Is there a New Witness knows where Natalee is Buried?

Is there a witness that knows where Natalee Holloway is buried? According to a Dutch article at AD Binnenland there is, “Nieuwe getuige kent graf Natalee”. It appears that witnesses have come forward and have discussed what they know with Chief Gerold Dompig. The article is translated below.

New witness knows where Natalee is buried

ORANJESTAD – The man cried on the telephone and said that he could not live further with what he knew. Five new witnesses have come forward in the matter of the disappearance Natalee Holloway on Aruba. The police investigation aims especially at the anonymous call from a man who has said that he knew that Natalee Holloway was buried and also approximately where. Chief Dompig has confirmed that. “We do not doubt the truth of this call, because it was clear that he was upset from a guilty conscience.” The man, who called from a foreign country but spoke in papiamento, cried to the telephone and told that he could not live further with what he knew.

Another witness has given a statement concerning three suspects which have been considered as the last with Natalee Holloway in the night of her disappearance. It concerns Joran Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers. Chief Dompig is certain that Holloway died during the trip with these three and afterwards was buried. He believes they were aided by others. As a result of the depositions the police force starts within two weeks with bloodhounds from the Netherlands and earlier not yet used ground radar equipment a search operation in the area where Holloway was last seen. The police force expects at the grave of Holloway to also find the tennis shoes of Joran. He has explained during interrogation that he left his shoes behind and walked home.

(This is a rough translation through on-line translator and others.)
(Hat Tip: Henk for the email (2/17/06 7:56pm) & Klaas (2/18/06 1:15am)

The rest of the translation to following regarding Joran and Paul Van der Sloot in the US.

Amigoe: Natalee Holloway Investigation in last phase

Gerold Dompig in a press release regarding the status of the Natalee Holloway investigation.

Police Deputy Commissioner, Gerold Dompig made an urgent request for the taxi driver who the police had talked to during June/July 2005 and who pointed out an area in the vicinity of the dunes near the California Lighthouse to contact him. The person can contact Mr. Dompig directly.

Two things come to mind when reading the Amigo article. One, how does the ALE not have the name or at least contact information of this taxi cab driver? They took information from someone with this type of information and never bothered to get any type of contact information for a potential follow up question? Two, doesn’t Gerold Dompig have a “gag order“ on him in discussing the Natalee Holloway investigation?

Amigoe, February 16, 2006

Holloway investigation in last phase

ARUBA — Police spokesperson Papito Comenencia indicated that the cabdriver that the police was looking for as part of the investigation on the missing Natalee Holloway, has reported with the police. The police cannot say whether the man had valuable information. Deputy Chief Commander Gerold Dompig had a press report published last Monday, indicating that he would like to talk again with a cabdriver, whom he had contact with in June or July of 2005.
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Tim Miller on Aruba’s Refusal of Sharing Information with FBI; “a new excuse every day”

‘Rita Cosby Live & Direct’ for Jan. 30, 2006 (Guests: Beth Twitty & Tim Miller)

Just when you think there is cooperation between Aruba and the United States, a new excuse is made. The latest in a long line of promised questioning suspects, arrests and fireworks comes the FBI’s refusal to bring cadaver dogs to Aruba because the ALE will not provide the FBI with “who tipped them of to start searching the dunes”.

With all shock aside, as many were wondering when the shoe was going to drop on the FBI cadaver dogs going to Aruba comes Tim Miller’s with the following comment in lieu of the FBI dogs.

We’ve got proven cadaver dogs our own self, and we don’t need to know where the lead came from. We can take them there, and we can take the ground penetration units there. And I promise you, in three or four days, we can find something in the sand dunes or clear them.

Oh, I’m going to be back in Aruba in two weeks, and we’re going to be doing stuff in the water. If the sand dunes have not been searched, we’re taking our ground penetration units and we’ll go ahead and do the sand dunes. We’ll take the dogs, too.

It was not too long ago on Greta Van Susteren ‘ON THE RECORD’, where Tim Miller offered Aruba the equipment and dogs to search on the land at no cost to the Aruban government.

Now on the land, I told Dompig I hope you find her before we go in the water. I told him to take dogs and offered the ground penetration equip at no cost to Aruba. we are going to do the sea, we will help free of cost for the land search.. we just want Natalee home.

Ground penetration equipment , I am willing to put rep on the line, in two days most if she is there, she will be found with this equipment. It will show a body under the sand, it works like a sonar on the water. The resources are there free of cost. There may be a conflict with FBI with taking somethings over there.

Conflict? Looks like Tim Miller knew something in advance. However, what is troubling is the fact that when Tim Miller provided this offer, Aruba’s response was, … “we will get back to you”.

So the ALE creates a road block to the FBI’s help and gives the brush off to Tim Miller and Texas EquuSearch. All of the US is watching and what they see is Aruban officials who do not seem to want to solve the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

From Rita Cosby:
And tonight, we’ve got some late-breaking details in the case of Natalee Holloway’s investigation. The Holloway family attorney met with Aruba’s deputy police chief and the island’s prosecutor today. There are also plans for the three to meet again tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the FBI is refusing to send cadaver dogs to Aruba to help in the latest search of the sand dunes. The reason why? The Aruban police won’t say who tipped them of to start searching the dunes two weeks ago. They won’t share the information with the FBI.
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FBI and Aruban Police coming to question Mountain Brook Teens in Natalee Holloway Disappearance

Aruban police and the FBI will conduct volunteer interviews with some of Natalee Holloway’s friends that were with her on their trip to Aruba. Some twenty-one Mountain Brook teens will be questioned. Gerold Dompig, ALE, said his team had a “wish list” of 21 people to interview. Interestingly enough, it appears that his “wish list” is more cooperative than the three suspects were in refusing to come in to the ALE for a volunteer questioning. After all the derogatory comments made toward the MB teens by Steve Cohen and others, who seems to be cooperative and who is not?

“We also are able to finally talk to some of the Alabama teens who left on that plane and did not wait around for interrogation,” said Cohen.

Many wonder whether the three suspects are on Dompig’s or even Cohen’s wish list as well?

Two Aruban police investigators were en route to Alabama on Monday and plan to spend the next week to 10 days interviewing 21 friends of missing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway.

At the same time, another team was visiting the FBI regional headquarters in Barbados to look at documents in the case, and ground searches could start up again in the next few days, Aruba Deputy Police Chief Gerold Dompig said Monday.

Dompig said his team had a “wish list” of 21 people to interview. He would not say if any of the adults who were on the trip are included in that list.

Although many on the list are in the state, others may be away at school. Dompig said the team is even considering flying some potential interviewees back to Birmingham.
(Birmingham News)

(NBC 13): Aruban Investigators Travel To Conduct Interviews In Birmingham

According to the FBI, Aruban investigators will arrive in Alabama on Monday night.

This will be the first visit by Aruban investigators to Birmingham. The investigators will be questioning people who were with Natalee Holloway the night she disappeared in Aruba.

FBI spokesman Ray Zicarelli said Monday that the Aruban police will be accompanied by FBI agents during the talks. The interviews are expected to last several days.

According to AL Representative Bachus,

“They need to tie up loose ends and they need to go over the final hours that Natalee was there,” “They wanted to come back and go over some testimony and statements they had, just to double check. When you go to trial, the defendants are going to try and cast blame elsewhere.”

Bon Dia: Diving Experts will assist Texas Equusearch for ‘fish trap’ Search

Translation of the Bon Dia article: January 18, 2006

Beth Twitty pays for search in the sea
Diving experts will assist Texas Equusearch for ‘fish trap’ search

O R A N J E S TA D — J a m e s Whitaker, underwater search expert will assist Texas Equusearch in what the director says is the last attempt to find Natalee Holloway.

An emotional Miller said that he never thought he would stop the search. He continued to look for a way to bring more sophisticated equipment to Aruba, especially after the tip that came in that fishermen lost a fish trap, and that perhaps those who disposed of Natalee Holloway put her body in this ‘crab cage’, along with some rocks, and later threw it at sea, around 3 to 5 miles outside of Aruba. The fish trap is not a verified story, especially given that no one placed a complaint or spoke publicly about losing a fish trap.

According to Miller, it was Commissioner Dompig during an interview with America’s Most Wanted, who spoke of the fish trap which disappeared from the fishermen’s hits and that perhaps was used to disposed of the missing teenager. According what Miller said to Bon Dia Aruba yesterday, it was the intention of Dave Holloway, the representative of the state of Kansas Patricia Kilpatrick and Tim Miller to search the dump. “We knew that we didn’t have sufficient equipment to do the work, and out intention was to prepare the work to return, among other things to send equipment from the US to Aruba. At that time, it was Gerold Dompig who told us that he wanted us to do a search some 3 to 5 miles outside of Aruba, because on the night/early morning hours of May 30, there was a theft at the fishermen’s huts. Stole were a knife, some rope and also a fish trap. And it was the Commissioner who suggested that there was a possibility that rocks were put in the basket and then thrown into the sea”, Miller said.
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