RSSPaul and Anita van der Sloot say, “We are not hiding anything”
In an interview with CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella, Anita says simply, “We want him to go on with his life.” The Van der Sloot’s claim the following: they “dream is to have their son home,” “We are not hiding anything” and their son did not harm Natalee Holloway.
(CBS) Paul and Anita van der Sloot’s dream is to have their son home.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella, Anita says simply, “We want him to go on with his life.”
Joran van der Sloot, 18, has been held since early June in the May 30 disappearance from Aruba of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.
Joran hasn’t been charged, but authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island have named him a suspect in the case.
His parents say the only thing established for sure is that Joran was with Natalee the night she vanished, and they stand by his insistence that he didn’t hurt her.
Natalee Holloway Case Transcends All Media Lines
Critics question why the Natalee Holloway story is so compelling and why the media and more importantly people have such a fascination and desire to read, question and talk about this case. They need to only look at the vast range of media outlets that cover this story. Not only do you have newspapers, networks and the 24-7 TV shows covering the disappearance, you also have some Sports media doing the same. How often does that occur? CNN, MSNBC, FOX and ABC having something in common with Sports Illustrated and FOX Sports? Not usually, but then again the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has far than proved it is not a typical story. So the next time someone asks what does, Sports Illustrated, CNN, CBS, Fox Sports and the Birmingham News have in common; your answer is Natalee Holloway.
From SI.com and Fox Sports comes the story of the reflections by Nate McManus who took the same graduation trip as Natalee Holloway. Nate took the attitude as most probably would have who had been on the trip previously; she must have just over slept and missed the plane. We now know just how wrong that assumption was.
ATLANTA (AP) — Nate McManus took the same graduation trip as Natalee Holloway.
“I was at home when I heard the news,” McManus recalled. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh, she missed the plane. She must have fallen asleep somewhere.’ Then a day became two days. Then it became weeks.”
“I took the exact same senior trip that she did,” McManus said. “I had the time of my life. It was awesome.”
Now Nate McManus clings to the hope that she will return safe as he begins his career at Georgia Tech as an offensive lineman only one year ago on this same trip. The reflections of an offensive lineman in college sound much the same as Natalee’s girl friends that just recently began their respective college careers as well.
Now, as McManus prepares for his first season as a starter on Georgia Tech’s offensive line, he tries to keep up with news about the missing Alabama teen, clinging to hope that she might be found alive in Aruba.
Holloway was a year behind McManus at Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Ala. She was on the dance team that performed at football games and, while the two weren’t especially close, they did share many of the same friends.
Nate finds himself like most of us but with an even greater connection to the story, he clings to hope that she will be OK and finds himself distracted by the events. Through degrees of separation we find this story of Natalee Holloway and the efforts her family goes through to affect many of us and hit close to home in so many ways.
Katrina Hits Land; LA & MS Coasts
AP: Hurricane Katrina plowed into this below-sea-level city Monday with howling, 145-mph winds.
Hurricane Katrina plowed into this below-sea-level city Monday with howling,
145-mph winds and blinding rain that ripped away pieces of the roof of the Superdome, knocked out power and flooded some homes to the ceilings. Katrina weakened overnight to a Category 4 storm and turned slightly eastward before hitting land about 6:10 a.m. CDT east of Grand Isle near the bayou town of Buras, providing some hope that this vulnerable city would be spared the storm’s full fury.
Nita Mayo Missing Since August 8, 2005 in Sonora, CA/Texas EquuSearch Joins Search
Please contact Tim Miller with Texas Equusearch with any information pertaining to Nita Mayo missing since 8/8/05 in Sonora, CA. Toll free 877/270-9500 or 281/309-9500
http://www.texasequusearch.org/
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Missing Endangered Adult 
Nita Mayo
Sonora, CA
Missing Since: August 8, 2005
Age: 64
Missing From: Sonora Pass (Hwy 108)
Sex: Female
Height: 5 ft.
Weight: 140 lbs.
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Dark Brown w/ ends frosted
Race: Caucasian
Complexion: Fair
Birth Date: February 9, 1941
Last seen wearing: Nita was last seen wearing a yellow shirt with blue jeans and white sandals. We do know since we were told this that Nita did change her shirt as it was found at her house as were her white sandals. After looking through Nita’s clothes it is believed that she may be wearing jeans and white tennis shoes, type of top is unknown.
Divers Search For Natalee Holloway off Aruba’s East Coast
About eight volunteer divers explored waters off Aruba’s east coast Sunday searching for Natalee Holloway. The divers were searching waters about one mile from a beach near the Holiday Inn where Holloway stayed.
(CBS/AP) Volunteer divers explored waters off Aruba’s east coast Sunday, hoping to find clues in the disappearance of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway.
