Posted on 06/02/2005 8:02:49 AM PDT by SamFromLivingston
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — FBI and Aruban officials said Wednesday that they had flew clues to the whereabouts of a Mountain Brook High School graduate who disappeared during a senior trip to the island.
FBI officials in the Caribbean were coordinating with Aruban police and Dutch authorities, who oversee Aruba, to search for Natalee Holloway, 18, The Birmingham News reported.
Holloway joined about 125 graduating seniors and adults on the five-day trip, which is an annual tradition not sponsored by the school. Other students said she never showed up for the group's return flight Monday.
"We went to check in for our airplane, and she wasn't there, and she's been missing since then," said Jay Weinacker, a member of Holloway's graduating class.
Holloway's parents, David Holloway, of Meridian, Miss., and Beth Holloway Twitty of Mountain Brook, and several family members traveled to Aruba to aid the search, said Robin Holloway, the girl's stepmother.
"It is torture," Robin Holloway said. "It is just agony."
Aruban police said Wednesday that they had questioned and released three local men who said they dropped the teenager off at her hotel late Sunday night. Officials said the girl's parents were unable to spot her on a hotel surveillance tape.
Officials said there were few leads on Natalee's whereabouts.
After hearing of her disappearance, Robin Holloway said her husband felt compelled to search for his daughter.
"We can't just sit here and do nothing," she said. "We don't know if she is still in Aruba ... or she's been kidnapped. We just don't know anything."
Officials at Mountain Brook Community Church said more than 150 people participated Tuesday in a prayer service for Holloway.
"Word just kind of got out, and parents and students just really wanted to get together and have a little prayer service for the whole situation," said Troy Gambrell, an associate in the youth ministry.
FoxNews has the same numbers as MSNBC. How conflicting! I don't know which is worse ... and handful of adults not watching a mob of students, or a big crowd of adults *still* not watching the students.
I think that you're probably right about her being dead, unfortunately. And your boycott suggestion is an interesting one.
After this amount of time I don't expect a postive outcome.
If you read the local news you can already see how concerned they are about this affecting tourism. (Especially the way they use dubious information to headline a story that she's most likely still alive.)
http://www.aruba.com/news/
Hopefully
Uh-huh. How do they square this with "warm, friendly, and loved to party"?
Like Luca Brassi, sadly, she sleeps with the fishes..
Crock..the three boys...supposedly dropped her at her hotel..but her room was never entered..what's their ages..criminal records...I'd wager that they get CSDI in Sruba, and they know enbough to construct a story that explains for any forensic stuff that places her in their car..
Crock..the three boys...supposedly dropped her at her hotel..but her room was never entered..what's their ages..criminal records...I'd wager that they get CSI in Sruba, and they know enbough to construct a story that explains for any forensic stuff that places her in their car..
I had to google ... we're cable-less :-).
The Godfather......
Got it!
Latest Report. (No new info.)
http://beta.abc3340.com/news/stories/0605/233115.html
One oither point..Aruba is very close to Venezuela..they get a lot of Venezuelans vacationing there..they come to gamble at the casinos..and it's a rough element sometimes..also, since Chavez..anti-Americanism is more open..it could be a bad combination..
That's right.. Just boycott the island... Piss off their gangsters, get them to cough-up their perps. Make life hell for them.
Thank You
Police are now searching a partially abandoned hotel. 10 more FBI agents have been added to the case.
I can't believe she would even get in a car with 3 guys...I mean come on......I feel bad for the girl but that was really stupid.
Not a problem, just sign for 1040A, mail to your local Freeper registration office, sign in triplicate and then have a cold one on me.
Still the best lesson so far in all this sadness.
The chaperones definitely dropped the ball. They were probably too busy having a conga line in the bar to notice that an 18 year old girl was getting into a car with three men.
If they had put down their margaritas long enough to do a head count, Natalee would be safe at home right now.
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