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One of the many questions that I have been asked while in and after getting home from Aruba was whether I saw Arleen Schipper while I was away. The answer is yes. After the taping of the Greta Van Susteren show last Thursday night I got the opportunity to meet Arleen Ellis- Schipper. What I thought was going to be a quick meet and greet turned into a 20 minute conversation. I will say this: “and I thought I was opinionated and passionate about what I spoke of.”
Arleen was a bit skeptical of the blog at first as she thought that they all spoke negative of her. Then I said the name again of Scared Monkeys and I then assured her that the Scared Monkeys blog loved her and she had quite the following. Aruba Girl was there to overwhelmingly confirm that fact. I think Arleen recognized the name when I said it to her the second time around and then began to talk much more openly. As I said to Arleen, “trust me you have fans abound at Scared Monkeys.” Arleen was extremely gracious in talking for such a long period of time and very honest. Her more than honest and pepper-pot personality was truly refreshing.
It was a pleasure to actually talk with Arleen and discuss parts of the case that she has some issue with. Her main concern and point that she made was “consistency”. Her point of consistency was that whether it be the family or EquuSearch that those that go on different shows, whether they be ones that can or cannot be seen in Aruba or local media vs. US media that the same story be told each time. Arleen made the point that this had not always been the case and that it is tough for Arubans to understand what point they are trying to make when two stories are being told. However, I did make the point to say that it is sometimes difficult to be critical on local media of the authorities and expect cooperation when it can be more easily done with the MSM that broadcasts back to the United States. I told Arleen of Paul Reynolds and I going to Aruban radio the day before and earlier that day and she though that was a good thing. I too said it was important to bridge whatever divide there may have been over the frustration of this long investigation.
I had to smile when Arlene spoke of some of the MSM types and the shows that she has been on and her adventures. I guess there are certain shows that we will never be seeing Arleen on and for “certain” reasons. It was nice to know that at the end of our conversation there was some agreement and others parts we just agreed to disagree. No harsh words just a mutual respect and understanding. Then Arleen agreed to have her picture taken. I said it was a must for all of her admiring fans at Scared Monkeys. I really do thank Arleen for spending so much time with me discussing the case, it was very much appreciated.
Beth’s Confrontation; Says her Daughter Was Assaulted
On Monday Beth Twitty went to the Internet Cafe and confronted Deepak Kalpoe in to the disappearance of her daughter. During the confrontation there were some surprising facts that came out during the exchange.
Beth Holloway Twitty went face-to-face Monday with a man who’d been detained briefly in the disappearance of daughter Natalee Holloway in Aruba, and challenged him to tell what he knows about the case.
In telling of the tense encounter, she asserted Natalee was sexually assaulted before she vanished.
Twitty says she was tipped by a member of the media that Deepak Kalpoe was working at a local Internet cafà ©, and wasted no time confronting him Monday.
“There were customers on the computer and he was seated behind the cash register, and I guess he thought he was going to have a normal day at work.
“I wanted to ask him, Joran had admitted sexual assaults that he had committed against Natalee, and I wanted to ask Deepak: Did he participate, or did he try to help her?
“He couldn’t answer me. He could only look down at the ground.”
“I expected him, if he had no involvement, if he was not a participant in the sexual acts committed against my daughter, that yes, he could have come forward and said, ‘No,’ and looked me in the eye. He couldn’t do that.
Transcripts from ‘The Abrams Report’ for August 8:
Guest: Paul Reynolds, Beth Holloway Twitty, Catherine Crier, Lisa Fox,
All right, Paul, let me start with you. This must have been very difficult, I assume, for Beth to go and confront Deepak Kalpoe. We will ask her about it in a minute. But you have been talking to her. You know how she’s been feeling, how passionate she is about all of this. It must have been hard for her.
PAUL REYNOLDS, NATALEE HOLLOWAY’S UNCLE: Well she is just absolutely determined to find out what happened and where her daughter is. And going and seeing Deepak is not a surprise to me. It’s something I would expect her to do. And, you know, I would expect her to do it in a way that would be a positive way to get some information from him to you know find out what he is thinking and see what he can tell us.
Aruba Today Uses Scared Monkeys photo’s
Just a personal note, Red has been a casual photographer for years, and I want to congratulate him for getting published in a newspaper.
Natalee Holloway; August 9, 2005
Transcripts from Nancy Grace 8/8/05:
GRACE: Jossy Mansur, do you believe the Kalpoe brothers are going to be taken into custody? And if so, what will that mean to this investigation?
MANSUR: I`m pretty sure they will be taken back into custody because of the many things that have been said, the many accusations amongst them. This will mean then that the investigation will proceed at a faster pace because then you would have all three suspects back in jail, perhaps confronting each other again when the police do their interrogations.
GRACE: Take a listen to this, Jossy.
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TWITTY: I was able to speak with a witness also that said that Joran Van Der Sloot — they were offering to give him a ride home at 11:00 PM on the 29th, but he didn`t need one because he had already called Deepak and Satish Kalpoe to pick him up. So that is something that — you know, we know that Paul Van Der Sloot did not pick him up at 11:00 PM on the 29th. We know now that that correct pick-up time was 4:00 AM on the 30th, and Paul Van Der Sloot stated that he picked them up.
Reward Raised for Information for Natalee is raised to 250,000 Dollars
In trying to get the to the truth on the Natalee Holloway disappearance, the AP and CBS are reporting that the reward has been raised.
The mother of an Alabama honors student missing in this Caribbean island for over two months said Monday the investigation into the teen’s disappearance has been marred by ineptitude, and more than doubled the reward for help in solving the case to $250,000.
Natalee Holloway’s mother, renewing criticism of authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island, said police had given her copies of statements from witnesses and other documents from the investigation that have led her to believe investigators are on the wrong track.
“The level of ineptness has been incredible,” Beth Holloway Twitty said of Aruban authorities. “The whole thing has been wrong from the beginning.”
She declined to give details on the documents or say how she thinks authorities should be handling the case.
The family is also offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the 18-year-old’s safe return. The other reward was raised from $100,000, and Holloway Twitty wanted to publicize the rewards in neighboring Venezuela and Colombia, even though Aruban authorities and the FBI said they don’t believe the teen left the Dutch Caribbean island.
The family has said the reward is a mix of their own money and donations, but they have declined to give a breakdown.
“I hope more money will help bring people forward,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I still don’t feel like this investigation is heading in the right direction.”
Chief Prosecutor Karin Janssen called the criticism unwarranted.
