Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary – Monday, March 30, 2009 – Does The Aruban Government Care About The Natalee Holloway Case Anymore?

• Dana brings up the old question. What does Aruba want to happen with this case?

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The Search for Natalee Holloway in Aruba … Golba & Tim Miller (TES) Tensions Between Land and Deep Water Searches

Natalee Holloway has been missing for nearly 4 years in Aruba and suddenly the search activity for the missing Alabama, then high school teen, has taken center stage again. It was recently reported last week that Fred Golba was headed to Aruba with his search dog, Rino, to look in a retention pond area that had been previously searched.

What I found a bit odd when I heard that Golba and Rino were headed to search in Aruba off the tips of a witness that TES helped fins and bring to the US for a polygraph was that Golba was the one actually doing the search. TES and Golba have not seen eye to eye in the past with regards to searches or certification of cadaver dogs.

The fact that Golba went to Aruba for the search was interesting even if he had been there several times in the past. Searches for Natalee are a good thing, as long as their intentions are well intended. However, there might be some tensions being created between Golba and Texas Equusearch by the manner in how Fred Golba went about going to Aruba and following Aruba’s rules according to NBC13. Tim Miller and TES plan on going back to Aruba to continue with the deep water search; however, are concerned that Golba might be damaging potential future searches if he does not follow Aruba’s rules.

Tim Miller and Texas EquuSearch are planning a deep water search on the ocean floor in the next few months.

They’ve raised $1.5 million dollars to go back to Aruba to finish a search that began last March, then stalled when funding ran out.

Underwater rovers will inspect suspicious containers on the ocean bottom that could hold Natalee’s remains.

“We still have 140 plus targets over there. We’re going to be bringing in a 360 ft boat from Trinidad,“ says Miller.

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Dave Holloway Sends Search Dog to Aruba to Search for Missing Natalee Holloway

New Search in Aruba by Dave Holloway …

Dave Holloway has sent a search dog and handler to Aruba to look for his missing daughter Natalee Holloway. The search was supposed to be of a small reservoir in Northwestern Aruba. It has been nearly 4 years since then 18 year old Natalee Holloway went missing in Aruba after leaving Carlos n’ Charlie’s with Joran Van der Sloot, Deepak Kalpoe and Satish Kalpoe.

Despite the search dogs being sent to Aruba at the request of Dave Holloway, the Aruban prosecutors officer stated that there were no new leads in the case of missing Natalee Holloway.

Ann Angela, a spokeswoman for the Aruba Prosecutors’ Office, said the dog is searching a small reservoir in northwestern Aruba that witnesses have previously identified as a location where Holloway’s remains might be found.

Why would there be another search after all this time? According to Dave Holloway’s attorney, Vinda de Sousa, Dave insisted on another search of the reservoir after a witness identified this area as a possible location. The witness passed a lie detector test in the U.S, also HERE and HERE. It is being reported that Beth Holloway was unaware of the development and declined further comment.

As reported at AL.com, the latest search for Natalee Holloway in Aruba has not turned up her body.

According to a press release written only in Dutch and titled “No remains of Natalee Holloway Found,” an investigator accompanied by a dog arrived on the island today to search a flooded area. That area has been pinpointed in the past by a witness, but the prosecutor’s office has said before and reiterated today that it has no reason to believe Holloway’s body would be found there.

To further discuss the case, get updates and provide your own opinions, go to Scared Monkeys.net: Natalee Holloway.

UPDATE I: Golba Makes 9th trip to Aruba on behalf of the Holloway family

Golda plans to comb the Aruban pond for any signs of Natalee’s remains or van der Sloot’s sneaker.  He says, “I want to stick in my arm from my elbow to my shoulder and feel for bones and Joran’s sneaker…If we can find that sneaker in there than that whole pond becomes a crime scene and changes the playing game.”

UPDATE I: Fred Golba and search dog Rhino to Aruba

Golba says a witness has just come forward with new information about the lead suspect in the case, Joran van der Sloot. He believes Holloway’s body was dumped in a pond near the hotel where she was last seen.

Fred Golba, Natalee Holloway Foundation: “Joran van der Sloot waited out here in the water and, you know, went out chest-deep and let her body go in this retention pond.

ARUBA: Has The Netherlands Really Done Everything “REASONABLE” to Solve the Natalee Holloway Case?

Define “reasonably”? Can the term reasonable and a crime being investigated in Aruba actually be used in the same sentence?

Why is anyone supposed to believe everything reasonable was done to investigate the disappearance of Natalee Holloway? Many stated from the outset that the fix was in when two black security guards were arrested while the last three people to be with Natalee Holloway, Joran Van der Sloot, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe remained free to walk the streets. Dutch official Hero Brinkman is on record as saying that Aruba is “Corrupt as Hell!!!”

What is reasonable when one knows that the very island that the crime took place on is corrupt and that one of the suspects, a Dutch citizen, has connections through his father to obstruct justice?

In the case of the article that appeared in Amigo February 11, 2009, The Netherlands: ‘Done everything to solve the Holloway case;’ “reasonably” as defined by whom, former US President Bill Clinton in that it all depend on what the meaning of is, is. Going through the motions of looking like one is cooperating in an investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway is hardly a sincere effort.

The Netherlands has ‘reasonably’ done everything a country can do to solve the case of the disappeared American teenager Natalee Holloway, says state secretary Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (Kingdom Relations, CDA) in a letter to the Lower House that have asked for more information.

Holloway disappeared in May of 2005 and the case is still not solved.  There are currently two investigations going in the disappearance case: the criminal investigation into the disappearance of the teenager and an investigation by the national detective into the allegations of Justice-minister Rudy Croes in the early stages of the criminal investigation. 

Jan van der Stratten

It was in December of last year that Croes accused the former chief of police Jan van der Straaten of having blown the investigation in the first ten days.  He did this in consideration of his friendship with Paul van der Sloot, the father of Joran van der Sloot, who is still the prime suspect. The Public Prosecutor doesn’t give any details during this investigation, writes Bijleveld to the Lower House.

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Aruban Prosecutor Hans Mos Says End is Near in Natalee Holloway Case … Did it Ever Begin?

Hans Mos, Aruban prosecutor states the the end is near in the Natalee Holloway investigation. The real question that needs to be asked is if the investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005 ever began. Hans Mos can put out all the press releases he wants to spinning what had occurred in Aruba and attacking those that would dare question the veracity of Aruba’s handling of Natalee Holloway’s case, the fact remains that any normal thinking person looks at what has occurred and is appalled by the lack of action, the corruption and the cronyism that occurred to obstruct getting Justice for Natalee.

Aruban prosecutor Hans Mos has stated that the investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005 is nearing an end and has appealed to any individuals to come forward if they have any information. The investigation is coming to an end, when did it really ever begin? Just because the main suspect is a pathological liar does not mean that you do not prosecute him. At this point there is more than enough circumstantial evidence including Joran’s own words and conflicting statements to prosecute him. Then do so!

Aruban prosecutors said Tuesday their investigation into the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway is nearing the end and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.

Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos said his office still needs “at least another few months” to investigate statements made by the only remaining suspect, Joran van der Sloot, during a hidden-camera interview which was broadcast on Dutch television last year.

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