so there are different declarations. What did Joran say in his second declaration?
Reporter: Very simple, Jeroen, in his first declaration, he has said that, indeed, that he went, together with his two friends and Natalee, to the beach and that, that night, deep in the night, actually in the morning, all of them went back to the "Holiday Inn" hotel, where she was staying, and dropped her off there. That story is incorrect. That story, as told, has been retracted by Joran and also by his both friends, who are also still stuck [in jail]. He did that as soon as he was arrested and was interrogated by the Police. He also never told the story as he told to the Police to his parents. His declaration now is that he left Natalee alone on the beach, and then went home by himself, and that his two friends were nowhere near that. That is the second version, and until now Joran holds on to that, under severe Police interrogation.
HOST: Any idea how Natalee's parents will react if they will see this interview, between you and the parents of Joran?
Reporter: I have, like I said to you in the broadcast of yesterday, trodded along the past two days with the parents of Natalee, at least with her mother and stepfather. They are convinced that the son, Joran, and the father, Paul, are the key to finding their daughter back, and I think they will not be convinced by the interview. But they have not seen it, because we just recorded it. Anyway, I asked Paul van der Sloot, what he thinks of the fact that the parents of Natalee are convinced that the answer to all their questions are with the van der Sloot family.
PvdS: I have also spoken with the mother and I think it is a pity that, apparently, I have not been able to convince her that is not the case. During that conversation, I had the feeling I had a reasonable contact with her and I tried to make it clear that the key is not with us, but, apparently, she didn't pick it up that way.
Reporter: Can you imagine the suspicion from them after the first declaration of Joran was incorrect? And that in there, other things were said than what really happened?
Current Murder Suspect Paulus van der Sloot: Yes, because Joran did not tell the truth immediately, he has brought himself in a cumbersome position, as a result of which, his later declarations can be doubted. He brought himself into that position, yes. Possibly, he can give an explanation why he changed his declaration, but that is the difficult position that he is in.
Reporter: The picture that is being painted in the American media is that Aruba is an island where everybody knows everybody. Mr. van der Sloot is with the judicial powers, he can pull strings other people can't, he knows everyone and that is why there is no breakthrough in this case. What is your reaction to that?
PvdS: That is completely incorrect. The moment it became clear that Joran was going to be involved in this case in one way or another, I asked for leave and I have not been at the court anymore. That is, to make very clear, most of all, I am now a father and not a judge.
Reporter: Because you realized that else these stories would be brought into the world?
PvdS: In this situation you have to avoid every appearance [of impropriety].
Reporter: On the day you were arrested, this past Thursday, with which communication were you told? What was told to you as to why you were taken into custody?
PvdS: That was not told to me when I was apprehended. During the apprehension I was told that I was suspected of complicity to murder manslaughter and usurpatory freedom spoliation (kidnapping). During the session with the judge, it was told that the suspicion originated, because that Monday night, when so many people were standing there in front of the door, I allegedly declared that at four o'clock, I picked up Joran. And someone else, allegedly declared that I picked up Joran and Natalee, while my own declaration was, directed at Police officers, that I picked up Joran at eleven o'clock at the McDonald's. That is, of course remarkable that the public prosecutor's office adds two witness statements of people who were standing somewhere in the back, and not the witness declaration from the Police officers, where I direct myself to, and directed myself to, as much as possible.
Reporter: And these declarations were the base for your arrest and incarceration?
PvdS: Together with the fact that I allegedly instructed the boys, Deepak, Satish and Joran what they should do, say or do, in case of a possible apprehension. And indeed, I have, when I foresaw that they could go from witness to suspect, explained them the procedure, with the intention that they will not panic. But, also that was enough for the prosecutor's office to suspect me of complicity.
HOST: Yes, now, Joran is still stuck [in jail]. Do his parents have any contact with him? Do they still speak with him?
Reporter: Jeroen, only the mother is still allowed access to Joran. The father not, because he is a suspect, as well initially. Maybe that changes in the upcoming days. The mother told me that Joran is under enormous pressure, that he is being interrogated for hours and that the two lawyers, the friends who were present this morning at their home were talking about an interrogation that looks like the currently forbidden, at least in the Netherlands, "Zaanse" interrogation method, which boils down to that indeed, you, for hours, put someone under pressure, and they are quite worried about that. They also told that they were afraid that their son might, after all these weeks, possibly come through in a manner that has nothing to do with the truth and instead is going to say what is being expected from him.
HOST: Because, all in all, although he is being cocky and sits in the casino, he is a boy of 17.
Reporter to the host: Yes, he is a boy of 17 and his future was looking bright. He had just done a few entry exams at a few universities in America and was also accepted at one university and he was going to give a party two weeks ago, he because he passed his exams. That didn't happen, of course. The big question is now what his parents think of his declarations until now. Do you still believe in the innocence of your son Joran?
Reporter to PvdS: Are you still today convinced of the innocence of Joran?
AvdS: Yes, yes, one hundred percent. Yes. I am sure Joran is innocent.
PvdS: Yes. I, the way I know Joran, I can't imagine that he harmed that girl in any way.
Reporter: Do you have an explanation for the fact that Joran initially told another story than what happened that night?
AvdS: I think that anxiety, panic, maybe.
PvdS: There is, of course, one victim and that is Natalee and the parents. That is the main issue, we assume that Natalee will reappear. That would be the key. In that aspect, we stay side issues and this can be overcome. We shouldn't take on the role of victims. I still believe and hope that people think, that they see the madness of what is happening here, that at this moment it is actually not about the girl anymore, but that a whole circus has been built, a media circus, that has its own interests and its own agenda. I hope people see that and that they realize what this is actually about.
HOST: In closing, Twan, how should we weigh the words of these parents?
Reporter: Jeroen, I had the impression they were sincere in the words they spoke to us. The father of Joran compares his position with the writer, Albert Camu, who wrote a book De Val (The Fall). He said, "Like in the eye of the hurricane." And again, I have the impression that they speak sincerely, but in the declarations of Joran there is unclarity, also the declarations of his two friends, and yeah, even a Police team of 23 detectives don't get the bottom stone up, so it is very difficult to give a judgment about that.
HOST: Good. Hopefully, tomorrow you will be back with us with more news about this case of Natalee Holloway

On July 3, 2005 FOX News GRETA VAN SUSTEREN wrote in her “Gretawire” blog, “I am also curious whether Paul van der Sloot used his phone between midnight and 7 a.m. on May 30. He told me no... he told the DUTCH TV correspondent on camera no... but after the 6-29 interview with the DUTCH TV correspondent, he pulled him aside and said maybe he did make a call, and that he was not sure.”
On July 5, 2005 BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated to FOX News that when the May 31, 2005 early morning hours meetings occurred between Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT , Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT , the Police, and several other witnesses, that Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT admitted then that on May 30, 2005 he picked-up Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT at “McDonald’s” at 4:00 AM. BETH stated that by the time she met with the Murder Suspects VAN DER SLOOT’s on June 21, 2005 during the daytime at the Murder Suspects VAN DER SLOOT home with GRETA, Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT had changed to 11:00 PM the time he claims to picking up Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT. Both BETH and JUG TWITTY say there were “10 witnesses” during the first May 31, 2005 encounter that heard Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT admit that he picked Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT up at 4:00 AM on May 30, 2005.

On 6-29 MARIAINE CROES was replaced by ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN as the lead prosecutor in the case.

On 6-29 AMERICAN homicide detective MARK FUHRMAN made an experienced and outstanding point to FOX News saying it has been FUHRMAN’s experience that suspects usually try to provide their strongest alibi-lies for the exact same time as when the criminal(s) actually committed their crime(s).
On 6-29 NADIRA RAMIREZ (the Current Murder Suspects KALPOE’s mother) refused “Texas EquuSearch” to search the Current Murder Suspects KALPOE’s property.
In the midst of the TWITTY’s searching, the family also had to deal with the media crush. "We were stunned the first week," said Carol Standifer on 6-29, who has worked with Twitty at home and has spent several weeks in Aruba helping the family. "It was just surreal." "We had no plan for dealing with it," Standifer said. "Beth has just been herself, determined to find Natalee, to find an answer." "Nobody advised her on how to deal with it," Standifer said. "But it's just the way Beth is. She has a sense of integrity about her. It's been easy for her to deal with because she tells the truth and is determined to find an answer." In the late 1990’s when BETH moved to Mountain Brook, a Birmingham suburb, and continued her career working with young children as a speech pathologist in the public schools, where she was hired by Standifer. "I knew she was strong and smart," Standifer said. "That's why I hired her. But I've been surprised at how determined and strong she is." Twitty and her daughter are extremely close – "buddies" – in Standifer's words. Natalee is sometimes called "Hootie" by friends, and Twitty at times took the moniker, "Big Hootie." "Beth took the summer off to help Natalee get ready to go to college," Standifer said.
The UNITED STATES F.B.I. scaled back to 1 agent in ARUBA by 6-29.
There are rumors that UNITED STATES government assets and resources are quietly looking for NATALEE in SOUTH AMERICA.
Benvinda de “Vinda“ SOUSA, an ARUBAN. Attorney is hired by the Twitty’s. SOUSA said she has been “retained for to explain the system and to keep an open line of communication with the prosecutor and the investigation authorities.”
On 6-29 Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT admitted to a DUTCH journalist that he did speak to “the boys” soon after NATALEE vanished about telling the Police the truth, and what would happen if they lied. Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT also admits to telling the boys that if is there is no body, there is no crime.On July 3, 2005 FOX News GRETA VAN SUSTEREN wrote in her “Gretawire” blog, “I am also curious whether Paul van der Sloot used his phone between midnight and 7 a.m. on May 30. He told me no... he told the DUTCH TV correspondent on camera no... but after the 6-29 interview with the DUTCH TV correspondent, he pulled him aside and said maybe he did make a call, and that he was not sure.”
On July 5, 2005 BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated to FOX News that when the May 31, 2005 early morning hours meetings occurred between Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT , Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT , the Police, and several other witnesses, that Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT admitted then that on May 30, 2005 he picked-up Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT at “McDonald’s” at 4:00 AM. BETH stated that by the time she met with the Murder Suspects VAN DER SLOOT’s on June 21, 2005 during the daytime at the Murder Suspects VAN DER SLOOT home with GRETA, Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT had changed to 11:00 PM the time he claims to picking up Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT. Both BETH and JUG TWITTY say there were “10 witnesses” during the first May 31, 2005 encounter that heard Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT admit that he picked Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT up at 4:00 AM on May 30, 2005.
BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated that she did not speak to NATALEE during the trip, and if NATALEE had called, BETH “would have thought that something was wrong.“ The following exchange occurred between BETH and FOX News GRETA VAN SUSTEREN on FOX News:

BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY: No, I don’t. But there’s something that really bothers me, and I don’t think I’ve made any secrets about it, I’ve kept a journal of everything everyone said, what day, timeframes. And there’s something that really has been bothering me as I read over and over my journal, is I know on the 31st that Paul van der Sloot stated that he picked Joran up at 4 a.m. at McDonald’s. It was also said to me by a Police spokesperson on June 16 and June 17 that Paul van der Sloot stated that he picked up Joran at 4 a.m. on the 30th at McDonald’s. But I noticed on the day that I visited Paul van der Sloot at his home, all of a sudden, it was changed to 11 p.m.
VAN SUSTEREN: Perhaps there were two.
BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY: Could have been, Greta.
VAN SUSTEREN: Does your journal entry — because I’ve seen your journal, I’ve paged through it with you. Is there an entry in your journal which actually has that 4:30?
BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY: Yes.
BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated on 7-5, “It was also said to me by a Police spokesperson on June 16 and June 17 that Paul van der Sloot stated that he picked up Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT at 4 a.m. on the 30th at McDonald's.”



On 6-29 the “Cox News Service” reported:

Missing Teen's Mom Relies on Faith, DeterminationPALM BEACH, Aruba – She spends some of her mornings at a tiny, open-air chapel perched on a hill above the rocky coastline, praying for her daughter's return.She spends some of her days walking through neighborhoods, handing out fliers, handmade bracelets and prayer cards, asking everyone she meets to help find her Natalee.And she spends countless hours doing interviews with the small army of journalists who have flocked to this island paradise to cover her family's unfolding drama.Beth Holloway-Twitty, mother of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, who went missing May 30 on the last day of a high school graduation trip, has been slammed with every parents' nightmare – their child's mysterious disappearance.But in today's peripatetic media world, she's also been thrust into one of the leading roles in a drama no mother would ever wish for: at the center of relentless, international coverage of every tiny development in a private, painful family crisis.Her calm, determined demeanor in interview after interview has galvanized the viewing public, fueling the coverage that has propelled Natalee's case into the latest cable television news mega-event. The coverage clearly has put immense pressure on image-sensitive Aruban authorities to solve the case, although they insist it is being handled like any other.From the start, Twitty and her family showed they were not going to be passive victims waiting for Police to solve the case. They contacted the F.B.I. almost immediately upon learning of Natalee's disappearance, and got agents to travel to the island to assist Aruban officials.Arriving on Aruba within a day of the first reports, they started what Twitty has called "our own investigation," tracking down leads by talking to other teens on the trip, identifying possible suspects and even interviewing them on their own.They boldly drove to the home of 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot — the Dutch youth last seen with their daughter — late on their first night on the island, holding what press reports say was a fairly confrontational meeting with the youth and his parents that was witnessed by Police.And when Police failed to arrest van der Sloot for 10 days after that meeting, Twitty stepped up the pressure, telling television interviewers that she believed the Police should hold the youth and even question his father, Aruban judge-in-training Paul van der Sloot.In the midst of their sleuthing, however, the family also had to deal with the media crush."We were stunned the first week," said Carol Standifer, who worked with Twitty at home and has spent several weeks in Aruba helping the family. "It was just surreal."Holloway has remained remarkably balanced in the midst of her family's crisis and the media storm, even though friends say that like other typical Americans, there was no way she could have prepared for it or even imagined what it would be like."We had no plan for dealing with it," Standifer said. "Beth has just been herself, determined to find Natalee, to find an answer."In the first weeks after Natalee's disappearance, a public relations specialist who works for the Aruban tourism office helped the family manage the media onslaught, a role that has since been taken up by family friends who carry several cell phones that ring constantly with requests for television appearances."Nobody advised her on how to deal with it," Standifer said. "But it's just the way Beth is. She has a sense of integrity about her. It's been easy for her to deal with because she tells the truth and is determined to find an answer."Twitty grew up in Pine Bluff, Ark., and met her first husband, Dave Holloway, after college, family members said. The couple had two children, Natalee and Matt, 16. They eventually divorced and Twitty lived in Mississippi for several years.In the late 1990s she married George "Jug" Twitty, who works for a metals company in the Birmingham area. She moved to Mountain Brook, a Birmingham suburb, and continued her career working with young children as a speech pathologist in the public schools, where she was hired by Standifer."I knew she was strong and smart," Standifer said. "That's why I hired her. But I've been surprised at how determined and strong she is."Twitty and her daughter were extremely close – "buddies" – in Standifer's words. Natalee was sometimes called "Hootie" by friends, and Twitty at times took the moniker, "Big Hootie.""Beth took the summer off to help Natalee get ready to go to college," Standifer said. "She was an honors student and got a full scholarship to the University of Alabama."Natalee came to Aruba with more than 120 other freshly minted graduates of Mountain Brook high school on a chaperoned trip. The upscale island is known for its gorgeous beaches, steady trade winds and relaxed atmosphere. It has a miniscule crime rate that is the envy of most other Caribbean islands.From the scant information released by Police, it appears Natalee went to a popular bar, Carlos n' Charlie's, the night before she was to return home. She left the bar with Joran van der Sloot, riding away in a car with him and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.The youths at first told Police they dropped her off at her hotel, but have since changed their stories to say that van der Sloot and Holloway went walking on a beach near the hotel.Van der Sloot has told his mother that he left Holloway there alone, unharmed, and does not know what happened to her.The three youths have been jailed for the last two weeks, although no formal charges have been filed. A judge recently ordered they remain in jail for at least another week, and they could remain in custody for up to 116 days without being formally charged.Van der Sloot's father, Paul, who was apparently suspected of coaching his son on what to tell Police, was also arrested last week, but was released after being questioned for two days.His lawyer said the elder van der Sloot cooperated with authorities and insists neither he nor his son have committed any crimes.Tuesday, Twitty told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she was "devastated" by the release of the elder van der Sloot because she believes he is hiding vital information in the case.Recalling her questioning of Paul van der Sloot at his home, with his son and wife present, she said: "I have never sat across from an individual in a well-ventilated room and seen a man sweat so profusely and only increasing in intensity as the 90 minutes (of questioning) went on."Appearing Tuesday on CNN's "American Morning," she asserted that Paul van der Sloot "knows exactly what happened. he knows what, where, when, who, why and how."Anita van der Sloot told the Associated Press Tuesday that Aruban authorities are fixated on her son and husband because Investigators have "lost control" of the probe.And in Twitty's mind, Anita van der Sloot said, "Joran is guilty and that's it. What can I say to a woman who is desperate to find her daughter?"While Twitty and her family have been critical of the slow pace of the investigation, they have also spoken highly of Aruban authorities, saying that F.B.I. agents helping with the case have told them the local Police are doing a good job.Aided by a large contingent of friends, including parents of some of Natalee's classmates, they have spent the last four weeks in an exhausting whirlwind of searching, meeting with Aruban authorities and responding to the unending request for media interviews.The Twitty’s are staying in Natalee's room at the "Holiday Inn," where Beth Twitty sleeps in one of her daughter's nightshirts, People Magazine reported. She is often approached by strangers in the hotel's lobby, people who have seen her on television and want to offer their support."Beth is kind and patient with them all because that's just the way she is," Standifer said.Each day, Twitty has made time to go to a church on the island, often the picturesque chapel overlooking the sea, where she prays for Natalee, Standifer said."Her faith in God is really strong," she said.Twitty has kept an optimistic, determined public face, but has been through "the range of emotions," Standifer said."She's risen to the occasion," she said. "She's done this for Natalee."Whatever happens, she's prepared for it."



On 6-29 “TravelVideo.TV” wrote that in 1996 two robbers shot and killed an American woman tourist in ARUBA.
On 6-29 CNNHN reported:

NANCY GRACE, HOST: But first, to Aruba, an Alabama star student, Natalee Holloway, still missing tonight. But now, the Netherlands sends in the marines. A primetime, live exclusive tonight. Party boat deejay Steve Croes speaks out about his time behind bars as a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Tonight, in Aruba, the deejay who landed in jail over Natalee’s disappearance, Steve Croes is with us. But first, let’s go down to Aruba and CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul. Karl, what’s the latest? KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Nancy, the Texas EquuSearch volunteers have been on the move again today. They say that it was searching rock quarries on the north side of the island. Nothing was found, though. They say some of the challenges on that side of the island is that the terrain is very rocky. It’s a very rugged piece of land there. That’s one of the challenges. And also, they don't know the island particularly well because they're here for a short-term. They're still finding their way around. Now, you’ll remember that just over 20 people, I think 24 volunteers, were here from Texas helping out that search. Because they're volunteers, nine of them have now had to leave the island and return to their jobs. But EquuSearch spokespeople do say that they're hopeful that more volunteers will come from Texas. And of course, as you mentioned, the Dutch marines, we understand that the prime minister here on the island has done all the paperwork and those Dutch marines can once again join the search to help out looking for clues as to Natalee’s whereabouts or what may have happened to her, Nancy. GRACE: Before we go to deejay and former jailbird Steve Croes -- he was just released under suspicion of having something to do with Natalee’s disappearance. He is free, and clear, and with us tonight.Karl Penhaul, very quickly, what is leading them to search in these rock quarries? You told me the other day they were searching in kind of a manmade lake that was kind of a dump. Found nothing so far. Now they're searching in quarries. Did one of these brothers, or did Joran van der Sloot, say something to make them go search in these areas? PENHAUL: Well, what Joran van der Sloot may or may not have said is always subject to his latest statement. In fact, the chief prosecutor on the island, Karin Janssen, told us today that Joran van der Sloot has once again changed his story. You’ll remember that he did say that he’d walked home from the beach after leaving Natalee. Now Karin Janssen tells us he’s changed that story. So we don't know if there are specific leads leading EquuSearch to look at certain parts of the island. More particularly, they're looking at areas that they’ve flown over in a helicopter and saying, "OK, let’s take a closer look here." GRACE: OK, well, if this is -- if my math is correct, this is at least his third statement. And I can tell you right now, there is nothing good about that. Take a listen to this. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN, ARUBA CHIEF PROSECUTOR: However, in this stage of the investigation, we cannot exclude the possibility that something happened to Natalee. We are determined to find a truth, to find Natalee, and in case somebody harmed her, to find those who are responsible. Out of respect for the family Holloway, we did not want to speak about murder and homicides because we did not want to hurt their feelings. It’s human, you know? And because, in that early stage, they were searching for their girl alive. And it was at that time just not suitable to talk about that. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: If something happened to Natalee? Here’s a clue to the Aruban prosecutor: Something has happened to Natalee Holloway. Very quickly, tonight in a primetime exclusive interview, we are very happy to have with us Mr. Steve Croes. Now, Steve Croes is the deejay off that party boat, I think it was called "The "Tattoo"." And it is parked not too, too far from the "Holiday Inn" where Natalee Holloway was staying. Mr. Croes, thank you for being with us. STEVE CROES, FORMER SUSPECT IN NATALEE HOLLOWAY CASE: Hi. How are you doing? GRACE: I'm great. Mr. Croes, how did you land behind bars in connection with Natalee? S. CROES: Well, it was a mistake that I did, by telling the cops something that wasn't true. And I really like -- how you say, you know, if I could change it, I change it, like, right away. But I'm glad that I prove everybody that I'm innocent. I didn’t have nothing to do in there. So that’s about it.GRACE: Well, Mr. Croes, what did you tell the cops to make them arrest you? S. CROES: You know, what exactly I told the cops is -- you know, I didn’t really like to go into those details. Why? Because, you know, it’s like something that... GRACE: Mr. Croes, Mr. Croes, Mr. Croes, isn’t it true that you were at the Internet cafe and heard a Kalpoe brother on the phone cooking up a story? S. CROES: Yes. GRACE: Now what was the story he was cooking up? S. CROES: The story that everybody knows here on the island, which they dropped the girl at the hotel and left her there. And that’s it. GRACE: So you heard a Kalpoe brother on the phone at an Internet cafe cooking up this story. And you told the cops, right? S. CROES: Yes. GRACE: Now, when you were behind bars, how did you convince the cops that you didn’t have anything to do with it, that you overheard it? S. CROES: Well, I just start talking everything the truth, like where I was that day, the day I had, like, a night shift on the boat, like as a watchman. So I was sleeping on the boat. And, yes, that I wasn't even there. GRACE: Is it true that you have been fired from your job over this whole thing? S. CROES: Yes. Yesterday during the afternoon I had, like, this meeting with my ex-boss and his lawyer, and they told me that I was fired. GRACE: Steve, while you were behind bars, did you speak to or overhear van der Sloot or the Kalpoe brothers talking? S. CROES: No, I didn’t -- I don't even know these guys. The only thing that I know is what I heard, that this guy talking on the phone. But I don't know these guys. They don't know me. During my confrontations with the cops with these guys, they also admitted that they don't know me. So I just put myself in trouble without knowing anything. So it was like a stupid mistake that I did. GRACE: Steve, when you overheard the Kalpoe brother talking on, I guess, the cell phone at the Internet cafe, was it Deepak or Satish Kalpoe? S. CROES: Deepak, Deepak, yes. GRACE: OK. What was it exactly that he was saying, that you overheard? S. CROES: Just the story that they dropped the girl at the hotel. The girl fell from the car, and they tried to help her to go back into the lobby, and that was the story. GRACE: And let me go back to Karl Penhaul, CNN correspondent, standing by there with Steve Croes. Karl, that was the Kalpoe brothers' and Joran van der Sloot’s original story to Police, exactly what Steve Croes told them. PENHAUL: It was exactly that, Nancy. In fact, talking to David Kock, the defense attorney for Satish Kalpoe, he backs up what Steve is, in fact, saying, in that Deepak and Joran van der Sloot, first of all, cooked up a lie to cover their tracks that night in two or three days subsequent to Natalee’s disappearance. They then contacted Satish and explained the cover story to him. What David Kock says at that stage is that they invented this cover story because they realized that Natalee h!d disappeared. And although David Kock still insists on the innocence of Satish Kalpoe, he does say that all three boys were very worried that they were the last three to have seen a girl who had then disappeared. GRACE: You know, my question to you, though, regarding this whole story, Karl Penhaul -- you’re telling me that Joran van der Sloot’s story has changed yet again. What’s his new story? PENHAUL: Well, David Kock, again, the defense attorney for Satish Kalpoe, has a right to see a number of statements from the other suspects which are presented to him as evidence against his client. He told us that in the file that he had, as of Sunday, bearing in mind that he gets witness statements and suspect statements approximately four days after they're made, he said, until that point, he had eight different statements by Joran van der Sloot, four of them were substantial changes in the story. He said he expected to get more paperwork through, bearing in mind, as I say, that he’s getting the statement four days late. GRACE: Steve Croes, when the Police came to you, where were you when you were arrested? S. CROES: I was at home. GRACE: Did they try to get you to talk? S. CROES: No, they just came. They tell me that I was arrested for the reason, like, for the confession, for confession stuff. And then that they give me my rights. And then I was, like, in a boxer short. So I tell them, "Please, let me just get a t-shirt and a short." And they went with me to my room. And I put on my shirt, and then I went with him. GRACE: Once you got to the Police station, did they try to get a statement out of you? S. CROES: Yes. The first thing they wanted to do is, like, for me to, like, talk. And they wanted to see if I knew anything, like, for real or something like that. GRACE: Did they ever hit you, touch you, threaten you, harm you in any way? S. CROES: Not at all, not at all. They treat me good. They treat me good. GRACE: When you realized -- you had to know about Natalee’s disappearance when Police came to arrest you. When you realized they had zeroed in on you in Natalee’s disappearance, what did you think? S. CROES: Excuse me, I didn’t understand the question so good. GRACE: When you realized Police thought you had something to do with Natalee disappearing, what did you think? S. CROES: Well, I was relaxed the whole time, because I know that I didn’t have nothing to do. But I was, like, a little scared. GRACE: OK. Let me take you back one last time to this Internet cafe where you overheard Deepak Kalpoe talking on the phone. Could you tell that he was trying to make up a story? S. CROES: No. I couldn't tell that, because I believed him, you know what I mean? So I couldn't tell if it was true or a lie. But he was just talking like so serious that, you know, anyone could believe what he was saying there. GRACE: Do you know who he was talking to? S. CROES: No. I don't even know the guy. I'm just a client of the Internet cafe where I was there. So I didn’t even know the guy. GRACE: OK. Back to Karl Penhaul. Karl, do we have any reason to believe or hope that the Aruban Police have gotten the cell phone records from Deepak Kalpoe to prove what Steve Croes is saying is correct and to tell us who Deepak Kalpoe was talking to? PENHAUL: We do know that the Aruban Police and Investigators have seized cell phone and Internet records. In my conversations with David Kock, the defense attorney for one of the three suspects, he was referring specifically to cell phone records from earlier, the night and early morning of Natalee’s disappearance. That when supposedly Joran van der Sloot, according to cell phone records, called Deepak Kalpoe. And according to Deepak Kalpoe’s statements in that conversation, which was about 2:40 a.m., Joran said, "I’ve left Natalee at the beach. I'm walking home." And then, about 40 minutes later, what the cell phone records show is that Joran van der Sloot sent a text message to Deepak Kalpoe saying, "I’ve arrived home." And then, of course, the Internet records which show, at the time that the text message was sent at about 3:20 a.m., at that time, Deepak Kalpoe was at his house and on the Internet in a chatroom at the time, Nancy. GRACE: You know, the telephone records, the Internet cafe records, are going to come back and hit these guys in the head like a boomerang. I want to thank Steve Croes. He is with us tonight in an exclusive interview. As you recall, Croes is the deejay from the party boat that has been behind bars on Natalee’s disappearance. He is out tonight, and has explained his involvement, or lack thereof. Thank you, Mr. Croes, for being with us. Also, thank you to Karl Penhaul. When we come back, will a legal loophole allow the killer, the alleged killer, of 9-year-old Jessie Lunsford walk free? Stay with us. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CROES: They were accusing me for some things that’s don't think there was, like, necessary, to accuse me of, or something like that. They treat me good, but you know, you’re still in prison, you know what I mean? The first day that I went to the second day they arrest me, they were getting a little hard. Why? Because they wanted me -- they're doing their job. I understand, you know. They maybe want to get the truth from my mouth or something like that. But besides that, it was, like, just cool, yes.(END VIDEO CLIP)



On 6-29 CNNHN reported:

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: To Aruba now, which is getting more help from the Netherlands in the search for missing teenager Natalee Holloway. She disappeared more than four weeks ago. The Netherlands is sending more marines to help in the search, at the request of Aruba's prime minister. Three young men are in custody, but no one has been charged and there has been no sign of Holloway. CNN's Karl Penhaul retraces what Police think they do know about the case.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): According to the attorney for one of the men, all said in recent statements, this is the spot where Joran van der Sloot and Natalee got out of the car and headed off alone. By then it was 1:50 a.m. It would have been a night like tonight. A warm, tropical breeze is blowing out onto the ocean. It's been 28 days of full lunar cycle since Natalee vanished. The moon above me now would have been exactly the same that night. It's bright enough to cast my shadow on the sand. (voice-over): It could have been romantic if something had not gone terribly wrong. Even at 3:00 a.m., there are a few couples and late night revelers still around. Exactly what happened, we still don't know.investigators say they've checked cell phone and Internet records from that night. Based on those records, Satish Kalpoe's attorney, David Kock, says Joran van der Sloot phoned Deepak Kalpoe between 2:30 and 2:40.
DAVID KOCK, SATISH KALPOE 'S ATTORNEY: The story of Deepak is that Joran just said I'm walking home. I was on the beach with the girl, but she asleep, didn't want to get up. So I said, forget it, I'm walking home. He said that, we know.PENHAUL (on camera): I'm walking the same route Joran van der Sloot would have taken that night if this version of his story is true. I set off from the beach about 20 minutes ago. As you can see, there are stores and banks and some of them have closed circuit security cameras. (voice-over): Prosecutors have said security camera footage has been checked, but they declined to say if the tapes from these businesses were reviewed and if there's any sign of van der Sloot. Based on records, Kock says Joran van der Sloot send a text message to Deepak Kalpoe after the 2:40 a.m. phone call.DAVID KOCK: About 40 minutes later, 45 minutes later, there's an SMS message from Joran to Deepak again, saying, I got home, you know, thanks for waiting.PENHAUL (on camera): I'm taking a shortcut on this dirt track. Seemed to have woken up some of the local dogs. It's taken me about 36 minutes to walk from the beach right up to Joran van der Sloot's front gate. It's likely that by the time he arrived most of the neighbors were asleep as they seem to be now. From what we know, there are no eyewitnesses who saw him reach home. Assuming Joran van der Sloot did walk and text messaged Deepak Kalpoe as soon as he arrived, it would make it about 3:20 a.m. (voice-over): According to the Kock, Internet records show Deepak Kalpoe was web-surfing when the message came through. Kock says his client Satish was asleep. His mother, Nadira Ramirez, backs that up.NADIRA RAMIREZ, SATISH KALPOE 'S MOTHER: I just opened the door silently. I peak. I saw Deepak's room closed. I peak. I saw the car and I went back to back. PENHAUL: van der Sloot's attorney, Antonio Carlo, declined to talk to us for this report, but Kock has seen van der Sloot's statements to investors and says he's changed his story several times since his arrest, claiming first Deepak Kalpoe picked him up from the beach after he left Natalee, then saying it was Satish Kalpoe. In another version of the story, Joran van der Sloot said he walked home. DAVID KOCK: There have been other points, but those important issues, you see that those are four different stories.PENHAUL: Authorities say they're making headway, but Kock believes they're still a long way from cracking the case.DAVID KOCK: We got a good picture of where the girl was and where she was last dropped. But what happened afterwards, they do not know.
PENHAUL: What is certain is that all three young men, at least initially, cooked up a lie to cover their tracks once they realized Natalee was missing. What's still far from clear is whether they played a role in her disappearance.Karl Penhaul, CNN, Palm Beach, Aruba.(END VIDEOTAPE)



On 6-29 FOX News reported in her “Gretawire” blog:

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Creating a timeline is essential to an investigation. It is sometimes hard to create the perfect one but you take pieces of the puzzle and do the best you can. In creating a timeline for Natalee Holloway, we needed to figure out where Natalee was last seen or known to be. This includes going to the possible end of the timeline — meaning, where in her expected path that night did she not end up? In other words, we know she was expected to return to her hotel room... did she? Could she have returned after seeing Joran van der Sloot and gone back out? Could someone have followed her to her room? (It was a first floor hotel room with sliding glass doors to the beach, which could be dangerous for a young woman even with roommates.)
In my mind, I have confirmed that Natalee never got back to her hotel room on May 30 — so no intruder (like the Elizabeth Smart case) nabbed her. I confirmed it for myself by taking a hotel room tour with her mother (pictures attached and we showed the video last night.) In the hotel room was a bed that had not been slept in — so I assume she did not return home and then go out again after her time with Joran. (Of course I also assume the info I was told that the bed was not slept in and then made by a housekeeper is true.) The fact that her passport was left in the room also suggests to me that she intended to return — in other words, this was not a runaway situation. The same can be said for the presence in her hotel room of her wallet with money. This also rules out for me a hotel room intrusion/robbery since the money and wallet were there. The only thing missing besides Natalee was her driver's license. I assume she took her license to prove age at the club she went to and where she met Joran for the second time that night.
It was not easy to do the hotel tour with Beth, Natalee's mother. This entire month long investigation, of course, is very, very, very painful to Beth. Beth is grateful that many media outlets are here in Aruba investigating (reporting) and also putting pressure on the authorities to do more for Beth and their family. I sure wish we could find Natalee alive and well, but being optimistic is not easy. The odds are that she is dead — but the family struggles to keep hope alive. I admire them for this — they are a very nice family.
As an aside, do you want to know what bothered me most in Natalee's hotel room? The worst part of it was Beth showing me her daughter's wallet with all the crisp one dollar bills in it. Beth had gotten Natalee the ones for tips while on her Aruba holiday. For some reason standing there with Beth and looking at all those crisp ones I flashed back to the thought of how excited Beth must have been to go to a bank and get those ones for her daughter — they were so crisp and there were so many that they looked like you had to get fresh from the bank. Little did Beth know that her motherly task of getting tip money for her daughter would take such an ugly turn and I felt terrible for Beth as we thumbed through the ones.
Many on the island think the investigation is stalled. This could be true, but when an investigation is stalled you don't quit, you start over. One should start from scratch and be willing to re-think everything — including fixed ideas. This does not mean you abandon all your earlier theories and evidence but that you start anew and make sure that you have been thorough and have gotten everything you can out of every witness in the matter. That is what we did — started to investigate anew — because the investigation seems stalled to us. Of course, maybe the investigation is proceeding with great speed and we just don't realize it. But, to start over since we think it stalled, yesterday we went to Mickey John's house to talk to him.
As you may recall, Mickey was one of the two guards who was arrested on June 5 (the three boys were arrested on June 9.) He is very upset about what happened to him and frankly I don't blame him. But slipping between his upset and the Police "rush to judgment" arrest of him is some potentially important information. Mickey was housed in jail for a short time in the cell next to Deepak Kalpoe and spoke to him about Natalee Holloway. It appears Mickey has not volunteered this information to the Police (he is mad at them) and the Police have not been clever enough to go back and ask him (maybe an apology would help, too.)
Mickey did provide us some info that could be (not saying I am certain it would be) important to the investigation. We aired the interview (and that information) last night. Of course the information that Mickey did provide needs to be checked against his earlier statements to make sure that this is not an embellishment. Nothing should go unchecked — corroboration is powerful to make sure one is on the right track in investigating a case. We took still pictures from our time with him and those pictures are posted on the blog today. Click on the links in the photo box above to check out my photo essays.
We are working on a segment having to do with the tides around the island so we shot video all over the island of the water and beaches. I posted some pictures from that shoot — it looks like we are having fun at the beach but note we are in clothes, not swimsuits. Only people who are working would be dressed like that on those hot, hot beaches. It is steamy down here.
Finally, while we are here doing investigative reporting, we are not fooling ourselves and thinking we are the Investigators. The Police are the appropriate Investigators and we are careful not to get in their way. We are simply "hitting the pavement" every day and asking questions — we are not suffering from delusions of grandeur that we will solve this disappearance. We are only seeking to bring you information and learn as much as we can about it.
Send your thoughts and comments to: ontherecord@foxnews.com



6-30-05
On 6-30 Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE gave the following statements to his ARUBAN Police Interrogators:
(Thank You and Hat Tip to the “Scared Monkeys blog" and “Debbie”)

PROCES-VERBAALWe, Clyde Anthony BURKE and Marton Rolando GUMBS, respectively sergeant first class and head Police-officer with the Korps Politie Aruba, first mentioned is part of detective unit district 2 and the latter with the Detective Cooperation Team, declare the .On thursday, June 30th, we the reporting officers interviewed suspect D.S.KALPOE for further information also the suspect was taken from the Police-station to identify a location.Before the interview started, we took the suspect to identify a location and he was informed that he was not obliged to answer the questions..The statement he made in dutch and we, the reporting officers, transcribed this statement and it went as follows;"Although I am aware I am not obliged to answer your questions, I am willing to make a statement."I have just went with you to identify a location.*On your question whether or not I have shown you the exact location where I dropped off Joran and Natalee together on the night of the 30th may, I can say the following. Where I just indicated to you is the exact location where Bc** dropped both off, (remark reporting officers, suspect D.S. KALPOE indicated to us as the location where he dropped of Joran and Natalee, the nameless road that runs in front of the most northern part of the "Marriot Hotel" at about the most northerly room.* a typo in the original dutch text here, this is what almos certainly what was said** don't know what the BC means but most likely it should read "where I dropped off"The suspect showed us, reporting officers also where he left his car near the beach at Arashi to take a pee. The suspect showed us, the reporting officers as the place where he got out and went to urinate, the most southernly part of the asphalted parking place near the edge of the erected stone wall.On your question if at the time that I got out of the car near Arashi to urinate everyone in the car was awake, I can say the following. Yes, everyone was awake.On your question how it is possible that no-one has declared this happened or cannot remember this happened, I can say the following. My answer is that I really did go to urinate, it really happened. The Police has to ask my brother about this. I am sure that the Police did not ask my brother this. On your question whether or not I am persisting that the location where I just indicated at about/near the "Marriot Hotel" is the place where I dropped of Joran and Natalee, I can say the following. I am not sure about the route we drove to get there because it was dark. I think it is the way it happened. That it is the place where I dropped them off.On you question if anyone observed us arriving there, I can say the following. I did not see anyone there.On your question if I saw other cars there, I can say the following. I do not remember whether or not I saw any other cars there..On your question regarding what time I dropped off Joran and Natalee there, I can say the following. I am not answering this question because I have previously made a statement about that. On your question as to why I am unwilling to make a statement about this, I can say the following. I told you yesterday that I am being repeatedly asked the same questions and I am sick and tired of that.On your question as to why I am unwilling to make a statement on this question if I am claiming to tell the truth and I need not fear making the same statement twice, I can say the following. If you give a second statement it can never be precisely the same as the previous one and the district attorney can use this as proof of me not telling the truth so that I can be held in jail even longer. It is my right to not say anything and I cannot be forced to make a statement. D.S. KALPOEAfter the suspect D.S. KALPOE had read through his statement, he declared that he wasn't going to sign his statement. He indicated that he wasn't going to because he wanted to read through the statement together with his lawyer. His request to read it with his lawyer was denied.Of this we, the reporting officers, on our oath as officers, made this proces-verbaal on June 30th 2005.The reporting officers.M.R. GUMBS



On 6-30 Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE gave the following statements to his ARUBAN Police Interrogators:
(Thank You and Hat Tip to the “Scared Monkeys blog" and “Debbie”)

PROCES – VERBAAL We, Dennis Dominico JACOBS and Haydee Azucena NADAL, head agent and sergeant first class at the Korps Police Force Aruba, former classified at the Atraco team and last mentioned at the research together functioning team, explain the following: On Thursday, June 30, 2005, around 14:30, we spoke to and interrogated the suspect: Satish Sharma KALPOE, born in Surinam on July 30, 1986, without profession (student Colegio Arubano) and residing in Hooiberg number xxxx on Aruba. Before we spoke to and interrogated the suspect S.S. KALPOE, I, NADAL, informed him that he is not obliged to make a declaration. Also I, NADAL, informed him that he had the right not to give a statement against his brother “Deepak Sharma Kalpoe”. I, NADAL, also informed the suspect that they hear on link will be taken (?). Was put on record by me, NADAL, in Dutch and the statement sounds as follows: Although you informed me that I do not have to make a declaration I nevertheless am prepared to do this. So far I have only told the truth. I have already told to you everything. On your question if Joran can drive a car, I can explain to you the following: I am certain that Joran can drive a car. Joran has in the month of March 2005, driven my mother’s car. Joran drove the car on that day from the parking place at the Marriott hotel to my house in Hooiberg. Then Joran was the only one in the car and he was drunk. On your question if Joran drove the car of its parents, I can explain to you the following: I have never seen Joran drive the cars of his parents. You must ask Freddy if Joran drove the cars of his parents. The parents of Joran have two cars and they are a dark blue "Hyundai" jeep and a red car of which I now no longer remember what kind. On your question if Deepak, Joran I on Sunday, May 29, 2005, and/or on Monday, May 30, 2005, in the nighttime hours drove to Joran’s house, I can explain to you the following: The only moment that we went to Joran’s house was on Sunday, May 29, 2005 at around 23:15 or 23.30, when Deepak and I had picked up Joran at his apartment. On your question how many mobile telephones Joran has, I can tell you the following: I am informed that Joran only has (1) mobile telephone. Sometimes Joran can borrow someone else’s mobile telephone if he must call someone and has no more minutes credit left. On your question if Joran told me he has sex with the missing American girl "Natalee Ann HOLLOWAY", I can answer you the following: Joran had told me at absolutely no moment that he had sex with the girl or got rough (savage?). I have also, at no moment, seen the pants (underwear) if the girl. I had only seen that Joran and Natalee were French kissing. On your question what is my opinion concerning what happened with the missing girl, I can explain to you the following: I think that girl has drowned. Joran had told Deepak and I that he had left the girl behind on the beach and that they were (1) meter away from the water lying on the sand. On your question if I know the name of Joran’s second brother, I can only give you the following answers: Joran has two (2) younger brothers but I don’t know their names. I think that Joran’s brother is fifteen (15) years old. On your question if the fifteen-year-old brother of Joran can drive a car, I cannot answer that question. On your question who can tell the truth to you, with the exception of Joran, Deepak and I, I can tell you the following: Freddy is the person Joran confides in and he can tell you the truth. On your question how often Joran has driven my mother’s car, I will explain the following: Joran has only driven my mother’s car (1) time. I can say to you that I saw he did it well. I’m not aware of how Joran learned to drive a car. On your question of when Deepak, Joran and I were with Natalee on, May 30, 2005, in the nighttime hours, wasn’t it too dark in the car for Joran to see the color of the missing girl’s panties, I can only answer this: There was enough light in the car of Deepak. Joran must have taken off the clothing of the girl so that he could see the color of the panties she wore. On your question if we, Deepak, Joran and I in the mondi/nature (?) have driven round and with Joran, I answer you no. We will walk around each Sunday to the beach of the Holiday Inn Hotel but we never swim. Joran, Deepak and I can swim well. On your question if I have ever been to the "Natural Bridge", I will answer yes. I have been on the North side of Aruba but I have never swum there. I have been prepared to always give a statement. We had lied in the interest of Joran and now I sit locked up. I have lied at the request of Joran and Deepak. Was not signed, After the suspect S.S. KALPOE was given his statement to read, he explained that he would not sign it. He gave as a reason that his lawyer first must read the declaration before he would sign it. Of what our, statement, on oath of office made up this proces - verbaal, and has been signed at Oranjestad on June 30, 2005 and has been closed. Signed, DD JACOBS H.A. NADAL



On 6-30 JOHN J. WARDLAW gave the following statements to his ARUBAN Police Interrogators:
(Thank You and Hat Tip to the “Scared Monkeys blog" and “Debbie”)

PROCES - VERBAALI, Giovanni Chevalier HEYLIGER, agent first class at the Korps Police force Aruba and the Flex-Team, explain the following.On, Monday June 30, 2005, around 15:15, I heard as witness a man who gave his name as:John Joseph WARDLAWborn in United Kingdom on 16 February 1956, living at Montana xxxxxxxxxx, employed at the (International School). This statement was taken in English and translated by me, HEYLIGER, to Dutch and sounds as follows:I can tell you with certainty that Joran was in school Monday, May 30, 2005. On that day he had helped with moving some school cabinets and folders, because the school is busy with moving to a new building. This may have been done in his free hours, I am not certain of this. Also I can remember that he had become on sick on two days, and he went towards the medical center, which we have at school. This was on Monday, May 30, 2005 and Tuesday, May 31, 2005 this happened. I cannot say with certainty how he leaves school or how he came. He certainly would have come by bus because his mother was absent. The only students who can come with their own vehicles to school are those who have a driver’s license. How he leaves I cannot say with certainty because I am inside when the students depart. But there is an attendance record that you can examine. If he had asked to leave it would certainly be mentioned.This was the last week prior to final examinations and the lessons continued ordinarily.J.J. WARDLAWOf which by me, HEYLIGER on oath of office made up this warrant which has been closed and signed on June 31, 2005.Signed,HEYLIGER, G.C.



On 6-30 CNN reported:

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: … That Aruban judge detained and later released in the Natalee Holloway investigation apparently gave his son some advice. Paul van der Sloot told his son and two friends there would be no case if no body was found. CNN learned about the conversation in an interview with Aruba's chief prosecutor. It apparently took place some days after Holloway was last seen. When questioned about it, van der Sloot said he was only speaking about the case generally. The three young boys are still in custody in Holloway's disappearance. No formal charges have been filed in the case.



On July 1, 2005 CNN reported:

LAW CENTER
DJ admits false tale about missing teen
Aruba prosecutor says judge told son: No body, no case
PALM BEACH, Aruba (CNN) -- A disc jockey who spent 10 days in jail after being arrested and questioned about a missing American teenager admits he lied to Aruban Police to protect one of the suspects in custody.
"I heard this guy talking on the phone at the Internet cafe," Steve Croes said. "So my story was like almost exactly as his."
Croes was referring to Deepak Kalpoe, 21, who originally said he and his brother Satish, 18, and their friend Joran van der Sloot, 17, drove Natalee Holloway back to the Holiday Inn the night of May 30.
Croes told Police he saw the young men drop Holloway off at the hotel.
"So that's why they thought that maybe I was in it," Croes told CNN Wednesday. "But everything that I knew, I just hear it from his voice, when he was talking on the phone."
Croes works on a party boat that docks about 1,000 feet from the Holiday Inn where Holloway was staying when she disappeared.
The Kalpoes later said they dropped Joran and Natalee off at a beach down the road.
When she disappeared, the 18 year old was celebrating her high school graduation in Aruba with about 100 classmates and several parent chaperones from Mountain Brook, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham.
She was last seen leaving a nightclub with the Kalpoe brothers and van der Sloot. They were arrested on June 9 and have been detained since.
No charges have been filed against the three, and their attorneys have said the men are innocent.
Police released Croes Monday after a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to hold him. The DJ was arrested June 17 after at least one of the three still being held named him during questioning by authorities, officials said.
A hearing is scheduled early next week to determine whether the Kalpoe brothers and van der Sloot can be held for 60 more days.
Prosecutor: van der Sloots interfered
Judge Paul van der Sloot, Joran's father, was arrested a week ago, but was released a few days later.
Aruba's chief prosecutor Karin Janssen told CNN Wednesday the elder van der Sloot told his son that without a body Police would have no case.
Janssen said the judge made the comment "some days after" Holloway disappeared in a conversation with his son and the Kalpoes.
Investigators learned about his conversation with the three during questioning of one of the Kalpoe brothers, Janssen said, and when asked about the comment, the judge replied that he had been speaking about such a situation "generally."
In addition, he and his wife, Anita, interfered in the case by asking a friend of their son what he had told Police during questioning, Janssen said.
"That was not positive to the investigation," she said.
CNN has tried unsuccessfully to contact the couple and attorneys representing the father and son.
The release of the elder van der Sloot was met with chagrin by Holloway's family.
"He definitely, definitely has information that he needs to step forward and be the man that he is and disclose that information," Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, told CNN.
Janssen said criticism of the way Aruban authorities have handled the case "is not justified."
"We have a civilized society. We have a decent law system. We can't book people when we want ... [like] a bunch of cowboys," she said. "We have made some progress, and we are doing it in our way. It is maybe not fast enough for a lot of people, but it is no grounds to have such criticism."
The legal system in Aruba, an autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is based partly on Dutch civil law.
Janssen said she thinks island Police "are doing a hell of a job."
The prosecutor said the investigation is being conducted around the three suspects in custody, "so we get a clear picture of where they were, and what has happened, and what happened to Natalee." She described the process as "millimeter work" going on "around the clock."
"It's a real puzzle, but we are getting the picture of the puzzle, I think," she said.
Janssen said authorities in Aruba are working Holloway's disappearance as a missing person's case with the possibility of murder, although they have not definitively concluded that the teen is dead.
Mother: Time wasted
Twitty, however, wonders how much time Investigators lost checking out Croes' story.
"I think that's sad for him if that's how it truly happened," she said. "I just don't want to waste any more ... energy or focus on the wrong individuals."
Croes said he lied to Police because he thought he was helping Deepak stay out of trouble.
"If you were sitting in the cafe and heard the guy, you'd think he was telling the truth, too," Croes said.
Aruba on Thursday was awaiting the deployment of another contingent of Dutch Marines to assist with the search for Holloway.
The Netherlands agreed Wednesday to assign the Marines to the search, joining several hundred others stationed on the island who have been looking.
Also scouring the island is a team of search specialists that arrived last weekend. The volunteer group, Texas EquuSearch, has sent some searchers home, as well as several cadaver dogs, but expects to have new volunteers arrive to continue the search.



Circa 6-30 DAVID KOCK ( Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE's lawyer) supposedly obtained documents from prosecutors saying that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT has changed his basic story of what happened 8 times, of which 4 of them had significant changes.
On 6-30 some ARUBAAN's stopped work and appeared with tourists and NATALEE’s Loved Ones in a prayer chain in a moment of silence to honor and pray for NATALEE. The Reverend TONY PERALTA lead about 250 people, including BETH and JUG TWITTY in prayer in front of the “Holiday Inn.” “Lord give us the joy of finding Natalee” PERALTA said.

On 6-30 at the weekly Government press conference, ODUBER told about the creation of a committee, the “Aruba Strategic Communications Task Force” that has the goal to minimize the effect of all the negative and incorrect information--in the ARUBAANS opinion--that is being disseminated about ARUBAANS actions and in-actions in connection with solving the disappearance of NATALEE.
This group consists of a conglomerate of individuals from AHATA (“Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association“), the ATA (“Aruba Tourism Authority“), and Aruba business and government leaders. The committee consists of ex-Governor Olindo Koolman, banker Bill Carson, president of the Aruba Chamber of Commerce Edwin Roos, president of the Aruba Free Zone drs. Gregg Peterson, psychologist Jaap Beaujon, the president of the Aruba Hotel & Tourism Association Jorge Pesquera, director of the Aruba Tourism Authority Myrna Jansen, and Government spokesperson Ruben Trapenberg.

Memo from the “Aruban Strategic Communications Task Force“:
(the task force website closed down in mid-2006 with no explanation)

The Strategic Communications Task ForceWho We AreThe Strategic Communications Task Force is a working group established in Aruba to address the issues surrounding the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The Task Force includes representatives from AHATA (Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association), ATA (Aruba Tourism Authority), business and government leaders. The Task Force continues to support the Holloway/Twitty families and will continue to offer support in their search for Natalee Holloway.Steering Committee of the Strategic Communications Task Force:
Myrna Jansen, chairperson Aruba Tourism Authority Serge Mansur, chairperson Aruba Trade & Industry Association Jorge Pesquera, chairperson Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association Edwin Roos Chamber of Commerce Jaap Beaujon Advisor Agustin Vrolijk Department of Foreign Affairs Frits Israel Aruba Tourism Authority Gina Lopez-Gnecco Aruba Tourism Authority Rob Smith Aruba Hospitality & Security Foundation Additional members
Greg Peterson Aruba Trade & Industry Association Olindo Koolman Former Governor of Aruba Alfonso Riverol Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association Andy Osbourne Aruba Timeshare Association Jan van Nes Aruba Timeshare Association Bill Carson Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association Erik Brete Liaison to the office of the Prime Minister Henry Baarh Minister Plenipotentiary Washington John Merryweather Former Government Official Tamara Waldron Ministry of Tourism and Transportation Ruben Trapenberg Aruba Airport Authority Contributing participants Helen Bautista Fitzgerald and Co. Kelly Marshal Fitzgerald and Co. Florence Quinn Quinn and Co. What we doThe Strategic Communications Task Force’s goal is to stay abreast of all developments in the Natalee Holloway disappearance, verify if information given is truthful and bring forward the correct facts when necessary. The Task Force also aims to inform the public and media whenever there is information that can be shared and monitor media coverage both locally and internationally in an effort to prevent and minimize any damage to the economic wellbeing of Aruba. The Task Force believes that it is very important to keep the community at large well informed of the latest developments.

The “Aruba Tourism Authority” replied in an email:

Aruba Tourism AuthorityL.G. Smith Blvd. 172Eagle, ArubaDutch CaribbeanPhone: International code +(297) 582-3777Fax: International code +(297) 583-4702Strategic Communications Task Forcesctf@aruba.comIf you have any information regarding the disappearance of Natalee Holloway:1. Contact the Aruban Authorities at 011-297-11141 (Police Tipline)2. Contact the FBI Tipline at 1-877-628-2533.The search for Natalee Holloway continues and Dave Holloway requests that anyone with legitimate leads, tips, or information that can help find Natalee Holloway or resolve her disappearance to please email him at helpfindnatalee@comcast.net.Aruba Truth is a web site that is dedicated to the Natalee Holloway Investigation. Visit ArubaTruth.com for more information.Aruba Truth wants to hear from you. Please send comments, questions and information to: arubatruth@yahoo.com



On 6-30 Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT and Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE were filmed being transported together in a car away from the prison. (it was later claimed by authorities that the 2 suspects were allowed to be together in the same car so the Investigators in the car could monitor any information the suspects might reveal together) When asked on 7-1 why two of three suspects ( Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT and Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE ) were transported together from San Nicolas prison late on the evening of 6-30 (apparently giving them the opportunity to compare or arrange their stories) ARUBA government spokesman TRAPENBERG claimed that was done to “secretly monitor what they might tell each other.”
On 6-30 ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN stated to CNN that “some days after” NATALEE vanished Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT claimed the 3 boys that without a body Police would have no case.
, but also on 6-30 ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN told MSNBC, "They spoke about the situation that when there is no body you don’t have a case, and that was already in the first day after the disappearance." ARUBAN officials stated on 6-30 that everyone that has been arrested was still considered a suspect.
On 6-30 MSNBC documented ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN on film stating,

The father and the mother have asked a friend of Joran‘s, the suspect, the minor suspect, to come to their home to tell them what he has explained to the Police. And that is-- well, I can say, was an obstruction of the investigation.” “The father has spoken with those three suspects, and he said he give them some legal advice, but I think the advices were going further than that. They spoke about the situation that when there is no body, you don‘t have a case. And that was already in the first day after the disappearance.” ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN said they learned of Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT ’s meeting with and advise to the 3 young Current Murder Suspects from interrogations of one of the Current Murder Suspects KALPOE’s. ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN further said “We have a civilized society. We have a decent law system. We can’t book people when we want… (like) a bunch of cowboys. We have made some progress, and we are doing it in our way. It is maybe not fast enough for a lot of people, but it is no grounds to have such criticism.



On 6-30 CBS reported:

One Month, And Still No Natalee
Alabama Teen Disappeared In Aruba During School Graduation Trip
(CBS/AP) One month after 18-year-old Alabama teen Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a school trip, it's still not known whether she is dead or alive, or what happened to her. However, Aruba's attorney general insists her office is making progress. "The investigation is going well," Caren Janssen said. Janssen also rejects suggestions that her office is not capable of handling the investigation. "I am an experienced qualified prosecutor and I already handled several of these cases in Holland," she said. Janssen told an American cable television network that the father of a Dutch teenager arrested in the disappearance of a young U.S. woman told his son and his two friends that "when there is no body you don't have a case." Paul van der Sloot, a judge in training in Aruba, agrees he gave his son and his friends legal advice. "I explained to them the procedures, so that they would not panic. That was sufficient for the prosecutor to suspect that I was an accomplice," he told Dutch television. Janssen said that the elder van der Sloot had obstructed the investigation by asking a friend of the son, who had been interrogated by Police, what he had told them. "They spoke about the situation that when there is no body you don't have a case, and that was already in the first day after the disappearance," Janssen said. Joran van der Sloot, 17, and two Surinamese brothers remain in custody. There are no still definitive answers about what happened to Holloway, reports CBS News Correspondent Steve Futterman. Few believe there is any chance that she is still alive; search crews are essentially trying to find her body. "We cannot exclude that something terribly wrong happened to Natalee," said Janssen. "We are determined to find Natalee and in case someone harmed her, to find those who are responsible."
The younger van der Sloot and his friends remain the focus of the investigation. Natalee Holloway's family planned a prayer vigil Thursday. A human chain was planned near the hotel where Natalee was staying until she disappeared. Joran van der Sloot and his Surinamese friends, brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, were arrested June 9. Paul van der Sloot, 52, was arrested last Thursday, but later released. No one has been charged. Also Wednesday, Steve Croes, a disc jockey who was arrested and held 10 days before being released Monday, told The Associated Press that his detention was based on a lie he told Police. Croes, 26, said he told Police he had seen Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers drop Holloway off at the Holiday Inn the night she disappeared, as the three originally told Police. "That was a lie," Croes told the AP during an interview Wednesday night. "I didn't even know those guys and they didn't know me." Croes said that while he was at an Internet cafe a few days after Holloway's disappearance, he heard Deepak Kalpoe talking on a cell phone about how the young men had dropped Holloway off. Croes said the story seemed plausible and he went around repeating it, adding that he had seen them drop her off. Police questioned and then arrested him, Croes said. "I learned that if you don't know something, keep your mouth shut," said Croes. He said has veen fired from his disc jockey job on the Tattoo party boat.



On 6-30 MSNBC reported:

DAN ABRAMS, HOST: Coming up, another ABRAMS REPORT exclusive. For the first time Aruba‘s chief prosecutor answers the questions everyone‘s been asking.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ABRAMS (voice-over): She‘s a woman at the center of the storm, in charge of prosecuting the Natalee Holloway case. She‘s speaking to us. The question, is she even convinced that there‘s been a crime?
Plus, the first major corporate CEO to be found not guilty—trial watchers say the evidence was overwhelming. So what happened? Some say it was race and religion.
And a Georgia manhunt is on for this man, accused of molesting and murdering a 4-year-old girl. Police say he‘s headed for the border and they need your help.
The program about justice starts now.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
ABRAMS: Hi everyone. First up on the docket tonight, she has the answers to the question everyone has been asking about the case of that missing Alabama teen, Natalee Holloway in Aruba. What evidence do they actually have against the various suspects? Are they even convinced a crime has been committed?
Well, only moments ago, Karin Janssen, chief prosecutor in the case sat down with our own Martin Savidge for her first interview. It‘s another exclusive. He joins us now with what Janssen revealed—Martin.
MARTIN SAVIDGE, NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Good evening to you, Dan. There was a lot of information that was revealed. One of the things we should tell you is that Karin Janssen has been a prosecutor for 12 years. For a year and a half, she‘s been the chief prosecutor on the island of Aruba.
The moment you see her, you understand she is a no-nonsense individual. She had some ground rules and she told us quite clearly, we either follow them or we‘d be out of her office never to return again. The ground rules were fairly simple.
We got 15 minutes—that was it—and she had a statement to make initially. After that we could ask questions. Here was the end result.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KARIN JANSSEN, CHIEF PROSECUTOR IN ARUBA: We are basing our investigation on that possibility. So I can‘t answer your question positively because we have not found any traces of a crime. We are investigating that possibility.
SAVIDGE: And again, you seem to allude to it. You are working under the belief that she is dead, but you have not received anything to confirm that she is dead. Is that right?
JANSSEN: No. No, we can‘t confirm that because otherwise, we would have told the family first. But there are no traces, no facts, no circumstances that we can base the opinion that we are sure that Natalee is not alive anymore.
SAVIDGE: And you have not been told anything by the people in custody that...
SAVIDGE: ... she is dead?
JANSSEN: No. No. That‘s true. They didn‘t tell us that.
SAVIDGE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) I guess there was a feeling—there is a feeling...
JANSSEN: Yes.
SAVIDGE: ... that with the release of Mr. van der Sloot , Paul, with the release of Steven Croes, that the investigation has reached an impasse. I know you‘ve spoken about that...
JANSSEN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
SAVIDGE: ... but you seem to imply that actually no, things are moving along very well.
JANSSEN: Yes, I don‘t have that feeling that we are in the middle of an impasse or that we are at the end of a tunnel. I think positively because we have many questions, we have a lot of things we have to search for, and I think we are in a phase—an important phase in the investigation, a crucial phase, perhaps, by getting those technical information so we can make a timeline because it‘s not only the night of Sunday to Monday what is important but also the days after.
SAVIDGE: And these communications you speak of...
JANSSEN: Yes.
SAVIDGE: ... the messaging, the chatting...
SAVIDGE: ... this is what occurred between the three suspects?
JANSSEN: Also and others.
SAVIDGE: After Natalee vanished?
JANSSEN: Yes. Yes.
SAVIDGE: Have you actually been able to read or do you only understand that they communicated...
JANSSEN: No...
SAVIDGE: Do you know what they were saying?
JANSSEN: We have much more information than only that. I can‘t tell you the details about that. I only can say there‘s telephone, e-mail, chat sessions, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) messages and that‘s the sort of communication that we are investigating now. And it gives us a clear picture of where they were and how they communicate and what they said to each other.
SAVIDGE: One of the criticisms that has come from America is why did it take so long before the three young men, the last man...
JANSSEN: Yes.
SAVIDGE: ... to be with Natalee...
JANSSEN: Yes.
SAVIDGE: ... were taken into custody.
JANSSEN: Well that‘s an important question. I‘m glad you asked me that. Because everyone in my business knows that if you have a crime, and you do an investigation, and you have a certain moment that a person is coming to be a suspect, it‘s the worse thing you can do is run and arrest him because in one hour you don‘t have anything to speak about. Your—through your subjects what you can discuss, you have to investigate around him, have some information and then when you have a good solid base, you can go talk with somebody as a suspect.
SAVIDGE: Did you survey them? Did you follow them? Did you listen to their conversations? Clearly you were able to gather information.
JANSSEN: Yes. I can‘t tell you what we did in that time. But we spent it on building up the investigation, step by step.
SAVIDGE: The concern is that perhaps evidence was lost. That there was time for the suspects to dispose of what could have been evidence.
JANSSEN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) That‘s not my opinion. No.
SAVIDGE: OK. The father—let me see if you understood this correctly. You mentioned that there was harm done to the investigation from Mr. van der Sloot , Paul van der Sloot...
JANSSEN: Yes.
SAVIDGE: ... and you said the family. Are you referring to the Holloway family when they—could you just clarify what you said...
JANSSEN: Yes. OK. I said that the investigation was—I think you called it...
JANSSEN: ... harm or obstructed, by the fact that the father of the suspect, the minor, who has always been arrested but released...
SAVIDGE: What did the father do?
JANSSEN: Well, the father has spoken with those three suspects and he said he gave them some legal advice but I think the advices were going further than that. They spoke about the situation that when there is no body, you don‘t have a case, and that was already in the first day after the disappearance. And secondly, the father and the mother have asked a friend of Joran, the suspect—the minor suspect, to come to their home to tell them what he has explained to the Police. And that is, well, I can say was an obstruction of the investigation.
SAVIDGE: So both the Holloway family and the father in some way has...
JANSSEN: I‘m not talking about the Holloway family.
SAVIDGE: OK...
JANSSEN: No...
SAVIDGE: ... that‘s what I want to make sure...
JANSSEN: No, I‘m not talking about the Holloway family. I‘m talking about the family of the minor suspect, the suspect who is 17.
SAVIDGE: OK. The father spoke to the three young men prior to them being taken into custody and offered them some sort of legal advice...
JANSSEN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
SAVIDGE: ... including specifically saying if there is no body, how it would impact the investigation.
JANSSEN: They talked about that and he confirmed that...
JANSSEN: ... and they talked about that.
SAVIDGE: Seems a very damning thing to say...
JANSSEN: Well, you can take your own conclusion of that, but I can say that the investigation has shown and he confirms that, that is spoken to them. That was the conversation only a couple of days after the disappearance.
SAVIDGE: Do you consider the father a suspect or is it this obstruction or interference that you arrested him for?
JANSSEN: No, we did not arrest him for that interference situation. He was a suspect and the judge made his decision that there were insufficient grounds to make him a suspect.
SAVIDGE: And how did you feel when you heard that from the judge?
JANSSEN: Well, as always, a disappointment when you are running an investigation and one of your suspects is released, but it‘s not the end of the investigation and we are going, we are going further to solve this case and find the truth.
SAVIDGE: Do you think you will solve it?
JANSSEN: I hope it. I can‘t give you guarantees, but we are still determined and working all right.
SAVIDGE: The point that the father brought up in the conversation to the boys, if there is no body—and we have been searching all over this island for so long...
JANSSEN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
SAVIDGE: ... and searching in the water—what happens if there isn‘t a body? What happens if she is never found? Can you pursue this case?
JANSSEN: Well we are now in the middle of an investigation. Everybody is watching, the suspects also. So it wouldn‘t be wise to say anything about that possibility. We are focusing on the investigation. We are getting some information. We are doing it step by step. It takes not days, perhaps weeks, but we are concentrating on that.
SAVIDGE: But you know Dutch law. I mean you must know what is required as far as evidence and proof.
JANSSEN: Well, Dutch law is not so many different about—than the American system. Maybe when you go to court. In America, you have a jury trial and in the Dutch law, it is the judge who makes decision if somebody is guilty or not guilty. But to build up the evidence, I think it‘s not so different as in the states.
SAVIDGE: With the evidence you have today, would you feel confident going before a judge?
JANSSEN: We have a long way to go. We have still a long way to go.
SAVIDGE: That implies you may not have a lot.
JANSSEN: You must give me a chance.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
SAVIDGE: And a chance is what she says she needs at this particular point. She said the reason she talked to us was she wanted Americans to see her face, to see her personality, to understand how committed she is to this particular case. There are 20 Investigators from Aruba alone working on it in conjunction with the F.B.I. and top Investigators here from the Netherlands. She says that is the least that is due to the family of Natalee Holloway and to the American public to understand—Dan.
ABRAMS: All right, Martin, great job getting that interview. We‘re going to play more of Martin‘s interview coming up in our next block, more information coming from the chief prosecutor. But let me just summarize because we just heard a lot, a lot more than I would have expected this chief prosecutor would have said.
First of all no confession—none of the suspects, she says, have actually confessed to killing Natalee Holloway, number one. Number two:
That the three suspects, and others were e-mailing and texting each other and they now have those e-mails and text messages and they‘ve now obtained those e-mails and text messages. That‘s number two.
Number three: That the father of Joran van der Sloot, who was arrested and then released offered the three suspects legal advice and she said, but it was more than that. She had said to them—that he said to them when there‘s no body you don‘t have a case. But she also added that he was arrested not just for that, as we knew, but that he was arrested because he was a suspect in this case.
Criminal defense attorney Ted Simon joins me. He‘s worked on a number of cases, some of them in Aruba. Ted...
THEODORE SIMON, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes.
ABRAMS: ... this is new information. This is interesting stuff.
Just let me get your reaction first up.
SIMON: Well, there‘s so much to react to. It was a wonderful interview. Some of the things that I hope I got right from what she said and I‘m quoting her, she said there‘s no traces of a crime. She said there are no facts and no circumstances and they can‘t confirm she‘s dead. Now, that is pretty startling information in its own right.
I mean, if that is the case, how do they know that there‘s even been a crime? Now, she did say some other things and she mentioned about the legal advice and she mentioned there‘s no body and she mentioned that supposedly, he gave advice to the three. But what is the source of that information? She didn‘t say she got it from the text messages...
ABRAMS: No, she said...
SIMON: ... or the e-mail.
ABRAMS: ... he confirmed it. She said he confirmed it, meaning he, the father confirmed that he gave some of this legal advice. Let me—
Ted, let me do this. Let me take a quick break. You‘re going to stick around.
SIMON: Sure.
ABRAMS: We‘re going to have more of Martin‘s interview with the chief prosecutor investigating this case. As Ted said, some startling information coming out of that.
And later in the program, did this CEO become the first high-profile not guilty verdict because he found God.
And authorities in Georgia on a manhunt for a suspect they say kidnapped, molested, killed a 4-year-old girl believed to be headed to Mexico. If he makes it, could be that he won‘t be sent back to the U.S. if he‘s facing the death penalty.
Your e-mails abramsreport@msnbc.com. Please include your name and where you‘re writing from. I respond at the end of the show.
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(NEWS BREAK)
ABRAMS: We‘re back with more of the exclusive interview with the top prosecutor in Aruba certainly making news. She‘s in charge of the Natalee Holloway investigation, the missing Alabama teen. Prosecutor Karin Janssen sat down with Martin Savidge. Martin is back with us—Martin.
SAVIDGE: Yes, one of the things that we talked about in this interview was you know the charges. And as you know the law, the setup here is a little bit different than it is in the United States. You are charged under suspicion or suspicion of a crime and they didn‘t want to talk specifically in the first week of the investigation as to what the charges were that they were contemplating. There was a reason for that and that‘s what Karin Janssen is talking about right now here.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JANSSEN: The prosecution did not express the charges, the public during the first week of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, more out of respect also for the family. We did not want to speak about murder and homicide because we did not want to hurt the feelings of that family unnecessarily and because in the early stage, they only want to find their girl alive.
At this stage of the investigation, we cannot exclude that something terrible maybe happened to Natalee. We are determined to find the truth, to find Natalee and in case somebody harmed her to find those who are responsible. The investigation has been hampered by the fact that the father had been instructing the three suspects with elementary aspects and the parents together, has been interviewing friends of their son about what he told to the Police.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SAVIDGE: One of the other things that the prosecutor wanted to express and expressed very clearly was that we started talking about the frustration of the Holloway family, they‘ve been very vocal, especially in the past couple of days about how they feel this investigation is not going in a positive direction. And Karin Janssen said that she understood that frustration, that she could sympathize with their anger and she knew where it was coming from and that said quite frankly if the shoe were on the other foot, if she was in that predicament, she would feel the same frustrations.
But she has also met with them and again, one of the reasons she
granted this interview was to express not just to the Holloway family, but
to the American public that she personally is doing everything she can to -
· one—find Natalee Holloway, find those who are responsible and understand exactly what happened—Dan.
ABRAMS: All right. Martin Savidge, once again thank you very much for that exclusive interview out of Aruba.
Back with us is criminal defense attorney Ted Simon. He‘s worked on a lot of cases, internationality, some of them in Aruba. And also joining me from there is Chris Lejuez, attorney for one of the former security guards who were arrested early on in this investigation. Gentleman, thanks for joining us.
All right. Ted, let me just finish up with what we were talking about before the break. So the bottom line is the authorities have e-mails, they have text messages between at least the three suspects, it appears, but it sounds to me like what they got on dad isn‘t much. I mean I think what they have on dad in the United States would be referred to as legal advice.
SIMON: I agree with you. It sounds very, very thin. And don‘t forget, as we‘ve discussed before, just to be held down there all you need is that minimum threshold of reasonable suspicion. So whatever they have, they don‘t have that because he was released. So whatever they have developed from text messaging, potential inconsistent statements between people and even this purported legal advice was not enough to get passed reasonable suspicion.
And even in Aruba they have a standard of beyond a reasonable doubt to convict. So right now, it seems extremely thin. And I wonder and I wonder this. There was a report yesterday that the D.J. Croes claims Deepak Kalpoe had said that this group of the father and the other boys manufactured a story. But who could ever believe him in that he didn‘t even know these people, but more importantly and—excuse me. That‘s the security guard who claimed that. Let me clarify.
But more importantly, the security guard also said that when he spoke to Deepak Kalpoe that these three were expecting Natalee to show back up when asked why would they manufacture a story. So it‘s extremely confusing that even the security guard who claims that Deepak told him a manufactured story, part of the manufactured story was that there was—that she was still alive.
ABRAMS: Mr. Lejuez, have you been able to hear this interview with the prosecutor?
CHRIS LEJUEZ, ABRAHAM JONES‘ ATTORNEY: Most of it. Not all of it though.
ABRAMS: What do you make of this? Let me ask you as a legal matter in Aruba. It sounds like what the prosecutor is saying is, because the father spoke to the three suspects a couple days after Natalee disappeared, gave them advice, said to them where there‘s no body, there‘s no case and then they say that he and his wife interviewed the friend of their son to find out what their son had said to Police. Is any of that illegal in Aruba?
LEJUEZ: It‘s not illegal, sir, but I would rather not comment regarding the ongoing investigation. There is one thing I will say something about. There is the fact that I heard the prosecutor say that she has no proof yet that a crime has been committed. This is something that I‘ve been saying all along right from the start.
We don‘t know yet if there has been a crime—if a crime has been committed. What we do have are suspicions that possibly a crime has been committed and based on these suspicions these people are being held apparently, sir.
ABRAMS: But does it sound to you—again and I‘m not asking about what you know about the case. I‘m asking you sort of just as someone who knows Aruban law. Are you allowed, as a lawyer in Aruba—I mean, here you‘re allowed to say to someone hey look, if there‘s no body, there‘s no crime, to give that advice. You‘re allowed to go and ask people questions about what someone said to the Police, et cetera. It sounds like what the prosecutor is saying is that‘s an obstruction of justice.
LEJUEZ: I can tell you this sir, I heard (UNINTELLIGIBLE) last night on TV, on the Dutch television, where he mentioned that he did speak to the boys and he explained to them the criminal procedure in Aruba. That‘s the word he used. He explained to them the procedure.
ABRAMS: And based on what you‘ve heard the prosecutor say, does it sound to you like that‘s all he did?
LEJUEZ: I believe that the prosecutor is a serious person, would have reasons to state what she has stated. I cannot confirm it though.
ABRAMS: Yes. What about your client? What about the fact—your client and his friend, are they still possibly going to be called as witnesses?
LEJUEZ: The case against—they have been released but that doesn‘t mean that the case against them has been dropped as yet, so it‘s possible that they would want to hear them again either as witnesses or a suspect. Until the case is dropped, they‘re really in the clear in this case, sir.
ABRAMS: Ted, it sounds to me like as a legal matter what Paul van der Sloot did, at least what we know he did—and again, if they have more evidence on him with regard to suspicion of murder, that‘s something entirely different. But based on what the prosecutor said he did, it is, I think frustrating probably to the prosecutors. It is probably very frustrating to the family because it sounds like what he‘s doing is trying to help his son deal with a very, very dicey situation, but it also sounds to me like he was basically doing what criminal defense lawyers in this country do all the time, which drives a lot of people crazy, but it doesn‘t sound out of the ordinary.
SIMON: Yes. You know Dan, I‘m glad you clarified that in particular with your other guests in that apparently Mr. Van der Sloot said that he gave advice as far as criminal procedure, which seems very neutral and not even specific to the case at hand. So whatever may have been told to him, either by his son or others, it doesn‘t even seem like it reached to the point of any of them saying they did something wrong.
ABRAMS: And what‘s interesting, Ted is he waived his right not to testify against his son. Meaning, that he has a right in Aruba to say I don‘t want to testify against my son and as a result can‘t be called. He waived that right, which seems to indicate that he at least is going to claim he doesn‘t have anything to say that‘s going to incriminate his son.
SIMON: I totally agree with you. I mean he has the right to be free from self-incrimination like we have here. He‘s waived that. He‘s not invoked that and he second—he invoked—he waived the right to the parent-child privilege when he wouldn‘t have to speak to that. So my gut tells me and I agree with you, that he doesn‘t know anything that‘s worthy, that would in any way, adversely impact on his son or the others...
ABRAMS: Yes.
SIMON: ... and that doesn‘t necessarily mean his son or the others did or didn‘t do something.
ABRAMS: Mr. Lejuez, what do you think of our analysis on this?
LEJUEZ: I‘m sorry; did you speak to me sir?
ABRAMS: Yes, I was asking you what you thought of the analysis that we have just been going through about the father‘s role?
LEJUEZ: It‘s quite accurate. In Aruba, you do have the right not to testify against your son or your father or mother or your grandchildren or your spouse. He waived that right apparently. It doesn‘t mean that you have the right to lie though. Once you waive the right, you have to tell the truth. And, according to his own interview, he has been telling them about the procedures in Aruba. There‘s nothing wrong with that. Any father would do that. But I don‘t know if he has given them more specifics regarding the case itself. According to Mrs. Janssen, apparently he did...
ABRAMS: Yes...
LEJUEZ: I can‘t confirm that.
ABRAMS: All right, here‘s the sound again just so we‘re clear on exactly what she said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JANSSEN: The father has spoken with those three suspects and he said he gave them some legal advice, but I think the advices was going further than that. They spoke about the situation that when there is no body, you don‘t have a case and that was already in the first day after the disappearance. And secondly, the father and the mother have asked a friend of Joran, the suspect, the minor suspect, to come to their home to tell them what he has explained to the Police. That is, well, I can say, was an obstruction of the investigation.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
ABRAMS: Chris and Ted, thanks a lot.
ABRAMS: Be right back.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)



On 6-30 the "AP" reported:

Aruba A.G: Prosecution possible without body
‘Difficult but not impossible,’ Janssen says
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Aruba’s attorney general said Thursday she could prosecute a case in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway even if the Alabama teenager’s body is not found.
Karin Janssen also said Investigators have found no evidence to suggest that the 18-year-old Holloway, who disappeared May 30, was dead.
“There are no traces or facts to come to the conclusion that Natalee is no longer alive,” Attorney General Karin Janssen told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
“But that doesn’t mean we can’t prosecute without a body. It’s difficult but not impossible.”
Three young men remain in custody in Holloway's disappearance, but none has been charged.
Aruban officials have said previously a murder conviction is possible without a body, but the case requires strong evidence such as a confession, reliable statements and forensic evidence of wrongdoing. Aruba is a Dutch protectorate and as such operates under Dutch law.
Janssen declined to reveal Thursday what other evidence Investigators might have.
Massive searches by F.B.I. agents, Dutch Marines, Aruban Police and thousands of islanders have produced no trace of Holloway, who was celebrating her graduation from high school in Mountain Brook, Ala., when she disappeared.
Dutch teenager Joran van der Sloot, 17, and his friends, Surinamese brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, were the last people seen with Holloway the night she vanished. The three were questioned in the days after the disappearance but were not arrested until June 9.
Two other men detained in the case — van der Sloot’s father, Paul, and party boat disc jockey Steven Croes — have been released.
Holloway's stepfather, George “Jug” Twitty, said the family was not surprised by Janssen’s comments and was not losing hope the truth would be found.
“We may have no physical evidence, but there is a lot of other evidence of what may have happened in this case,” Twitty told the AP.
Janssen, who has been tightlipped during the investigation, said she had decided to speak out because “there has been so much misinformation in the American press.”
“I’m the lead prosecutor and I want to show that we are not a bunch of cowboys here,” she said.
Janssen declined to be more specific about what she believed had been reported inaccurately.
Paul van der Sloot, an island judicial official, was arrested June 23 but released a few days later when a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to hold him.
Dad's legal advice
Janssen said the elder van der Sloot g!ve his son and the Kalpoe brothers legal advice, telling them that “without a body there is no case.”
“He confirmed to me that he told them that a few days after she disappeared,” Janssen told the AP.
Janssen also alleged Paul van der Sloot, a 52-year-old judge-in-training in Aruba, obstructed authorities’ investigation by asking one of his son’s friends, who had been interrogated, what he told Police.
But Janssen said Paul van der Sloot was detained for being a suspect in the disappearance, not for obstructing the investigation.
Calls to the van der Sloot residence Thursday seeking comment were not answered.
A group of volunteer rescuers from Texas, which began searches Saturday, began a partial pullout from Aruba on Wednesday, with nine of the 27 volunteers returning home. But the group said it planned to bring in replacements for those who had left.



On 6-30 PAUL REYNOLDS told MSNBC “It‘s hard for us to differentiate, but certainly we can see that Aruba is not cooperating. I saw in one of the local newspapers today that they are forming a committee to protect the image of Aruba. I don‘t think their priority is appropriate here.”
On 6-30 “Blogs For Natalee” reported:

Kalpoe Family Says No to Search
Scared Monkeys has information that the Kalpoe family denied the Texas EquuSearch team access to their property.
However, unfortunately the group received a no welcome at the house of the Kalpoe family at Hooiberg.
DIARIO was also present, when on Wednesday, 12 noon, the Texas Equusearch team was in the area and was doing a search around the house. That way, the search can be done quickly and if there is nothing found, it can be deduced that there is nothing to be found.
But when they went to knock on the door of the Kalpoe family, [Texas Equusearch] received a You-Are-Not-Welcome-Here attitude. The mother of Satish and Deepak came out, and denied the Texas Equusearch team access on her property. Not even when they explained to her in a well-mannered way that the search would only make it clear that there was ‘nothing’ there, the denial stayed.
Guilty?



On 6-30 WILLIAM MORRIS told MSNBC that NATALEE “was definitely happy” on 5-29.
On July 17, 2005 JUG TWITTY stated that he was not asked by ARUBAN Police Investigators to make a statement about hearing the Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT and Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE claiming the “Holiday Inn” alibi-lies in the early morning hours meetings of 5-31 “until 30 days after” the events of 5-31 (his statement was not requested by the ARUBAN Police Investigators until 6-30). JUG TWITTY also stated 7-17 that the other witnesses to the early morning hours meetings of 5-31 were not asked by ARUBAN Police Investigators to make a statement about hearing the Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT and Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE claiming the “Holiday Inn” alibi-lies “until 19 days after” the events of 5-31 (these several other witnesses statements were not requested by the ARUBAN Police Investigators until 6-19). JUG TWITTY also stated that the UNITED STATES D.E.A. agent who also heard Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT and Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE claiming the “Holiday Inn” alibi-lies in the early morning hours meetings of 5-31 has never even been asked by ARUBAN Police to make a statement.
SPENCER BACHUS, United States Congressman, Republican-Vestavia Hills, Alabama, stated 6-30 that there were circumstances surrounding Holloway's disappearance that warranted the F.B.I. being heavily involved. He declined to give details. “The circumstances were disturbing,” said Bachus, who formally requested the FBI’s involvement. “I can’t get into it, but it’s something the family is aware of. There was an immediate recognition that this was not simply a teen who wandered off.”
On 6-30 LUIS RAMIREZ told FOX News that “Texas EquuSearch” is welcome to search their backyard. In same interview he said of Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE and Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE , “Their stories keep changing.”
By 6-30 JOE SCARBOROUGH of MSNBC‘s “Scarborough Country” was reporting that the UNITED STATES F.B.I. was very upset and his UNITED STATES F.B.I. source told him that, “They have not allowed us to do (expletive), anything.” (You fill in the blank). … “And I am also hearing from Washington officials that this is an incestuous investigation, that everybody knows everybody down there, and Americans are being kept at an arm’s length. I tell you what, something smells in Aruba.” … “I talked to somebody in—up in Washington today, another person who told me that everybody is trying to protect everybody‘s friend.” … “If these officials had wanted to botch this investigation, if they wanted to protect a friend‘s son, if they wanted to stop Natalee from ever being found, could they have planned it any better than these Aruban authorities have planned it?” … “I talked to law enforcement officers in America and Washington, D.C., today. What they told me was that, when they talked to the prime minister, the prime minister was saying that this investigation is being run out of the Netherlands. When they talk to Dutch authorities, they say, no, no, it‘s an Aruban investigation.”
On July 24, 2005 JOSSY MANSUR stated to FOX News about a previously unknown (and as of 7-24 still not publicly named) witness who had seen post-5-30 photos of Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT , Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE , and Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE. JOSSY MANSUR stated that after 3.5 weeks (circa 6-30) of the ARUBAAN's news-source "Diario" people hearing about, searching for, finding, and helping to convince this witness to come forward, the witness did come forward on 7-22 and made a written, sworn statement to the ARUBAN Police. The witness, who works as a gardener, was on his way to a cooler location early the morning of 5-30. Between 2:30 AM and 3:00 AM, as the witness drove by the “Aruba Racquet Club” on a dirt road only 200 yards from the “Marriott Hotel,” the witness noticed a car blocking a majority of the dirt road so the witness had to slowly drive closely past Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE's silver “Honda” car sitting with its lights switched off. The witness saw Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT sitting in the drivers seat, One of the Current Murder Suspects KALPOE was in the front passenger seat, and the other Current Murder Suspect KALPOE was in the back seat. As the witness slowly drove closely past the 3 Murder Suspects, the 3 Murder Suspects noticed the witness, and Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT quickly turned his head and hid his face, and simultaneously the Current Murder Suspect KALPOE in the back seat quickly laid over and down onto the back seat, seemingly to also try and hide his face. JOSSY MANSUR stated the witness did not see NATALEE sitting upright in the back seat of the car. (she could have been already at another location, laying down on the seat, or she could have been placed in the car’s trunk already, etc) JOSSY MANSUR mentioned that one day while one of the Current Murder Suspect ’s KALPOE’s was still in prison and he was playing dominoes with someone, someone mentioned to Current Murder Suspect KALPOE that this witness had seen the 3 Murder Suspects at 2:30 AM to 3:00 AM. The Current Murder Suspect KALPOE who heard this reportedly threw the dominoes up into the air in an anxious reaction to hearing about being seen 5-31 at 2:30 AM. Somehow, someone from ARUBAAN's news-source "Diario" heard about the Current Murder Suspect KALPOE reacting anxiously about being seen by the witness, and ARUBAAN's news-source "Diario" persons decided to try and locate the witness, which they did locate. JOSSY MANSUR stated the witness was initially scared, but they convinced him to make a written, sworn statement to the Police.
On 6-30 MSNBC reported:

No body, no clues, no case
Natalee, where are you?
COMMENTARY
By Clint Van Zandt
MSNBC analyst & former FBI profiler
Updated: 11:38 a.m. ET June 30, 2005
The now month-old mysterious disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway from a high school graduation trip to Aruba continues to frustrate Americans and others across the world who are following this case, while the Aruban Police continue to plod along in their investigation, one that has seen seven arrests and four of these seven quickly released due to lack of evidence against them.
After the release this week of 26-year-old now former party boat DJ Steve Croes, (he's been fired from his job on the "Tattoo,") someone who said he did not know any of the three currently incarcerated suspects, to include 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak (age 21) and Satish (age 18) Kalpoe; and Paulus van der Sloot, an Aruban judge in training and father of Joran, one must wonder where the local authorities in Aruba are going with this case. Of course the suspects haven't been much help either. Croes, for example, denies knowing any of the three primary suspects. He indicated that he made up the story that he saw them drop Natalee off at her hotel the night she disappeared (thereby providing the three suspects with their initial alibi) just to be a good guy -- (makes you question his veracity, if not his sanity), noting, of course, that Croes frequented the Internet cafe that employed one of the Kalpoe brothers and supposedly happened to overhear Deepak telling this story, so he retold the story and made himself a witness (dumb). The senior van der Sloot may well have been arrested to put pressure on his son, everyone's current leading suspect, but Mr. van der Sloot was quickly released, again due to lack of evidence connecting him to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
He said that he said...We now hear that Mickey John, one of the two security guards originally implicated by Joran and the two Kalpoes as being the last people seen with Natalee -- men that were themselves arrested and subsequently released -- has now suggested that Deepak Kalpoe told him that Paulus van der Sloot may have counseled or otherwise advised the three current suspects on how to deal with the authorities and the questions that would be asked of them should they be arrested, or that Mr. van der Sloot might, perhaps, have been otherwise complicate in Natalee's disappearance. The Aruban prosecutor has indicated that Paulus' counsel to the three included "when there is no body you don't have a case," with this advice provided to the three the day after Natalee disappeared. Who knows at this point? Was the former security guard telling the truth, i.e., did Paulus coach his son and the Kalpoes that only their own words could send the three of them to jail, or was this simply a tit-for-tat by Mickey John, i.e., "You guys lied about me and got me thrown in jail, so I'll lie about all of you and keep you in jail."
As I discussed in my previous article, "Holloway: Two steps backward?" there are a number of potential scenarios to explain Natalee's disappearance, and many of you have written to suggest variations of the eight theories that I discussed. It would be logical that Paulus, due to his legal background, would have the ability (and motive) to coach his son and the Kalpoes as to what they would encounter at the hands of the authorities. This could be especially true since the police delayed for days the arrest of the three at the start of this investigation, thereby, perhaps, losing the opportunity to find linking physical evidence, and/or at least allowing the three suspects to develop and practice their mutual story. But all of this is now water under the bridge. The police are very tight lipped about their investigation, and that's ok if they have something going, i.e., they may well have information and/or evidence that makes this case far tighter than any of us can imagine -- at least I hope so!
Who might talk and whyIf, in fact, the Kalpoes were "only" accessories after the fact, by this they helped Joran to kidnap or otherwise dispose of Natalee, even if successfully coached by Paulus or someone else, they would seem to have a lot to gain by striking a deal with the police, if, that is, they know anything about Natalee's disappearance. Were I interviewing them, I'd make sure that they knew that someone involved in this matter would get a one-way ticket off the island, and that anyone else involved was going to get a one-way ticket to jail. Which ticket did they want? But again, if the Kalpoes were more than just a little involved, and if they had been successfully coached or intimidated, would they talk or not? If between the three principal suspects, with or without the coaching of another, they all came to the conclusion that without a victim, without a body, without a crime scene, and without linking physical evidence they would all eventually be released, then they just might be able to keep their collective mouths shut. And Joran, well, he's changed his story a number of times, (why did he need to keep changing his story if he is truly innocent we need ask), and as the current primary suspect, he would appear to have the most to lose by talking, and the most to gain, unfortunately, by his continued silence.
Get out of jail freeJust as the previous four arrestees have been set free by the court due to the lack of evidence connecting them with Natalee's disappearance, without the Texas search team or others finding some indication of the fate of Natalee, the now "silent three" may meet a similar fate. By this, there is a continuing review by a local judge of the evidence, if any, linking the three to Natalee's disappearance, and eventually, without some kind of physical evidence and/or the statements of others or the confession of someone, they may also be set free in the not too distant future. Aruba is under a lot of political, in reality, financial pressure to resolve this case. Americans know they can vote with their wallets and credit cards, and they may vote to visit some other "happy island" in the future should this case not be solved.
The FBI has drastically reduced its presence on Aruba, perhaps down to two or three agents or employees. In reality, even if the FBI had 100 agents on the island, Aruba is still a sovereign nation, as well as a Dutch protectorate, and they are not going to turn this case over to the FBI for any reason. Honestly, we'd do the same if it were an Aruban girl missing in America, but I'd rest easier with experienced U.S. police and the FBI agents working the case, but that still would not, in and of itself, guarantee that this case would have been solved by now, even though most Americans would like to think as much. And to the question of polygraphs, well, the Aruban police don't necessarily believe in them, and have thus far refused the FBI's offer to provide this investigative technique. So now what?Right now the Aruban police are continuing to interview the three incarcerated suspects and their family and friends, this in an attempt to develop information to help in their ongoing interrogation of the three, while trying to find out what happen to Natalee, to include, in the worst case scenario, where someone could have disposed of her body. Don't forget that the authorities must still consider the possibility that these three may have had nothing to do with this case, that they have lied for other unknown reasons, and that there may be some other explanation for Natalee's disappearance, but this remains remote at this time. Many of you have written to me about your travels to Aruba and your knowledge of the island and locations where a body could be disposed of, information that would also be known to the local police and the search teams.
For all the missingI often think of the case of missing then 23-year old American Amy Bradley, last seen on a cruise ship heading into Curacao in 1998. Amy's mother writes me that she keeps a candle burning in her bedroom window and a spotlight pointed at the ribbon on their tree in memory of Amy. Mrs. Bradley's best-case scenario is that her daughter was kidnapped and is being held in a place unknown by persons unknown. And of course there are the 30 Americans believed missing in Mexico just this year and the hundreds of other missing persons whose families, like those of Amy's and Natalee's, don't dare change their telephone number for fear that their missing child might call some day and get a wrong number. This is any parent's hell on earth, and we all hope and pray for strength for Natalee's and Amy's families and the families of all missing children across the world, of which, unfortunately, there are tens of thousands. Makes you want to hug your children doesn't it?
Email Clint at CVZ@msnbc.com
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Clint Van Zandt is an MSNBC analyst. He is the founder and president of Van Zandt Associates Inc. Van Zandt and his associates also developed LiveSecure.org, a Website dedicated "to develop, evaluate, and disseminate information to help prepare and inform individuals concerning personal and family security issues." During his 25-year career in the FBI, Van Zandt was a supervisor in the FBI's internationally renowned Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. He was also the FBI's Chief Hostage Negotiator and was the leader of the analytical team tasked with identifying the "Unabomber."



On 6-30 CBS News reported:

'With No Body, There's No Case'
Dad Of Murder Suspect In Natalee Disappearance Denies Telling That To Son
Video of Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT
(CBS) As Paul van der Sloot explains it, the judge-in-training and father of one of three suspects still being held in the disappearance in Aruba of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, landed in jail himself because he was misunderstood. CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports that he told Dutch TV Nova, "I allegedly said that I had picked up Joran (his son, who is still in custody) at four in the morning. And someone else said that I supposedly picked up Joran and Natalee at four in the morning."But my story to the Police was that I had picked up only Joran at 11 o'clock at McDonald's. It's, of course, very strange that the public prosecutor includes two witness statements of people who were in the back of the crowd that night, and not the testimony of the female Police officer, to whom I was talking."Van der Sloot was heard through an interpreter. He was released earlier this week.Aruba is a Dutch protectorate.In the crowd that he mentioned were Holloway's mother and family friends, Cobiella points out. It was the night after Holloway disappeared, and her mother already suspected Joran van der Sloot, 17.Days later, when it looked as though Joran and his two friends would be arrested, the elder van der Sloot offered legal advice."I explained to them the procedures ... so that they would not panic," he said to Dutch TV Nova. "That was sufficient for the prosecutor to suspect that I was an accomplice."But lead prosecutor Karin Janssen says her Investigators have proof the father-son talk went a lot further.Also heard through an interpreter, she told Dutch TV Nova, "The father talked to the boys and told them that without a body, there wouldn't be a case. And that is something that, possibly, we can't rule it out, has played an important role in the way the boys told their stories."Those stories, Cobiella notes, have brought Investigators no closer to knowing whether Holloway is alive, or whether a crime has been committed. And the one person who is certain to know the truth, Holloway herself, is no closer to being found.



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JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: One month without Natalee Holloway and growing anger over the investigation. Tonight‘s top headline: U.S. officials wage a secret war of words against Aruban officials. We are going to have an inside story in a special SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY investigation.
Welcome to SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY. No passport required, only common sense allowed.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My feeling is, there‘s a possibility that others are involved, including—you know, obviously, the judge, knows more than what he is telling.
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SCARBOROUGH: A moment of silence marks one month since Natalee disappeared. But cries for action are growing at home, as SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY uncovers Senate documents demanding immediate action from Aruba. With Congress finally involved, will Natalee‘s family get the answers they need?
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ANNOUNCER: From the press room, to the courtroom, to the halls of Congress, Joe Scarborough has seen it all. Welcome to SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY.
SCARBOROUGH: Good evening and welcome to the show.
You know, it‘s been one month to the day since Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba, and there‘s still no sign of the Alabama teenager, and, tonight, shocking results from a SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY investigation on Washington‘s secret war of words with Aruban authorities. SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY has obtained Senate documents blasting the Natalee Holloway investigation as—quote—“a dead end,” while FBI officials are bitterly complaining that they have been shut out by Dutch authorities.
Now, we are going to have a lot more on that exclusive report in one minute.
But, first, let‘s go live to Aruba to NBC‘s Martin Savidge for today‘s latest developments.
And, Martin, I‘ve just got to start with the question, what‘s been the reaction to your explosive interview with the chief prosecutor last night?
MARTIN SAVIDGE, NBC CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, the number one response that you‘ve had from people across the island and even outside of Aruba is that they are amazed as to how much that prosecutor opened up to us. They really were surprised that she had so much to say when she started talking.
Ms. Janssen is a woman that is known on the island to be as tough as nails and a woman who doesn‘t say a lot usually, especially to the media, and they were very surprised how she opened up, but, in many cases, very pleased about what they heard from her, that she was straight-talking and that she was not trying to sugarcoat anything about how the investigation was going.
Let‘s talk about other things going on today on the island, the searching. It has been dwindling over the past couple of days for a number of reasons. But, today, we did see Dutch Marines out again on the search for the first time in a couple of weeks. They were there with the Aruban Police.
The EquuSearch people, they have been scaling back some. They say they are in the middle of a transition. They hope to have more people arriving by the weekend to supplement those who had to leave. Remember, they are volunteers, so they do have day jobs to go back to. The van der Sloot family, Paul and Anita, for the first time today in a while, they had the opportunity to go visit their son. That is at the prison where their son is now located, at the opposite end of the island. KIA is how it‘s referred to.
Paul van der Sloot is not allowed to go visit his son. He does, of course, drive his wife there. Only Anita is allowed to go in and talk to their 17-year-old, who continues to be a prime suspect in the case. It was a day of solidarity throughout the island of Aruba, but especially around this particular area, where the tourists are so heavy, the American influence is felt, and, of course, where the family of Natalee Holloway waits for word on the fate of that young woman.
They had a special ceremony that took place late in the afternoon. And it was quite moving to watch, as hundreds of people, those involved in the tourist industry, those who are just Arubaans that wanted to be there, and, in many cases, tourists who stopped the vacation for the moment to join hands, to have a moment of silence, to listen and take part in a prayer, and be as one, as they thought about Natalee Holloway exactly one month since her disappearance.
One very poignant sign, too, about the feelings of the United States and Aruba, there‘s a very tall hotel on the edge of the strip here. Almost every day, it has an Aruban flag flying atop. Today, something different, a huge American flag, a sign of solidarity—Joe.
SCARBOROUGH: Martin, thanks so much. We greatly appreciate your report.
Now, tonight, disturbing reports out of Washington regarding this case. SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY has obtained documents from a powerful U.S. senator that was sent yesterday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Aruban prime minister, letters demanding a more aggressive investigation into Natalee‘s disappearance.
Now, copies of those letters were provided to Natalee Holloway's family and also members of the Dutch Embassy. Senator Shelby‘s office refused any comment tonight, but they did confirm—and this is all they would confirm to me—that the letters had been sent.
The letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reads in part—quote—“Dear Madam Secretary, I am writing today regarding the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. I request you engage the Aruban government in dialogue regarding their ongoing investigation of Ms. Holloway's disappearance. I am told that, while Aruban government officials initially invited the FBI to the island, the government did not grant the FBI sufficient investigative authority over the case. I believe that it is essential the FBI be allowed to participate in a meaningful and substantive way.”
The letter to the prime minister of Aruba is also equally blunt. The senator wrote—quote—“Dear prime minister, I believe the government of Aruba should invite the United States‘ Federal Bureau of Investigation to become an active participation in the ongoing investigation in a full and substantive manner. The FBI was initially invited to Aruba to observe the investigation into Natalee‘s disappearance. However, they had no clearly defined role, nor were they granted sufficient investigative authority over the case.”
The letter goes on to say this: “It is troubling to think that our governments are not working together to resolve this investigation. It is my hope,” the senator says, “that the government of Aruba will formally request the assistance of the FBI and grant them full access to all evidence and information pertinent to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. I believe you will agree that it is imperative this case be resolved quickly and that it‘s done with the FBI‘s active involvement—unquote.
Now, friends, I have learned much more. U.S. officials also told me today that FBI agents in Aruba have grown increasingly frustrated with this investigation, with one agent complaining—quote—“They have not allowed us to do ‘blank,‘ anything.” You fill in the blank.
U.S. officials also complained tonight that the Dutch government is calling all the shots in this—quote—“incestual investigation” and all the power does not lie in Aruba. All the power lies in the Netherlands. An official told me—quote—“Everybody down there is protecting their friends.” That‘s how one Washington official summed up the entire Natalee Holloway investigation.
Now, some in Washington say it‘s because the Dutch Police chief is—quote—“best friends” with Paul van der Sloot. With much of official Washington seemingly convinced that the Dutch government is engaging in a cover-up of the investigation, what can the Alabama teenager‘s family do to find justice in this tiny Caribbean nation?
Well, with us now, let‘s bring in a member of that family. I believe we have with us Paul Reynolds.
Paul, obviously, we have been following this story for some time. But talking to you, here we have now a U.S. senator getting involved, taking the secretary of state of the United States to task and taking Aruban officials to task for not letting the FBI participate in this investigation. What can you tell me about this senator‘s involvement and the letters?
PAUL REYNOLDS, UNCLE OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: We are very glad to hear that response. We think it‘s certainly needed. When we hear reports that the father went on Dutch television and said that he was not even interrogated, we lose confidence in the system that‘s there and what‘s been happening.
We thought the FBI was coming in to assist in the beginning. We were very comfortable when they started arriving on the island. You know, we were hopeful that the concerns we had about the preferential treatment they might be receiving on the island, that would be alleviated.
But it just—it—we don‘t see that. Time...
SCARBOROUGH: Well, Paul, you know, I am hearing two things today, Paul.
First of all, I get a copy of these documents from the senator‘s
office. The senator, of course, won‘t talk to us. But we get these
documents that were mailed out yesterday. And, in the documents, the
senator is clearly saying the FBI is not involved. Then we talk to an
official in Washington, D.C., who tells us that the FBI is bitterly
complaining—quote—“We are not allowed to do ‘blank.‘”
Very angry, and the FBI is angry. Does the family share the FBI‘s anger, and has the family heard from the FBI that they are being cut off at the pass every single time?
REYNOLDS: They don‘t actually say that to us, but we can certainly see that in the activities that are going on. They are simply not involved. The fact that they were leaving the island, most of the agents were leaving in the middle of the investigation, certainly was a signal to us that they weren‘t being allowed access.
SCARBOROUGH: Now, Paul, you have also, of course, had—what are they? EquuSearch, I think it is. EquuSearch has been involved in this. They are out of Texas. They went down there. I have also been getting reports out of Washington today that they have been frustrated, that they haven‘t been given all the resources that they needed. What can you tell us about that search? Are they getting frustrated? And are they about to come home because the Dutch authorities are standing in the way?
REYNOLDS: I haven‘t actually heard those reports.
But in seeing the past activity, that would not surprise me at all. Every aspect of this investigation has been delayed and postponed, and, you know, it‘s just not effective.
SCARBOROUGH: Can you tell me, Paul, how angry the family is tonight with the Dutch authorities? And do you think the real problem here lies with the Dutch authorities, as I have been told today from all my sources in Washington, D.C., or is it with the Aruban authorities?
REYNOLDS: It‘s hard for us to differentiate, but certainly we can see that Aruba is not cooperating.
I saw in one of the local newspapers today that they are forming a committee to protect the image of Aruba. I don‘t think their priority is appropriate here.
SCARBOROUGH: We don‘t think it is, Paul. Thank you for being with us. Paul Reynolds, as always, we greatly appreciate it. And thank you so much for all the hard work you are doing. We are going to continue reporting on this.
Friends, let me tell you something. This is an incestuous investigation. That‘s what Washington officials are saying. I have got to tell you, it‘s so obvious. You look at this. You have the Dutch government. And I was told—another source told me today, if you really want to know what‘s going on in Aruba, if you want to understand why we can‘t get to the bottom of anything, you know what? You can‘t search for answers in Aruba. You have got to follow it, follow that trail all the way over to the Netherlands, because that‘s where the real power of this investigation is.
And they are the ones that many in Washington, D.C., believe are covering up this investigation. We are also hearing that, obviously, from agents in Aruba.
Now, we are going to be back live in Aruba for more on the Natalee Holloway case. We are going to have Natalee‘s aunt, Linda Allison. She will be here to join us about the family‘s struggle just to get the facts and to keep the investigation going. We are going to be asking for her reaction to today‘s developments.
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SCARBOROUGH: Growing anger among U.S. officials that there may be a cover-up going on in Aruba in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. We will have that report and much more when this special edition of SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY continues.
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SCARBOROUGH: While the search for Natalee continues, the questions remain. Are the authorities in Aruba doing everything they can to resolve this case in the mad search for Natalee Holloway? Are they keeping information from the FBI and Natalee‘s family?
With us now live from Aruba, Arlene Ellis-Schipper. She‘s an attorney down there.
Arlene, thank you so much for being with us.
You know, there‘s growing anger in America over what many consider in Washington, D.C., to be a cover-up. But there also seems to be growing anger in Aruba. Yesterday, you have the prosecutor come—coming out and delivering a somewhat harsh attack on the father. What is going on down there? Is there a growing impatience with this investigation, with the judicial system?
ARLENE ELLIS-SCHIPPER, ARUBA “STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS TASK FORCE” MEMBER: Well, first of all, Aruba‘s reputation is on the line here. Aruba has absolutely nothing to gain by covering up anything. So, I am sure that it‘s not happening.
Frustration? I think on all parties have frustration about this case. We all want this case resolved as much as possible as you do. So, I think you are right that there‘s frustration both on the camp of the prosecution office and in the states, yes.
SCARBOROUGH: You know, I talked to law enforcement officers in America and Washington, D.C., today. What they told me was that, when they talked to the prime minister, the prime minister was saying that this investigation is being run out of the Netherlands. When they talk to Dutch authorities, they say, no, no, it‘s an Aruban investigation. Help us out here.
Who is in charge of this Police investigation? Is it the Aruban prime minister, that government, or is it the Dutch government?
ELLIS-SCHIPPER: No.
Aruba, like any other country in Europe, has a division of powers. We have what we called by Montesquieu the trias politica. We have the executive power. We have the legislative power. And we have the judicial power. The judicial power includes the Police and the prosecutor. They lead the investigation.
Now, what was the minister, president, referring to is the Dutch
Marines. If you want help of the Dutch Marines, that is something of the
Dutch government, because, as you know, Aruban—Aruba is part of the
kingdom of Holland. And our defense, including the Dutch Marines, is run
by the Dutch government.
SCARBOROUGH: OK. So, the Dutch are in charge of the investigation.
What can you tell us about the...
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ELLIS-SCHIPPER: No, no, no, no, no, no. I‘m—I‘m sorry.
SCARBOROUGH: Go ahead.
ELLIS-SCHIPPER: The Dutch are not in charge of the investigation. I am saying the judicial power in Aruba, including the Police and the prosecution, those are in charge of the investigation.
SCARBOROUGH: OK.
ELLIS-SCHIPPER: If you want help from Dutch Marines, that is Dutch.
SCARBOROUGH: OK. Well, that—I will tell you what. That clarifies something that goes against what I heard today from a law enforcement official.
What can you tell us about the Dutch Marines? Do they usually like to go it alone, or do you—can you give us any insight as to why the FBI may not be able to help as actively in this investigation as they would like? Would it be unprecedented in Aruba for the FBI or a foreign investigative agency to come in and take part in this type of investigation?
ELLIS-SCHIPPER: Of course it‘s unprecedented, like it would be in the U.S. for a foreign country to take part in an investigation.
The FBI simply doesn‘t have jurisdiction in Aruba, as the Aruban authorities have, of course. The FBI has an advisory role in this part—in this—in this country.
SCARBOROUGH: All right.
Arlene, thank you so much. We greatly appreciate your insights and shining a light on some of these questions we have. As always, we appreciate you being with us.
Now let‘s bring in former FBI profiler Clint van Zandt.
You know what, Clint? I am just going to tell you the truth, OK?
CLINT VAN ZANDT, MSNBC ANALYST: Yes. Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: This young lady, she is an attorney. She doesn‘t represent the Aruban government. She doesn‘t represent Dutch authorities. I am not going to invite her on and beat her up. She can‘t answer for them, but I can tell you what I learned today. I learned the FBI is mad as hell. They are being shut out. They are swearing. They are saying, we are not being allowed to do anything.
And I am also hearing from Washington officials that this is an incestuous investigation, that everybody knows everybody down there, and Americans are being kept at an arm‘s length. I tell you what, something smells in Aruba. What do we do? What can the FBI do tonight?
VAN ZANDT: Well, Joe, every time as an FBI agent that I have been in a foreign country, it‘s somewhere between, “Go into a hotel room; stay there; if we have anything to tell you, we‘ll tell you; otherwise, don‘t leave the hotel room,” to, “Get your gun and come with us; we are going out to arrest terrorists, and you are part of the team.”
So, every country is going to do it different. As your last guest suggested, it may be unprecedented in Aruba, but there are a lot of countries that would at least allow FBI agents to physically sit in the same room and be part of the actual interview team that‘s interviewing the suspects. In this case, the Aruban authorities said, no, best-case scenario, FBI, sit in another room, watch it on closed-circuit television. It‘s our country. We‘ll tell you what we can do and can‘t do.
That‘s why you see the FBI team has been reduced.
SCARBOROUGH: Hey, Clint, though—hey, Clint.
VAN ZANDT: Yes. Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: Listen, man, this is like Disneyland down there. They had one homicide last year, and they are telling the Federal Bureau of Investigation, thanks guys, but no thanks. We don‘t need your help.
Come on. I bet there were more murders at Disneyland last year than in Aruba.
VAN ZANDT: Well, you know, Joe...
SCARBOROUGH: So, what do you do if you are an FBI agent and you know it‘s an incestuous relationship down there, you know there‘s a cover-up going on? What do you do?
VAN ZANDT: Well, you got a couple of choices.
One, you could go in and get everybody upset, and they expect you are going to come in with the big FBI boots on, and they are not going to let you do it. Otherwise, you kind of finesse your way in. The finessing hasn‘t worked. That‘s why you see the team from about a dozen agents down to one or two agents, because I don‘t think the FBI is going to sit there and pretend they are doing something, when the Arubaans are not allowing them to do it.
And, Joe, Joe, we are 30 days behind. Things could have been, should have been, would have been done, you know, you can‘t back that train up. So, the Arubaans, if they solve it, good. If they don‘t, they got to take the hit on this one.
SCARBOROUGH: Again, you know, I talked to somebody in—up in Washington today, another person who told me that everybody is trying to protect everybody‘s friend.
Well, Clint, you talked about 30 days passing by, nothing getting done, all of these mistakes happening, these boys being released for 11 days, the father being allowed to stay away for, what, three weeks?
VAN ZANDT: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: I mean, let‘s face it. Give me—give me—you have done this your entire life. Give me your professional advice. If these officials had wanted to botch this investigation, if they wanted to protect a friend‘s son, if they wanted to stop Natalee from ever being found, could they have planned it any better than these Aruban authorities have planned it?
VAN ZANDT: I hear what you are saying, and I would like to heap coals on their head, Joe.
But I think part of it is just the lack of experience. And Arubaans are proud of that. They will say, we are proud that we don‘t work homicide cases, like FBI agents and NYPD does. But the flip side of that is that, when they do an interview, they say, OK, what do you have to say? Thank you very much. Close the notebook and walk out, where the FBI is ready to play good cop/bad cop, ready to psych them out, ready to play their words against each other.
They don‘t do it like we do in our league, Joe. It‘s a while ‘nother country, and that‘s part of it.
SCARBOROUGH: It‘s...
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VAN ZANDT: It is another country. And they do it different.
SCARBOROUGH: It‘s minor leagues, Clint. It‘s minor leagues.
Clint, as always, thanks for being with us and helping us understand what‘s going on in this case. We really appreciate it.
VAN ZANDT: Thanks, Joe.
SCARBOROUGH: Now, let‘s go back live to Aruba. I want to talk to Natalee‘s aunt once again, Linda Allison.
Linda, thank you for being with us tonight.
Obviously, you have got a United States senator, you‘ve got secretary of state, you‘ve got a lot of law enforcement officers very angry about what‘s going on down there in Aruba. Tell me, why did you all get the United States Senate involved?
LINDA ALLISON, AUNT OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: Well, I think, obviously, the more voices that are being heard throughout the United States, that just helps us in our case of not knowing anything. And this has gone on for 30 days and we still don‘t know anything from the day one that we were here.
SCARBOROUGH: Are the Dutch officials covering up this investigation, covering up the facts on what really happened to Natalee?
LINDA ALLISON: It would be hard for me to speculate at this time. The Dutch law is so different than it is in the United States.
And, of course, the FBI are not considered to be part of the investigation, only an advisory role. And what I understand with the prosecuting attorney‘s office is that they play a few cards. This is like a poker game, so that, when they hold the three suspects, in order for them to hold them, detain them longer, they just allow as little information as possible, only because they don‘t want the defense—the defense attorneys to be able to have time to react to the information that they do have once it comes to trial.
SCARBOROUGH: All right, Linda, let‘s hope that‘s the case.
Stay with us, Linda. I want to talk about the FBI. I also want to talk about the ongoing search, but we have to go to a quick break.
Coming up, they were taken hostage in 1979. Now, 30 years later, they say one of their captors is the new president of Iran, yes, the same president who wants to bring nukes to that country.
We‘ll be right back in SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY in a minute.
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SCARBOROUGH: We are going to be going back to Aruba in one minute to continue with Natalee‘s aunt. That‘s next.
Also, heartless thieves with a pick of the litter stealing a dozen helpless puppies, it‘s all caught on tape. That story also coming up.
But, first, here‘s the latest news that you and your family need to know.
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SCARBOROUGH: A solemn prayer walk this morning in Aruba, as family and friends mark one month since the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Let‘s go back to Aruba and talk to Natalee‘s aunt, Linda Allison.
Linda, I want to ask you about a strong statement Senator Shelby put in his letter to Condoleezza Rice, our secretary of state. He said the investigation is in Aruba is—quote—“at a dead end,” and that‘s why he said the FBI needs to be brought in. Do you agree with that assessment?
LINDA ALLISON: I would tend to agree, because we are 30 days into this investigation, and we still don‘t have information.
And, if they truly do not have homicide, if that is what this case is going to be, they should have contacted the Dutch government in the very beginning. If they don‘t have the experience here on the island to handle this case.
SCARBOROUGH: Linda, final question. What can we in America do tonight? Do you want us to write our senators, our congressmen, our president? How can we help you?
LINDA ALLISON: Well, obviously, any voice out there would be helpful in any way.
I do know, on another note, that the prime minister‘s office has been in contact with me since Sunday evening. And I made a specific request for us to utilize the Dutch Marines with the EquuSearch group. They told me yesterday afternoon they had completed the paperwork, and all of that type of information was completed, and that the—it was just a matter of getting the logistics of the Dutch Marines out.
And then we learned this afternoon, after making a few phone calls, that the Police chief is actually the one who can activate the Marines because of the way, again, the governmental structure is here. The prime minister doesn‘t have control over the Dutch Marines. It‘s actually the Police authorities. So, they actually were activated this morning by van der Straten, and not to any of our knowledge.
And I don‘t know why they chose not to start doing an additional search with the Dutch Marines, after we had requested that the Dutch Marines be working with EquuSearch. So, there‘s a lot of miscommunication going on here.
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SCARBOROUGH: A lot of miscommunication, a lot of unanswered questions, and it all adds up to a tragedy.
Linda, thanks again for being with us in SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY. And, again, we are behind the family. We will continue praying for you and also for Natalee.
LINDA ALLISON: Thank you so much.



On 6-30 the “USA Today” reported:

Father gave Dutch teen law advice in ArubaPosted 6/30/2005 9:25 AM Updated 6/30/2005 1:13 PMORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — The father of a Dutch teenager arrested in the disappearance of a young U.S. woman told his son and his two friends that "when there is no body you don't have a case," Aruba's attorney general said Wednesday.Paul van der Sloot, a judge in training in Aruba, gave his 17-year-old son Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers legal advice the day after 18-year-old Natalee Holloway disappeared, District Attorney Caren Janssen told MSNBC in an interview."They spoke about the situation that when there is no body you don't have a case, and that was already in the first day after the disappearance," Janssen said.Janssen said that the elder van der Sloot had obstructed the investigation by asking a friend of Joran, who had been interrogated by police, what he had told them.Paul van der Sloot, 52, was arrested last Thursday in the disappearance but released Sunday when a judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence to hold him.Janssen told MSNBC that he was arrested because investigators believed he was also a suspect in the disappearance.Janssen also said that a month after Holloway's May 30 disappearance, investigators had found nothing concrete to suggest she was dead.Calls to Janssen seeking further comment late Wednesday were not returned.Joran van der Sloot and his Surinamese friends, brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, were arrested June 9. No one has been charged.Also Wednesday, Steve Croes, a disc jockey who was arrested and held 10 days before being released Monday, told The Associated Press that his detention was based on a lie he told police.Croes, 26, said he told police he had seen Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers drop Holloway off at the Holiday Inn the night she disappeared, as the three originally told police."That was a lie," Croes told the AP during an interview Wednesday night. "I didn't even know those guys and they didn't know me."Croes said that while he was at an Internet cafe a few days after Holloway's disappearance, he heard Deepak Kalpoe talking on a cell phone about how the young men had dropped Holloway off. Croes said the story seemed plausible and he went around repeating it, adding that he had seen them drop her off. Police questioned and then arrested him, Croes said."I learned that if you don't know something, keep your mouth shut," said Croes. He said has been fired from his disc jockey job on the Tattoo party boat.



On 6-30 CNNHN reported:

GRACE: Today, a vigil on the beach there in Aruba that stretched down the sand from one hotel to the next, a human chain, as everyone prayed for Natalee. This is another vigil on the other side of the island.Welcome back, everybody. I'm Nancy Grace. Let's go straight down to Aruba. In Aruba, Natalee Holloway's father, Dave Holloway, is with us. But first, let's go down to CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul. Karl, what happened in the search today?KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the Dutch marines came out this afternoon, Nancy, about 40 of them. That was after the Aruban prime minister signed off on this and allowed them to turn out and do this search. They had been in action early on in the search, but this was the first time in the last couple of weeks that they'd returned to search. They were in the area around the Mokker (ph) dam. That's a flooded kind of refuse tip, if you like, not too far from the van der Sloot's home. But the Police commissioner, Joran van der Stratton (ph), has told me nothing was found in that area. It had already been searched, of course, anyway.Another couple of developments to bring you up to date with, too. A few moments ago, in fact, shortly before nightfall here in Aruba, we saw Joran van der Sloot and one of the other suspects, Deepak Kalpoe, leaving the downtown Police station in Oranjestad handcuffed together. They were being taken back to the prison at the east end of the island after another interrogation session. Police tell us, though, they weren't being interrogated together. They were being interrogated in separate interview rooms.And the third thing, of course, as you mentioned, the human chain. That was to mark the calendar month since Natalee has disappeared. That human chain stretched about two miles along the high-rise hotel district. And it really does go to show that both tourists, islanders and family are certainly not forgetting Natalee, Nancy.GRACE: Karl, you told me that Joran van der Sloot, the judge's son, was moved from one facility to the next. Were the Kalpoe brothers with him?PENHAUL: Yes. The two of them were handcuffed together, in fact. They had been brought from the prison on the east end of the island to the downtown Police station in Oranjestad. This was another interrogation session. That's where most of the interrogation sessions take place...GRACE: Wait a minute! Wait a minute, Karl. Karl! You're telling me that van der Sloot and Kalpoe were handcuffed together?PENHAUL: Handcuffed together as they were brought out of the Police station.GRACE: Gosh. David Wohl, they kept them in two different facilities, two different cells for a reason! Now they handcuff them together and let them take a ride in a car? Explain why this is a huge problem, David Wohl.WOHL: Well, gee, Nancy, I don't know.GRACE: Oh!WOHL: Maybe they can talk to each other and get their stories straight?GRACE: Good Lord!WOHL: And the best story wins. I mean, I'm -- this is befuddling. I mean, you top that with Judge van der Sloot's advice to the boys, where he says, Hey, guys, no body, no murder case. Wow, is this thing blowing up. And I'm telling you, they better get a grip on it quick. I would let the FBI in and let them in real fast.GRACE: Dave Holloway is with us, Natalee's father. Dave, listen, you never put two suspects together to cook up a story together. Never! Are you happy with the way that this investigation is going? What would you like to see the authorities doing?DAVE HOLLOWAY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S FATHER: Well, I would like to see all of them come together and tell us what is the real story. You know, we've heard already five or six different stories. And you know, until we find Natalee, that'll be the big puzzle.GRACE: I don't understand -- I understand, Dave, why they don't make the evidence that they know of public to the press. But what I don't understand is why they're not sharing it with you and Natalee's mom.HOLLOWAY: Well, that's -- that's hard to understand, as well. I know here, they tell us that they cannot share any information that may compromise the investigation. That's hard for us to swallow. But you know, you have to follow the rules, and that's what we're trying to do.As far as them being handcuffed together, I don't know what the reasoning is behind that. Maybe they'll fight it out and -- or then again, like the experts said, they may get their stories together. I don't know.GRACE: Well, you know, to Bruce Burkett -- I've only got a couple seconds left before break. But Bruce, these two being kept apart in different facilities for a reason, so they can't continue to concoct a story.UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sure, but...GRACE: You don't put two people together in the back seat of a car for a drive if you don't want them to talk!UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't unless they don't know they're being monitored and you're monitoring them. It's entirely possible that they put them together for a reason, to see what interaction they have, lead them to believe that they would be able to have a private discussion that the authorities could then listen to. They're in jail. They don't have a right to privacy. They'd be able to listen to what they had to say, and maybe they're hoping to learn something from that.GRACE: Well, I'm glad to know that hope springs eternal with Bruce Burkett.We'll all be right back. But very quickly, to tonight's "All Points Bulletin.' ' FBI and law enforcement across the country on the lookout for this man, Daniel Min Suh. Min Suh, wanted in connection with the murder of a Georgia man in 1999, possibly part of a gang initiation. Min Suh, 23, six feet, 130 pounds, scar on upper lip, disfigured nose. if you have any information on Daniel Min Suh, call the FBI, 404-679-9000.Local news coming up for some of you, but we'll all be right back. And remember, live coverage of the Sarah Johnson (ph) sentencing tomorrow, 3:00 to 5:00 Eastern, Court TV's "Closing Arguments."Please stay with us as we remember Chief Warrant Officer Steven Shephard, just 30 years old, an American hero.(COMMERCIAL BREAK)GRACE: As we head into the July 4th weekend, Natalee Holloway still missing, somewhere on the island of Aruba. Let's go straight back down to Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, with us. Mr. Holloway, how do you spend your days?HELLER: Well, today, we met with the Texas EquuSearch and gave them information based on some reconnaissance that we'd done of the island yesterday. And then we went to the prayer vigil and then spent some time riding around the island again. But most of our search efforts were done in the early two to three weeks that we were here. Some of the areas now that we're searching I'm not capable of doing, such as diving and searching from boats. So that will kind of give you an idea of what we're doing now.GRACE: Mr. Holloway, you must be bone-tired by the time you come home every day.HELLER: Yesterday was a trying day. We spent most of the day on four wheelers. And it was hard to get up this morning. Sure was. But you know, every day we -- it's a new day, and you know, God gives us strength to continue on. And I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet. A long ways from it.GRACE: And to Karl Penhaul. Karl, where does the search take us tomorrow?PENHAUL: Again, from what we understand, the Texas EquuSearch guys will be out again, and they are doing both ground searches -- one of the cadaver dogs is still left on the island. The three others that they had here have returned, along with some of the members of the team. They had go back to work because this is a volunteer force. That said, more volunteers should be arriving.Plus, they also have now some of the Dutch marines to help them out, as well. But we do understand that some of the focus will certainly be on diving some of the waters along the northern edge of the island. But for that, they are waiting on offers of help. They need a 60-foot boat to get them out into parts of the island or -- where the sea swell is heaviest, Nancy.GRACE: OK, Karl Penhaul, standing by there with Natalee's father, Dave Holloway. Gentlemen, thank you.



On 6-30 MSNBC reported:

Father of Murder Suspect in Holloway Case Offers Suspicious Advice; Does Iran's New President Have a Secret Past?; Scientologist Explains Tom Cruise's Recent Anti-Psychiatry Comments; Shawn Colvin Talks About her Battle with DepressionAired June 30, 2005 - 19:00 ETTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: Good evening, everyone. Did the father of the lead suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway really tell his son if there's no body, there's no case?7:00 p.m. on the East Coast, 4:00 p.m. on the West; 360 starts now.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)COOPER (voice-over): If you don't have a body, there's no case -- the fatherly advice Judge Paul van der Sloot allegedly gave his son. But is that really true? If Natalee is never found, will the accused simply walk free?COOPER: Good evening again. We begin tonight with the search for Natalee Holloway and the kind of fatherly advice you would never want to hear. That advice, according to prosecutors in Aruba, came from the father of the Dutch teen arrested shortly after her disappearance. What he allegedly said is something you would expect a defense attorney to tell a murder client -- certainly not a parent. CNN's Rick Sanchez has the latest, including troubling new details about what the young suspect and Natalee may have been doing in the final hours before she vanished.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the first time since the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, authorities are detailing how they believe Deputy Judge Paul van der Sloot may have interfered with their investigation, by coaching his son, Joran, on Aruban law.KARIN JANSSEN, ARUBAN CHIEF PROSECUTOR: They were speaking about the situation, that if you don't have a body, there is no case.SANCHEZ: CNN has tried unsuccessfully to contact attorneys for Paul van der Sloot and Joran van der Sloot, and is continuing to seek comment.Meanwhile, Natalee's mother, Beth Twitty, tells us she is meeting with Aruban authorities daily, and is pressing them to continue asking questions. Twitty is convinced that whatever happened to her daughter began right here, at the place considered the most popular tourist spot in Aruba. It's where Natalee Holloway met up with Joran van der Sloot.Workers and regulars we talked to say they recognize Joran, because he was something of a regular himself at Carlos 'n Charlie's.This local, who asked that we conceal his identity, says he remembers seeing the 17-year-old at the club whenever a new wave of tourists arrived.(on camera): Joran fancied himself, from what you could see on the nights when you saw him there, as typical 17-year-old guy, ladies' man?UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just like most of the guys that go there, local guys. It's not just him. It's almost every local guy that goes there, or any other -- not just Carlos 'n Charlie's, any other bar where there are tourists, they just, you know, have fun with tourists sometimes, you know, even something more. Depends. Up to you.SANCHEZ: And he says, it depends on the person you're with. Workers, including those serving drinks at Carlos 'n Charlie's the night the young Alabama girl disappeared, tell us they saw Natalee with Joran, that she was drinking heavily, that she was dancing on tables with friends. It's behavior, though, that is not unusual at a night club known for tall drinks, Jell-O shots and conga lines, where free tequila is offered for the asking.Tourists seem to be drawn to the booze and wild parties found at Aruban nightclubs. In fact, party busses pick many of them up from area hotels on what amounts to a cocktail party on wheels, like this one, known by locals as the Banana Bus.The driver tells us his last stop of the evening is always Carlos 'n Charlie's.Exactly what happened though on that Monday morning May 30, when Natalee, Joran and two other young men left Carlos 'n Charlie's is still not known. But authorities are now explaining, extensively, how the van der Sloots may have interfered, by reaching out to potential witnesses.JANSSEN: A couple of day after the arrest of the minor suspect, the parents asked friends of Joran, who was interrogated by the police, what he told them, and what he told to the police.SANCHEZ: In an unusual bit of detail from Aruban authorities, they got even more specific.JANSSEN: They were speaking about the situation, that if you don't have a body, there is no case.SANCHEZ (on camera): Are you convinced that Joran had something to do with your daughter's disappearance?BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, NATALEE'S MOTHER: Absolutely. I'm convinced that all three of those individuals have something to do with her disappearance. All three, all three are tied together in my mind, as her mother, as tightly as they can be.SANCHEZ (voice-over): If there is any sign of Natalee, police hope that now, with the help of Dutch Marines, they'll be able to find it. And they will focus much of their effort on the beach, on the western edge of the island. It's where Joran now says he left Natalee.We took diver and rescue expert Joe Houston there, to ask him what would happen to an object in those waters.(on camera): Because of the winds and the currents, it would do what?JOE HOUSTON, EQUUSEARCH: It would have a tendency to go away from the island.SANCHEZ: Away from the island?HOUSTON: Yes.SANCHEZ (voice-over): To illustrate the point, we found a dead crab, tossed it into the water. Just as Houston suggested, it immediately began drifting away from the beach.(on camera): Probability of finding anything that's put in the water offshore here is pretty -- is basically nil, almost impossible?HOUSTON: Yes.SANCHEZ (voice-over): A scenario Aruban police and this determined but worried mother are hoping they never have to face.(END VIDEOTAPE) COOPER: Well, Rick, when and where is that Texas team going to do their dive?SANCHEZ: We're going to be able to show you. As a matter of fact, if you look just over my shoulder, Anderson, you'll be able to see the area. Right over there, past that cot, as you look closely, you'll see the wave starting to come over that area.The problem is, even though that's where they're going to do it, they're not able to do it until they get a vessel that's big enough -- for two reasons. It needs to be big enough for them to be able to get enough divers on the boat. And also it's extremely choppy out there, and it's going to be hard for them to do it unless they get a boat that has the right size hull so they'd be able to stabilize themselves while they're in that area. But as soon as they get that boat, they tell me, they're going to be out there right away.Anderson.COOPER: All right. Rick Sanchez live in Aruba. Thanks, Rick.As you just heard Rick report, prosecutors say that Paul van der Sloot told his son, without a body, there is no case. If that is true, it is a very disturbing turn in the search for Natalee Holloway, a search that is now more than four weeks old. So far, three suspects are in custody, not one of them has been charged with a crime. Meanwhile, Natalee's family, as you saw, continues to demand answers, continues to search, and so far, they're getting very little information.Joining me from Palm Beach, Aruba is Arlene Ellis-Schipper, an attorney in Aruba.Arlene, is that really true, that if there is no body, there is no case?ARLENE ELLIS-SCHIPPER, ARUBA “STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS TASK FORCE” MEMBER: That is not true. There has been a case in Holland, a famous case, Angelique Van Os (ph), where a man was convicted without the authorities ever finding the body. But there of course has to be enough evidence.COOPER: And at this point, I mean, if these three young men stick to a story and there is no physical evidence of either Natalee or other sorts of physical evidence, it would be very hard to make this case?ELLIS-SCHIPPER: Yes, of course. It makes it much harder. You have to have very, very good evidence for a judge to be convinced and to convict without the authorities ever finding a body, yes.COOPER: The prosecutor also accused Paul van der Sloot of obstructing justice. How serious a crime is that? Is it a crime in Aruba?ELLIS-SCHIPPER: Well, obstruction of justice is a criminal offense in our code of -- in our criminal code. However, there is an (INAUDIBLE) clause that excludes family members in the first degree. So for Mr. Paul van der Sloot, it would not apply.COOPER: So for him, it doesn't apply because he's the dad.ELLIS-SCHIPPER: No, correct. Correct.COOPER: Fascinating. On Monday, a judge is expected to decide whether or not to hold Joran van der Sloot for another two months. Is this the kind of thing he's going to consider the accusation of collusion, or can he not take that into account because it was his father?ELLIS-SCHIPPER: No, he can take it into account. There's a whole assessment that the judge of instruction has to make. The same kind of assessment that was made when he entered -- when he granted the pre- trial detention. He has to look at suspicion, whether there's enough probable cause, whether there are severe objections to his release. And one of those objections can be collusion.COOPER: Aruba is a small island. I'm sure you know most of these people. What's your impression of Paul van der Sloot?ELLIS-SCHIPPER: Well, I know him as a very kind, shy man, actually. So I was very surprised for him to be suspected of something like this.COOPER: Arlene Ellis-Schipper, appreciate you joining us. Thanks very much for your perspective.Coming up next on 360...ELLIS-SCHIPPER: You're welcome.



On December 27, 2005 the “Travel Weekly.com” reported, “For the first six months of 2005, cruise ships made 172 calls in Aruba, compared to 153 calls over the same period in 2004; in terms of people, 302,893 passengers called on Aruba in 2005, vs. 298,397 in 2004.” ((only a +1.5% increase for the 6 months mostly prior to NATALEE’s disappearance in ARUBA))