Beth Twitty Remembers her daughter Natalee Holloway’s birthdays

Scarborough Country October 21, 2005

Beth Holloway Twitty in what is a rather difficult interview to watch dealing with questions on dealing what would have been Natalee Holloway’s 19th birthday. No matter how you feel about how Beth Twitty has dealt with the way she has gone about bringing this matter to the forefront of the media, no one can begin to understand or comprehend what a mother’s grief must be like especially on her daughter’s birthday.

Beth Twitty also brings up some interesting points on Judge Rick Smid placing suspect’s rights over a victim just so he can begin college. Also her hopes that the suspects will be brought back in and hopefully interrogated by the Dutch interrogators as before.

You know Joe, I think back to the judge. I think back to judge Rick Smid and I think that he chose the suspects rights over the victim’s rights in this case. It is hard for me and I’m sure it’s hard for everyone that has stayed with us in this investigation.
We see it so clearly what they have done and I just can’t imagine why the judge would feel for Joran to begin his studies in college. He felt like he needed to move on with his life and he needed to begin and not miss his college days.I just can’t imagine a judge placing suspect’s rights over a victim just so he can begin college.

Beth Twitty will be returning to Aruba on November 1, 2005.

Joe: Do you have any birthday memories? Anything, like her 18th birthday, what was she doing on her last birthday?

Beth: Probably her 16th birthday cause that is when you do the car. I think that one was probably the most special, and it probably is to all parents.

Joe: What do you remember the most about the 16th birthday?

Beth: I don’t think I can do it. (Starts to cry)

Joe: Any parent with children knows that they spend all of this time getting their children ready to go off to school.

Beth: Yeah

Joe: That was robbed from you apparently by three young men who are now on the loose. How do you deal with that?

Beth: You know Joe, I think back to the judge. I think back to judge Rick Smid and I think that he chose the suspects rights over the victim’s rights in this case. It is hard for me and I’m sure it’s hard for everyone that has stayed with us in this investigation.
We see it so clearly what they have done and I just can’t imagine why the judge would feel for Joran to begin his studies in college. He felt like he needed to move on with his life and he needed to begin and not miss his college days.I just can’t imagine a judge placing suspect’s rights over a victim just so he can begin college.

Joe: You’ve got these three prime suspects and you’ve got one of them that has actually said some very unkind things about your deceased daughter.

Skeeters tape of Deepak

Joe: Do you believe that him admitting that all three of them sexually took advantage of Natalee that night? Do you think that is going to end up getting back in jail?

Beth: It has to, it has to.

Joe: And if it doesn’t what are you going to do?

Beth: I think that Aruba knows the choice that if it doesn’t. They now have the tape, as we speak today; the taped evidence from Deepak K. is in their possession today. So, they need to go ahead and analyze it, whoever needs to do it. Whether it is someone in The Hague, find out its credibility and they need to utilize it. They need to issue, it should warrant the re incarceration of all three of them.

Joe: I understand that Natalee’s dad is down in Aruba right now. What is he doing?

Beth: He is and they are really concentrating searches of course in the water. I think they are focusing; they kind of have a radius where they are focusing. As far as that, it seems that everything keeps coming back to the water and dives in the water.

Joe: Let’s go back to the night of the crime. We’ve heard about this boat and a guy that got arrested then released. What was the connection between Joran and this boat and the possibility they might have taken Natalee’s body offshore and dumped her?
Where’s that right now?

Beth: Well, it’s so complicated. There are actually two individuals who have been mentioned. One of course was arrested, Steve Croes who was the DJ on the tattoo boat.
He was arrested for being a lying witness. You can be a lying suspect in Dutch law, but you can’t be a lying witness. I learned that this summer. So, what happened was Steve Croes came forward. Joran even mentions in his first statement that Steve Croes is the witness to seeing him drop Natalee off at the Holiday Inn and the two security guards coming up to take her. So Steve Croes comes up, that’s where he sticks his neck out.
For some reason he volunteers this information that he witnessed this happening at the Holiday Inn. Well that never even happened so that’s why Steve Croes was arrested. But, I’m sure there is another motive behind Steve Croes. I’m sure it was that he has involvement.

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