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.
