RSSAruba Police Search for Man Who Anonymously Gave Tip; A midnight jogger
According to the AP, the Aruban authorities are searching for a late night jogger who may have information into the case of Natalee Holloway’s disappearance.
Authorities are searching for a man who anonymously called a hot line with information in the case of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway but never made contact again, police said Friday.
The man called a few days after Holloway disappeared and claimed to have seen something, said police spokesman Edwin Comenencia. Police want him to provide sworn testimony about what he says he saw, Comenencia said.
The man told the hot line operator he lived near the Marriott Hotel - around the area where Holloway was last seen - and often went jogging there late at night, police said. Comenencia declined to say what the man claimed to have seen or how long police have been looking for him.
“I can’t say why, but we need his statement,” Comenencia said. “The problem is we don’t know who he is.”
We have attained a fax from sources in Aruba pertaining directly with the information of the above referenced news story. Phone numbers and the fax’s author have been omitted:
Yamada pa testigo acudi na Polls
Oranjestad –Den e investigacion den e desaparicion di e turista mericano N. Holloway. e team cu ta investigando e caso kier haci e siguiente llamada na e pueblo di Aruba.
Polis ta buscando un persona cu regularmente ta jog (core)
den oranan laat di anochi den vecindado di Salina Cerca, y
mas specifico e area na unda berdaderamente e salina ta
situa. E persona aki, di sexo masculino, den pasado ya caba
a aserca polis den un forma anonimo.
E peticion di polis ta pa e persona aki un biaha mas tuma contacto cu polis. E por tuma contacto cu meneer Papito Comenencia na e siguiente numbernan di telefon: 583 3483 of 582 4000.
English translation:
Police looking for late night jogger
Oranjestad — In regards to the ongoing investigation in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, the team of investigators would like to make the following announcement to the public of Aruba.
Police are searching for a person who regularly jogs in the late night/early morning hours in the vicinity of Salina Cerca, the area across from the Marriott Resort extending across the way to the Salina (the Pond). The male person has already spoken to the police anonymously and the police are requesting this man to contact the police again urgently.
Please contact Mr. Papito Comenencia at the following numbers: 583-3483 or 582-4000. Urgency is of utmost importance.
Clint Van Zandt Interviews an Emotional Beth Holloway Twitty
Following Clint Van Zandt’s interview on last nights Scarborough Country, Joe Scarborough asked some very interesting questions regarding Van Zandt’s dealings with Beth. More
interesting than the questions, were the answers from Mr. Van Zandt. The fact that he admitted that one “cannot remove yourself” from the difficulty that Beth goes through while investigation, searching or interviewing her with regards to dealing with the missing Natalee Holloway was so on target and what makes this story so captivating. The emotional involvement by so many that have never met this family is amazing. I found when meeting Beth Holloway Twitty in Aruba how difficult it was to maintain any form of objectivity and feel nothing but empathy for her and her family for what they are going through. Beth would try to carry on a normal conversation and all you find yourself doing is being compelled to hold her hand or give her a hug of support. Last night former FBI criminal profiler, Clint Van Zandt, found himself in the same position.
Video from MSNBC of the very emotional interview.
Full transcript
SCARBOROUGH: Clint, obviously Beth was very emotional in that interview with you, crying at one point. I got to ask you, how tough is it for you as an investigator, not only in this capacity, but as an investigator, for the FBI, to not get emotionally involved in cases like this?
VAN ZANDT: You cannot remove yourself, Joe. I mean, I got to tell you, I got sucked into this as soon as I hit the ground. I mean, as soon as you talk to Beth Holloway, as soon as you talk to other family members, I mean, you know, you and I have talked. You‘re a parent, I‘m a parent, we have children. You know that, you know, there but for the grace of God that‘s one of our kids, and when you see how hard this family is trying, doing everything they can. You know, you look, Joe, we don‘t have a victim, she‘s gone. We don‘t have a crime scene. We don‘t have linking physical evidence. It‘s like, you know, something from outer space came down and grabbed this girl off the surface of the planet and took her away, and yet Investigations 101 says, stay with the people she was last with. Their stories have changed multiple times. Do we have any other suspects? That‘s where you have to stay, but, Joe, we are 80, 81 days into this, and the family do not have any more answers to what happened to their daughter than almost the day they hit this island.
SCARBOROUGH: Clint, the tough question, is this case ever going to get solved?
VAN ZANDT: You know, sitting there with Beth today, holding her hands, probably crying with her, I have cried with other parents who‘ve lost children, and, you know, it‘s an easy thing to do. And I will not turn off that emotional porch light on her front door that says, Natalee, come home. You know, I would never take that away from a parent. I mean, we could have another Elizabeth Smart, we could have a runaway bride. I mean, we can hope, we can pray for all of those. You know, and sometimes statistics be darned, it‘s our kids, let‘s bring them home. The reality, from an investigative standpoint is where‘s the hard evidence that says what happened to this girl? I mean, I have a working theory. Law enforcement has. But, you know, theories are just that. Theories don‘t convict anyone. Hard evidence does, and unless they come forward with some hard evidence to show what happened to this girl, they may walk, the suspects.
SCARBOROUGH: Ok. Such a tragedy. Thanks so much, Clint. We greatly appreciate it. We‘ll be talking to you, obviously, tomorrow night also. Now, we have gotten a lot of questions about how Beth is able to spend so much time away from home, searching for Natalee. Today she told us, it‘s thanks to the generosity of her fellow teachers in Alabama. They have donated their sick days so Beth can stay in Aruba longer, fighting to bring her daughter home. Beth expressed how overwhelmed she is by all of her fellow teachers‘ acts of kindness, and I know she greatly appreciates it, as do we. Such a tough time for you her. Again, friends, you have to remember, right now, all of Natalee‘s friends are going off to the University of Alabama, the University of auburn, such an exciting time in a young girl‘s life, such an exciting time in the life of parents. It‘s a time they can say, “You know what, mission accomplished. We got them through high school. And now they begin an exciting voyage,” and yet tonight, Beth Holloway Twitty, far away from Alabama, down in Aruba, still trying to get answers to the questions that she just doesn‘t have.
Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone
Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone have been missing since February 19th, 2005. They were last seen leaving Abilene, a restaurant in Philadelphia.
Friends and family have set up this website, http://www.danielleimbo.com/ , to help find her.
An interesting statistic, Philadelphia has had 4,500 missing persons reports filed since the beginning of this year. The disappearance of this couple has the same trademarks of the Latoyia Figueroa case reports the Philadelphia Enquirer.
The last adult missing-persons case in Philadelphia that generated the same amount of media attention as Figueroa’s concerned Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr., who were last seen leaving a South Street bar on Feb. 19. Like Figueroa, they were not the disappearing kind. Imbo, 34, of South Jersey, and Petrone, 35, of Philadelphia, each had a child, a job, and a close-knit family.
Yet neither of them - nor Petrone’s 2001 Dodge Dakota - has been found. Their credit cards and cellular telephones have not been used. They have made no attempts to contact their families.
The Imbo and Petrone families, like the Figueroa family, made themselves available to the media, organized high-profile searches, and helped raise large reward funds.
This is exactly what Bruno of the National Center for Missing Adults advises families to do: give the media “something new to report, create an event,” just make something happen to keep their loved one in the public eye.
Paul Reynold’s Keeps the MSM on Point and Focused
On last nights Larry King Live Paul Reynolds did his best to dispel nonsensical rumors that 
attempt to become news and kept the focus on the suspects at hand. It is all too easy for the media and many to try and come up with the rumor de jour; however, Paul kept on point and restated the one fact that we all know to be true. Natalee Holloway was last seen getting into a car with Joran Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers. His premise is they know something as Paul said, “But we know those are the three individuals that know what happened.”
PIXLEY: Let me ask Paul about that, then. Paul Reynolds, Natalee’s uncle, Beth Holloway Twitty’s brother. Paul, before we leave this question, as outrageous as this new report may seem, do you, knowing your niece the way you do, knowing, of course, that she did go off with a stranger in Joran Van Der Sloot — that obviously has been confirmed. Do you put any stock in the idea that she may have been lured away by someone who is really not on the radar right now, someone like this talent agent?
PAUL REYNOLDS, UNCLE OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: Absolutely not. You know, that just wouldn’t happen. It’s almost a ridiculous story. You know, we know that Natalee did go with Joran Van Der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers. Her friends said that she thought it was a taxi. They were lined up there at Carlos and Charlie’s, so she very well may have been tricked into getting in the car. But we know those are the three individuals that know what happened. We believe the father also knows because according to the boys’ statements, the father was helping them create an alibi. They’re all involved, they all know what happened. We don’t know where she is, but that’s why we keep looking.
PIXLEY: And Paul, you’re also searching, obviously, and have been searching with large groups at the local landfill. Tell me how that’s going and tell me what assistance you’ve received from the Aruban authorities. Are you satisfied with the assistance that you’re getting from them? REYNOLDS: Well, Equusearch was doing the first landfill search. They spent at least a solid weekend there, a little more than that. A tough job, you know, trying to get some equipment in there. Extreme hardship under the conditions of the landfill. And, you know, but they were dedicated. They’re in there looking hard with the dogs in there and trying to find something. This is based on a witness report.
PIXLEY: Thanks, Paul.
Amanda Jones, St Louis Women, Still Missing
Amanda Jones, the 9 month pregnant St Louis woman, has still not been found and investigators have intensified the effort to find her.
Police have received about 70 tips regarding the disappearance of Amanda Jones, a nine months pregnant Pevely woman missing since Sunday, but say they still have no evidence of a crime or any indication of what happened to her.
A loan administrator at Eagle Bank in Festus, Jones, 26, was last seen at the horse-show grounds of the Hillsboro Civic Center on Highway 21 in central Jefferson County about 5 p.m. Sunday. Police found her unlocked car there but said it offered no clues.
Police have not recovered Jones’ purse or cell phone.
Jefferson County Sheriff Oliver “Glenn” Boyer said a 20-person task force is investigating the case.
In a press conference Thursday morning, Boyer said police had intensified the search for Jones overnight Wednesday searching the property near and adjacent to the Civic Center on foot, using canine units and from the air, but had found no clues.
“We have no physical evidence, nor do we have any statements from anyone to indicate that a crime has been committed,” Boyer said.
He added, however, that police considered Jones’ disappearance to be suspicious.
“We are treating this as a very serious incident,” Boyer said.
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Dave Holloway; Some Phone calls are Better than others
Especially when they have good news on the other end from Tim Miller. From tonights Abram’s Report on MSNBC we learn from Dave Holloway that sometimes hope is kept alive by simply receiving a telephone call. Dave Holloway tells us of the phone call he received from Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch who said, “I have some good news for you.”
Dave: Late this afternoon, Tim Miller with TES called me out ot the blue. Wanted to know how I was doing, feeling, all that stuff. He wanted to know when I was going back to Aruba. I said, well, when you go back, I’ll go back. We are partners. I have some good news for you. He is working on a deal to move some dozer’s to the landfill from the USA. To possibly get a company to commit some people and assets. It is still in the works, not finalized. Still in the talking stage at this point. I was given a little hope that we can clear that landfill.
Dan: How do you keep hope alive at this point?
Dave: It is just like the phone call I received today from Tim. That was a big concern for me, the landfill was not properly searched. I spent 50 days on the island continually searching, a lot of time with TES and a lot of people involved with TES. They have done a great job. Landfill was the last issue, other than that…we are probably looking at the ocean as the last place.
No one needs to know any more about Dave Holloway and what type of individual he is than his comment, “I said, well, when you go back, I’ll go back. We are partners”. He is a real class act and was my honor to meet him and try and help him in whatever way I could.
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