On MSNBC: Exclusive Interviews
Tom and Red of Scared Monkeys says Scarborough Country will have two segments on Natalee Holloway. One will be an exclusive interview with chief prosecutor Caren Janssen and the other will be about a “Letter Writing” campaign.
See all the details at this post on Scared Monkeys.
Voice Detector and Analyzer (VIDEO)
The voice analyzer will take clips of someone talking and tell you if they are being truthful or if they are lying. The creator of the product went to Aruba and analyzed Paul van der Sloot’s interview with Greta and said his voice was suspicious and highly-anticipated. The creator was on Hannity and Colmes.
Download and view video here.
Paul van der Sloot: No Body = No Murder Charge?
According to Caren Janssen, Paul van der Sloot told the boys “No body, no murder”. Janssen also said van der Sloot told the boys NOT TO TALK to authorities.
More at Riehl World View.
Beth Twitty on Magic 96.5
Thanks to a reader for making me aware of Beth Twitty’s appearence on Aruba’s Magic 96.5. She was also nice enough to send us what she transcribed from it:
UPDATE: Audio of beginning of segment here.
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Chief Prosecutor Has Info.
Caren Janssen, chief prosecutor in Aruba said they have the text messages and emails exchanged between the suspects and that they are reviewing them.
Scared Monkeys Kick Ass
I urge everyone who is reading this blog because they have an interest in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway to go right now to ScaredMonkeys.com. Tom and Red have written, I hope they don’t mind me using the word, a “manifesto” of sorts that should speak for every blogger who has chosen to devote a blog entry or 10 to the missing 18-year-old. I know it speaks for me.
I’m taking the liberty to quote the Monkeys because they said some things very well:.
Today we had two of our favorite bloggers comment on our coverage of the Natalee Holloway disappearance. Michelle Malkin take a swing at those of us who are covering the Natalee Holloway disappearance, while Rusty who gives us a nudge in a tongue and cheek way…
Okay, if you don’t know who the ferociously intelligent and lovely Michelle Malkin is, you haven’t been reading blogs for very long. She, along with folks like Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com, or one of my favorites, Roger L. Simon, and many others found here — truthlaidbear.com — in the top 20 or so, form the face of blogging as it is seen in the mainstream media. On one level, criticism from Malkin might be almost as good as praise, as far as driving new readers to someone’s blog — on the other, Tom & Red stated that they admire her; it always stings if someone you admire “snipes” at you. Perhaps Malkin is just pissed because in traffic rankings for today, June 29, 2005, our buddy Dan Riehl’s riehlworldview.com outranks her blog for the first time that I know of, and Dan Riehl has been covering Holloway non-stop… but I think Michelle Malkin is too smart and successful in her own right to be that petty.
More from the Monkeys:
Why did we post on it? Red lived down in Aruba and knows the situation.Why did we continue? We found that we were helping a family in need. We were able to get information through the blog swarm that helped add to the story…
The last part I have experience with, as well. For every person who leaves an irascible-sounding comment or sends me an e-mail implying I’m sick or profiting somehow off other’s misery for writing about high and low-profile crimes and mysteries at The Dark Side, I get three e-mails or comments from family members of victims thanking me and encouraging me to continue. I never anticipated such a reaction when I made the choice to write about crime, and it has kept me going ever since. When I was able to look Jennifer Barber-Corbin’s [Google search] sister Heather Tierney in the eye and she told me how she printed out selected entries I wrote about her sister’s murder and passed them around to her family, I was floored, and deeply humbled. Criticism and questioning of my motives couldn’t possibly outweigh the approval and appreciation of the Barber family and many of Jennifer Corbin’s friends.
Again, from the Monkey Manifesto:
Michelle, if this story hit you as hard as immigration has, would you blog it? That is how we feel about it. So please do not knock us, the blogosphere is a very large place. Many stories are covered top to bottom, however, we have found something that allows us to make a difference right now.When we get emails from family and friends of Natalee thanking us for our efforts and to be strong, we take heart in that…
Can I get an Amen?
…(I)t is not about the Missing Pretty Girl Syndrome or Ratings in TTLB.It is about doing the right thing. Part of me would love to get 8 hours sleep at night, but if I feel that Red and I are making a difference, we will live on 3 hours without complaint…
Thank you, guys, very much, for saying what should be said.
By no means have I quoted the entire entry, that’s why you need to go there and read it. I add to what Tom and Red wrote by giving my own spin — as a blogger, I have the liberty to write about what I damn well please, to be blunt. If people don’t want to read it, they don’t read it.
Yesterday I wrote perhaps one of my longest entries ever at The Dark Side about the confessions of Dennis Rader, who pleaded guilty this week in Wichita, Kansas, to being the BTK Strangler. I was told long ago by more than one fellow blogger that blogging was an art form designed for the miniscule attention span of the modern reader, and my entries were too long. I made the decision then that I didn’t care — some stories warrant much more than the kind of tossed-off glib little blurbs the majority of bloggers seem to prefer. If someone’s attention span is too short for them to be bothered to read more than a brisk 600 word summary I don’t particularly care if they read what I write. Something like the open-court confession of a man who had a three-decade career as a serial killer is simply not going to get short shrift in a weblog about crime, and a glacially slow investigation like the one into Natalee Holloway’s disappearance from Aruba isn’t, either.
If you want to look at a race angle in the story of Natalee Holloway’s disappearing in the night from Aruba, why not get off the insulting Missing Pretty Girl syndrome — which might as well have the word “white” inserted between “pretty” and “girl” — and double back to the arrest of Mr. Abraham Jones and Mr. Mickey John — two black men working low-level security guard positions on the island. Remember them? How they were arrested in a very public manner shortly after Natalee’s disappearance, shortly after Aruban police had detained and then released white dutch national Joran van der Sloot and the sons of local businessman from Surinam, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe? Recall the arrest of these men, and how numerous American writers and commentators immediately called it as an unjust action possibly born more out of class and race bias than any legitimate reason to suspect Jones and John’s involvement in Natalee’s disappearance. Why don’t I read a little more about that outrage? Or is such an example of possible racial bias much more interesting if it happens, say, here in Georgia, where I live, rather than distant Aruba?
Yes, people of all ages, creeds, and colors go mysteriously missing, every day. There are websites, like the Doe Network and the Charley Project, to just name two, exclusively dedicated to those mysteries. They could always use attention, and help, and hope.
Perhaps that is where the focus some bloggers are devoting to the mystery of Natalee’s disappearance comes in as well — not as another example of Missing Pretty (White) Girl syndrome, but as an example of the “right thing to do,” when anyone goes missing.
(Discussion) Croes: I was Deepak’s Friend Before I Wasn’t
Newly released suspect Steven Croes told Greta last night that he is not friends with Deepak, however he originally told the police he was. It is reported that the night Natalee disappeared Steven Croes and Deepak exchanged emails or some form of internet contact. What is going on here?
Aruban Prosecutor Not Ruling Out More Arrests
Two big news items today:
One – Aruban prosecutor Mariaine Croes has been replaced by Caren Janssen in the Natalee Holloway case (not confirmed) and Croes may have been fired.
Secondly the prosecutor (whoever it may be) has not ruled out more arrests in the investigation.
UPDATE: Fox confirms story, video here.
