New Arrest in Aruba missing teen case
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bfez1 wrote:I can't belive they cannot find this girl. My thinking is she is in the water.
JMO!!!
On Nancy Grace last night, she asked the same thing and they said that the tides there keep pushing things back to the beach. So that's why they havent sent divers out.
There are abandoned (and flooded) gold mine shafts that have not been checked out, apparently.
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I can't keep Amy Bradley's plight (lured off her cruise ship, sold into white slavery in 1998, seen in a Curacao brothel in 1999, no word since) out of mind entirely when discussing Natalee Holloway's case...but it seems clear that Natalee isn't on Aruba. 
What's more, the Dutch authorities have NOT used the FBI's expertise in the interrogation or evidence associated with her disappearance. Why not?
What's more, the Dutch authorities have NOT used the FBI's expertise in the interrogation or evidence associated with her disappearance. Why not?
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IF she's still alive, my guess is that Natalee is NOT on Aruba...possibilities include Surinam, Curacao, Dutch Guiana, Guyana, French Guiana (all of which have legal prostitution)...or the Netherlands itself (drugged, with a fake passport and a dye-job).
Frankly, I'm not holding out much hope for her.
Frankly, I'm not holding out much hope for her.
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Strange set of circumstances for sure. Four people are being held since almost day one, and yet no intense searches going on there.
At first, I believed the "taken offshore and dumped" thought...but now I am becoming more inclined to believe she is not there at all.
Aruba is a diamond among destinations in the regions, and locals cannot afford to have this painful chapter unsolved. Tourism is essential...is their only trade, since their only oil producing plant was shut down quite a while ago.
Three weeks and counting. Where will the story lead us next?
At first, I believed the "taken offshore and dumped" thought...but now I am becoming more inclined to believe she is not there at all.
Aruba is a diamond among destinations in the regions, and locals cannot afford to have this painful chapter unsolved. Tourism is essential...is their only trade, since their only oil producing plant was shut down quite a while ago.
Three weeks and counting. Where will the story lead us next?
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Brent wrote:I think there is a coverup... the prime suspect is the son of one of Aruba's top government official. I guarantee if that was a regular citizen they probably would have gotten the truth out of him by now.
I'm not convinced that he really is involved in her disapperance. They seem to be arresting and questioning people based on suspicion rather than on the evidence they have. And they don't seem to be getting any closer to finding out what happend to the girl. It was hard to see how those security guards that were in arrested, would have anything to do with these kids. Apparently, in Aruba, you can be arrested and jailed, without any evidence provided against you at all.
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Texas group to look for missing teen
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (The Dallas Morning News/AP) - A volunteer Texas rescue group said Tuesday it will bring special dogs and sonar equipment to Aruba to help search for a missing U.S. teenager more than three weeks after she disappeared.
Dickinson-based Texas EquuSearch will arrive Wednesday with 17 volunteers, including three search-and-rescue divers to look for 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, said volunteer diver Joe Huston in a telephone interview from Houston.
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."
Huston said Holloway's uncle, Paul Reynolds, asked for the group's help because the family was frustrated by three weeks of fruitless searches on the island.
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."
Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., 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.
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (The Dallas Morning News/AP) - A volunteer Texas rescue group said Tuesday it will bring special dogs and sonar equipment to Aruba to help search for a missing U.S. teenager more than three weeks after she disappeared.
Dickinson-based Texas EquuSearch will arrive Wednesday with 17 volunteers, including three search-and-rescue divers to look for 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, said volunteer diver Joe Huston in a telephone interview from Houston.
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."
Huston said Holloway's uncle, Paul Reynolds, asked for the group's help because the family was frustrated by three weeks of fruitless searches on the island.
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."
Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., 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.
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Thunder44 wrote:Brent wrote:I think there is a coverup... the prime suspect is the son of one of Aruba's top government official. I guarantee if that was a regular citizen they probably would have gotten the truth out of him by now.
I'm not convinced that he really is involved in her disapperance. They seem to be arresting and questioning people based on suspicion rather than on the evidence they have. And they don't seem to be getting any closer to finding out what happend to the girl. It was hard to see how those security guards that were in arrested, would have anything to do with these kids. Apparently, in Aruba, you can be arrested and jailed, without any evidence provided against you at all.
I agree... for 3 weeks now that dumb prosecutor has said "We are at a crucial point in our investigation" and yet... NOTHING.
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Thunder44 wrote:Brent wrote:I think there is a coverup... the prime suspect is the son of one of Aruba's top government official. I guarantee if that was a regular citizen they probably would have gotten the truth out of him by now.
I'm not convinced that he really is involved in her disapperance. They seem to be arresting and questioning people based on suspicion rather than on the evidence they have. And they don't seem to be getting any closer to finding out what happend to the girl. It was hard to see how those security guards that were in arrested, would have anything to do with these kids. Apparently, in Aruba, you can be arrested and jailed, without any evidence provided against you at all.
OK, you're not convinced...then, why does Joran van der Sloot change his story more often than my son changes socks?
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