Natalee ~ We Remember
Missing 15 Months ~ May 30, 2005 – Aug. 30, 2006
The Line Up – Fox News – Sat. 08/26/06
Beth Twitty & Jossy Mansur joined Kimberly to discuss that latest development in the Natalee Holloway case.
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Statements from the Suspects in the Natalee Holloway Case
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Holloway Suit Dismissed – Fox News Dayside – Friday 08/04/06
Holloway family attorney John Q. Kelly discusses the NY Judges decision regarding the civil case.
Mother of Natalee Holloway “Crushed” by Case Dismissal
Aug 4, 2006 06:50 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The mother of a Mountain Brook teenager who disappeared more than a year ago in Aruba said she was “crushed” by the dismissal of the lawsuit filed against the Dutch teen last seen with her daughter.
Beth Twitty, mother of Natalee Holloway, said the suit was her only and last shot for justice.
Twitty said she knew the case filed in Manhattan against Joran van der Sloot was a long shot but the family took a chance.
The case claimed van der Sloot was responsible for Holloway’s disappearance and sought unspecified damages.
Van der Sloot has maintained his innocence.
He was last seen leaving a bar with Holloway before she vanished May 30th, 2005.
He and two friends were arrested on suspicion of involvement in her disappearance, but were released.
Van der Sloot’s lawyer told The Associated Press that his client is pleased by the judge’s decision.
A judge said the suit should not have been filed in New York.
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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit In Natalee Holloway Case
(CBS) NEW YORK A New York Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the parents of Natalee Holloway against a Dutch teenager, who was one of three young men arrested in connection with the Alabama teenager’s disappearance in Aruba in May 2005.
As WCBS-TV first reported on its Web site, a source very close to the case said the judge dismissed the lawsuit Thursday afternoon.
The lawsuit was filed in February in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court seeking unspecified monetary damages against Joran van der Sloot, 18, and his father.
Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Alabama, was last seen May 30, 2005, leaving a bar with Surinamese brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, and van der Sloot, a Dutch national. The honors student was hours from ending her graduation trip.
The wrongful-death lawsuit was filed by Elizabeth Ann Twitty, of Alabama, and Dave Edward Holloway, of Mississippi, the missing teen’s mother and father.
Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were arrested June 9, 2005, on suspicion of involvement in Holloway’s disappearance. Van der Sloot admitted he was with the girl but denied any wrongdoing. All were released, and nobody has been charged.
The lawsuit refers to van der Sloot as “the predator” and says that on at least three occasions young Aruban women have complained they were the victims of “date rape” by him and his accomplices.
Van der Sloot left Aruba, where his father still lives, and currently lives in Arnhem, the Netherlands, court papers say.
The lawsuit says the father, Paulus van der Sloot, was an enabler of his son’s “violent and anti-social lifestyle.” Court papers say that on the night of May 29, 2005, he went with his underage son to a casino to play poker. It was at that casino that the younger van der Sloot met Holloway, the lawsuit says.
The court papers present a partly speculative version of what happened after the young people left the casino and went to a bar called Carlos ‘n’ Charlies in the early hours of May 30, 2005.
At about 1:30 a.m., court papers say, an intoxicated Holloway left with van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers. Several of Holloway’s friends saw her in the car with the youths and asked her to get out, court papers say, but she did not.
“The next hours of Natalee’s young life were marked by torment, terror and debasement,” court papers say, describing an imagined sexual assault. “Natalee has not been seen or heard from since entering Deepak’s car with Joran.”
When Twitty talked to The Early Show’s Hannah Storm in October, she had shared her suspicions about what happened to Natalee.
“I know this is really difficult for you to talk about, but you do believe that she was sexually assaulted. Is that correct?” Storm asked.
“Absolutely,” Twitty said.
Balber would not say where he believes the van der Sloots are staying in New York or when they were served. He said he believed that as of Thursday they had not retained a lawyer.
Balber said that if a defendant is served with a summons for a lawsuit in the state and neither party lives in the county where the summons is served, then the plaintiff gets to decide the county in which the lawsuit is filed.
Father of Holloway Suspect Wins Damages for Detention
3 August 2006
AMSTERDAM — Dutchman Paul van der Sloot, father of the chief suspect in the Natalee Holloway disappearance case, has been awarded financial damages.
A court on the autonomous Dutch island of Aruba ruled that Paul van der Sloot was arrested and detained for four days without due cause last year as part of the investigation. He was awarded 50,000 Aruban Guilders in compensation. This is equal to EUR 21,800 or USD 27,900.
His son, Joran, was the main suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway on the Caribbean island.
Holloway, 18, was holidaying on Aruba in May 2005 with school friends to celebrate their graduation. She disappeared on the night of 30 May, and extensive searches have failed to find any trace of her.
She was last seen leaving a bar at 1am with Dutch youth Joran van der Sloot, then 17, and brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18. They were in Deepak’s car. Holloway was due to fly back to the US the following day but she failed to arrive at the airport.
The three young men were arrested on 9 June 2005 and questioned. They first told police that they dropped her off at the Holiday Inn where she was staying. Subsequently, they admitted that they had agreed to lie.
Joran van der Sloot said he had been alone with Holloway on the beach near another hotel, about 1 kilometre from the Holiday Inn. He denied having sex with her or harming her in any way. He claimed he left her on the beach at her own request. Joran claimed he wanted to go home as he had school the next day.
The Kalpoe brothers were released from custody on 14 July 2005, but were re-arrested on 26 August 2005 on suspicion of rape and murder. Joran and the Kalpoes were released on 4 September 2005 and have not been charged with any crime in connection with the disappearance.
Paul van der Sloot, a judge in training on Aruba at the time, was arrested on 22 June 2005 on suspicion of conspiring on or after the fact with his son. He was released without charge four days later but still considered a suspect.
He won a civil action for unjust detention against the Aruban authorities in November of that year and has now been awarded damages. He is no longer a suspect. The judge in the civil case stressed his ruling related solely to Paul van der Sloot.
Both father and his son deny any wrongdoing.
The police handling of the case, coupled with the failure to find any trace of Holloway, has generated a lot of criticism in the US. There have been calls for American tourists to boycott the island.
Natalee’s mother Beth Twitty has spearheaded a campaign to keep up the pressure on the authorities to find her daughter.
On 6 February this year, Joran and Paul van der Sloot were served with a civil lawsuit by Natalee’s parents in New York. Joran went to the US, against his lawyer’s advice, to do a television interview.
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