Internet Hoaxter Posts News Of Confession In Holloway Case
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— False information on an Internet blog has caused a stir among those following the Natalee Holloway case.
E-mails were sent to NBC 13 asking for confirmation of information posted on another site’s Internet blog about the Natalee Holloway case.
The false information was posted on a blog and claimed it came from the NBC 13’s Web site. The false information alleged that a teen had confessed to the murder of Natalee Holloway.
NBC 13 has not reported this information and is working toward dispelling the hoax.
Aruban police coming to question Holloway friends
Two Aruban police investigators were en route to Alabama on Monday and plan to spend the next week to 10 days interviewing 21 friends of missing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway.
At the same time, another team was visiting the FBI regional headquarters in Barbados to look at documents in the case, and ground searches could start up again in the next few days, Aruba Deputy Police Chief Gerold Dompig said Monday.
News Outlet Claims “Aruba Will Survive Without Natalee Hype”
Aruba is moving forward with exciting tourism plans for 2005. The small island continues to be recognized as a popular vacation destination, enjoying a reputation for offering a quality product with a high level of safety and security for visitors, according to Jorge Perqeura, President and CEO of the Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association.
Last year, the island in the heart of the southern Caribbean, 15 miles off the coast of South America, reported arrivals of 453,875 guests from January to July, 2005. This reflects a 2.4 percent increase over the summer, a 10 percent rise in the winter or an overall spike of 6.8 percent from year previous. Yearly, Aruba welcomes around 750,000 overnight visitors from all over the world.
Beth Twitty On Today (VIDEO)
Beth Twitty appeared on The Today Show to discuss updates in the case.
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Aruban Police Due in State for Interviews
AL – Aruban police may be in Alabama as early as Monday to interview Mountain Brook High School graduates who were with Natalee Holloway when she disappeared in Aruba.
FBI spokesman Raymond Zicarelli said Saturday that Aruban officials told his office they plan to arrive this week.
“The Aruban authorities along with the FBI will be interviewing some of the individuals on the trip,” he said.
Gerold Dompig, Aruba’s deputy police commissioner, has said the students may have crucial information in a case that has been open since Holloway, 18, disappeared on the island May 30. The teens returned home the same day and were interviewed soon after by the FBI, but police say they have more questions about the night Holloway disappeared.
The Aruban public prosecutor’s office petitioned the State Department last fall for permission to speak with the students, and last month officials asked Rep. Spencer Bachus to expedite the process.
Miller Discusses Missing Fish Net (VIDEO)
Tim Miller appeared on Greta last night to discuss a fish net that went missing whe Natalee disappeared.
Gag order placed on Dompig and Janseen.
Gag order placed on Dompig and Janseen.
Police Search Sand Dunes for Holloway
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — Police began searching the sand dunes on the northwest coast of Aruba for a missing U.S. teen who vanished from the Dutch Caribbean island seven months ago, authorities said.
More than 50 police officers began a search Monday of an area roughly the size of eight soccer fields, or about one square mile, said Police Chief Gerold Dompig.
“We covered about three soccer fields today,” Dompig said Monday.
Authorities were not searching the area Tuesday but were scheduled to scour it again, perhaps as soon as Thursday, police said.
They intended to search the area one more time afterward.
Natalee Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Alabama, was an 18-year-old high school senior on a graduation trip to Aruba when she disappeared.
She was last seen on May 30 leaving a bar with three young men who were arrested in June and later released.
Authorities have not found Holloway’s body. Police said they were using photos and maps to comb through the sand dunes, which they have considered a place of interest since the investigation began.
Was Natalee’s Body Put In A Fishnet? (VIDEO)
Tim Miller of Equusearch and Arlene Ellis-Schipper, an attorney in Aruba, phoned in on last night’s edition of The Line Up to discuss a possible rumor that Natalee’s body was put in a fishnet to be eaten by sealife.
Black & White City Paper – The Three Big Birmingham Stories of 2005 – Natalee Holloway
Natalee Holloway’s mysterious disappearance in Aruba during a high school graduation trip drew unprecedented attention from the national media. While fresh news is now rare, a newly published article by Bryan Burroughs in Vanity Fair provides the most recent account of what happened on the island during the weeks following Holloway’s disappearance. The article provides few new facts, but more sensationally it points a finger at the Twitty family for being heavy-handed with the police. Burroughs proposes that their approach hindered the investigation, but the Vanity Fair article gives an incomplete account of what the Twittys and the Holloways endured in the search for their daughter. Moreover, two of Burroughs’ primary sources should be challenged.
Gerald Dompig, the island’s deputy chief of police, characterizes the Twittys and their American friends as unnecessarily aggressive and unruly during the early weeks of the search.
However, I visited the Twittys on the island two weeks after Natalee’s disappearance, and the family’s temperament was much calmer than I had expected. A tense situation was made worse by a series of tips and leads that sent the family and friends in dozens of different directions while police remained remarkably unfazed. The family complied with island officials for weeks and turned to the international media only after concluding that continued silence about their frustrations was a losing proposition. Unfortunately, Vanity Fair did not report the full extent of the family’s travails.
