Dompig Silenced: Writ against public speaking for chief of police Dompig

Looks like the Vanity Fair article may be Gerold Dompig’s last media appearance. According to Amigoe, a gag order has been placed on Dompig by Justice-minister Rudy Croes. Justice-minister Rudy Croes has sent him a written order.

This really is amazing seeing the amount of media attention and media access there has been from the outset of this case. Looks like someone is circling the wagons and only allowing certain parties to speak. One wonders what it was that Dompig said? Was it blaming Natalee’s family for the case not being solved, or stating on American TV that he knew the three suspects were guilty and he just had to prove it?

The letter came shortly after it became public that Dompig had given a interview to the American magazine Vanity Fair. He told the magazine that the family Holloway / Twitty had obstructed the investigation from the beginning. Consequence to this article, Beth Twitty is again being interviewed in several American TV-shows. She said in The Early Show on CBS that it is very difficult for her to even react on the suggestion. “Everybody knows that we have always respected the Dutch judicial system and we have collaborated with them, until it became very disadvantageous for Natalee. That’s when it became necessary for us to seek help.” Dompig talks too much. Recently, he told the Amigoe how the investigation team was busy doing a profile investigation. Attention is not being focused on the possible suspects here, but the victim. By profiling the victim, the police can figure out what type of people would approach her. “From this investigation it appeared that Natalee was not at all the exceptional person that her family made us believe. During her stay in Aruba, she was a party animal and consumed a lot of alcohol. She most probably used drugs and offered this to others. It appeared that Natalee was even after Joran van der Sloot. He didn’t need much persuasiveness to get her.” According to Dompig, there are three new analysts investigating the case. They read the file and ask questions. “Important is not to be blind.”

Rita Cosby: Beth Twitty Reacts to Vanity Fair, “We gave them 10 days too long, Jane”.

What was Beth Twitty’s response to Gerold Dompig’s Vanity Fair remark “that the biggest obstacles to finding Holloway have been her mother and stepfather, Beth and Jug Twitty, themselves”? Pretty much what most people already were thinking and knew after hearing such a comment:

Oh, it’s just the exact opposite. We gave them 10 days. We gave them 10 days to clean up their story, clean up the mess, to lawyer up. We gave them 10 days too long, Jane. That’s exactly what happened.

What did ex-FBI agent Harold Copus think of Vanity Fair writer Burrough’s comment, “I really don’t see any evidence of corruption or a cover-up here”?

Copus: And I question the “Vanity Fair” reporter, if he can’t find corruption, then he probably needs to start back again. I think it’s pretty plain that—I’ve been down there. Any of us can do a Google search. You can see we have organized crime figures from America in Aruba.

The rest of the interview.

‘Rita Cosby Live & Direct’ for December 5th, 2005

But first: the family of Natalee Holloway—have they done more harm than good during the investigation into her disappearance? A scathing new article in “Vanity Fair” claims the family demanded too much, too soon from Aruban investigators in the days after Natalee vanished.

Some of the biggest complaints are coming from the island’s deputy police chief, Gerold Dompig. Now, in the article, he says Natalee’s mother and stepfather sidetracked the investigation from the very beginning.

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BRYAN BURROUGH, “VANITY FAIR”: He believes that the biggest obstacle to finding Natalee and solving the case has been the family itself, that in fact, their push, the calls for boycotting and things like that, have been counterproductive.

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VELEZ-MITCHELL: So what do we make of all of these allegations against the Holloway family? LIVE AND DIRECT tonight is Natalee’s mother, Beth Holloway Twitty.

Beth, thanks for being on the show. And I have to say, I know this has to be very difficult for you, but we want to give you a chance to respond to this “Vanity Fair” article, which basically says you were so aggressive, the police were pressured into arresting the three young men prematurely, which then backfired and ruined the case against those very suspects. What do you say?

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Assistant Police Chief Gerold Dompig blames Natalee Holloway’s Family. No wonder this case has gone no where.

We now know the reason why Natalee Holloway has not been found. We now now the reason why two black security guards were falsely arrested. We now know the reason why Joran Van der Sloot lied and had Deepak and Satish Kalpoe lie that they originally dropped off Natalee at the Holiday Inn. We know know the reason why two security guards homes were searched immediately, yet the three primary suspects in this case home’s were not.

Instead of blaming it on Rio;Assistant Police Chief Gerold Dompig, is blaming it on Beth and Jug Twitty.

Aruban investigators have made claims that Natalee Holloway’s family hindered their investigation.

They said pressure from the family and media caused a premature arrest of the three main suspects in the case. Detectives did not have time to tap phone lines or follow the suspects days after Holloway disappeared.

What do you mean they didn’t have time to tap phone lines or follow the three main suspects? How did the Aruban police even know who the three main suspects were? It was the family that did the leg work that uncovered who was last seen with Natalee Holloway. The Aruban police took ten days to actually arrest the “three main suspects” in this case. In the mean time any evidence that may have been accessible in a car or home could have been destroyed. It was the ALE’s plan to actually allow these suspects to be out and about the Aruban population and tourists even linger than ten days?

It is the belief by Aruban authorities that three teen suspects hold the key to Holloway’s disappearance. Blaming the family is shameful. But it does not explain one thing with regards to the investigation. If the family was to blame for interfering, why did the Aruban police arrest two black security guards initially? Why were their homes and property searched immediately? Natalee Holloway’s family did not pressure you into doing so. In fact, Beth Twitty made it her mission to have these two men freed as soon as possible because they were not responsible. It would actually seem, if it were not for Beth Twitty, two innocent men would have been charged with this crime. Hardly interference. So why were they arrested? Would that be the family’s fault as well, or does the ALE take full credit for that one?

In an interview this morning with CBS, ‘The Early Show’, Beth Twitty responded to the accusations that were made about her and Jug by Gerold Dompig in the Vanity Fair article.

She told The Early Show co-anchor Rene Syler she and Jug “absolutely” didn’t hinder investigators.

“It’s hard for me even to respond to such a statement as that,” Twitty told Syler. “Everyone knows that we remained nothing but respectful of the Dutch law, and worked with them until it failed Natalee greatly. That’s when the family became very concerned and began reaching out. We knew we needed additional help.”

In the Vanity Fair article Dompig made the following comments with regards to Beth & Jug Twitty that he would have thought that the arrest of the three suspects would have made them happy.

Dompig is quoted as saying he expected the arrest of prime suspects Joran van der Sloot and two brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, would please the Twittys, but it didn’t.

“It was like nothing could satisfy them — nothing,” says Dompig. “Basically, Jug wanted us to come over and beat a confession out of these boys. We couldn’t do that. These guys are hardheaded, especially Joran. We couldn’t get a confession.”

Did it ever dawn on Gerold Dompig that the family did not just want and arrest, but the case solved and those responsible prosecuted? Gerold Dompig makes it sound like it all ends in Aruba upon the arrest. That is the beginning of the process, not the end.

So the problem with this case could not have been the fact that they ALE could not properly deal with the suspect and get him to talk? After all Dompig has gone on record that the “three suspects” were responsible, he just needed to prove it.

“I don’t know,” Twitty said. “But I remember specifically in a meeting (with authorities that) they were saying this is the most unusual man they had ever dealt with. They had never seen anyone who has just refused to cooperate with the authorities. He really toyed with them during the interrogations, and quite often would place his fingers in his ears and just refuse to speak.”

“I think,” she said, “that they were all frustrated with Joran’s behavior from early on.”

It is an amazing revelation by Dompig that he is blaming the family for his failure. Is anyone in Aruba responsible for anything? What exactly would one presume that parents would do if their daughter went missing? Sit idling by and watch nothing happen?

Can anyone imagine where this case would be today if Beth and Natalee’s family had not gotten involved, except forgotten? It also makes one wonder just how seriously this same crime would have been investigated if it happened to an Aruban teenage girl.

In Vanity Fair; Gerold Dompig blames Beth & Jug Twitty for being the biggest obstacles to finding Natalee Holloway

From the pages of Vanity Fair, ARUBA’S DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF BREAKS HIS SILENCE ON THE NATALEE HOLLOWAY CASE

So does every one want to know who is responsible for this case not being solved according to the chief Aruban investigator, Gerold Dompig? Could it be the people who lied about their alibi and who were the last seen with Natalee Holloway the last time she was ever seen? No

The people to blame according to Gerold Dompig is Beth and Jug Twitty. Incredible. No wonder Gerold Dompig has been no where to be found lately. So the obstacles were not the many different versions of the truth by the suspects while in custody, not the fact that they lied about dropping Natalee off at the Holiday Inn, not the fact that the three primary suspects were never arrested initially but instead two black security guards were instead. Nor was it the obstruction of searching the Van der Sloot property in total.

ARUBA’S DEPUTY POLICE CHIEF BREAKS HIS SILENCE ON THE NATALEE HOLLOWAY CASE. Gerold Dompig, the Aruban deputy police chief in charge of the case of Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, discusses the case in detail for the first time, telling Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough that the biggest obstacles to finding Holloway have been her mother and stepfather, Beth and Jug Twitty, themselves.

Dompig charges that pressure from the family sidetracked the investigation from the outset, forcing premature arrests and not allowing Aruban authorities enough time to gather evidence. (These revelations appear in the January issue of Vanity Fair, which hits newsstands December 7 in New York and L.A. and December 13 nationally.)

“They didn’t understand the way things are done in our system,” Dompig tells Burrough of the family. “They act like they came from a world where you can just crush people. It was very harmful to our investigation.”

The rule of thumb when spinning a story is not only to trash the family, but trash the victim as well. That’s right, it was Natalee Holloway’s fault.

According to Dompig, Beth Twitty had contact with her daughter while she was in Aruba. Dompig tells Burrough he has taken two statements from journalist Julia Renfro, as well as a worker at the Holiday Inn, and both claim Beth Twitty told them she had gotten a call from Natalee, who said she was in love with a tall, blue-eyed Dutch teenager. “We need to know the truth,” says Dompig. “Joran did not have blue eyes, so who was this boy?” Beth strenuously denies making any such statements, or having talked with Natalee while she was away.

Speaking with Dave Holloway this afternoon, Dave said that the comments regarding the telephone calls and Natalee in love with a blue eyed, Dutch teenager “was untrue and a bold faced lie.”

So the lead investigator is Aruba blames people that vacation in Aruba and drink. This is an amazing statement from someone who is in charge of solving this mystery. So beware tourists who go to Aruba and drink, party and have a good time. You too will be guilty of what happens to you when you disappear.

Dompig tells Burrough that the kids in the travel group “went far, very far, in terms of having a good time.” Dompig mentions wild partying and lots of room switching, noting that the Holiday Inn had told them they were not welcome next year. According to other statements, says Dompig, Natalee drank all day, every day. There was “so much drinking that Natalee didn’t show up for breakfast two mornings.”

It appears the gloves are now off and the story that was once about the disappearance of a high school graduated senior, Natalee Holloway. It is now nothing more than a smear campaign. Blame the victim, blame the family, blame everyone but yourselves Aruba.

Blame the tourists who come to your island and drink. Even if it is to excess. Funny, no one had a problem in Aruba having those bar tabs paid. No one had an issue not cutting any of these teens off that they claimed were partying too much. It is almost incomprehensible to imagine that the Aruba would claim that tourists “went far, very far, in terms of having a good time,” but those responsible for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway did not.

This coming from an island where people wonder why a boycott was called for? Aruba’s answer is to blame the people that came there to vacation? Are you serious? It is shameful that a victim and a victim’s family would be considered more suspects by the ALE and the prosecution that the obvious suspects whom Dompig has even stated on national TV “were guilty”. Doesn’t this pretty much explain the investigation and the problems from the out set. In the eyes of the Aruban officials, the family is somehow guilty and responsible for all of this.

(full Vanity Fair story)

Natalee Holloway: Aruba, Stop Spinning. The Real Reasons Why There is a Boycott in of Aruba

Please; Aruba, officials, Task Force, Defense attorneys … stop spinning the reason for the boycott. I can understand why you would be against it, but the talking points that the “manipulated” tapes are the reason for it is a non starter and factually incorrect. I have now heard the third person tonight repeating the same line stating that the tape caused the boycott. IT DID NOT.

Before the Aruban Strategic Communications Task Force sends out its representatives on the media talk shows they may want to check out their own web site, Aruba the Truth, and take a look at the very first post they ever did, ‘Jug Twitty’s letter to Alabama Governor.’ The Alabama legislature passed a resolution to a boycott in July. It was the family that prevented the boycott as at the time they did not think it was the proper time. It was the family that spoke with Governor Riley and asked him to hold off. Gov. Riley was ready to boycott Aruba in late July and did not at the family’s wishes.

Does the Strategic Task Force and Aruba the Truth read anything that they write? They are claiming that the Dr Phil Tape is responsible for the boycott, yet they have forgot about the following article they wrote, Dave Holloway Says No Boycott and Task Force Finds Volunteers For New Search. Remember that one?

Natalee Holloway’s father was very clear in the interview that he does not agree with Dr. Phil McGraw’s call for Americans to boycott Aruba.

So even after seeing and hearing the interview, Dave Holloway did not back the boycott. As Dave told Scared Monkeys a couple of days ago, “its just one piece of evidence.” “I am not going to sugar coat it. Its was everything, not just the tape”. So how can it be about the tape when at the time it was shown and Dr. Phil called for a boycott; Dave Holloway said, no. So it must be about something else.

ARUBA, ITS NOT ABOUT THE TAPE.

What is it about? The following was emailed to us from one of our Scared Monkey’s, TidyCat. I think they pretty much sum up what caused the family and Dave Holloway to support a boycott.

It is about a multitude of things. To blame the tape is myopic and just plain foolish. To hear Aruban officials, representatives of the Task Force, Tourism officials and Defense council make they same comments is nothing short of convenient and suspect. Get to solving this case and remember this is about a missing teenage girl named Natalee Holloway.

The following is a detailed account as to the real reasons for the boycott as per Tidycat.

WHY DO THE HOLLOWAY-TWITTY FAMILIES

WANT A TRAVEL BOYCOTT?

The Holloway-Twitty families requested that Americans consider not traveling to Aruba until Aruba’s Justice Department takes appropriate action to resolve Natalee Holloway’s disappearance. The main reasons why they took that action are shown below. Natalee’s father, Dave Holloway, her mother, Beth Twitty, and volunteer Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch, also explained their experiences during televised interviews (excerpts shown below). This document was compiled from public information by an individual not connected in any way with the Holloway-Twitty families and is that person’s understanding of this issue only.

1. Aruban Law Enforcement (ALE) Attitude Toward the Investigation and Lack of Cooperation With Natalee’s Family and Volunteers. a. The Prosecutor in charge of this case, Ms. Janssen, has refused to meet with Beth Twitty. This is considered a routine courtesy in the United States for a prosecutor to liaison with the victim’s family. Beth’s phone calls are not returned, and when she tried to meet with Ms Janssen on her latest visit to Aruba, she received a letter saying Ms. Janssen did not have time to meet with her during her three-day stay. During the investigation, and early on, Ms. Janssen and Van der Straaten threatened Beth and Jug, saying that unless they stopped talking about the case publicly they would stop the entire investigation. This is simply incredible treatment of a victim’s family.

b. Dave Holloway (Interview with Greta Van Susteren, On the Record, FOX News, Nov. 4, 2005):

Greta: Let me talk a little bit about the letter. One of the things that made me almost fall out of my chair when I read the letter is that around June 1st when you arrived after being notified that your daughter was missing is that you went around the island including the police station talking to a detective Dennis Jacobs. When you went in there to see him he made a remark asking you when you’re looking for your daughter if you have any money. Tell me the facts surrounding this discussion.

Dave: Well, when we first arrived on the island we rented a car. We stopped at two different police stations and explained the situation. I explained that I am the father of Natalee Holloway and she is missing. The first comment was would you like to file a complaint? Finally after talking to several officers in those two police departments, they indicated they were not aware of any disappearance and not aware of any complaint. So the directed me to the Noord police station which supervises the area around the Holiday Inn. When I arrived at that police station, the detective knew I was coming and I was frantic as you can imagine a parent being who has their daughter missing. I walked up to the front desk accompanied by my brother and brother in law. I identified myself as the father of Natalee Holloway and Jacobs got up from his chair and grumbled “Well, how much money you got?” We were just stunned and everyone finally came together and we met in the back room He basically told us “Aw, this happens all the time, go down to C&C and have a beer and just wait on her and she’ll show up.” We questioned his tactics and wanted to know if a search was being conducted. He just looked at us and said “Why would you want to do that?” “Think positive, you’re thinking negative.” I said well the first few days are the most critical. He indicated to us you are on the wrong page and you need to go search a drug house or whatever. And then he made the comment that “Look, I need to get with you guys. There have been some reports that some of Jugs friends have been busting up in some of these crack houses.” I was again floored. I thought how do you know about crack houses and who’s up in them, but you are not even aware someone is missing? You know, give me a break.

Greta: Dave, did you get the sense that his remark about money was a very bad joke or that he wanted money from you to pursue the investigation?

 Dave: I don’t know, sometimes I wonder now what the real motive is. I met with them again this past week and again one of the references was how money do you have and how long can you continue searching for your daughter. He said “Most of these cases we would have quit investigating long ago.” That’s when I decided we need a change.

Greta: Natalee Holloway’s father recently asked the deputy chief to do him a favor and he was turned down. Dave, what was the favor you asked of Deputy Chief Gerold Dompig?

Dave: We felt that we had a real key witness that I felt if he was interviewed properly that it could break this case. I went to the chief and expressed my concerns with the investigative team for one. I mentioned this witness as well. We had been watching the witness and knew he was very nervous. We felt like the time to strike is now while the iron is hot. I spoke with him that day, and the next day I called him early that morning. I asked him, “Gerold do me a favor. I’ve hung with you this long and can you please, please handle this interrogation?” I think if you handle it right, we could possibly solve this case. As of today, that has yet to be done.

c. Beth Twitty (Interview with Joe Scarborough, MSNBC, Oct. 21, 2005):

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