Bon Dia: Paul van der Sloot will now work as a lawyer in the office of Mr. Carlo

Bon Dia Aruba; January 6, 2006 (Translated news article)

He threatened case against Public Prosecutor if he did not obtain good conduct document
Paul van der Sloot will now work as a lawyer

Just when you thought you heard of everything in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway comes this article in Bob Dia Aruba.

A Bon Dia investigation demonstrates that Mr. Paul van der Sloot chose to stay in Aruba and that he wants to continue working as a lawyer given that he did not completely achieve his judgeship studies. There is a rumor circulating that Mr. Paul van der Sloot will work in the office of Mr. Carlo. Bon Dia Aruba called Mr. Carlo’s office for more information, but he couldn’t be located.

The office of Attorney Antonio Carlo who represents Joran Van der Sloot? Please tell us it is not the one and the same one.

Antonio Carlo, an attorney for the Dutch minor, told the AP: “My client maintains his innocence.” He said the boy would appear before a judge at 2 p.m. EDT.

Carlo refused to comment on the alleged admission.

I truly hope that this is either a rumor or just a bad joke. The ethical and improper nature of a “conflict of interest” aside; does anyone on Aruba have a concept of what positive PR is? Who is advising these people? Do Arubans understand what this looks like to the many who already have an issue with the perceptions of a cover up and quit pro quo in the Natalee Holloway investigation? This continual type of behavior and brazen actions will only cause people who ride the fence to and become appalled and boycott Aruba.

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Weekend Rewind: Things you may have missed with the Natalee Holloway story (Steve Cohen & Reasons for the Aruban Boycott)

Some of you may have missed the following two stories posted over the weekend. Must read posts if you have not already done so. Special thanks to the many that helped with writing and research.

There has been constant references from Aruban spokespersons to the tapes being the reason for the Aruban boycott. Read the real reason why one exists.

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

Also from the weekend, Steve Cohen named new Government spokesperson. The Holloway & Twitty families asked for certain changes be made in the investigation and prosecution teams to shed nigh light and a new direction of the investigation of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. If this was done, the boycott would be nipped in the bud. Aruba’s answer, a new spokesperson. Is nothing ever learned?

Natalee Holloway Investigation: Steve Cohen appointed as spokes person for Aruba (Let the Spin Begin)

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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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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Natalee Holloway: Beth Twitty discusses Paul Van der Sloot, the three suspects and the tape ‘On the Record’

Greta Van Susteren, On The Record, November 14th, 2005

To understand Beth Twitty’s frustration in dealing with the investigation of her missing daughter Natalee Holloway one only needs to look to the following comments and hear what Deputy Police Chief Dompig has to say about Paulus Van der Sloot.

After Chief Dompig had mentioned on another media station that Paul Van der Sloot is not only a person of interest in the disappearance of Natalee but also after the fact I’m a little bit surprised. But, there again there have been so many strange twists in this investigation that it just doesn’t surprise me too much.

If the investigator thinks that a suspect was released from all responsibility, what does one think a parent would feel like? Let alone the fact that on other cable shows Dompig has stated that he believes the 3 suspects are responsible for Natalee’s disappearance, he just cannot prove it at this time.

Then there is the question that so many are commenting on that there is no evidence in this investigation. Yet we have the evidence of the bone and tape that were sent off to Holland weeks ago never to be heard from again. Folks, it does not take this long to prove whether a tape in authentic or not or if a bone is animal or human and if it is human, if there is a DNA match.

I can’t imagine Greta; I just simply cannot imagine that. I feel like we’ve waited…I can’t even think of how many weeks now it’s been that the taped interview of Deepak Kalpoe has been at the forensic institute in Holland. I just don’t know what they’re waiting on. If they are just stalling. They had already ruled the tape to be authentic in the United States; I just don’t know what is delaying this in Holland.

Every parent wants to believe that there is some shred of evidence that their child is still alive. They hang on to that to get them through each day as an investigation goes on and on and on. However, that is not to say that Beth Twitty and Dave Holloway are not also realists. They know what slim possibility exists that Natalee may still be alive; however, that does not mean as parents they do not have the right to hope and pray that be the truth no matter what small percentage. That is not the same right afforded to investigators. Their job is to solve this case and pursue leads that give them the greatest percentage of success, not follow theories that provide a minimal rate of return.

You know Greta whether it’s 80 percent to 20 or 99 to 1, even if it’s the 1% to 20% chance that they left Natalee on the beach after they participated in a gang rape, alive of course we want to pursue that. Of course, it doesn’t look good Greta….we know that. But we do get a couple of leads and we just want to follow up on them and rule them in or out Greta.

As time goes by we hear the many nay sayers who follow this investigation and even the PM of Aruba make comments that whats the big deal, there are so many missing person cases unsolved out there, what’s so special about this one? Rather than highlight the cases that are unsolved, I would tend to look at the many that have been since the Natalee Holloway investigation started. I would also say that law enforcement in the United States tends to have to deal with more than just one. Almost ever single high profile missing persons case that winds up with a sad outcome whether is be Taylor Behl, Olamide Adeyooye, Teresa Marie Halbach, Christie Wilson, Rosemary Reinel all seem to have one common denominator. Who was the last with the victim?

For those who say that too much time has been wasted or Beth and Dave should just give up, I say I hardly think you would be saying that if it were your child that went missing. And if you did, shame on you.

The rest of the Greta and Beth Twitty interview: (Hat Tip: SMS)