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.
