Kalpoe Brothers Released
Crews Leave Acadiana To Search For Natalee Holloway
Natalee Holloway’s Father Speaks Out – Click Here to Watch Video
(KATC)– An international story takes on an Acadiana angle Thursday. Crews from Acadiana are on their way to Aruba to help in the search for Natalee Holloway. Holloway has been missing for two and a half years.
In St. Martin Parish Thursday– Holloway’s father who said he is excited about the search. He went on further, and said he is looking for closure. That “closure” wouldn’t be possible without the help of strangers.
“We just didn’t have the capabilities,” said Dave Holloway, “Louis Shaefer found out about it and said, ‘i’ve got the ability.’ I’ve got the expertise. I’ve got the equipment, and I can do the job.”
Louis Shaefer is retired after working off shore for more than 40 years. He’s paying for the million dollar project.
“I’m just lucky that I’m at the right place at the right time,” said Shaefer.
“we’re just so thankful that he’s got a big heart and is willing to do that,” said Holloway.
The ship is the research vessel “Persistance,” owned by Marine Services in Lafayette. It will take about seven days to make the journey from the Port of Iberia to Aruba.
“i’ve got a feeling that if she’s in the ocean, these guys are going to find her,” said Holloway, who will be staying in U.S. while crews search for his daughter. He said, he knows his daughter is dead, and doesn’t want to be there when she is found, “the FBI told us that Natalee’s not with us anymore. And, as a parent, you always hope that wasn’t the case. But, in reality, we know that already.”
On The Record w/Greta – Update from Aruba 11/29/07
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Fox News Update 11/29/07
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RV Persistance to Search the Waters off Aruba
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On The Record – Greta’s Guests: Jossy Mansur & Joe Tacopina
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The Hope is that Rearrests in the Natalee Holloway Case Finally Lead to Justice in Aruba
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
THE ISSUE: Let’s hope the rearrests of three men in the Natalee Holloway case lead, finally, to justice.
The family of Natalee Holloway has grieved for their loved one for 2½ years. What should have been a happy time in May 2005 – a trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba to celebrate high school graduation – turned tragic when the 18-year-old Mountain Brook girl never showed up for the flight home.
Hope in the initial days of Holloway’s disappearance turned to despair. As days turned to weeks, and weeks into months, and a massive search turned up no trace of her, the family was forced to presume the worst: that Holloway had been murdered and her body disposed of.
Family members will continue to grieve, in some measure, for the rest of their days on Earth. But let’s hope there was some small solace for them in the news out of Aruba last week.
Aruban police on Wednesday arrested three men who had been detained early in the investigation. Holloway was last seen leaving a bar with the three, Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, in the early hours of the morning on which she was scheduled to depart. The three, who have denied involvement in Holloway’s disappearance, had been arrested in June 2005. But a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to hold them, and they were released that September.
What’s different this time?
Prosecutors cited “new incriminating evidence,” which they have not disclosed, from cell phone calls and text messages between the brothers and van der Sloot. Sadly, prosecutors also said they have enough evidence to prove Holloway is dead.
The three men were arrested on suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in Holloway’s death. On Friday, a judge ruled there was enough evidence to hold the Kalpoe brothers for the initial eight-day period, while van der Sloot arrived by plane from the Netherlands on Saturday night and was taken straight to jail. Monday, van der Sloot appeared before a judge in a closed hearing who ruled prosecutors can hold him for at least eight more days while they pursued their case.
Obviously, we’ve been here before. The hope this time is that prosecutors have the right men and have built a strong enough case against the three to convict them.
“I hope I’m not going to be disappointed,” said Holloway’s father, Dave, who is beginning another search for evidence of her remains in deep waters off Aruba.
Family members have been through so much in this very public case, which national television news seized upon and provided almost nonstop coverage of in its early days. They deserve to know what happened to their loved one. They deserve to be able to find her remains and give her a proper memorial service. They deserve to see justice for those who ended Natalee Holloway’s life.
They don’t deserve yet another disappointment.
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On The Record – Fox News – 11/27/07
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Hannity & Colmes (Fox News) – Update 11/27/07
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Texas Equusearch Heading Back to Aruba
A big BFN thank you to Tim Miller and TES, Louis Shaffer
and Tim Trahan of Underwater Expedition
and John Silvetti for making this search happen,
for caring enough and for understanding
that Natalee matters.
Godspeed to you all.
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