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Birmingham News: Holloway family: New witnesses in Aruba
Natalee Holloway’s stepfather said Tuesday that two new witnesses have come forward with information about the night nearly two months ago that the Alabama teenager disappeared on this Dutch Caribbean island.
One witness told investigators that he saw Joran van der Sloot, a 17-year-old Dutch youth who has been detained as the main suspect, driving to a nightclub across the road from the Marriott Hotel around 2:30 a.m. on May 30, when Holloway disappeared, said George Twitty.
According to Twitty, the witness said van der Sloot tried to hide his face with his hands as he drove to the Racquet Club with two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe. The brothers were detained as suspects and later released.
I guess we can speculate as to whether these statements are credible by this witness. If so, much has changed and Joran may have some company in prison again.
The stepfather said the account is significant because it places the three individuals near the hotel beach where van der Sloot says he left Holloway alone the last night she was seen in public.
“What’s interesting is the time — 2:30 a.m. — when the three were supposedly on their way home,” Twitty said, referring to their previous accounts to investigators.
The witness, a gardener whose name was not disclosed, gave his account to investigators Friday, Twitty said.
Can’t Believe I am saying this, But there was a great Larry King Show.
Last Nights Larry King Show had both the Twitty and Holloway families on the show , along with the Private Investigator, T.J. Ward. The key points coming out of it were that the reward for the safe return on Natalee has been raised to 1 million dollars, the focus on the new information coming from an informant.
T.J. WARD, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: Yes, thank you, Larry. This has been a very challenging case, not only having to create our own investigation, not being able to deal directly with law enforcement here in Aruba, but we’ve followed up, from the information that we gathered on Friday, from the witness that was found in the Aruba Racquet Ball Club. And I went door-to-door today in the racquet ball club and was able to locate another witness, who described the vehicle in question, owned by the Kalpoe boys, and they were able to tell me and describe, clearly, the car in question, being in the area and in the racquet club, around the homes, about six weeks ago, which was estimate somewhere after the 29th and 30th of May.
After she gave me a description, I went and obtained a picture of the car that was obtained by law enforcement, on the 29th of May and 30th, and brought the picture back to her. And she was able to describe the car to a “t.” And what was interesting that stuck out was the taillights — who had custom taillights on it with clear covers over red lights. And not only did she describe those taillights, but she described it all the way down to the wheels of the silver Honda Accord, which very may well be the vehicle in question, being belonged to (INAUDIBLE).
I just find it very interesting the car being in the neighborhood. This lady — the subdivision is — it’s kind of remote right now. It’s still under construction. And she’s one of the few people that live there. And she was at home this night, along with her daughter and she heard, and monitoring traffic coming in and out of the subdivision, being under construction, and was able to get a good glimpse of this car and give us a good description today, which I took this information — after getting a detailed description, and took it to the Aruban authorities and the FBI.
And exchange with Larry King and TJ Ward
Yes. The Aruban authorities have the run on this case. And the FBI here is to oversee and monitor what evidence is taken. And give them direction on what to do in this case. That’s the only authority that they have. They will have no authority to sit down and interview. Now I’m sure they’ll be able to monitor if there are future interrogations, they will be able to do that. But it’s my understanding through the letter of the law that was brought down, and the joint efforts between the United States and the Holland and the Aruban government, the FBI will just monitor what transpires.
KING: And Joran Van Der Sloot’s attorney, we understand, has filed motions relating to their involvement. He doesn’t want them to have access to anything.
WARD: Well that’s kind of interesting, also. Because if these defendants or suspects, we’ll still call them, don’t have anything to hide, then I don’t know why he’s going through the motion and trying to keep the FBI out from bringing their expertise in here to assist the Aruban government.
KING: Because the prime minister wants them more involved.
WARD: That’s exactly right.
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Scared Monkeys is featured in Aruba Today
Thanks to the people of Aruba Today for the references in their story today on the Texas Equusearch’s return to Aruba.
The whole team over at Aruba Today including their editor Julia Renfro has been an absolute pleasure. They are a top notch team.Click on the picture of todays paper to see the article.
Diaro Report on Fox – A New Witness
Here is the latest breaking news coming out of Aruba.
Jossy M. Mansur of Diario heard about a domino game in the prison in which someone said to Deepak that he was seen the evening Natalee Holloway disappeared. According to Jossy Mansur, the story went like this:
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“Hey, my gardener saw all 3 of you at the racquet club that morning” and Deepak gets mad and throws the dominoes all over the table. Jossy and his crew hunt down the gardener and convince him to go to the police even though he is scared. No reward money in question here, gardener isn’t getting any.
The gardener signed a statement with the police saying that between 2:30 am and 3:00 am he past by the racquet club and saw Deepak’s car. Joran in driver’s seat, Deepak, beside him, and Satish in back. He drove by very slowly and Joran covered his face while Satish laid down in back seat. Natalee was not seen in the car with the boys.
This is in direct conflict with previous statements by the three boys.
The Private Investigator is happy about this and not happy with Aruban Lead investigator.
Friday the Diaro people found him and convinced him to make a statement to the paper and to the police.
The Political Teen has the video of the Fox show with Geraldo Rivera.
Thanks to Dragonfly and Absolut for helping put this together.
Scared Monkey’s Interview Transcript with Tim Miller – July 24th, 2005
Tim Miller from Equusearch Interview -2pm EST July 24th, 2005
SCARED-TOM
It is with sincere pleasure that Scared Monkeys welcomes Tim Miller of EquuSearch to our page. As most of you know, Tim founded Eqqusearch in honor of his daughter, Laura Miller. Eqqusearch was founded in 2000, and is a 501 (c) 3 non profit organization with over 250 volunteers to date. In 2004, Tim stated that he had returned three out of twenty missing children back to their parents, and since that time he has done so much more. Tim continues this tribute to his daughter day by day, searching tirelessly for missing loved ones until they are brought home. He has promised no less to the Holloway family, and today he takes some time to sit down with Scared Monkeys and answer some questions…… We would also like to mention our prayers are with the Indonesia people that have suffered a 7.8 Earthquake today and tsunami warning. Our prayers are with them. Without further ado, here is Red and Tim Miller.
RED
Tim, It is a pleasure to meet you and for you to take the time to speak with Scared Monkeys … Thank you … Welcome
TIM MILLER
We appreciate your concern and all of the wonderful emails of encouragement we’ve received.
RED
Tim, There are many people who have just learned about Texas Equusearch from the Natalee Holloway disappearance. Can you tell us about the mission and history of your organization?
TIM MILLER
We started our organization in memory of my 16 year old daughter Laura Miller that was abductedand murdered back in 1984. Our mission was to never leave another family alone during a periodof time when a loved one was missing. We started just using horses as a resource for law enforcement and other search teams. We’ve grown from there to now having horses, 4-wheelers, boats, certified divers, airplanes, helicopters, certified search dogs, infrared equipment, night vision equipment and a lot of determination.
