She's toast, Jim.
Posted on 11/04/2005 6:25:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Five months after Alabama teen Natalee Holloway disappeared, her family remains steadfast in their search for clues surrounding her disappearance. Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, and her mother, Beth Holloway-Twitty, have both done their part to keep their daughter's memory alive and her name in the news headlines.
Both Dave and Beth have returned to Aruba numerous times, searching for clues and confronting the Aruban government about their investigation of Natalee's case. Just last week, Dave, accompanied by EquuSearch - a search and recovery team for missing persons - discovered a makeshift memorial for Natalee. A small wooden cross, surrounded by rocks and coral and draped in rosary beads, stood just yards from where Natalee was reportedly last seen alive. Carved in the corner of the cross were the initials "N.H."
The memorial seems interesting considering the fact that it was found in an area off the beaten path, where the general public would not likely have gone. Is it just a memorial from a saddened local citizen, or the work of someone with a guilty conscience? The answer is unclear at this point.
The non-profit, volunteer group EquuSearch has used highly sophisticated sonar equipment, helicopters and manpower to search both land and sea for clues about Natalee's disappearance. Natalee's family is hopeful that with the help of EquuSearch they may finally find some closure.
History Of False Hope
The search for Natalee Holloway has followed a winding path. Each time Beth Holloway-Twitty and Dave Holloway have found a lead to cling to, their hopes have been dashed.
All Suspects Released
On September 3, 2005 Joran van der Sloot, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe were all released from police custody on the condition they stay available to authorities for questioning. Although prosecutors wanted to hold all three suspects longer, an Arbuban judge ordered their release. Even though the three men are free, authorities say they will continue to investigate the connection between these three men and the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
No Sign Of Missing Alabama Teen At Aruban Pond
Investigators serached a pond not far from the Holiday Inn where Natalee stayed -- but there were no signs. The pond was searched after a witness claimed to have seen the three suspects named in Natalee's disappearance sitting in a parked car near the pond. In addition to the pond, authorities searched a landfill three times.
DNA Not Holloway's
According to the FBI, DNA taken from strands of blond hair stuck to duct tape found on a beach in Aruba did not match the DNA of missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. A park ranger found the duct tape while collecting trash on Aruba's northeast coast - the opposite side of the island from where the Alabama woman was last seen in public. The results of two tests on the hair came back negative.
Tracing Natalee's Steps
Natalee Ann Holloway had just graduated from Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham, Ala. She was looking forward to attending the University of Alabama on a full academic scholarship.
On an unofficial annual senior trip Natalee and approximately 130 of her classmates ventured thousands of miles away to enjoy the white sands and blue waters of Aruba.
For five days the recent graduates and seven chaperones relaxed, sun bathed and enjoyed the Aruba nightlife.
Dressed in the same blue and green striped low-cut blouse and jean miniskirt that she wore at the beach earlier in the day, Holloway spent Sunday evening partying at Carlos 'N Charlie's, a popular restaurant and dance spot where tourists and locals meet in the Aruban capital, Oranjestad.
Monday morning, May 31, 2005 when the rest of the group gathered to catch their flight, Natalee was no where to be found.
Carlos N' Charlie's master of ceremonies, Jose Hernandez, saw Natalee leave about 10 minutes before the restaurant's 1 a.m. closing. He reports that nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Meanwhile, some of Natalee's friends say they saw her getting into a vehicle outside the nightclub.
According to Natalee's stepmother, Robin Holloway, friends say Natalee was last seen with a local resident who claimed to be a foreign exchange student.
One important clue -- police found Natalee's passport inside her hotel room, narrowing the possibility she left the island.
She fed the sharks and she's gone. Her killers got expert legal advice from the prosecution and are free. This story is so over.
I'd hate to be a parent and have to hang my hopes on something like that.
Anybody could have put that up--and if the killer(s) DID happen to have enough conscience to put up a cross, undoubtedly they'd put it up MINUS her initials.
JMHO.
I feel bad for her parents. I hope they find out what happened to Natalee and find closure to what must be the most horrible experience a parent could face.
She's toast, Jim.
I couldn't believe this when I heard it, but it's the last straw. The Arubans deserve to be boycotted. What a disgusting place.
Unfortunately that is my gut feeling as well.
I feel for the parents but honestly this story was over months ago. Please God, I can't take another spate of Hannity wasting endless hours on this again.
"One important clue -- police found Natalee's passport inside her hotel room, narrowing the possibility she left the island."
DUH! Maybe whoever took her, IF she left the island, didn't need a passport where she was going.
THIS is such a LAME article.
I really doubt that a killer would do this.
Ridiculous!
Retired Spec Forces should already have dispatched the boys who we know are responsible (at least Joran.)
Too bad that won't happen, I guess life ain't like the movies.
JLA Forums has an interesting video allegedly of Holloway and van der Sloot getting it on on an air mattress on the beach. It's in two parts:
http://www.jlaforums.com/music_song.php?song_id=666
http://www.jlaforums.com/music_song.php?song_id=667
You need to sign up (free, but I advise using a fake name and a throw-away email).
It looks like them, and if it is, there is no evidence of coercion or undue intoxication. It starts with a lewinsky and progresses to dog-style and female superior.
Joran van der Sloot is a snotty, arrogant kid. Although the corrupt Aruban system of "justice" may have allowed him to get away with this crime, he'll screw up again. Creeps like him usually do.
Rainfall for the whole year as of today is only 13.73 inches. She went missing June 1, so 5 months ago. At an average of an inch per month, that's 5 inches total. None of the tropical storms or hurricanes have gotten close to Aruba, if that's what you're thinking. They are out of the zone and it's generally an arid island.
As far as the sea tides and currents in the Caribbean around Aruba, that's a little different story, since the storms do affect those. Everything depends on if she is weighted down if her body were thrown from a boat. I'd hoped that they might find out from someone's confession where the vessel might have gone.
If it was 12 miles offshore or more, that is international waters and we, the US, could have control of the investigation. In fact, international waters are only 2-3 miles offshore in the direction of Venezuela, because of treaties with that country, but I'm afraid that if they were in that part of the sea, they weren't dumping a body, they were taking a live girl into captivity.
I leave this case alone for a while because it's so frustrating, then I come back and get frustrated all over again. LOL, I still wear my little baby-blue rubber "Hope for Natalee" bracelet everywhere here in the Big H, but it was getting kind of old having people ask me if I am a Katrina refugee, or worse yet, they just look down at the bracelet and ask if I'm from New Orleans.
That's just stupid.
Series, why this crap is in the news for more than a nanosecond is beyond me....
i dunno about psychics..maybe john edwards summoning her spirit..? havent seen him in a while..
but in all seriousness..i have to really wonder how this girl ended up dead. this will sound bad i know, but i can certainly see how 3 guys ended up having sex with an attractive and drunk girl..its just the way the wiring is in us young horny guys... but she ends up dead? i mean.. that just doesnt jive. the van der sloot kid appears to have money and for the other 2 guys I mean how much cash would she have on her? credit cards? even still. why not just steal her assets and use them up without killing her? does she puke from the alcohol and choke on it during or after the sex romp.. then the guys freak and know their semen/DNA is gonna show up so they get rid of her? its just bizarre to think this went from drunk monkey sex to death. something fishy in aruba..any other amateur profilers want to give their 2 cents?
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