Paul Van der Sloot: “Asking the judge to rule officially that he is not a suspect in the case”, Just as Dompig starts from the beginning.

Who does not find the following situation convenient and rather peculiar? Paul Van der Sloot, “asking the judge to rule officially that he is not a suspect in the case”, just as new Deputy Police Chief Dompig starts from the beginning in the investigation of Natalee Holloway. You make the call.

Paul Van der Sloot who was once arrested and held in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, Natalee Holloway “has petitioned a judge to clear him of suspicion in the case so that he can be rehired by the government.”

Joran’s father, Paul van der Sloot, was arrested June 23 in connection with the case and was released on June 26.

Paul van der Sloot “is asking the judge to rule officially that he is not a suspect in the case,” said Arie Swaen, after coming out of the courthouse in the capital, Oranjestad, Friday.

In an ongoing investigation where Deputy Police Chief Gerold Dompig has made a much more concerted effort to investigate the case of missing teen Natalee Holloway than his predecessor; Paul Van der Sloot looks to the courts to not be a suspect? The courts where many believe that Paul Van der Sloot has many friends and allies. It is impossible to imagine that anyone other than those that are actually investigating the matter of Natalee Holloway would make such a determination. Dompig has stated on many occasions during many interviews that they are basically starting this investigation from the beginning.

As stated last night on Scarborough Country discussing the difference between the two investigations as being like night and day.

Joe Scarborough: I will tell you, the difference between this new investigator and the investigator who is friends with the van der Sloots seems like the difference between night and day. This guy actually seems very aggressive, like he wants to get to the bottom of the story. You and your family have to be somewhat pleased that this investigation is finally, it seems to me, taking on a new life.

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Missing Person’s Families Meet With Benefactor, Joe Mammana

Several families met with Joe Mammana, the man who offered his help in their time of need. Joe Mammana has come to the aide of many missing persons families by offering large rewards in hopes that it may lead to some form of information being brought forward to solve the investigations.

Those families met Joe Mammana, a Philadelphia man who first made headlines by posting a $100,000 reward in the Natalee Holloway case, where the college student was reported missing in Aruba.

Since then, Mammana has made the same generous offer in local cases, including the disappearances of Julie Popovich, Tony Luzio Jr., Michelle Hadsell and Carla Losey. Now, he’s offered an increased reward in the 1996 disappearance of Rob Mohney.

Joe Mammana is in town as a keynote speaker for the annual Crime Stoppers breakfast, which will be held Wednesday morning.

In wanting to make a difference Joe Mammana has offered what he feels is his best way to make a difference in missing person’s cases. It has brought together many unlikely people including Beth Twitty, the families of several missing persons and Joe Mammana.

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Lynn Moran, 24, Missing in Portland, ME

Lynn Moran, 24, of Shrewsbury, MA has been missing 11 days according to police. Police fear that there has been foul play. She has been missing since October 10, 2005 when she traveled to Portland, ME over the Columbus Day weekend and had lunch with friends. Moran had left her purse and cell phone at her friend’s apartment. Police also found her car where she had parked it.

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Dave Holloway: “Yes, for the first time we have gotten some guidance on what areas to focus our search efforts on”.

From The Abrams Report; October 24, 2005 Dave Holloway discusses the search efforts in Aruba for his missing daughter, Natalee Holloway. The water searches continue in Aruba with Texas Equusearch as the family finally gets direction for the first time according to Dave Holloway from Aruban officials. This is an almost incredible comment some 5 months into the investigation.

Abrams: Dave you are in Aruba searching for Natalee, but you are not just searching in random areas right? You are getting guidance in where you should look?

Dave: Yes, for the first time we have gotten some guidance on what areas to focus our search efforts on.

Abrams: Where is that coming from?

Dave: That’s coming from Chief Dompig himself.

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Abrams: Joining me on the phone from Aruba is Dave Holloway. Dave, first of all what do you make of this development?

Dave: Well, I’m hopeful they will make something out of it. I think America knows, really everyone knows what happened it is a matter of just proving it. That’s the problem we’re rising with the judge, or the judge of instruction.

Abrams: Dave you are in Aruba searching for Natalee, but you are not just searching in random areas right? You are getting guidance in where you should look?

Dave: Yes, for the first time we have gotten some guidance on what areas to focus our search efforts on.

Abrams: Where is that coming from?

Dave: That’s coming from Chief Dompig himself.

Abrams: So the chief is telling you to look in a particular area.
Do you want to tell us where generally or how he is coming up with these areas?

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Gerold Dompig: “If the tapes are authentic, not altered the next step would be we call in Deepak once more for questioning”.

Greta Van Susteren October 24, 2005: Part One with Dompig

Gerold Dompig along with the Prosecutor and investigative team has seen the Jaime Skeeter’s Deepak tapes that were shown on the Dr. Phil Show. They are now on their way to Holland for authenticity. Dompig goes though point out a couple of discrepancies in the tapes and issues. Although, some of his points seem rather trivial as he seemed to have no problem with the audio portion of the tapes.

Dompig: Yes, we have and that is the first you could say stumbling block. Because the transcripts, especially the part where he supposedly admits to having sex or at least the group having sex with her is not exactly matching what we are hearing on the tapes. So, there’s some discrepancy there and that’s why we need technicians from Holland to look at it.

Dompig: Well, there’s a part where Mr. Skeeters suggests that…literally he says I’m sure that she had sex with you all. His response to that was (at least we can hear) is something like she did or she didn’t. So it’s not clear whether he denies it or agrees with that activity.

Dompig: No, not the audio. What is a bit disturbing though is during the conversation we only see a part of the back of the head of Deepak. So, it is not possible to see him really talking. You hear him talking and you see the back of his head. You could say that is not really something that helps us.

See the tape for yourselves to make your own judgement.

However, if these tapes are authenticated Deepak Kalpoe is going to have much explaining as Dompig and the prosecutors office both see discrepancies in what was said on the tapes and what was given to them in statements.

Dompig: Well, we don’t know yet. We have set a couple of steps. If the tapes are authentic, not altered the next step would be we call in Deepak once more for questioning.

Greta: What was the prosecutor’s reaction to the tapes as you watched her listen to them?

Dompig: Well, she was stunned. Because the little discrepancies we saw in the tapes at least suggest that what we have in the statements is probably not correct.

The rest of the Dompig interview: (Hat Tip: SunMoonStars)

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