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
6-21-05
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
6-21-05
__:__ AM or PM (?) = Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT may or may not have left his office. In his June 18, 2005 statements to ARUBAN Police Detectives he intimated that he normally leaves his office sometime in the middle of the day, supposedly, to go to his home and eat. In his June 18, 2005 statements he gave to ARUBAN Police Detectives he stated “I cannot remember any more if I came home to eat in the middle of the day because that too was different on different days.”
????Did Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT leave his office during mid-day? Do co-workers remember if he left his office or not?
????If Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT did leave his office, what time did he leave his office?
????If Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT did leave his office, has it been confirmed or not confirmed via security video cameras that he took a driving route to his home, or did he drive a route away from his office to some where other than his home?
????If Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT did leave his office, has it been confirmed or not confirmed via security video cameras that he took a driving route back to his office from his home, or a did he drive a route back to his office from some where other than his home?
On 6-21 BETH and GRETA went to the Murder Suspects VAN DER SLOOT home during the daytime and they talked with Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT and ANITA VAN DER SLOOT for about 90 minutes. (the meeting was not, as far as is known to date, recorded) As BETH and GRETA are walking outside the property gate before they speak with Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT at the gate, BETH is heard to say, "NATALEE was here."
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 September 26, 2005, while viewing the Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT’s 9-26 “A Current Affair” interview during which he denies anyone had sex with NATALEE was being discussed by FOX News GRETA VAN SUSTEREN and BETH, FOX News GRETA VAN SUSTEREN stated, “It's also, as I recall, when you and I sat down with Joran's parents [6-21], I remember you and Joran's mother having a discussion about what Joran said about his sexual activity with Natalee, which is in stark contrast to this, as well.” FOX News GRETA VAN SUSTEREN stated that in the June 21, 2005 un-recorded meeting between BETH, GRETA, Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT , and ANITA VAN DER SLOOT inside the Murder Suspects SLOOT's home, that ANITA VAN DER SLOOT admitted to BETH and GRETA that before NATALEE disappeared, his parents made Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT regularly meet with a psychologist to try and learn to control his repeated public and private demonstrations of anger.
(now a witness) SUSTEREN further stated that in the same June 21, 2005 meeting, ANITA VAN DER SLOOT detailed very graphically to (for?!!) BETH and GRETA the sexual acts that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT admitted to his mother that he committed against NATALEE (while, as even Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT has admitted vocally and in writing, NATALEE was slipping in and out of consciousness). GRETA also stated that while listening to ANITA graphically detail the sexual acts that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT admitted to his mother that he had committed against a barely conscious NATALEE, GRETA personally felt like she wanted to crawl under the table and hide.
Of the 6-21 not-filmed meeting between BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY, witness GRETA VAN SUSTEREN and Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT and ANITA VAN DER SLOOT inside the Murder Suspects SLOOT's home, the December 2005 "Vanity Fair" reported....
One afternoon Beth was walking through Noord, handing out prayer cards with Greta van Susteren, when she realized she was near the van der Sloot home. She walked to the gate, thinking she would leave a card. That's when she saw a pair of legs—it was Paulus—in the bushes. She called for him to come out. As he did, his wife, Anita, appeared at the front door, and the couple invited Beth inside for what became a tense 90-minute meeting.In the first half-hour, Beth listened as Joran's parents lavished praise on their son, though they eventually admitted they had been having trouble with him. According to Beth, the van der Sloot's acknowledged that Joran had been seeing a psychiatrist. "Anita van der Sloot told me that," Beth says. "She was saying they were beginning to have trouble with Joran [for a] defiant attitude. The father acknowledged they could not control him. He would sneak out, go gambling, in the pre-dawn hours. They had no control over him."At one point, Beth decided to press. "I told Paulus van der Sloot that he was responsible for Aruba being trapped in hell; until he came forward, I told him, his country would continue to be trapped in perpetual hell," she recalls. Paulus, while insisting he could remember almost nothing of the night Natalee disappeared, began to sweat profusely. "These beads of sweat were rolling down from his head onto the kitchen table," Beth remembers. "Beginning in the last 30 minutes, Anita had to get up and go get a kitchen towel. The sweat was pooling on the table. She had to pat him down." (The van der Sloot's' attorney didn't return phone calls for comment.)
On January 6, 2006 FOX News presented another segment of the 1-2 interview with BETH where she shared details from her journal entries. BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated she started her journal on 6-5. BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated sometime during the third week to the end of June 2005, BETH DAVE, and JUG TWITTY were able to meet with ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN. Two attorneys, VINDA de SOUSA and PETER MOHAMMED, accompanied NATALEE’s Loved Ones, and the attorneys also helped translate DUTCH written documents into English that ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN allowed them to see. As the attorneys were verbally translating the documents into English, BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated she took notes for her journal. ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN stayed only long enough to provide which documents she allowed the attorneys to view. BETH did not realize until later--when Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT changed his alibi again and started accusing Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE of raping, murdering and burying NATALEE--that ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN had not given them all Murder Suspects statements up to the end of June. One such statement was made 6-9 at 12:00 pm by Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT. BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated that in this statement Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claimed he bought NATALEE some 151-proof rum, that she had been drinking, how they left Carlos 'N Charlie's, that they went to the lighthouse because “Natalee wanted to go there to see sharks,” and “he admits a lot of the sexual assaults that he commits against Natalee in the back seat of the Kalpoe’s car as she is falling asleep and waking up, repeatedly.” The sexual details that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT describes is very detailed and graphic, but after the sex ended at the lighthouse, the statement by Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT is very short and ends abruptly with little details, with Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claiming “Natalee fell asleep. Natalee woke up. She wanted to go home.” Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT then claims the “Holiday Inn” alibi-lies of the security guards, etc. BETH also described Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s 6-10 statement that says little about what happened with NATALEE, but instead concentrates on how much he drinks (he needs 20 to 30 glasses or beers just to get intoxicated). Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT also admitted that he was seeing a psychologist, which his mother confirmed to BETH and GRETA during the 6-21 meeting. BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated during that 6-21 meeting “Anita was beginning to express her concerns of not being able to manage Joran, and that he seems to be running the household, and not having any rules or regulations that he adheres to.” In an additional 6-10 statement Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT changed his claims and said that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT was dropped off at his home, then Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE and Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE claimed they would take NATALEE back to the “Holiday Inn.” In this additional statement Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT advised him not to talk on the cellular phones, that they would be “bugged,” and Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT “coached the boys. Had them get their stories together, and Paul‘s advice was to Joran, to begin--get a story straight--begin emailing it to each other to use your hardrive to nail an alibi.” BETH feels that the statements that ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN allowed them to see were purposely chosen to allow them to see the less incriminating statements that have come forth. “I do know that, in some way, she purposely controlled which statements that we had access to, because, I have a feeling, if we had gone from these statements, to the one I have seen for June 13 that should have not surfaced, I can’t imagine the other statements that exist--that are even more incriminating, and have even more evidence that they could have acted upon.”
For 60 years edible garbage generated by ARUBAAN's has been dumped by ARUBAAN's into the ocean at “Baco Mahos“ (translation: “ugly mouth”) located on the north shoreline of ARUBA in the hope that sharks would stay on the eastern half of island, away from tourists in the western half.
On July 12, 2005 the "Texas EquuSearch" team received an in-person tip from an ARUBAN man who gave them a specific location that needed to be searched on the north side of the island within “Arikok National Park” VERY CLOSE TO THE SHARK-INFESTED “BACO MAHOS” GARBAGE DUMP SITE. When the team got there, about 100’ from the road they found an open 4’ deep and 6’ long hole that TIM MILLER stated, “certainly looks like a grave site that was possibly dug up.” TIM MILLER also said something “definitely was buried,” the hole was “manmade, remote, had easy access yet hard to see.” “Perfect.”
TIM MILLER described how the hole had obviously been dug out (with the hole left open and its dirt piled on the side) TIM MILLER is very suspicious of the hole saying that the suspects could have returned then dug up the body to move it somewhere else. TIM MILLER stated of the hole, he “still questions it” because no one can explain for what purpose such a 6’ long by 4’ deep hole could have been used for. TIM MILLER stated that 2 Aruba Police Investigators accompanied the team and took photos and the "Texas EquuSearch" team sifted the dirt pile and nearby area. On 7-14 JOE "Texas EquuSearch's" JOE HUSTON said of the “Arikok hole” that he “is not convinced it is not part of this case." “What, exactly it was used for?” He described the 7-12 tipster as white, in his 20’s, 5’ 7”, and 140 pounds, with a dark complexion. "Texas EquuSearch's" JOE HUSTON further described the “Arikok hole” as being re-dug within the past 7 to 10 days because the edges of the piled up dirt were still sharp (had not been rounded smooth from ever-present Aruba winds), and the moisture content still present in the left-behind dirt pile also supported 7 to 10 days. On 7-15 SCARBOROUGH reported that next to the dugout hole, even the roots of a nearby tree had, clearly, been chopped away at the re-dugout hole’s edge.
On July 15, 2005 the “National Enquirer“ reported:
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"Joran and others discussed an appropriate place to dump Natalee's body, a specific place where someone would disappear forever... a spot on the island where the waters are shark-infested."Arubaans know the shark-feeding spot very well and directed a National Enquirer reporter to its location on the rugged north coast of the island, where the ocean pounds the rocks and few people live.The water there is deep and murky and sits beneath a high cliff, far away from the beautiful beaches and posh hotel casinos on the island's southern side.A meatpacking plant once occupied the site. Workers there would discard meat cuttings into the ocean. The sharks would quickly gather and go into a feeding frenzy. To this day, dead animals are dumped into the waters at the shark site for the sake of tourism.
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On 6-21 Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT , Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE and Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE were transferred from Noord jail to island’s prison, “San Nicholas,” known to the islanders as “the KIA.”
On 6-21 AL.com” reported:
Holloway’s friends to hold fund-raising cookout to aid searchFriends of Natalee Holloway are throwing a fund-raising cookout at noon today at the Mountain Brook Community Church on U.S. 280. Proceeds from the hourlong event will go toward the cost of the search for the missing teen, who disappeared on a trip to Aruba more than three weeks ago. Fellow graduates of Mountain Brook High School who were also on the trip are hosting the event, said Marcia Twitty, Holloway’s aunt. “Some of Natalee’s buddies on the trip wanted to do this, and they’ll probably do things like this until Natalee’s home,” she said. Aruban authorities are still searching for Holloway, who missed her flight back to Birmingham on May 30. The community will gather at 1 p.m. for a prayer service after the cookout. There is also a fund set up for the recovery effort. To contribute, go to any AmSouth bank or mail to Natalee Holloway Trust, AmSouth Bank, P.O. Box 11426, Birmingham, AL 35202. Specify on the check that the donation is for the search effort. Members of Holloway’s family have said they are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support. “Everybody wants to help, and little things like this make people feel like they’re contributing,” Twitty said. “If we come together as a community, we can find more of these missing children.” Hannah Wolfson
**NOTE** WOLFSON is a reporter in BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA for the “Birmingham News”
On 6-21 CNN reported:
KELLY WALLACE , CNN CORRESPONDENT: Turning now to the case of missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, a Texas company is sending a search and rescue team to Aruba today to help look for Holloway. The 17-member team will use dogs and sonar equipment in the search. Meanwhile, the fourth person detained in connection with Holloway's disappearance is a party boat disk jockey. Holloway's mother tells CNN's Anderson Cooper the family was suspicious of him from the very beginning. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, HOLLOWAY'S MOTHER: You know, just from Jack and I, just our intuition and when we arrived on the island and his attitude, I mean we felt from the very beginning, as early as May 31 between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. that he could very well be instrumental and have some information. (END VIDEO CLIP) WALLACE: Holloway has been missing for three weeks now.
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WALLACE: Still to come here on DAYBREAK, a piece of Americana destroyed this morning. I will speak to a member of the Detroit Fire Department in just a few moments. Plus, a divided jury -- what happens next in the trial of a former Klan member accused of murders that took place 41 years ago today? And a new effort gets underway in Aruba today to find missing teen Natalee Holloway.
On 6-21 CNN reported:
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The family of a missing Alabama girl is calling on a private search and rescue group to help look for her. eighteen-year- old Natalee Holloway has been missing for more than three weeks now. Chris Lawrence is live in Palm Beach, Aruba -- Chris, is there any hope at this point that she'll be found alive? CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the police -- a short answer -- the police say they still consider that one of the possibilities. But when we asked prosecutors about that fourth suspect who was arrested on Friday, they said he's accused of the same crimes as the other three -- murder one, murder two and kidnapping leading to murder. (BEGIN VIDEO TAPE) LAWRENCE (voice-over): Murder Suspect Steve Croes covered his face with cuffed hands as police brought him to court. A judge ordered him kept in custody for up to one more week while his ex-wife waited anxiously with their young son, convinced Croes is innocent. JANET CROES, SUSPECT'S EX-WIFE (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): He's a charming person, a very good father and very hard working. I'm 100 percent sure he's not involved in this case. LAWRENCE: Croes works as a D.J. on this Aruba party boat. His boss says he's an able seaman, but wouldn't tell us whether the boat was out to sea the night Natalee Holloway disappeared three weeks ago. Prosecutors won't explain how Croes is tied to the case. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm sorry, I can't tell you. LAWRENCE: But Natalee's family is still confident police are making progress. GEORGE "JUG" TWITTY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S STEPFATHER: They know that the people they have in custody and the judge know more than they're saying. And it's a matter of, you know, bringing out the truth. LAWRENCE: The judge is Paul van der Sloot, who was in no mood to talk as he rushed home from the police station last weekend. He was questioned two days in a row, but only as a witness. van der Sloot's son Joran and two friends were seen walking out of a bar with Natalee the night she disappeared. All three are being held as suspects in the case. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where would you hide an object? LAWRENCE: Natalee Holloway's family still hopes to find her alive. They've been searching this small island, looking for anything investigators may have missed. (END VIDEO TAPE) LAWRENCE: And to give them a hand, that Texas search team will be flying in tonight with three certified search dogs and some sonar equipment -- Miles. M. O'BRIEN: Chris, give us a sense of what the relationship is like between the Holloways and the Aruban authorities. The fact that they have hired a private team to engage in the search might show that they have some problems and might cause some friction down there. LAWRENCE: Well, hired a private team to help, not replace the efforts of the police. The relationship is actually pretty good. Some people have been reporting that the family has filed a lawsuit against the police. That's not true. They sent a letter to prosecutors basically asking to join the prosecution's case as the victimized party. It's a pretty common procedure under Dutch law that gives them access to more information on how the case is progressing. And it's automatic. No one even has to rule on it. M. O'BRIEN: All right, Chris Lawrence, thank you very much
Suzanne Ontiveros reported on 6-21, "After a week of worry, the worst fears about Natalee Holloway seemed to be confirmed Friday night (6-17). According to Police, a man who took her to the beach in Aruba now admits to killing her."
On 6-21 BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA “The Birmingham News” wrote “The missing honor student's mother, Beth Holloway-Twitty, told the AP on Monday that the family has contracted an Aruban lawyer and was preparing a lawsuit demanding access to all information and potential evidence that Police and prosecutors have gathered.”
On 6-21 FOX News reported “Meanwhile, the family of the Alabama high school honors student said they were preparing a lawsuit that demands Aruban authorities share what evidence they have. Aruban authorities have come under fire as media reports have portrayed the Caribbean island’s efforts in the investigation as less than satisfactory.”
On 6-21 CBS News reported:
Family Demands Answers In Aruba
(CBS/AP) Natalee Holloway's family is demanding Aruban authorities share their findings with them. The 18-year-old Alabama teen disappeared May 30 while on a school graduation trip to the Caribbean island. "I want to see the police record from May 30th," said the teen's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty. Holloway insists the three young men hold the key to the investigation and that authorities should press them harder to tell the truth. Meanwhile, a judge ordered a party boat disc jockey held until at least next Tuesday in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba. Steve Gregory Croes, 26, is one of four men detained in the four-week-old case. None has been charged, frustrating Holloway's family. On Monday relatives also said a Texas company would help search for her. Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., disappeared on the last day of a five-day vacation with 124 students celebrating their high school graduation. Her passport and packed bags were found in her room. Prosecutors did not say what role they suspect Croes of playing in Holloway's disappearance, reports CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella. His distraught ex-wife, who was outside the courthouse, left without a word. But Croes is not being held for murder and kidnapping as the other three suspects are. Croes, who was arrested Friday, said he knew one of two Surinamese brothers detained in the case because they went to the same Internet cafe, according to Marcus Wiggins, Croes' employer on the party boat Tattoo. It was not known what other ties he may have had to either the brothers or a third young man in detention, 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot, the son of a justice official in Aruba. The boat Tattoo docks near the Holiday Inn where Holloway was staying.
The same judge has also ruled that van der Sloot's father still can't visit the youth in jail, reports CBS News Correspondent Peter King. No reason was given, but police interviewed the father over the weekend as a witness, and they may believe a jail visit could compromise their investigation. On Saturday, a judge ordered the three to remain in jail at least another week. The missing girl's uncle, Paul Reynolds, told Court TV Monday that the Dickinson-based Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team would help search the island. The group conducts searches on horseback. "They are going to help us search for Natalee in ways we couldn't before," Reynolds said. Texas EquuSearch, made up of volunteers, said on its Web site that a team is traveling to Aruba this week. The company plans to bring sonar units for boats and search dogs to Aruba, reports Cobiella, hoping to find what so far an entire island has missed. Investigators refuse to say whether they believe Holloway is dead. Her mother has said she will continue to believe the teen is alive until she has proof to the contrary.
On 6-21 the “Home Town Channel” reported:
Family Of Teen Detained In Holloway Case Says He's InnocentSearch Team Having Trouble Clearing Search DogsPOSTED: 10:47 am CDT June 21, 2005UPDATED: 10:25 pm CDT June 22, 2005ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- The parents of a Dutch youth who reportedly spent the evening with a missing Alabama teen before she disappeared said they believe he's innocent and they don't know how to deal with this "big nightmare."Paul van der Sloot, a judicial official whose 17-year-old son has been arrested in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, offered his first public statements since Holloway went missing in Aruba.He told Fox News he still believes his son.Joran van der Sloot and two friends were arrested 10 days after 18-year-old Holloway vanished on May 30. The three said she and the Dutch boy were kissing in the back of a car at the beach, but then they dropped her off at her hotel.Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, has insisted that the three know what happened to her daughter. She said police should press them harder to tell the truth.Officials said that lie detector equipment was brought in for the questioning. Polygraphs aren't admissible in court in the United States, but attorneys said that if everyone agreed, they would use a polygraph in the investigation there.Van der Sloot's parents visited him in the jail on Tuesday. His mother described him as very upset and sad, but hanging in there. She said that she and her family also are very frustrated with a lack of information -- a similar complaint for Holloway's family."I think we all are the same, and frustrated, because nothing is going on," Anita van der Sloot said. "There's a lot of things going on, but we don't know what is going on.""He's very upset because today would have been a very great day for him," said Anita van der Sloot. "We would have made preparations for his study in the states, so he's very sad, but he's doing OK."Rescue Group's Trip DelayedA volunteer Texas rescue group has postponed until Friday a trip to Aruba to help search for Holloway.A member said delays in getting permits for their search dogs was the reason.Joe Huston, a volunteer diver for Texas EquuSearch, said the group has a verbal agreement from Aruban Prime Minister Nelson Oduber to bring three dogs in, but he said they are still waiting for the official papers.Holloway's uncle, Paul Reynolds, who lives in Houston, asked for the Texas search group's help because the family was frustrated that three weeks of searches on the island had turned up nothing. They will be employing 17 searchers, three dogs and some underwater sonar equipment.
On 6-21 FOX News reported:
Texans to Aid in Search for Teen in ArubaTuesday, June 21, 2005ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Members of a Texas search and rescue team were headed to Aruba Tuesday to aid in the search for missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway (search).Meanwhile, the family of the Alabama high school honors student said they were preparing a lawsuit that demands Aruban authorities share what evidence they have.Aruban authorities have come under fire as media reports have portrayed the Caribbean island's efforts in the investigation as less than satisfactory.A spokeswoman for the island's prosecutor's office defended the pace of the probe on Tuesday. "We are still keeping all our options open. ... We are working as fast as our system allows us to work and still be meticulous," Mariaine Croes told FOX News.A judge on Monday ruled that the fourth suspect arrested in the case, Steve Gregory Croes, be held until at least next Tuesday. The 26-year-old party boat disc jockey was arrested last week in connection with Holloway's disappearance May 30.Mariaine Croes, no relation to the suspect, confirmed on Tuesday that a third suspect, Deepak Kalpoe, 21, was moved to prison Monday night. Already in jail are his brother, Satish Kalpoe, 18, and a 17-year-old Dutch teen, Joran van der Sloot.Van der Sloot and the two Surinamese brothers were among the last people reported to be with Holloway the night she disappeared. The Kalpoe brothers told police they took Holloway to a northern beach but dropped her off at her hotel, where they claim she was approached by a security guard.Croes said he knew one of two Surinamese brothers being held in the case because they went to the same Internet cafe, according to Marcus Wiggins, Croes' employer on the party boat Tattoo. It was not known what other connection he may have had to either the brothers or to van der Sloot, the son of a justice official in Aruba. The boat Tattoo docks near the Holiday Inn where Holloway was staying.Meanwhile, a source close to the investigation told FOX News that evidence taken from two cars impounded from the van der Sloot residence will be taken to The Netherlands for testing.The source also said the FBI only helped with the exterior search of the Dutch teen's home but did not go inside the structure.The FBI is now swapping out agents who have been there since early June. Two agents from Birmingham, Ala., will now be joining the team, which specializes in evidence collection and processing.Early in the investigation a sample from the backseat of the teen's car was sent to an FBI lab in Virginia. The source said the Aruban authorities are increasingly relying on Dutch forensics teams instead of the FBI.The family of the missing girl has been frustrated by the lack of unity and the slow pace of the search. Holloway's uncle, Paul Reynolds, told Court TV Monday that the family has contracted the Dickinson-based Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team (search) to carry out a search of the island."They are going to help us search for Natalee in ways we couldn't before," Reynolds said without offering details.Texas EquuSearch, made up of volunteers, said on its Web site that a team is traveling to Aruba this week.The missing honor student's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, told The Associated Press on Monday that the family has contracted an Aruban lawyer and was preparing a lawsuit demanding access to all information and potential evidence that police and prosecutors have gathered."I want to see the police record from May 30th," said Holloway Twitty, who has insisted the three young men hold the key to the investigation and that authorities should press them harder to tell the truth.Croes, the attorney general's spokeswoman, said a judge would not rule on such a suit until any suspects were indicted.In an interview with FOX News' Greta Van Susteren, Natalee's mother said she is confident van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers know what happened to her daughter."I have absolutely no doubt at all" that these three men know what happened to Natalee, Holloway Twitty said."When van der Sloot approached the vehicle I was seated in he had the most condescending, arrogant ... attitude of any 17-year-old I've ever seen," Holloway Twitty said when recounting an early encounter she had with the Dutch teen after arriving on Aruba.Holloway Twitty said she was holding a photo of her daughter and said, "I told him 'I want my daughter' and he said, 'What do you want me to do.'"Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., disappeared in the early hours of May 30, the last day of a five-day school trip with 124 students celebrating their high school graduation. Her passport and packed bags were found in her room.Investigators refuse to say whether they believe Holloway is dead. Holloway Twitty has said she will continue to believe her daughter is alive until she has proof to the contrary.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
On 6-21 CNN reported:
Texas team to aid Aruba search
Teen's family lawyer says request filed, behavior experts used
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CNN) -- A search-and-rescue organization from Texas was expected to arrive in Aruba late Tuesday to help look for Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who has been missing for more than three weeks.
Her uncle, Paul Reynolds, sought the group's help, said Tim Miller, director and founder of Texas EquuSearch. The name reflects the group's use of horses to search for missing people.
The 17 former and current law enforcement officers who comprise the search team are committed to spending at least five days in Aruba, Miller said.
They will bring three search dogs and side-scan sonar equipment, a sophisticated tool that can produce images of objects on the bottom of a body of water.
The trip will be paid for by donations, said Miller, who founded the organization in memory of his daughter, Laura, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1984.
Meanwhile, Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, told an Aruba television station that she had met by chance with the parents of 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot, one of four suspects in custody.
None of the young men has been formally charged.
Police questioned Joran van der Sloot's father, Judge Paul van der Sloot, over the weekend in connection with Holloway's disappearance. (Full story)
Twitty said she met van der Sloot's mother, Anita, while handing out prayer cards and fliers on behalf of her daughter in the parents' neighborhood, and she was invited into the family's home.
"It was just a situation that presented itself when I was in his neighborhood and at his home, and I just acted upon it and, yes, we did have a conversation, and that's all I want to disclose about it at this time," Twitty said.
On the legal front, Holloway's family has hired a local attorney, Vinda de Sousa, who said Tuesday she has filed a letter under Aruban law that will allow the teen's family to join the prosecution case as the victimized party.
De Sousa said the move will give the family greater access to information gathered in the investigation. Nonetheless, she described information-sharing between police, prosecutor and Holloway's family as "good."
The attorney said police investigators have brought in behavioral and demeanor experts from the United States to sit in on interviews with the three suspects arrested initially.
Two of the suspects, brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, were moved from local police custody to the island's jail Tuesday, Police Commissioner Jan Van Der Straten said.
Joran van der Sloot was to have been moved to the jail later in the day.
Their transfer is considered customary after 10 days in local police custody, Van Der Straten said.
The commissioner said the suspects were held in separate facilities in the capital to ensure they would not communicate with one another and will be housed separately at the island jail.
The three young men were the last to be seen with Holloway when she left a nightclub early May 30, authorities said. They were arrested June 9.
Defense attorneys for van der Sloot and the Kalpoes have said their clients maintain they are not guilty.
A fourth person, Steve Croes, a 26-year-old party boat DJ, was arrested Friday.
All four face accusations of murder and kidnapping, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said.
Croes initially was questioned only as a witness, two law enforcement sources told CNN.
At the time, he allegedly corroborated the version of events told by van der Sloot and the Kalpoes, who said they dropped Holloway off at the Holiday Inn where she was staying, the sources said.
But police said their story fell apart under questioning and that no evidence has been found to show that the girl ever returned to her hotel.
That and the fact one of them named Croes led authorities to detain him as a suspect, the two law enforcement sources said.
Croes is now cooperating with authorities, the sources said.
Croes works on a boat that docks about 1,000 feet (300 meters) from the Holiday Inn where Holloway was staying.
The 18-year-old honors student from suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was in Aruba with about 100 classmates to celebrate their recent high school graduation.
On 6-21 CNN reported:
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Search in Aruba; Protecting Kids; Wireless Security
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Up first this hour, the search for a missing teen in Aruba takes a new turn. The mystery surrounding Natalee Holloway's disappearance is entering its fourth week. Now a search and rescue team from Texas is joining the effort to find her. CNN's Chris Lawrence is in Palm Beach, Aruba, with the latest. Good morning, Chris. CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Tony.The family has hired that private company from the U.S. to come in and help with the search. They've got law enforcement people with search dogs, they've got a sonar expert, and a few master divers all gearing up. And they'll be flying out later today and tomorrow. Meantime, all three of the original suspects by the end of the day today will have been moved to the one prison on the island, which leaves only that fourth suspect still at a local jail. (BEGIN VIDEO TAPE) LAWRENCE (voice-over): Murder Suspect Steve Croes covered his face with cuffed hands as Police brought him to court. A judge ordered him kept in custody for up to one more week while his ex-wife waited anxiously with their young son, convinced Croes is innocent. JANET CROES, SUSPECT'S EX-WIFE (through translator): He's a charming person, a very good father and very hard working. I'm 100 percent sure he's not involved in this case. LAWRENCE: Croes works as a deejay on this Aruba party boat. His boss says he's an able seaman, but wouldn't tell us whether the boat was out to sea the night Natalee Holloway disappeared three weeks ago. Prosecutors won't explain how Croes is tied to the case. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm sorry, I can't tell you. LAWRENCE: But Natalee's family is still confident Police are making progress. GEORGE "JUG" TWITTY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S STEPFATHER: They know that the people they have in custody and the judge know more than they're saying. And it's a matter of, you know, bringing out the truth. LAWRENCE: The judge is Paul van der Sloot, who was in no mood to talk as he rushed home from the Police station last weekend. He was questioned two days in a row, but only as a witness. Van der Sloot's son, Joran, and two friends were seen walking out of a bar with Natalee the night she disappeared. All three are being held as suspects in the case. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where would you hide an object? LAWRENCE: Natalee Holloway's family still hopes to find her alive. They've been searching this small island, looking for anything investigators may have missed. (END VIDEO TAPE) LAWRENCE: The family also sent a letter to prosecutors, basically asking to join in the prosecution's case as the victimized party. It's a common procedure under Dutch law that gives them more access to information about how the case is progressing. And it's automatic. Nobody even has to rule on it -- Tony. HARRIS: CNN's Chris Lawrence. Chris, we appreciate it. Thank you. It's hard to imagine how someone could just vanish on an island paradise about the size of Washington, D.C. CNN's Karl Penhaul took to the air and sea to show us what crews are up against in the search for Natalee Holloway. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Aruba's just a speck, 19 miles long, six miles wide and 20 miles from Venezuela. But once you get airborne you see the scale of the task facing search teams. The high-rise hotel district where Natalee stayed, along the coast to the lighthouse, the possible route Natalee took with three young men now being held in connection with her disappearance. Beyond that, miles of soft sand dunes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's not the first time that they have found bodies in the dunes here in (INAUDIBLE). But it has to do with people getting lost. PENHAUL (on camera): When was the last time they found bodies in the dunes? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think on some island five years ago. PENHAUL: And how long did it actually take to find the body? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it was -- he was missing for probably about five years before that. PENHAUL (voice-over): Teams have hunted here for signs of Natalee, but the wind and sand quickly obscure traces of anything that may be buried. Beyond that, the sea stretches to the horizon. It's 690 miles due west to Panama. Any object that drifts off Aruba's west coast will eventually end up in Panama. We head out on the search and rescue boat to Manchebo Point, notorious because this is where two powerful ocean currents collide. EFRAIN BOEKHUODT, SEARCH & RESCUE TEAM: Once you reach a certain point, really you'll get yourself in the current. And here is where most of the problems happen. Once you get in the current, you're going to drift about two miles an hour on a slow day. PENHAUL: Any closer to shore, he says, and the surf could drag an object back to the beach. But here, with more than a mile and a half off Aruba's west coast, the water is more than 60 feet deep. We're going to test those currents. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three, two, one. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Man overboard. PENHAUL: Here, you can feel a menacing undertow and a strong swell. Boekhuodt tells me if they leave me in the water long enough, I'll drift northwest a few miles, then due west out into open ocean. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. PENHAUL: But he says it would not be easy to sail a boat out this far at night to dump something. BOEKHUODT: If you put your foot in the water at night, you're on radar. PENHAUL: Back in the air, Aruba's north coast looks much more rugged, but the tides are predictable. BOEKHUODT: Everything you throw here in the water in the north shore will always get back to the north shore. It will always get back to land. PENHAUL (on camera): Where would you hide an object? Would you dump it in the sea or would you hide it on land? BOEKHUODT: I would hide it on land. PENHAUL: Unlike in the sand dunes, Croes (ph) says it would take several hours to dig a hole in the hard earth amid the rocks and cacti. You can, though, just make out the entrances to a handful of old gold mine shafts abandoned more than 100 years ago and now partly flooded with sea water. (on camera): What kind of equipment would you need to get down into those? Would you need ropes? BOEKHUODT: Ropes and somebody who will dare to go in there. PENHAUL (voice-over): It's been three weeks to the day since Natalee vanished, and never finding out what happened to her is a possibility few dare to mention. Karl Penhaul, CNN, Aruba. (END VIDEOTAPE)
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We're going to send you back to Chris Lawrence in Palm Beach, Aruba. Chris is standing by with new information on one of the men being held in the Holloway investigation -- Chris. LAWRENCE: Well, Tony, we have been telling you about that fourth suspect, a deejay who worked on a local party boat named Steve Croes. Well, law enforcement sources close to the investigation now tell CNN that Croes came under suspicion because he told Police that he saw the other three men drop off Natalee Holloway right here at this hotel on the night she disappeared three weeks ago. But the more Police investigated and questioned those other three men, they found holes in that story, and that's why they arrested Croes last Friday -- Tony. HARRIS: OK. Chris, one more time, for those of us who are a little slow, recap that, please. LAWRENCE: Yes. Basically, you had three men arrested initially. You had the young Dutch teenager that hit it off with Natalee Holloway...HARRIS: That's right.LAWRENCE: ... the night that she disappeared. And you had the two brothers who were with him. They were seen leaving the club with Natalee. Then you had a fourth suspect, Steve Croes. He was just arrested last Friday. There were a lot of questions about why he was arrested, why after these other three, and what connection he might have. HARRIS: Right.LAWRENCE: Now the law enforcement sources close to the investigation are telling us that Police became suspicious of him because he initially told them that he saw those three men drop her off right here at the Holiday Inn, the hotel where we're standing right now. They found holes in the story, and so went in and arrested him last Friday. HARRIS: And we still don't know what brought this Croes guy to the attention of the authorities, do we? Or do we? LAWRENCE: No, we don't. We know that he worked on a local party boat here, ran booze cruises here out of Aruba as a deejay. We did speak with his boss who said, "Hey, Steven Croes is a model employee."HARRIS: Yes.LAWRENCE: He said he's an able seaman. But he was not able to confirm with us whether that boat was actually out to sea on the night that Natalee disappeared. HARRIS: OK. Good new information. Chris Lawrence, we appreciate it. Thank you.
On 6-21 CNNHN reported:
Missing Boy Scout Found Alive; Search Continues for Natalee Holloway
NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, breaking news, a miracle. Eleven-year- old boy scout Brennan Hawkins went missing in the rugged terrain of the Utah mountains. Tonight, Brennan found alive, the boy rescued just hours ago four long days after disappearing into the nearby wooded terrain. In a stark dichotomy tonight, the 18-year-old Alabama beauty who vanished during her high school trip to the tiny island of Aruba still missing. Natalee's family so desperate for answers they're not getting from the Aruban Police. A special team of Investigators is flying in to help the now desperate search for Natalee.
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The search for 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, desperate. Natalee's mom taking to the Aruban airwaves begging for help from the locals while a U.S. team of experts makes its way tonight to the island on their own dime to search for the 18-year-old girl. In the meantime, since Aruban Police are giving the girl's family no solid answers, they have hired their own private Investigator as a last resort.
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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) RUBEN TRAPENBERG, ARUBA GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN: I don't think the investigative team can afford making mistakes at this point, especially with this case, because it has such international attention. And that's exactly why they're being so careful and why information is so scarce. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: Careful? We've gotten one conflicting report after the next from the Aruban government all the way from dog's blood being confused with Natalee's blood, to a car not being impounded, to the wrong people being behind bars. Very quickly, let's go straight out to Karl Penhaul. He's standing by in Aruba with all of the latest. Karl, bring us up-to-date, friend. KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: One of the interesting things that's happened today, Nancy, in the course of the afternoon, Beth Twitty -- that's Natalee's mom -- met with the van der Sloot family, the parents of suspect Joran van der Sloot. Beth was apparently handing out prayer cards in the district where Joran van der Sloot's parents live. And at that point, Judge van der Sloot, Paul van der Sloot, the man who's been in for Police questioning in the last few days, came out and invited Beth into the house where she went in and she met with Paul and, we understand, Anita, Joran van der Sloot's mother, as well. We don't know what they've talked about. The family friends that we have talked to didn't want to tell us that to respect the privacy of the conversation. They did say that Beth came out looking very drained, but this is all part of the emotional drain that this case is having on her. But they do say that she was calm when she came out of that meeting, Nancy. GRACE: Take a listen to this, Karl. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KARIN JANSSEN, ARUBA CHIEF PROSECUTOR: We made our choices. We can't clarify why we made choices in this, but the investigation is still going. And we needed a lot of answers and we are getting those answers. PENHAUL: Do you think you're close to cracking this case? JANSSEN: I can't give you guarantees, but we are doing our job. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: Karl Penhaul, it's amazing to me that there have been so many inconsistencies and so many false starts from the very beginning of this case. PENHAUL: Well, that was the chief prosecutor today, Karin Janssen, that we did track down in the course of this afternoon. And in between that first question and the last question, I followed her to her car and was asking, why didn't they seize all the computers from the Internet cafe? Why didn't they seize the fourth suspect, Steve Croes', car? Why didn't they search the boat that he had access to? I also asked them, have the prosecutors checked the radar records to see if any small boat went out on the night of Natalee's disappearance? Karin Janssen turned around to me. She refused to answer any of those questions. And then when she got a little bit fed up with the questions, she turned around and said, "Thank you for your tips" -- Nancy? GRACE: OK. Well, that's a good attitude when you've got a missing American girl. Quick break, everybody. When we come back, we're going to be joined by Natalee's mother. Also joining us, Tim Miller, he is the director of EquuSearch, leading team of specialists to Aruba to find Natalee. We at NANCY GRACE want desperately to help solve un-solved homicides, find missing people. Take a look at Carol Guillen. Just 20-years-old, murdered May 18, 2002, Yuba City, California. If you have any information, call Carole Sund Carrington toll-free, 888-813-8389.(COMMERCIAL BREAK)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)GEORGE "JUG" TWITTY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S STEPFATHER: I feel that the United States is really starting to put some pressure on the people here to try to get an answer because the answer -- I can't say the total answer is with all the guys there. There may be more people involved. But they definitely know more than they're saying.(END VIDEO CLIP)GRACE: Welcome back, everybody. I'm Nancy Grace. Thank you for being with us. We're live in Aruba.Where is Natalee Holloway? The 18-year-old star student and beauty set to have full scholarship at University of Alabama upon her return from her high school senior trip. Her family is in Aruba, vowing not to leave without their girl, Natalee. And right now, joining us from Aruba is Natalee's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty. Thank you, ma'am, for being with us.BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S MOTHER: Thank you for having me, Nancy.GRACE: Ma'am, do you think you are getting sufficient answers from the Aruban Police?TWITTY: Well, I feel that we are getting there now. And I truly feel we are making progress. I know everyone is as frustrated as -- or no one could be more frustrated than I am, but I know we all share the same frustration. And it doesn't seem like we are getting anywhere, but I feel that we are getting closer.GRACE: Ms. Twitty, we are frustrated for you. So many prayers, so many vigils and good hopes and wishes going out to you tonight. Did you meet with the van der Sloot's today?TWITTY: Well, I'd just like to clarify what happened. As every day that I've been here for the last three weeks, I like to get my face and Natalee's heart in the community of Aruba. And that's through distribution of posters and prayer cards. And today, I was just doing as I normally do and thought that I would like to deliver them a prayer card. And a situation presented itself, and I acted upon it. And...GRACE: And did you speak to them?TWITTY: Yes, we did have a conversation.GRACE: What did the van der Sloot's have to say?TWITTY: I really don't want to disclose any of that information at this time.GRACE: I understand that. We want in no way to jeopardize the investigation at all. You took to the Aruban airwaves tonight. What happened?TWITTY: Well, I just want the Aruban citizens to know that -- you know, I realize they feel the same pain that we do, that I do, that Natalee's family feels. We have to resolve this. I mean, it's tearing their community apart, as well as what it's doing to us in the United States and Natalee's friends and family and supporters. So we have to have answers. But I realize we have to work together because I think they can be very instrumental in giving us and the authorities or the FBI some information, just one piece of information that maybe somebody overlooked or that maybe somebody didn't think would be relevant, but it could be huge. It could be huge in helping us find Natalee.GRACE: Beth, do you feel that they are doing all they can legally to get some answers?TWITTY: Yes. I will say yes.GRACE: Do you believe that the answer to where Natalee is within those four suspects? Do you think they know where she is?TWITTY: Absolutely, yes, I do. But I couldn't guess or speculate as to how far out of that group that it could filter to. I'm not sure -- I truly feel there are other individuals involved that could also be very instrumental in helping us solve this case.GRACE: Beth, you think the answer lies not only with them but with other people. Why? Why do you think they have the answer?TWITTY: Nancy, I just -- from my gut feeling, from all along, since I arrived shown island at 11:00 PM on May 30, I have felt all along that there are some other individuals that could help us answer some of these questions.GRACE: Beth, what do you think of this fourth guy, the deejay that takes people out on the boat and they have a party, then he brings the boat back in, the 26-year-old, Steve Croes?TWITTY: You know, I've been pretty opinionated on ones that I felt were involved or had information, and I just really don't have any thoughts or feelings on this individual. And I'm sure that the FBI and the local authorities have excellent reasons why they have arrested him.GRACE: What about the other three, Beth?TWITTY: Oh, I feel they absolutely have every answer that we need.GRACE: And everybody, she is talking about these three. They are the three guys that escorted Natalee from a restaurant and bar, Carlos and Charlies, her last night there on Aruba before she was supposed to leave the next morning. These are the guys she was last seen with.Beth, what did you think about the two security guards they first arrested?TWITTY: You know, I just didn't have any thoughts from -- of course, obviously, I didn't have any evidence. I didn't have any inside information. But you know, as I stated maybe a week ago or two weeks ago, as a mother, you're just -- from a mother's point of view, I really -- you know, I just didn't feel that they were the ones who we needed to remain focused on. But if the FBI and local authorities had something I did not know about, I'm certain that they were acting upon it and will continue to act upon it and monitor, if needed be.GRACE: Well, Beth, I'm a thousand miles away and I've got to tell you, it just didn't make sense at the time -- I agree with you -- to get these two security guards when the other three were the ones last seen with Natalee. And we're also hearing their stories are inconsistent. So it seems as if your mother's instinct is right, they can help solve the mystery. Is it true that you have hired your own private Investigator to come and make some sense of this?TWITTY: No. We have not.GRACE: How about a local lawyer?TWITTY: Yes, we have retained a local attorney for Natalee.GRACE: Very quickly, everyone, with us, Natalee's mother, speaking out tonight. She went on the Aruban airwaves, asking locals to please help find her girl. Somebody has answered. His name is Tim Miller. He's the director of EquuSearch.Thank you for being with us. What are your intentions, sir?TIM MILLER, DIR., EQUUSEARCH, TEAM SEARCHING FOR NATALEE IN ARUBA: Well, thank you, Nancy. Natalee's uncle Paul called me on Sunday. I met with him down at our office, and then I talked to Beth on the phone -- and hi, Beth. I'm looking forward to seeing you real, real soon.We're -- organized some things in a very short period of time. Things didn't come together as fast as we wanted them to. But anyhow, myself and three other guys are going to be flying out tomorrow. The rest of our organization is flying out the next day. We are bringing some sidescan sonar equipment. We're putting boats in the water with the sidescan sonar equipment. We're bringing something dogs that we feel (INAUDIBLE) some of the very best search dogs that we have here in the United States. And we're bringing a lot of experience, a lot of talent over there to continue this search.We certainly want to work with the authorities over there. We don't have all of our clearance right now. We need some things that we're working with the government on now and -- you know, to bring these things over there. But I feel comfortable when we get there, we're going to all be able to work together. We're going to start up a new search. We're going to do some things that haven't been done. And I'm real interested in the water, also. That's why we're bringing this boat that -- I mean, a sidescan sonar scan's 800 foot deep, very, very wide area, and it's been very successful in the past, so...GRACE: It certainly has, Tim. I mean, when you are looking for any object or trace of a clue in the water, sidescan sonar, if you've got it, is the way to go. Who operates that for you?MILLER: We've got some volunteers that are doing that. We're also bringing our own divers. We're, you know, we're bringing some stuff. We know they had divers there before that never got in the water.GRACE: Never got in the water. Very quickly, Tim, where did you get your search dogs?MILLER: We got them in three different states here. We've done many searches here. We've worked on many different organizations. We're bringing the best of the best over there...GRACE: Thank God!MILLER: ... and bringing Natalee home.GRACE: What did you think about the dogs they were using in Aruba?MILLER: Well, I don't know a lot about that and everything. And we just want to kind of pick up some pieces. All of us work together. But I'm very confident with our dogs and our equipment and our experience. And we want to come there, and we will be there at this...MILLER: Hey, Tim, if you don't mind, do you mind if we talk for just one minute about Laura (ph)?MILLER: Go ahead.GRACE: Tim Miller is the director of EquuSearch out of Texas. This isn't just a job for him. His daughter went missing, and he founded this foundation, EquuSearch. How did your company start, Tim?MILLER: Well, you know, they listed Laura as a runaway. We had absolutely no Police help. There was no volunteers. We didn't know what to do. And unfortunately, 17 months later, I was reading in the newspaper where the remains two of females were found in a field. One of them, unfortunately, was Laura. The other one's not identified.So I followed other cases. I've met with families. I -- you know, one thing led to another, and I just started an organization that we thought we'd be doing two or three searches a year. And in less than five years, this is search number 451. And we've been many areas of this country, been into Mexico. We went to Sri Lanka after the tsunami. And we just strictly live off of donations. We didn't even know how we was going to pull this off.GRACE: Tim, we're going to put up the number for donations. Tim Miller, headed to Aruba to help find Natalee.I've only got a few seconds before we go break. Beth Holloway Twitty with us. Beth, response to Tim coming with his searchers.TWITTY: Oh, I think that not only her family, but I think the local authorities, the FBI, I think everyone is in support of -- you know, in support of this. I mean, that's what we are moving towards. We're in a much more collaborative effort, at this point. And I think it can just -- it can only help. I mean, it's one more resource, and it could be valuable, so...GRACE: Hey, Elizabeth, as we go break, could you please throw up the address to how to give -- about how to give donations to help Tim Miller's group go down and look for this girl. Please stay with us.(COMMERCIAL BREAK)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)VINDA DESOUSA, HOLLOWAY FAMILY ATTORNEY: It's simply not done in our system. The authorities do not speak directly to the press. They have their spokesperson, and whenever they feel that anything needs to be said, they will -- the spokesperson will do so. It's a totally different system. It doesn't mean that there is anything being covered up or hidden.(END VIDEO CLIP)GRACE: Welcome back, everybody. Natalee Holloway still missing. Joining us tonight, Natalee's mother in Aruba. She took to the Aruban airwaves tonight, begging locals to please help find her girl.Beth, are there less (ph) photos of Natalee posted on the island?TWITTY: You know, I'd have to check, Nancy. I know we have covered the island with her posters. And of course, that's what we have done over the last three weeks. SO I hope -- I'm certain there are. But you know, one thing I do know is every single household in Aruba knows who Natalee is. Their siblings know they are. And they are looking for her. I know that.GRACE: Karl Penhaul, where does the investigation go now? Where are they searching?PENHAUL: Well, as far as we're aware, the Police and search teams aren't out specifically right now because what they're waiting to do is to pinpoint certain locations, depending on tips and leads also that they get from the interrogation. They've backed off those initial days, when there was a mass search in all public areas, and now it's much more pinpoint, Nancy.GRACE: And very quickly, Ms. Holloway Twitty is with us, Natalee's mother. Beth, final thoughts?TWITTY: Well, you know, Nancy, when you said Natalee is still missing, that -- that is so true. And the one thing I want everyone to know is we still need your support. We still need all the friends and families in the United States. We need all the support from the Aruban citizens, from the FBI, from the government, to the local authorities, who are working, I know, around the clock to solve this, and also the support of the media. And I can't tell you how grateful we are for all of your support and your thoughts and prayers.GRACE: Beth, we are praying. We are trying. Our thoughts are with you, and anything we can do that you can think of, we'll do it for you, ma'am.TWITTY: Thank you so much for having me.GRACE: Thank you.
On 6-21 FOX News interviewed two of NATALEE’s friends:
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: We're live in Aruba, where the frantic search for Natalee Holloway has been under way since she vanished on May 30. The Alabama teenager was on an unofficial graduation trip with more than 100 classmates when she disappeared.
Joining us live from Birmingham, Alabama, are two of Natalee's best friends, Frances Ellen Byrd and Ruth McVay. They were both on the trip with Natalee.
Frances Ellen, when you were in Aruba, did you ever feel unsafe?
FRANCES ELLEN BYRD, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S FRIEND: I wouldn't say that. Not really.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did you go to Carlos and Charlie's (search), Frances Ellen?
BYRD: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: What did you think of it?
BYRD: It was just a place for us to go at night and all be together. Since the sun was down and we weren't on the beach anymore, we just went there.
VAN SUSTEREN: Ruth, you were present when Natalee met Joran van der Sloot, is that right?
RUTH MCVAY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S FRIEND: That's right.
VAN SUSTEREN: Where were you?
MCVAY: We were in our hotel casino. And that was the first night that she had ever met him. Contrary to other stories that are circulating, she did not know him before that night.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. And when you say the fist night, was that the night of May 29 into the 30th, when she missed her flight home?
MCVAY: Yes, ma'am.
VAN SUSTEREN: And Ruth, how did you happen to notice him? What was it about him that caught your attention?
MCVAY: He didn't. He was sitting at our blackjack table, and he just seemed like a normal teenager. He wasn't flirting. He wasn't really outgoing at all. And Natalee, just in passing, introduced herself and walked off. And nothing was strange or out of the ordinary about him at all.
VAN SUSTEREN: Did there come a time when Natalee made some sort of date — I don't mean a date, I mean, an arrangement — with him, with you, with everybody, to go to Carlos and Charlie's?
MCVAY: Not with him. Absolutely not. With us. She went with all of our friends. He wasn't with us. He didn't go with us.
VAN SUSTEREN: How is it, Ruth, that both Joran and Natalee both ended up at Carlos and Charlie's?
MCVAY: He came with his friends. He had told us that night that Sunday was not a fun night on the island and that no one goes out. So we found it ironic that he showed up.
VAN SUSTEREN: Frances Ellen, what happened when you were ready to take your flight that next day and Natalee wasn't there? What did everyone think?
BYRD: Oh, we knew that something was wrong because Natalee is one of our most responsible friends. And when she was not with us that morning, we were worried, and we were right there with the chaperones, trying to figure out what was going on.
VAN SUSTEREN: Ruth, did you actually see Natalee leave with Joran from Carlos and Charlie's?
MCVAY: No, I actually left an hour before the club closed.
VAN SUSTEREN: Either one of you, do you know if any of your friends saw her leave with him?
BYRD: No. If one of our good friends had seen her, we would never have let her get in the car with him, ever. Absolutely not.
VAN SUSTEREN: Frances, when you left Carlos and Charlie's, was it just Natalee that was left behind in your group of friends, or was there a bunch of you?
BYRD: No, I don't know how many people exactly, but there was a lot of people there at closing time, including the local people and all the other people that were in Carlos and Charlie's that night. And when we all left, there was just a huge group of people waiting outside for taxis, and I never saw her get into that taxi.
VAN SUSTEREN: Ruth, what time did you actually leave Carlos and Charlie's that night or that morning?
MCVAY: Around midnight.
VAN SUSTEREN: I know that Natalee left after you, but any idea what time Natalee left?
MCVAY: From other people talking and the time that the club closed, around 1 a.m.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, Frances Ellen, Ruth, thank you both.
On 6-21 MSNBC reported:
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, MOTHER OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: I really want to put my faith and bring Natalee's heart into the community, because I truly feel they share the pain, as we do.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: Natalee Holloway's mom takes to the airwaves in Aruba to plead for help. We're going to have the latest on that search. Plus, Natalee's uncle is going to be in SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY tell us how the family is holding up.
SCARBOROUGH: … Let's talk about Aruba first, where Natalee Holloway's mother appeared on Aruban TV pleading for help in finding her daughter. We are going to talk about that and have an update from a family member later in the show.
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Plus, the mother of Natalee Holloway takes to the airwaves in Aruba, as the search for her daughter enters its 23rd day. We are going to be talking to a member of Natalee's family about the latest, the very latest, on that search.
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SCARBOROUGH: Boy, I will tell you what. We move from a remarkable recovery and rescue in Utah to continued anguish in Aruba. That, of course, was Natalee Holloway's mom, Beth Holloway Twitty, making plea for help on Aruba TV earlier tonight, as the search for her young daughter Natalee goes on.
Now, as we told you last night, volunteers from Texas are heading to Aruba to help in the search. And Natalee's uncle asked them to go.
And Paul Reynolds, Natalee's uncle, is with us tonight.
Thank you so much for being with us tonight, Paul.
What can you tell us about your sister and her special plea tonight on Aruban TV? Does she feel like any progress is being made or can be made by this type of plea?
PAUL REYNOLDS, UNCLE OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: Well, of course, we are looking for information, and, you know, we are looking for assistance in every area that we can. That's why we are particularly happy about Texas EquuSearch that is coming to Aruba to assist in the search.
SCARBOROUGH: Yes. Yes, talk about them, if you will. Why did you ask them to come?
REYNOLDS: I felt like we needed some outside experience, people that were professionals in searching for missing people and missing children. I think that Texas EquuSearch and Tim Miller are people that they can come in and accomplish that.
SCARBOROUGH: You know, Paul, I understand the position that you are in, that Natalee's mom and dad are in. It's very hard to go after Aruban authorities, especially because, obviously, they are searching for their daughter.
But, at the same time, don't you think they should have let the FBI in earlier? Don't you think they should have been more aggressive in the early days, so people like you wouldn't have to get outfits out of the United States, private outfits out of the United States, to go down to Aruba and run the type of operation that they have been running in Utah for the past five days?
REYNOLDS: Well, the FBI was on the scene early. It was hard for us to tell how much involvement they had.
As not much information is released in the investigation, we could not
really determine exactly who was doing what. But, right now, we are just -
· we are very happy to have Texas EquuSearch coming in. Of course, we would have liked for them to have been able to come in sooner, but now is a good time. We want to get started now and get this done.
SCARBOROUGH: And get it done aggressively. I agree. I think it's a great move on your part, a great move on the family's part.
Now, you talked about having trouble trying to figure out how involved the FBI was. In fact, you don't hear about it much over the air, but, unfortunately, behind the scenes, we are hearing that the FBI is being shut out. They are not able to move in and work as aggressively as they would like, certainly in the early stages of this investigation.
There's been talk over the past 24 hours that the family may file a lawsuit against Aruban authorities, not to sue them for money, but to just ensure that they can get information on how this investigation goes. What can you tell us about that?
REYNOLDS: It is my understanding that, through the legal process, we can obtain more information. Again, I am not a legal expert, but that's why that...
SCARBOROUGH: But it's all about information, right? You need information from the Aruban government to find out how the investigation of your loved one is going on foreign soil. I mean, that's what it's all about, right?
REYNOLDS: The information will help us focus on what is important, follow the appropriate leads and keep our imaginations from running wild.
SCARBOROUGH: Yes.
Hey, Paul, let me ask a final question, a personal question. Talk about Natalee. What type of person is she? What type of young girl did you see grow up in your family?
REYNOLDS: Well, in the words of her mother, she is an amazing teenager, very accomplished, a straight-A student, a scholarship to the University of Alabama, very focused on her goals in life, and knows what she wants out of life, very dependable, active in numerous honorary and charitable organizations. Very proud to have her as my niece.
SCARBOROUGH: All right. Thanks a lot, Paul. We appreciate it.
And just like I said last night with the Utah family, I say it to you tonight. All of us, all of us continue hoping and praying that everything turns out well in this story. Thank you so much for being with us. She does seem like a remarkable young lady.
6-22-05
__:__ AM or PM (?) = Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT may or may not have left his office. In his June 18, 2005 statements to ARUBAN Police Detectives he intimated that he normally leaves his office sometime in the middle of the day, supposedly, to go to his home and eat. In his June 18, 2005 statements he gave to ARUBAN Police Detectives he stated “I cannot remember any more if I came home to eat in the middle of the day because that too was different on different days.”
????Did Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT leave his office during mid-day? Do co-workers remember if he left his office or not?
????If Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT did leave his office, what time did he leave his office?
????If Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT did leave his office, has it been confirmed or not confirmed via security video cameras that he took a driving route to his home, or did he drive a route away from his office to some where other than his home?
????If Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT did leave his office, has it been confirmed or not confirmed via security video cameras that he took a driving route back to his office from his home, or a did he drive a route back to his office from some where other than his home?
On 6-22 FOX News reported:
Natalee's Mom Confronts Murder Suspect's ParentsWednesday, June 22, 2005ORANJESTAD, Aruba — In an emotional meeting Tuesday, Natalee Holloway's (search) mother — who has pledged not to leave the island without her daughter — confronted the parents of one of the suspects in the case of the missing 18-year-old.Beth Holloway Twitty (search), whose daughter disappeared May 30 in Aruba, went to the home of Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch teen who is now behind bars. She was hoping to speak with the parents of the boy, whom she had earlier described as having "the most arrogant ... attitude of any 17-year-old I've ever seen."Holloway Twitty got more than she expected — a 90-minute conversation inside the van der Sloots' home.
• Video: Natalee's Mom Meets Murder Suspect's MomHolloway Twitty told FOX News' Greta Van Susteren that she wanted to meet with the van der Sloots. The pair traveled to the van der Sloots' residence where Van Susteren captured exclusive footage of Holloway Twitty calling into the home to determine if anyone was there. After spotting someone behind a bush, she urged him to come out and take one of the prayer cards she has been distributing.Shortly thereafter, Paul van der Sloot (search) — the suspect's father who has been questioned in the case — emerged from behind the shrub, approached the gate and invited Holloway Twitty and Van Susteren inside and asked for the cameras to be turned off.During the emotional scene in the home, Holloway Twitty repeatedly asked the van der Sloots to tell her anything they knew about Natalee's disappearance.An hour and a half later, the van der Sloots escorted Holloway Twitty out of their home. Anita van der Sloot kissed Natalee's mother goodbye.In an earlier interview with Van Susteren, Natalee's mother had said she was confident Joran van der Sloot and two other suspects know what happened to her daughter."I have absolutely no doubt at all" that these three men know what happened to Natalee, Holloway Twitty said."When van der Sloot approached the vehicle I was seated in he had the most condescending, arrogant ... attitude of any 17-year-old I've ever seen," Holloway Twitty said, recounting an early encounter she had with the Dutch teen after arriving on Aruba.Holloway Twitty said she was holding a photo of her daughter and said, "I told him 'I want my daughter' and he said, 'What do you want me to do?'"The meeting between Holloway Twitty and the van der Sloots came as the investigation into Natalee's disappearance continues. But frustration is mounting in the Holloway camp regarding the pace and openness of the probe. The family of the Alabama high school honors student said they were preparing a lawsuit demanding Aruban authorities share what evidence they have.A spokeswoman for the island's prosecutor's office defended the speed of the probe on Tuesday."We are still keeping all our options open. ... We are working as fast as our system allows us to work and still be meticulous," Mariaine Croes told FOX News.A judge on Monday ruled that the fourth suspect arrested in the case, Steve Gregory Croes, be held until at least next Tuesday. The 26-year-old party boat disc jockey was arrested last week in connection with Holloway's disappearance May 30.Mariaine Croes, no relation to the suspect, confirmed on Tuesday that a third suspect, Deepak Kalpoe, 21, was moved to prison Monday night. Already in jail are his brother, Satish Kalpoe, 18, and Joran van der Sloot.Also Tuesday, members of a Texas search and rescue team, Texas EquuSearch, headed to Aruba to aid in the search for missing teen.Van der Sloot and the two Surinamese brothers were among the last people reported to be with Holloway the night she disappeared. The Kalpoe brothers told police they took Holloway to a northern beach but dropped her off at her hotel, where they claim she was approached by a security guard.Croes said he knew one of two Surinamese brothers being held in the case because they went to the same Internet cafe, according to Marcus Wiggins, Croes' employer on the party boat Tattoo. It was not known what other connection he may have had to either the brothers or to van der Sloot, the son of a justice official in Aruba. The boat Tattoo docks near the Holiday Inn where Holloway was staying.Meanwhile, a source close to the investigation told FOX News that evidence taken from two cars impounded from the van der Sloot residence will be taken to The Netherlands for testing.The source also said the FBI only helped with the exterior search of the Dutch teen's home but did not go inside the structure.The FBI is now swapping out agents who have been there since early June. Two agents from Birmingham, Ala., will now be joining the team, which specializes in evidence collection and processing.Early in the investigation a sample from the backseat of the teen's car was sent to an FBI lab in Virginia. The source said the Aruban authorities are increasingly relying on Dutch forensics teams instead of the FBI.Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., disappeared in the early hours of May 30, the last day of a five-day school trip with 124 students celebrating their high school graduation. Her passport and packed bags were found in her room.Investigators refuse to say whether they believe Holloway is dead. Holloway Twitty has said she will continue to believe her daughter is alive until she has proof to the contrary.FOX News' Greta Van Susteren and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT claimed to FOX News on 6-22 that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claimed her that, supposedly, the Police interrogators have been calling Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT a murderer, psychopath, etc. and have been demanding to know where Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT put the body and telling him that if they could beat him they would, etc. (ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN has stated that all of Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s interrogations have been recorded) ANITA VAN DER SLOOT claimed, “We cannot get him out of bed in the morning”
(well….errr….ahhh….duhhhh…. ANITA VAN DER SLOOT , if you had kept track of your child accurately and knew the places he frequented --although Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT does seem to know EXACTLY where he was going-- and if you, ANITA VAN DER SLOOT , actually KNEW that he was staying out until dawn on school days gambling, chasing women, and drinking alcohol, etc YOU MIGHT JUST HAVE ENOUGH BRAINS AND PARENTING SKILLS TO KNOW WHY YOU “cannot get him out of bed in the morning.” (this 17-year-old immature, irresponsible, hedonistic, CHILD-BABY, had not the self-responsibility to awaken himself, but, instead, actually had to be woke up by his mommy and daddy)
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT also said that she and Current Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT have asked the ARUBAN Police to interview BETH and JUG TWITTY, but the ARUBAN Police have said they will not interview them.
On 6-22 FOX News reported:
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: A FOX News exclusive: Dutch teen Joran van der Sloot's (search) parents go "On the Record." Their son was the last known person to see Natalee Holloway (search) the night she disappeared, and tonight he's behind bars at the Aruba prison. We spoke with Paul and Anita van der Sloot earlier today.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
Anita, your son's in custody. How tough is this for you and your family?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT , MOTHER OF DUTCH SUSPECT: It's extremely tough. He's in custody now for 13, 14 days, I think. I have lost count. And I love my child. I believe in him 200 percent. And it's just like a big nightmare. We don't know how to deal with it because you can't deal with it. We think about the family a lot because their life is a nightmare, too, but our life is a nightmare, too.
VAN SUSTEREN: So how do you get through the days? I mean, can you see your son?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : No. The first days, when he was at the Police office, I could go in sometimes in the morning, see him for five or ten minutes, sometimes at night, and I could hold him. I couldn't talk about the case or anything, just about love from this and this person, friends from Holland called, people who wrote e-mails. So I spoke with him about these things and just told him to stay strong and to tell the truth.
And yesterday, he got transported to the Kia, the correction institute, Kia — that's how we call the prison here — and I could visit him a little bit longer. My husband, Paul, gets no access to him at all, and they refuse his lawyer to get any access to him during interrogation. He could tell me a little bit about his interrogations that were really, really tough. A lot of pressure on him, extreme pressure.
VAN SUSTEREN: What kind of pressure do they put on him?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : Hours of interrogation, sometimes 10 hours, things like calling him psychopath, murderer, Tell us where you buried the girl, You're a criminal, I can't beat you, but if I could beat you, I would do this and it would look like an accident, not always giving him food, extreme things.
VAN SUSTEREN: When you meet with him, do you have a time limit?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : I have a time limit, yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: And who's present?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : With somebody, some of the officers is there, or the guards. And if I talk about the case, I can leave.
VAN SUSTEREN: How does he look? You saw him last night. How did he look to you?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : You know, we were so pleased that he was transported because we thought it would be a little more mild on him and he could rest a little more. At least, he has a bed now. And I could bring a cushion and clean sheets for him and some clothes because he couldn't shave during the last 10 days, hardly shower — he could shower, but also not enough water to brush his teeth, et cetera, et cetera. He couldn't — the only thing he could read was the Bible he got from a very nice Police guy. He got a Bible to read.
And he was telling me, Mommy, look at me, I'm reading the Bible. Did you ever think about that? And I think it's great. It's difficult to read. So yesterday, I thought at least, you know, he can have some books. He can write things because I think that's very important for a 17-year-old boy to write down certain experiences, just to read it over again later and see if it helps him to come through a difficult time. But he cannot have access to anything.
VAN SUSTEREN: What's he like? I realize you're his mother, but what's he like?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : Joran is a very outgoing person. He's a sweetheart. To me, he's very warm. We spend Easter vacation in Florida together to visit his school, and we had a lot of fun together, went to Busch Gardens (search), and he was getting me cups of coffee and making jokes. He's very outgoing, loving, caring, fights with his brothers all the time, but I think that's pretty normal. We cannot get him out of bed in the morning to go to school, but once he's there, he's doing great. He got picked up on the morning of his graduation. He graduated with honor, all As and Bs. He did some AP, advanced courses, physics, calculus, AP English.
VAN SUSTEREN: Any drug use or alcohol use by him?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : A hundred percent no. No. He is, like, Mom, I would not smoke or I would not use drugs because I am a sporter. I want to make something out of my future. If there would have been anything of that, I would have noticed. I'm a teacher. I work with kids between 12 and 18 years, the last 25 years. So you're used to so many things, problems that appear with your students. You're so alert. And I think you're even more alert with your own children.
VAN SUSTEREN: Any trouble from him at all? I mean, have you ever any trouble with him?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : No. A little fight with a friend that got solved by talking to the parents.
VAN SUSTEREN: Never arrested?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : Never arrested, no. No.
VAN SUSTEREN: Girlfriends?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : Yes, of course. I mean, there were two girlfriends in his life that he had a longer relationship with. One was an American girl, who left, who was part of the school, and she just sent an e-mail totally upset because she finished the relationship and she thought that Joran was too sweet, she needed a stronger man. And another girl was an Aruban girl and — a very sweet girl, came here at home. And that ended about — it was a year ago, and he was really serious. He said, Well, Mom, you know, I'm going off-island to study, so I need to focus more. And there was no really strong relationship.
VAN SUSTEREN: So how does he find himself in this? I mean, if this is a successful 17-year-old, soon to go to college on academic scholarship, why does he find himself sitting over in the jail?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : I'm sorry! Something he told me last night, that he still didn't believe it was true. And he said, Mom, don't worry, because I was crying and he was really hugging me. He said, The truth will come forward, and I know that I didn't do anything to the girl. And the truth will come forward. And he was so strong.
And I believe in him. I believe so in him. And he's just, like, Well, Mom, it's not so bad in here, but if I'm not here, and I'm thinking about you all the time and I'm praying and I'm meditating, because that's something that he went to yoga classes for a while. Of course, he was 16 then, so for him, it was, like, Why do I have to go to yoga? But he liked it. So that keeps him positive. And he is repeating over and over in those few minutes that I see him, It will all be over.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
VAN SUSTEREN: Coming up, much more of our exclusive interview with Joran van der Sloot's parents. Paul van der Sloot was interrogated by Police over the weekend, and in just a moment, he will go "On the Record."
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
VAN SUSTEREN: Tonight, we are live in Aruba, where Joran van der Sloot is in jail. He is suspected it the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. We spoke with Joran's parents earlier today. Here is more of our exclusive interview.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
How hard is this on you and your husband? Is there a way to describe it?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : No. No way to describe it. I sometimes am desperate. I scream. Sometimes I'm very quiet. We talk a lot. It affects him very much.
VAN SUSTEREN: He's quiet?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : He's very quiet. He's very shy. He doesn't like media coverage at all. And he's very much hurt by things that are happening. And as I look back — I mean, I came back from Holland Wednesday, and I was so surprised at seeing three young men — one kid, two men — involved, maybe, in the disappearance of a girl. Why did they let the boys go? Why didn't they interrogate immediately deep, see wherever any...
VAN SUSTEREN: Including your son?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : Including my son, yes. He should have been held. He should have been interrogated from the beginning on. What did you do? Where did you go? Is there anyone you have seen there? But they let the kids go. And he went on with his exams, and he was a normal teenager. He was under pressure. He knew that things were wrong, but — and the girl was missing. But he repeated, She will appear somewhere. And if she does, I'll kick her butt in front of her mom because she brought all of us in trouble. That's what he repeated several times.
VAN SUSTEREN: To you?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : To us. And in school, too. He spoke about this in school. He spoke about it with the teachers. Kids were a little bit — Joran, what did you do with the girl? And then a colleague came to me and said, Anita, please tell Joran not to speak too much about it or let not others speak to him about it. Just let him be quiet because you know how teenagers are.
So I asked my husband to call him one day when he was on the bus — he left school already on the school bus — and to talk about this with him. Joran, be careful what you say because the girl is still missing. And you don't want to get into trouble, just giving him parental advice. And that was something that we continuously did. Joran, don't go out this week because you know you're watched.
VAN SUSTEREN: On your wrist, you have two bracelets. One says...
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : Hope for Natalee.
VAN SUSTEREN: You got those from Beth.
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : I got those from Beth yesterday, yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: What was that like for you to sit down and talk with Beth?
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT : We asked the Police to talk to her at the beginning already, but they said, No, better don't do this, and it's all too emotional, and you don't know what happened. But I knew that this is a mom, too, and she's in pain. She suffers. She doesn't have her child yet. And I just wanted to hold her. I just wanted to hold her and let her know that we fully support, and we all want to find the truth and we're not hiding anything. Nothing. We're not hiding anything, nothing, from no one.
She's always welcome here. I know she prays at the same site where I pray. It's a beautiful site on the island. And it hurt me to see her during this process. It takes such a long time. And day by day, we're trying to get through day by day. But I still have my son. And although very difficult, there's not one moment, not one second, that I don't think about her or Natalee.
I pulled my little happy angel from the Christmas storage box, and it's burning in my room with Natalee's picture in front of it. We just feel for her and for the rest of the family.
VAN SUSTEREN: Paul, you were sitting here with us a second ago and had to get up to answer the phone as Anita and I were talking. But I just wanted to ask you a quick question. I can't imagine how hard this is on you. Is there a way to describe what this experience is like for you, going through this, your family?
PAUL VAN DER SLOOT, FATHER OF DUTCH SUSPECT: It's very hard. But we still are standing up and we try to handle this in the best way. And I hope Joran can stand up, too. I still believe in him.
VAN SUSTEREN: You still believe in your son?
PAUL VAN DER SLOOT: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: Do you believe that he can go through this interrogation?
PAUL VAN DER SLOOT: I hope so, that he will stand up.
VAN SUSTEREN: Was it hard for you to talk to Beth yesterday?
PAUL VAN DER SLOOT: I want to share the feelings we have also for her.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
On 6-22 CNN reported:
Mother meets suspect's parents in Aruba
Team to look for missing Alabama teen
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CNN) -- The mother of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway said Wednesday more individuals "need to be pursued" in connection with the student's disappearance more than three weeks ago on the island of Aruba.
Beth Holloway Twitty said she's sure the four young men in custody -- but not formally charged in the case -- have more information to divulge.
"I have no doubt that they know what and who and where and when and why and how. I have no doubt," Twitty said on NBC's "Today Show."
"The only thing I think there are some other individuals, though, that need to be pursued, and I know the local authorities are doing that and will be doing that," she added.
Twitty told CNN's "American Morning" she met Tuesday with the parents of 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot, one of the people in custody. He's one of the last people reported to have seen Holloway.
She said the van der Sloots invited her into their home, when she was handing out prayer cards in their neighborhood.
Twitty refused to give details about their 90-minute discussion.
"I think I walked away with the confirmation that we still have some individuals that we need to pursue," she said.
Holloway, an 18-year-old honors student from the Birmingham suburb of Mountain Brook, disappeared May 30 after she left a nightclub with van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, ages 21 and 18 respectively, authorities said.
She was in Aruba with about 100 classmates to celebrate their recent graduation.
The three men and a fourth suspect, 26-year-old disc jockey Steve Croes, face accusations of two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping leading to murder.
None have been formally charged, and Twitty says she has seen "no evidence whatsoever" that her daughter is dead.
Defense attorneys for van der Sloot and the Kalpoes have said their clients maintain their innocence.
Meanwhile, four members of a Texas-based search-and-rescue team will arrive in Aruba late Wednesday to begin planning their search for Holloway, said Tim Miller, director and founder of Texas EquuSearch.
Members of the group will meet with Aruban government officials and Holloway's family as soon as they arrive, Miller told CNN Wednesday.
The team has been delayed because of problems getting a charter flight and permission for their four search dogs to travel to the Caribbean island, Miller said.
All elements of the team should be in place Friday, he explained, including a side-scan sonar device that can peer 800 feet down into the ocean.
Miller founded Texas EquuSearch several years after the 1984 disappearance of his own daughter. Miller's efforts to find her were frustrated by a lack of help from authorities who thought she was a runaway. She later was found murdered in Texas, according to the group's Web site.
"I know what the Holloways are going through right now... (we're going to) try to do everything possible to locate this child," Miller said.
On 6-22 CNN reported:
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Also ahead, weeks and weeks of searching and still no major breakthroughs. We'll take you to Aruba for the latest on the search for Natalee Holloway.
(CNN never went to ARUBA during that show)
On 6-22 CNN reported:
CAROL COSTELLO, ANCHOR: … More help for the search for a missing Alabama teenager in Aruba is on the way, but there's been a slight delay. Volunteers from a Texas-based group will not arrive at Aruba until Friday now. They were initially expected to join the search for Natalee Holloway today. In the meantime, Holloway's mother's says she's met with the parents of a 17-year-old Dutch boy, one of the four people being held in the case. None have been formally charged.
On November 2, 2005 BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY stated to FOX News that a letter was delivered to her at HELEN LeJUEZ’s office shortly after she went there November 1, 2005. The letter was from ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN “saying she would not have time on her agenda to meet with me this week.”
On January 16, 2006 BETH HOLLOWAY-TWITTY shared with FOX News further entries to her timeline/journal. BETH stated that the search today caught NATALEE’s Loved Ones by surprise. No ARUBAN called the family about the search and she only learned of it when FOX News happened to make some phone calls to ARUBA earlier in the day. BETH stated that the lighthouse dunes has “always been a suspicious area,” including when DAVE HOLLOWAY observed some suspicious activity in the lighthouse/dunes area on 6-2, just before the DUTCH Marines conducted their first search there. BETH referred to Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT mentioning the lighthouse/sand dunes area in his statements/confessions and “the area of the sand dunes just becomes very suspicious in his statements.” In his first Police statement “When Joran gets to the point where he mentions the sand dunes, there are no more details. It ends abruptly, and then he comes up with the elaborate story of how he drops her off at the ‘Holiday Inn,’ she falls, bumps her head, the two security guards come up, so, it’s always been an area of concern of the family.” BETH stated that NATALEE’s Loved Ones have known “as early as June” about the fishermen’s huts being broken into and a large filet knife was stolen, but BETH did not learn until July about the large fish trap also being stolen from the fishermen’s huts. BETH stated that they know about KOEN GOTTENBOS, who is Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s “really good friend” and GOTTENBOS’s father owning a boat even being mentioned in Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s “first statement he gives to Police.” “Someone else who really concerns us is Steven Croes, who has access.” “For some reason--Steve Croes--he did not just come forward to protect Joran. He has some information. I mean, he came forward as a witness, they determined he was lying, and THEN he became a suspect in Natalee’s case. What information he had? Whether he had access to a boat that night? Yes, it is very, very possible these boys had done something with her body, in the water--absolutely.” From her detailed journal BETH stated that on 6-10 the F.B.I. told NATALEE’s Loved Ones that it looks like NATALEE may not be alive because the 3 Main Murder Suspects were “beginning to implicate each other, and they were not denying the crime, and they were finger-pointing at each other.” From her detailed journal BETH stated that on 6-12 DAVE HOLLOWAY became aware that a woman teacher at Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s school had reported on the telephone hotline that a school peer of Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s “had divulged what van der Sloot had done to Natalee. This teacher reportedly called the hotline, and was trying to tell the officials that Joran had confessed to this peer at his school what he had done to Natalee.” BETH does not know if this woman teacher was ever interviewed, or not, by the ARUBAN Police. From her detailed journal BETH stated that on 6-16 NATALEE’s Loved Ones received information from “a spokesperson” about a Murder Suspects time discrepancies--Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT was arrested 6-22 because he had originally told the ARUBAN Police he had picked up Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT from 4:00 AM from “McDonald’s” on 5-30, but later Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT changed the, supposed, “McDonald’s” pickup time of Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT to 11:00 PM on 5-29. When FOX News asked if any explanation has ever been given, by anyone, as to why Former Murder Suspect PAULUS VAN DER SLOOT changed the “McDonald‘s“ pickup time from 4:00 AM to 5 hours earlier at 11:00 PM, BETH stated, “No, but Jan van der Straten knew--he knew--that Paulus van der Sloot had changed this time pickup, and that is why he was arrested. That is solely why Paulus van der Sloot was arrested.” From her detailed journal BETH stated that on 7-11 BETH had a meeting with ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN where ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN said that the ARBAN Police have documented records that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT made a cellular phone call and text-messaged a message to Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE's computer at his home at 3:30 AM on 5-30. Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s 3:30 AM text-message simply was “Thanks. I’m home.” (BETH does not know how Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT was able to return home)
((recall BETH’s 9-15 statements to the NBC TV show, “Dr. Phil.”---On 9-15 BETH stated that in one of Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s statements to ARUBAN Police, Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claimed, "Well, when I hear them speaking of they're trying to decide whether Natalee has been raped or kidnapped,” Beth says “I have read, I've had translated to me Joran van der Sloot's statements. And one of his statements that I found was huge, and this was the one that he gave on June 13 at 8:30 in the morning, and he now states that this is the truth, quote, this is Joran saying 'Now here's the truth. Now I want to tell you the truth. I drove Natalee — We drove Natalee to my home at 1:40 a.m. I want her to come in. I have sex with her. Next’ — and remember in all his statements she's coming in and out of consciousness — next he says that then he took her to the beach, he took her to the fisherman's hut. And then he calls Deepak at 3:30 a.m. to come pick him up from the fisherman's hut. Deepak comes. And Deepak says, ‘Don't fuck with the bitch. Let's go.’ (BETH actually said "Don't 'f' with the 'b'") Every statement that he gives, like I said, so sexually explicit and graphically detailed of what he does to her. It just is amazing to me that he can even admit to having sex with her. And that's not a crime?")) ARUBA Prosecutor KARIN JANSSEN also told BETH that there was an 8-and-a-half minute call between Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s cellular phone and Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE's cellular phone--the longest cellular phone call ever recorded between the two boys cellular phones. “We were never able to find out what time that phone call took place, or any of the conversations that were disclosed--that they [the ARUBAN Police] knew this was significant because this had never taken place before, and I don’t know what eighteen, or seventeen year-old and twenty-two year-old boy are going to have an eight-and-a-half minute cell phone call, on the very night that they took Natalee.”
On 6-22 TITO LACLE reported to FOX News that by 6-22 Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT had completely changed his alibi from the boys dropped NATALEE at the “Holiday Inn” at 2 AM, to a completely different second alibi (made during a joint interrogation of Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT , Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE , Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE ) where Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE , Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE , and NATALEE took Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT home, and it was the Current Murder Suspects KALPOE's who drove away from Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT ’s home with NATALEE. Then Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT completely changed to a third alibi claiming that Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE and Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE took NATALEE and Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT to the “Marriott Hotel” beach at 1:50 AM and dropped them off there. After being on the “Marriott Hotel” beach with NATALEE, Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT claims he left her alone there at 2:30 AM because NATALEE wanted to remain on the beach. SLOOT also had originally told the ARUBAN Police that Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE gave him a ride home, but TITO LACLE reported to FOX News that during the joint interrogation of all three Murder Suspects on 6-20 that Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT changed his story to SATISH picked him up from the beach and gave him a ride home.
On 6-22 FOX News reported that NATALEE’s Loved Ones is preparing a lawsuit in preparation for learning what the investigation evidence is when the investigation is over.
On 6-22 CBS News reported:
Aruba Missing Case Parents Meet
(CBS/AP) The mother of missing U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway, Beth Holloway Twitty, said she had a "positive" exchange Tuesday with the parents of one of three friends detained in the case, 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot.Van der Sloot and his friends Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, are believed to be among the last people to see Natalee Holloway the night she disappeared.Holloway Twitty was distributing prayer cards for her daughter around the island Tuesday when she found herself in Noord, a town in northwestern Aruba where van der Sloots' parents, justice official Paul van der Sloot and his wife, Anita van der Sloot, live.In an interview with the Associated Press, Holloway Twitty described the interaction with Paul and Anita van der Sloot as "positive," but declined to give more details."As far as disclosing any of the specifics of the conversation, I don't want to do that at this time," Holloway Twitty said on CBS News' The Early Show. "But I think when I walked away from that conversation with was confirmation that we still have individuals that we need to pursue, and I know the authorities and the FBI are aware of that. I have no doubt."Close to the house, Holloway Twitty said something inside pushed her to go the door."I want to make it perfectly clear, I did not have a mission that day to go to his home and enter it and have a conversation with he and his wife," she told Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm."As I'm doing every day, I just want to put my face and Natalee's heart in the community with the prayer cards and the posters," she said.Holloway Twitty met with Paul and Joran van der Sloot on the night of May 30, about 12 hours after Natalee missed her plane back home. She has described that meeting as tense and uncomfortable.Meanwhile, a volunteer Texas rescue group has postponed until Friday a trip to Aruba to help in the search because of delays in getting permits for their search dogs, a group member said Wednesday.Texas EquuSearch has a verbal agreement from Aruban Prime Minister Nelson Oduber to bring three dogs in, but on Wednesday was still waiting for the official papers, said Joe Huston, a volunteer diver for the group.Holloway, an 18-year-old from Mountain Brook, Alabama, disappeared in the early hours of May 30, the last day of a five-day vacation with 124 students celebrating their high school graduation. Her passport and packed bags were found in her room.Four men have been arrested on suspicion but no one has been charged.Holloway's uncle, Paul Reynolds, who lives in Houston, asked for the Texas search group's help because the family was frustrated that three weeks of searches on the island had turned up nothing. On Tuesday, the group said it would bring in special dogs and sonar equipment to help search for Holloway.When EquuSearch arrives, is expected to come with 17 volunteers, including three search-and-rescue divers, said volunteer diver Joe Huston in a telephone interview from Houston, Texas. The volunteers will stay five to seven days depending on how much they can raise in donations for trip expenses, Huston said.
"It's not that anybody has botched this search so far, but we have extensive experience finding individuals, alive or deceased," he said. "Somebody has to find Natalee for this family to have closure.""It's just utilizing another resource," Holloway Twitty said. "I know this is Aruba's number one priority right now is to find Natalee. They want to resolve this as quickly as her family does."Holloway's uncle, Paul Reynolds, who lives in Houston, asked for the Texas search group's help because the family was frustrated that three weeks of searches on the island had turned up nothing.Upon arrival, the search team planned to meet with Aruban authorities and FBI officials to review past search routes and plot new areas, Huston said.Specialists in land searches will cover rough terrain in jeeps while divers, using specialized sonar equipment and boats, will comb the coastline, he said. The group also will bring infrared cameras to search at night, Huston said."We have found remains of people three to four years after they disappeared," Huston said.Aruban authorities accompanied by FBI observers have scoured the island on foot, in vehicles and using a helicopter with infrared equipment at night. Tourists and Aruban civilian volunteers also have conducted searches, but none has turned up any trace of Natalee.Aruban government spokesman Ruben Trapenberg said authorities welcomed the Texas group's help."In the end, they are just going to be tourists searching and that's OK," Trapenberg said. "And they have specialized equipment, so that's even better."Attorney General spokeswoman Mariaine Croes said the search team would be under the guidance of Aruban authorities."They will be like the FBI, in an advisory role, because the Aruban police force does the investigation," Croes said.She said it was critical that Aruban authorities be present at any search that turns up possible evidence to make sure it can be used legally in any future trial. Evidence collected without such supervision wouldn't likely be accepted by a judge, she said.
On 6-22 CNN wrote “Beth Holloway-Twitty said she's sure the four young men in custody -- but not formally charged in the case -- have more information to divulge. ‘I have no doubt that they know what and who and where and when and why and how. I have no doubt,’ Twitty said on NBC's ‘Today Show.’ ‘The only thing I think there are some other individuals, though, that need to be pursued, and I know the local authorities are doing that and will be doing that,’ she added. Twitty told CNN's ‘American Morning’ she met Tuesday with the parents of 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot, one of the people in custody. He's one of the last people reported to have seen Holloway. She said the van der Sloot's invited her into their home, when she was handing out prayer cards in their neighborhood. Twitty refused to give details about their 90-minute discussion. ‘I think I walked away with the confirmation that we still have some individuals that we need to pursue,’ she said.”
On 6-22 CBS reported, “Meanwhile, a volunteer Texas rescue group has postponed until Friday a trip to Aruba to help in the search because of delays in getting permits for their search dogs, a group member said Wednesday. Texas EquuSearch has a verbal agreement from Aruban Prime Minister Nelson Oduber to bring three dogs in, but on Wednesday was still waiting for the official papers, said Joe Huston, a volunteer diver for the group.”
On 6-22 the “Birmingham News” reported that Current Murder Suspect Steve “Croes was a frequent visitor to Cyberzone Internet Cafe, where suspect Deepak Kalpoe is an employee, said Kalpoe's boss, Angelina Reppas.”
On 6-22 the “Birmingham News” reported “Trey Merrill and Beau Barron, who were on the Aruba trip, said they decided to host the fund-raiser after Barron's uncle donated a large grill and food. They took in donations while students wearing yellow ribbons flagged down drivers at U.S. 280 and Dolly Ridge Road. The two teens said they had encountered van der Sloot while playing cards at their hotel casino. Police have said van der Sloot met Holloway there at least two days before she disappeared. But Merrill, Barron and other students said they didn't know anything about Croes.”
Sometime before 6-22 PAUL REYNOLDS contacted “Texas EquuSearch” for help in searching for NATALEE. REYNOLD’s said he asked for the Texas search group's help
because the family was frustrated that three weeks of searches on the island had turned up nothing.
On 6-22 MARIAINE CROES defended the lack of speed in the investigation and stated, "We are still keeping all our options open. We are working as fast as our system allows us to work and still be meticulous." CROES said the Texas search team would be under the guidance of Aruban authorities. "They will be like the FBI, in an advisory role, because the Aruban Police force does the investigation," Croes said. She said it was critical that Aruban authorities be present at any search that turns up possible evidence to make sure it can be used legally in any future trial. Evidence collected without such supervision wouldn't likely be accepted by a judge, she said.
????…. If M. CROES statement above is true, why then, when the landfill was searched daily, was there NOT a single ARUBAN authority present ????
Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE claimed to his mommy, NADIRA RAMIREZ, on 6-22 that he mentioned at that point in time of leaving "Carlos 'N Charlie's" that his car gas level was low, but he drove to lighthouse anyway. The Current Murder Suspects claimed to NADIRA RAMIREZ that during the ride, Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT and NATALEE were kissing, and that Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE got upset, then he told them, if they want to make love, go get a hotel room. After arriving at the lighthouse and seeing it NATALEE said she wanted to go back to “Holiday Inn.” Both Murder Suspect KALPOE’s told their mommy that they told the “Holiday Inn” alibi-lies because Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT was their friend.
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT claimed on 6-22 that BETH has attended the same church as the Murder Suspects VAN DER SLOOT’s.
NADIRA RAMIREZ gave a 6-22 FOX News interview to GRETA where she said both Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE and Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE admitted lying that the “Holiday Inn” alibi-lie #1 was nothing but a conspiratorially group concocted lie, and the reason they told her they did it is because Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT was their friend. NADIRA RAMIREZ gave a 6-22 FOX News interview to GRETA where she said both Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE and Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE admitted lying that the “Holiday Inn” alibi-lie #1 was nothing but a conspiratorially group concocted lie, and the reason they told her they did it is because Prime Murder Suspect JORAN VAN DER SLOOT was their friend.
On 7-25 GRETA told O’REILLY that when GRETA interviewed NADIRA RAMIREZ that NADIRA RAMIREZ told her the only way she thought that Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE and Current Murder Suspect SATISH KALPOE were home (if she did not see them come in) was if each Current Murder Suspect ’s bedroom door was closed. NADIRA RAMIREZ told GRETA that she never saw the brothers in the early morning dark hours of 5-30, but, their bedroom door was each closed.
On 6-22 a source close to the investigation told FOX News that evidence taken from two cars impounded from the Murder Suspects SLOOT’s residence will be taken to The NETHERLANDS for testing. The source also said the F.B.I. only helped with the exterior search of the Dutch teen's home but did not go inside the structure. The F.B.I. is now swapping out agents who have been there since early June. Two agents from Birmingham, Ala., will now be joining the team, which specializes in evidence collection and processing. Early in the investigation a sample from the backseat of Current Murder Suspect DEEPAK KALPOE's car was sent to an F.B.I. lab in Virginia. The source said the ARUBAN authorities are increasingly relying on DUTCH forensics teams instead of the F.B.I.
On 6-22 CNNHN reported:
NANCY GRACE, HOST: Tonight, live to Aruba. Eighteen-year-old American girl Natalee Holloway missing from her high school trip to Aruba. The Alabama beauty's disappearance still a mystery tonight. Four suspects behind bars, and Natalee's mother convinced that others must be pursued.
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But first, we go live to Aruba and the search for 18-year-old Alabama beauty Natalee Holloway. The search intensifies. A Texas team of specialists heads to Aruba to find the missing girl. Tonight, in Aruba, Natalee's father is with us, Dave Holloway; in San Francisco, defense attorney Daniel Horowitz; in New York, defense lawyer Michael Malfeda (ph); also with us, psychotherapist Lauren Howard. But first, let's go to Aruba and CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul. Karl, bring us up-to-date. KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Nancy, as far as developments on the ground in terms of the investigation, nothing that we know publicly has transpired today. So little to tell you there about, about new developments on the case itself. But you know, I did talk this evening to Anita van der Sloot. She's the mother of the younger suspect, Joran van der Sloot. Had a brief conversation with her on the telephone. That was the first time that I've had a conversation with her since we talked to her about two weeks ago just after Joran's arrest. And what she said to me, over these last few days, she said that her and her family, her husband, have been living what she termed a "crazy nightmare." She called on us not to demonize her son, but to let justice work its wheels and to find the evidence, to gather the evidence. And she also said that she was worried about Joran but that he, in jail, was praying, was praying to try and get through this. And she also indicated she was doing the same thing, Nancy. GRACE: Well, Karl, if she doesn't want suspicion to be on her son, could she explain to you what his story is when he last saw Natalee, and why the stories of the three guys that escorted Natalee from the bar that night, why their stories seemingly are starting to conflict with each other? PENHAUL: We didn't go into the specifics, not in a phone conversation. There is a chance that we may do that sometime later in person. But what she did say is she still insists her son is innocent and she does say that there are many other -- could be many other people involved in this picture, in this case, and so asked us to let justice do its work and to see really what comes out of this, Nancy? GRACE: Karl Penhaul, what other people? Who is she talking about? PENHAUL: Well, of course, we know of three other suspects who have been formerly arrested in this case. And they face the same accusations as Joran van der Sloot himself. And we do know, as well, that the Police are working through a list of suspects. We do know, of course, that they've talked to Joran van der Sloot's father, the judge, Paul van der Sloot. But we do understand, as well, that there may be other witnesses on the list, because talking to prosecutors, in fact, the chief prosecutor yesterday, she was giving nothing away, but she did seem very confident that they were making some kind of progress. And talking also to Natalee's family, they also seem to believe, through their daily briefings with law enforcement officials, that some kind of progress is being made, Nancy. GRACE: I want to go now to Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, kind enough to join us. The whole family there in Aruba searching for their girl, Natalee Holloway. Sir, thank you for being with us. We are showing continuous shots of your daughter in the hopes that someone will see this and someone will recall a fact they've forgotten and go to Police. Dave Holloway, are you happy with the job the Aruban Police are doing? DAVE HOLLOWAY, FATHER OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: I have met with the FBI and the local spokesperson. In fact, met with them this morning. And as I understand, the investigation is moving forward and moving forward very quickly. A number of people are currently being interviewed as witnesses. And as the case continues to move forward, I continue to remain optimistic that all the pieces of the puzzle will be put together and put together pretty quickly. GRACE: Mr. Holloway, you have been there in Aruba for some time now. What are you personally doing to find your girl? HOLLOWAY: I've been here basically doing ground and search efforts since day one. The last couple of days, we have been targeting areas where the experts could possibly look, that the average person may not have access to or have the capability to search those areas. GRACE: Mr. Holloway, I want to hear from you how all these conflicting releases, conflicting information, contradictory reports, rumors, how has that been affecting you and your family? HOLLOWAY: Well, it's one big rollercoaster ride, but without the faith of God, and all of our friends and family, and all of the millions of people who have sent in prayer requests and cards, I couldn't make it by myself. And I'm just thankful for all that support. GRACE: Well, Mr. Holloway, I know we're far away from you, but you've got to know you're not alone. So many people thinking of you, praying for you, praying for Natalee, vigils on her behalf. Take a listen to this. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S MOTHER: The only thing -- I think there are some other individuals though, that, you know, need to be pursued. And I know the local authorities are doing that and will be doing that. From my point of view, as Natalee's mother, and my intuition all along, I definitely feel there are some more individuals involved. It's just overwhelming. And, you know, when we spoke three weeks ago, I know you and I never imagined that we would be still be here and that we would still be searching for Natalee and... (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: Mr. Holloway, who is Natalee's mom referring to when she says other people need to be pursued? HOLLOWAY: That's probably the father of the -- I can't think of the name -- the judge -- it maybe the judge himself. GRACE: van der Sloot. HOLLOWAY: I'm just speculating, but there's answers he needs to give us. In fact, the three suspects need to tell us the truth and this thing would be over with. That's all they got to do, just tell the truth. GRACE: Mr. Holloway, do you -- we hear reports that their stories are contradictory. And they can`t all three be -- somebody is lying. If there are three different stories, one of them has got to be lying. Do you believe that one of these three suspects is lying to Police? HOLLOWAY: I would think all of them were. But, you know, they all had the same story to begin with. And then now they're changing the stories and pointing fingers at each other. So what does that tell you? Any commonsense person would understand that. GRACE: I agree with you 200 percent, Mr. Holloway. Mr. Holloway, you have said that you believe there will be a resolution to the case soon. Why do you believe that? HOLLOWAY: Well, there's not too many crimes that are perfect, in other words, there's no perfect crime. And as long as the Police are making progress and putting together pieces of the puzzle, and we`re eliminating possibilities in our search efforts, you know, it's eventually going to be resolved. I just have faith that it will be. GRACE: Mr. Holloway, do you think the three young men in custody tonight -- well, now there are four -- do you believe that they know where Natalee is? HOLLOWAY: I believe they do. GRACE: Why? Why do you think that? HOLLOWAY: Well, why would you put together a story to begin with and then, after getting questioned by it, start telling lies or other stories, you know? So why would you come up with the same story to begin with? GRACE: Absolutely.HOLLOWAY: And then...(CROSSTALK)GRACE: Why would your story change? Why would your story start to fall apart? I mean, there really is only one truth. So why would the story change? And also, the finger-pointing.You know, one thing I wanted to ask you is how you spend your day, what is your day like, Mr. Holloway? HOLLOWAY: Well, the first ten days it was all-out searching, searching the most obvious areas. And then the last week to ten days, it was like, where do we search next? And the last two days we went up in a helicopter and flew over some certain areas of inland and identified some possibilities of where the experts can search. We've basically completed the search of all of the perimeter parts of the island. Now we're looking at the interior and any hideouts. GRACE: Mr. Holloway, I was thinking about you this Sunday. I was on the phone with my own father for Father's Day. And I know your heart must have been breaking on Sunday. HOLLOWAY: It was. GRACE: With us...HOLLOWAY: My daughter...GRACE: Go ahead, sir. HOLLOWAY: I spoke with my son, and then my daughter called me, my 7- year-old daughter called me, Brooke. And she -- bless her heart -- she came up with a little story, and she sang a little song to me over the telephone. And that's one day I didn't -- I wasn't able to search. It just brought me to my knees. GRACE: Mr. Holloway, so many people thinking about you. So many prayers and positive thoughts going out for you and Natalee. Everyone, with us tonight, a special guest from Aruba, Natalee's father, Dave Holloway. He and her mother are vowing not to leave the island without their girl. Please, stay with us. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TWITTY: I do know this, that the individuals that are in custody can certainly answer the questions that we're all waiting -- we are all waiting for those answers. And there may be some other individuals who could help, who could help so we could end this.(END VIDEO CLIP)(COMMERCIAL BREAK)(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANITA VAN DER SLOOT , MOTHER OF SUSPECT IN ARUBA CASE: I just want to let everybody know that he's a 17-year-old teenager and this could have happened to any other 17-year-old teenager. And we're parents that know our kids. We try to educate them well. We try to care for them, warn them. And it's devastating that these things happen. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: That is the mother of Joran van der Sloot, the young judge -- the young son of a judge there in Aruba last seen with Natalee Holloway. He is in custody tonight. In fact, Karl Penhaul, it's my understanding three have been moved from a local facility to a maximum security facility. PENHAUL: Not really a maximum security facility, Nancy. But under the legal system here, after a certain period of detention, a Police jail, in a Police cell, they will then be moved to the island's prison, the correctional institute of Aruba, it's called, the KIA, which is down on the east end of the island. That is separated, though. It's separated, as far as I understand, into sections for convicted criminals and then another section for suspects who are still in custody but before their trial. So they are separated from hardened criminals. But this is part of the legal procedure here on the island, Nancy. GRACE: Karl, listen to this. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TIM MILLER, DIRECTOR, TEXAS, EQUUSEARCH: We're taking side-scan sonar equipment over there that we're mounting on a boat and we're doing a lot of things out in the water. We're going to have our own divers on that boat. I mean, that thing can scan 800 feet deep in the water. It can focus in on any objects that it sees. We will know, you know -- if there is something under there, we certainly can find it with this piece of equipment. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: With us is Natalee Holloway's father, Dave Holloway. Mr. Holloway, the fact that this team of specialists from Texas is coming down must give you some hope. HOLLOWAY: It does. As, again, I said earlier, we're trying to identify some areas where they can search, where they'll be most productive. We, as I had indicated earlier, have covered areas where, you know, the general public can cover. So we're going to let them do their job. GRACE: Mr. Holloway, something that I keep thinking about is, you know, when the first two guys were arrested, the two security guards that had obviously nothing to do with Natalee's disappearance, now they've got this deejay, this 26-year-old deejay that works on a party boat of some type. How do you think he fits in, Mr. Holloway? HOLLOWAY: You know, that's what has got me stumped. I really don't see the connection. Maybe there is. The Police are not, again, divulging any details about the investigation or what this individual has said. So I don't know anything about him. GRACE: Yep. You know, you guys have a regular briefing every day with Police, correct? HOLLOWAY: We do have an everyday briefing. But it's just basically on the process, such as -- in fact, today, they told us that they are convincing the evidence that they have now in preparation for the judge to review Friday to determine whether the individuals will be detained for an additional 60 days. They felt like the process was a little too lengthy the last time. And they're going put it all together in a little more condensed form where the judge can review it and make a swift decision. GRACE: There is a $55,000 reward offered for Natalee's safe return, everyone. We are showing you her picture. Back to this deejay, this 26-year-old deejay. I'm wondering, Karl Penhaul, we found out later that these Kalpoe brothers that are behind bars right now regarding Natalee's disappearance said they were sorry to the security guards, you know, for naming them. That's how those two landed behind bars. I'm just wondering, did they pick this guy's name out of a hat, this Steve Croes person? PENHAUL: I don't think so, Nancy, not from what law enforcement sources close to this investigation have told us. They've told us that, initially, Steve Croes was interviewed as a witness. And what he told law enforcement sources was that he saw the three other suspects drop off Natalee at the Holiday Inn. Now, as their stories fell apart, as cracks appeared in what they were telling Police and Investigators during interrogation, of course, then the Police realized that Steve Croes must also have been spinning a lie. And so, at that point, he switches from being a witness to a suspect. They go and haul him in, and that's why he's under arrest now, Nancy. GRACE: OK, Karl, when you put it like that, it makes perfect sense. Karl, can you explain some of the inconsistencies in this suspect's statements? PENHAUL: Not really, to be quite honest. Because the way that the investigation is structured, because of the legal restraints here, we're not being told. But what we do know is, of course, a little beyond what we knew initially, which was the boys, all three, said that they had dropped Natalee off at the Holiday Inn. They said that they drove around by the lighthouse. Some of them say they stopped there, others say that they didn't, but that the end point was the Holiday Inn. And then, as the stories fell apart, we understand, from law enforcement sources, that Joran backed away from that story and said that he was never at the Holiday Inn. He got out of the car before. We also understand that the Kalpoe brothers are telling other versions of events, that they dropped Joran and Natalee off somewhere else. You'll remember a few days ago, the search was sparked near the Marriott Hotel. That was because the Kalpoe brothers had told Investigators that they had dropped Joran and Natalee off close to that point. Those are some of the inconsistencies we know of. But others are being kept under wraps for...(CROSSTALK) GRACE: Well, Karl Penhaul, those are very serious inconsistencies. To Dave Holloway, Natalee's father, who was kind enough to join us tonight from Aruba, can you tell us about Natalee herself, her nature, what she liked, what her hobbies were? HOLLOWAY: Natalee was a very determined person who, you know, just loved life. And she always liked to make a lot of friends. And she's from the South. And a lot of people from the South are very friendly. They want to make friends, and very hospitable, and trusting, to some extent. And that may have been part of the process, was that she may have trusted these guys a little bit more so than maybe someone from somewhere else. But that's the nature of our culture. And she, like I said, was very determined, always made good grades, and everything that she did, it had to be almost to perfection. And I can recall, just during her graduation -- we had limited seating at her graduation ceremonies. And we were two tickets short, and I put her to the challenge of, you know, hey, why don't you call 300 other students if you have to. We need two more tickets to go to the event so that the whole family can go. And she called me the Monday before the graduation and said, "Hey, Dad." She called with a hoarse throat. "I got the two tickets." And I got the indication she called several hundred people to come up with those two tickets. And then, here I am, trying to find her. And people ask me, "Well, you know, how come you hadn't given up?" And I said, "Well, you know, my daughter didn't give up on me, and I don't want to give up on her." GRACE: With us, Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, there in Aruba. Quick break. And very quickly to "Trial Tracking." An FBI report says bride-to-be Jennifer Wilbanks ran away because she was afraid she wouldn't be a perfect wife. Four days before a wedding that included 600 guests, limos, the works, Wilbanks took off. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JENNIFER WILBANKS, RUNAWAY BRIDE: I had a bottle of pills or I had the bus ticket. And I decided not to play God that day and decide when it was time for me to go. (END VIDEO CLIP) GRACE: FBI says Wilbanks' flighty behavior is part of a pattern. She broke off another engagement in 2003, but she's made the perfect book deal, half a mill. That's right, $500,000 for her story. Lady Justice takes a kick in the pants.(COMMERCIAL BREAK)GRACE: Natalee Holloway has a full scholarship just waiting on her at University of Alabama. She wants to enter as pre-med. She is missing tonight.And with us from Aruba, her father, Dave Holloway. Mr. Holloway, if you could speak out to Natalee or to the people that know where Natalee is tonight, what would you say? HOLLOWAY: For the people who know where she is, I would just say, you know, come clean. You know, we've had enough. And it's time for everyone to, you know, tell the truth. And if anyone out there that has any answers that feel like they want to come forward and tell us or give us any information, please do so now. GRACE: Mr. Holloway, thank you. And our prayers are with you, sir. HOLLOWAY: Thank you.(COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, MISSING GIRL'S MOTHER: What when I walked away with was confirmation that -- some confirmation that I needed. And I've had some strong feelings since those early morning hours of May 31 between the hours of 1:00 and 4:00 AM. And I just feel there are still some other individuals that need to be pursued.(END VIDEO CLIP)GRACE: Welcome back. We are live in Aruba, still in the midst of the search for 18-year-old American Natalee Holloway. Joining us right now, Mariaine Croes. She's a spokesperson for the Aruba prosecutor's office. Ms. Croes, thank you for being with us. Has questioning of the Kalpoe brothers and van der Sloot ended?MARIAINE CROES, SPOKESWOMAN FOR ARUBA PROSECUTOR: No, it has not. At this point, what has happened is that they have been transferred to the Kia (ph). It's our prison here on the island. But if they are needed for interrogation, they will be again brought to the Police station where the interrogations take place.GRACE: Is the interrogation of the deejay on the party boat, Steve Croes -- is that ongoing?CROES: Yes, that is also still ongoing because he is in his first part of detention, so we really do need to interrogate him to see what he knows.GRACE: Mariaine Croes, do you anticipate more arrests in this case? Both Natalee's mother and father say there are other people that need to be pursued.CROES: If I have to be very honest, that's something that we cannot exclude at this point. But also, it would be very unwise of us to, at this point, tell the international media, the national media and other people involved if there are arrests going to be made in the future beforehand.GRACE: Mariaine, why was Paul van der Sloot, the judge -- why was he questioned by Police?CROES: Everybody who may know something about this disappearance of Ms. Holloway will be questioned as a witness, at this point, so that as soon as possible, we can get the story straight and know what happened.GRACE: And Ms. Croes, why wasn't the deejay, Steve Croes's, car confiscated? Why did it sit in his driveway for so long? And why hasn't the party boat been searched?CROES: What I can say is not because something wasn't confiscated, that does not mean that it wasn't searched. Both the car and the party boat have been searched. At this point, I cannot go into the details of the results of those search, but I can guarantee everybody that they were searched.GRACE: Ms. Croes, I'm not doubting you, but I find it very difficult to believe that a forensic search looking for fiber, hair, blood, semen, fingerprints, was conducted in this driveway.CROES: It -- I cannot say exactly what was being searched for. I can guarantee, though, that the search has taken place. It has happened.GRACE: OK, thank you very much for being with us. That is the spokesperson for the Aruban prosecutors, Mariaine Croes.
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