Natalee Holloway: What Aruban News Papers Have to Say About Dr. Phil (Aruba Today & Diario)

From Aruba Today; Friday November 25, 2005
Natalee Holloway case stressfully continues
Dutch experts conclude ‘Dr. Phil’ tape ‘doctored’

The following are some excerpts of Dompig’s comments. Some how we went from altered to “doctored”.

The most recent update includes forensic investigators in Holland having found that someone altered a taped interview in which a Surinamese man allegedly claimed to have had sex with a U.S. teen who disappeared while visiting Aruba, the island’s police chief said Wednesday.

“The tapes played on U.S. television appear to have been altered to suggest Deepak admitted to a sexual act, our forensic investigators tell us, the original tape did not say that,” Gerald Dompig, the chief of police for this Dutch Caribbean island, said in a statement.

“I have reviewed the findings of the Forensic Institute in Holland … those results state that the tapes were not authentic in regard to statement made by Deepak Kalpoe,” Dompig said.

This is one of the more eye opening statements,

“We have asked the FBI to review the same tapes to corroborate the conclusion reached by our Dutch forensic investigators,” the statement said.

Its too bad that were not asked to cooperate in the actual investigation more often and from the beginning.

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From Diario, November 11, 2005; segun comunicado di ATIA, DR. PHIL A YEGA DI WORDO ACUSA PA ABUSO SEXUAL

Looks like the answer is to smear those who favor a boycott. This article may be a bit inappropriate and over the top. I have never been a big fan of the Dr. Phil Show, but seems like there is another side to the story.

According to ATIA release
Dr. Phil was accused of sexual abuse

Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, also followed the petition of the Governor and asked for a boycott of Aruba.

His show only portrayed one side of the story of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, without trying to find out the correct facts.

The former therapist stopped giving therapy in 1989, after the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists publicly pulled his attention.

This was due to the fact that he was under accusations of sexual abuse.

(Full translated article) Hat Tip Get a Grip

Going after someone personally similar to the articles about Joe Mammana hardly seem the correct avenue. The tape issue is one thing, embellishing ones past is something completely different.

Natalee Holloway Investigation: Some comments from Jaime Skeeters

There seems to be much confusion with the tapes/CD’s that were sent to Holland to be examined. Jaime Skeeter’s CD’s that he provided have be authenticated as being genuine. According to Dompig, Dutch forensic investigators heard Deepak say, “he didn’t” from the tapes. Skeeters claims that “even his grandmother” could hear the tapes he provided the ALE and Skeeters stands behind his comment that Deepak said, “he did”. What does Dompig claim he heard? One question also remains, which tape/CD is Dompig referring to that they Dutch are saying is Deepak’s denial? The so called manipulated tape; is this the tape they state Deepak’s denial, or is it Skeeter’s, or both? The following are some quick comments from Jaime Skeeters with regards to the tape and Dompig’s comments that he gave exclusively to Scared Monkeys.
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Confusion on what was said on Tapes? Jaime Skeeters, “My old grandmother can even hear what was said on those tapes”

From tonights On the Record without Greta Van Susteren, November 23, 2005. If there was ever a night that Greta should have been there for an interview. Then again after all these weeks, the news comes out regarding the tapes on Thanksgiving Eve. The most traveled day in America.

It was earlier reported that the tapes that Holland was looking over from the Dr Phil show/Jaime Skeeters had been altered. However, Jaime Skeeters has a much different version and answer. When asked Skeeter’s stated as he has all along that his tapes were authentic and references a conversation he had with Dompig.

Well, after doing about fifteen back flips when I first heard it this morning, I called Chief Dompig. I asked him just what the hecks going on cause I know those tapes were not altered. He said that somebody misunderstood him: that the tape I sent him, the DVD is authentic. It hasn’t been touched; it is authentic and nothing wrong with it. So I said, what’s going on?

Well, again I asked the chief because we are on the same page Chief Dompig and I. He assures me that my tape is the authentic one. So I said where are the dummy tapes? The cooked tapes? Apparently and to make this short, when I downloaded Deepak’s interview onto my DVD; it was on my computer to a DVD…I sent that to the Phil show. Apparently they downloaded my DVD to beta tapes that you use on television where he could take clips of it. Certainly there are going to be clips and evidence of a two hour interview put in ten seconds. This is what they’re talking about.

It just appears that nothing can be easy when it comes to any aspect in the Natalee Holloway case. What is remarkable is that Dompig has stated that Skeeter’s DVD’s are authentic and not tampered with. Skeeters states that Deepak says on his version that he says he had sex with Natalee.

Reporter: So Jamie can I ask you…the clip that we heard where Deepak it could be suggested says that the boys had sex with Natalee. Specifically, that he did and it was very easy to do. Is that authentic? Is that what he told you when you interviewed him?

Skeeters: Yes, the word was you’d be surprised how simple it was.

Jaime Skeeters even goes to as far as saying it was clear as day on the DVD what was said. The DVD that Dompig says is authentic.

I sent him a DVD because he only had the working models, even the chief says “Yes, I can hear what you’re saying and what he said.” My old grandmother can even hear what was said on those tapes from the laptop.

So if Dompig admits that the Skeeter’s DVD’s are authentic and it states on the DVD what Deepak says, where is the issue? Wouldn’t the original two hour unedited version that Skeeter have be the ultimate evidence against Deepak, not the edited segment for a TV show?

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Aruban Police Question Family as Dave Holloway Wonders Why Suspects are not being Investigated in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway

It has been reported that Aruban officials have investigated members of Natalee’s family to as they say “exclude all possibilities.” They say they still consider three island men to be suspects in her disappearance. It would seem to most people that if Aruban officials wished to “exclude all possibilities” they would have searched the entire property of Paul Van der Sloot before releasing him as a suspect. Or, possibly searched the homes of the three suspects some time prior to ten days into the investigation.

It seems that Dave Holloway is a bit perturbed by the primary focus of the Aruban ALE . To focus on the family to exclude them from the investigation has to be one of the many absurd comments in an investigation full of absurd occurrences.

Need we remind the ALE and Dompig that Natalee Holloway went missing in Aruba; not Mountain Brook, AL or Mississippi. It happened in Aruba and the last people to be with Natalee according to all accounts were Joran Van der Sloot, Deepak Kalpoe and Satish Kalpoe. As Dave Holloway stated maybe you may want to stop wasting your time and focus on the actual suspects in this case. Like Joran, the one that investigators want to interview but are willing to wait until he returns to Aruba next month for Christmas vacation. I have just one question for the ALE, what makes any of you think he is ever returning to Aruba?

Holloway’s father, Mississippi insurance agent Dave Holloway, said Aruban police should have investigated suspects more rather than asking questions about the family. The probe is stalled and police are trying to keep up the appearance of progress, he said.

Holloway’s relatives have publicly criticized Aruban police for asking questions that seemed to turn the focus of the hunt for the teenager toward her family. Investigators have questioned Twitty and Dave Holloway about possible life insurance money and a trust fund established to accept donations from the public after Holloway’s disappearance

“I’ve tried to get them to follow the solid leads they’ve got,” he said Friday..

Not only does it seem that Aruban officials wish to investigate the family while the three prime suspects remain free without restrictions; Dompig also wants to blame Beth Twitty for releasing information during interviews. He says that the Mountain Brook teens have made “disturbing” statements on the TV and internet when not one of them has made a television appearance in at least three months.

Assistant Aruban Police Chief Gerold G. Dompig also said in an interview that Holloway’s mother, Beth Twitty, has hurt the investigation by releasing sensitive information during her frequent appearances on U.S. television shows. And Holloway’s classmates need to be questioned more because of “disturbing” statements they’ve made public on TV and the Internet, he said.

It would seem hard to believe that Mountain Brook teens posted on-line information relevant to this case when the biggest complaint by many of their critics have been how tight lipped they are. Unless these teens have my-space accounts exactly how is Dompig associating a MB teens statement with and on-line user claiming to be from Mountain Brook? The on-line world is one of anonymity where people claim to be everything and anyone under the sun.

The statements in this article get better and better. When questioned as to why the family was investigated by Aruban authorities Dompig stated the following:

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Congressman Spencer Bachus: Aruban Investigator Headed to US on Holloway Case. Really?

Ever wondered what has been one of the biggest problems with the Natalee Holloway case and investigation? Dave Holloway touched on it the second to last time he went back to Aruba and met with the investigators and prosecutors. The problem some four months after the case began? Communication.

Dave Holloway went specifically back to Aruba to make sure that everyone involved in the case from the ALE to the police commissioner to the prosecutors office to the government to the FBI all were on the same page. A pretty sad state of affairs after four months of an investigation. Now over five months later and the communication does not seem to be any better. This lack of communication caused the family to want the investigators and prosecutors changed and and also the reason behind their support in a boycott of Aruba. Well it appears the communication difficulties do not end there.

According to the AP, Rep. Spencer Bachus has requested the meeting with Aruban officials to help resolve questions about how the investigation has been handled by authorities on the Caribbean island. It is also being reported that Aruba have agreed to send its chief investigator to the United States to answer questions about the case of missing teenager Natalee Holloway.

Aruba has agreed to send its chief investigator to the United States to answer questions about the case of missing teenager Natalee Holloway, an Alabama congressman said Thursday.

Rep. Spencer Bachus said he requested the meeting to help resolve questions about how the investigation has been handled by authorities on the Caribbean island, a Dutch protectorate.

“News reports surrounding Natalee Holloway’s disappearance have left the impression that the Aruban authorities are not doing all they can to solve this case,” Bachus, R-Ala., said in a statement.

Alabama Representative Spencer Bachus also went on to say, “It would be helpful to have an official verification, from the Aruban authorities themselves, of what has been done in the investigation to get a more accurate reading of how the Aruban government has cooperated.”

We remember Congressman Bachus from early on in this investigation when he made some pretty disturbing comments as to why there should be FBI involvement. I had always hoped that this would have been elaborated on.

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