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Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing May 30 during a senior trip to Aruba. AP photo

I have a friend who works with a Texas state agency that deals with missing people. To say they are frustrated by the amount of coverage Natalee Holloway, the runaway fiancee, Laci Peterson, etc., generate, while the families they work with are ignored by the MSM, would be an understatement. To quote her (she does read and post on FR, however she has deliberately refrained from participating in these missing persons discussions since it's close to her job): I can survey 20 people on the street, about a missing teen from Alabama, and many will immediately name Natalee Holloway. If...

Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing May 30 during a senior trip to Aruba. AP photo

How come the media has stopped talking about the crime of the century? What could possibly be more important than a missing teenage girl in Aruba? They've completely distorted their priorities. < /sarcams>

Aruban libel threat in missing girl case Jul. 7, 2005 at 9:45AM The mother of a missing Alabama teenager could face a libel lawsuit for speaking publicly about two suspects' release from an Aruban jail.

A latent but growing resentment here became evident for the first time when more than 200 people, some wrapped in Aruban flags, said they were incensed by statements made by the mother of a missing American teen. Those assembled outside the colonial courthouse in this Caribbean capital Tuesday night said they fear their tiny island nation is falsely being portrayed as not doing enough to find Natalee Holloway, the Alabama girl who vanished May 30 on a graduation trip with her high school class.

Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing May 30 during a senior trip to Aruba. AP photo

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - A judge in Aruba on Monday ordered the immediate release of two Surinamese brothers held for nearly a month in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager. A third detainee, the 17-year-old son of a top justice official in Aruba, was ordered held for 60 more days, court officials announced. The justice official's son, Joran van der Sloot, and Surinamese brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, were detained on June 9 in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway. Holloway disappeared in the early hours of May 30, on the last day of a five-day vacation...

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - The Netherlands is sending three F-16 jet fighters with search equipment to Aruba to help in the search for Natalee Holloway, a teenager from Alabama who disappeared May 30 during a school trip. A spokesman for the Aruban government said the jets equipped with infrared and sonar should arrive Sunday afternoon. The planes are being sent after Aruban Justice Minister Rudy Croes requested more help from Holland, the Caribbean island's former colonizer. Holloway, 18, from Mountain Brook, Alabama, disappeared on the last of a five-day graduation trip with 124 classmates. Three young men have been...

From the top of the Hooiberg hill you can see all of the tiny island of Aruba, which is little more than a sliver of white sand set in the sparkling blue of the Caribbean. But Jim Greene, perched half-way up, is not here as a sun-seeking tourist. He is looking for a body. Greene, who has come all the way from Colorado, has joined dozens of American volunteers scouring Aruba for teenager Natalee Holloway. 'This place would make a good dumping ground,' said Greene grimly, looking down from the Hooiberg at Red Cross workers surveying two murky ponds below...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) -- Holland will send three F-16 warplanes rigged with search equipment to find Natalee Holloway, Aruban authorities said Saturday, as U.S. lawmakers increased pressure on the Aruban government to do more to find the Alabama teenager nearly five weeks since she disappeared. The three planes, equipped with infrared and sonar-scanning capacity, were expected to arrive Sunday afternoon, said Aruban government spokesman Ruben Trapenberg.

Dutch Sending Jets to Find Missing Teen By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes ago Aruba's Attorney General Karin Janssen speaks to the Associated Press in her office in Oranjestad, Aruba, Friday, July 1, 2005, regarding the case of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch) ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Holland will send three F-16 warplanes rigged with search equipment to find Natalee Holloway, Aruban authorities said Saturday, as U.S. lawmakers increased pressure on the Aruban government to do more to find the Alabama teenager nearly five weeks since she disappeared. The three planes, equipped with infrared and sonar-scanning...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- Aruba's chief government spokesman said late yesterday that three young men detained in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager could be formally charged as soon as Monday. Spokesman Reuben Trapenberg did not clarify what charges would be filed against the three. Earlier, Aruba's attorney general, Karin Janssen, said the young men had been charged with murder since their arrest three weeks ago. "The three have been charged with the murder of Natalee Holloway from the beginning" of their arrest 10 days after the young woman went missing May 30, she said in a recorded interview. "At the...

The Aruban incident ticks me off on three levels: 1. The total obfuscation coming from the pencil neck geek Aruban teens, from the Frankenstein-like Dutch punk and from his lawless lawyer father. As macabre and irreparably dented as the BTK killer is, at least when he was caught, he came clean. Not so with these palm pilots. 2. The incredibly decrepit Aruban Keystone cops and their banana republic judicial system who have handled this case like MC Hammer handled his finances during the 90’s and . . . 3. The fact that this could have been avoided if . ....

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Three young men detained in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager have been charged with murder since their arrest more than three weeks ago, Aruba's chief prosecutor told The Associated Press on Friday. The charges were not announced at the time to protect the feelings of the family of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, said Attorney General Karin Janssen. "At the time, we didn't want to upset the (Holloway) family talking about murder while they searched," Janssen said.

Teens May Be Charged, Aruba Spokesman Says By PETER PRENGAMAN The Associated Press Friday, July 1, 2005; 7:03 PM ORANJESTAD, Aruba -- Aruba's chief government spokesman said Friday that three young men detained in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager have not been formally charged but could be as soon as Monday. Earlier, Aruba's attorney general, Karin Janssen, told The Associated Press that the young men had been charged with murder since their arrest three weeks ago. "The three have been charged with the murder of Natalee Holloway from the beginning" of their arrest 10 days after the young woman...

AP: Three Aruba suspects charged with murder in missing girl case

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Hey all I see that the Natalee Holloway disappearence is a big forum topic .. thought I would let everyone know of a place called www.blogsfornatalee.com

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (June 26) - Aruban police freed the father of a Dutch suspect arrested in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, the man's wife said, hours after a party boat disc jockey held in the case was ordered released. Anita van der Sloot said the most important thing for her now ''is that my son comes (out) free.'' No immediate comment was available from officials about the release of Paul van der Sloot, 52, a high-ranking justice official who is studying to be a judge on the Dutch Caribbean island. Earlier Sunday, a judge also ordered police to release...