Beth Holloway Talks to Peter de Vries
New Evidence Emerges in Natalee Holloway Case
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Fox News
New evidence has emerged in the Natalee Holloway case that could shed light on how the Alabama teen died and the method by which her body disappeared, the prosecutor in Aruba said Thursday.
The Office of the Public Prosecutor of Aruba said in a statement that it has intensified its investigation after receiving new information from Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.
The prosecutor’s office said it is working with the Aruban Police Corps to determine the validity of the new details in the case. The statement did not specify what the latest information was.
De Vries had a testy exchange earlier this month during a televised interview in the Netherlands with Joran van der Sloot, a young Dutch man who was a suspect in the case.
Van der Sloot, who was among the last people seen with Holloway, threw wine at De Vries after the reporter challenged his credibility.
Last month, prosecutors dismissed their case against Van der Sloot and two other suspects, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, saying they didn’t have sufficient evidence to charge them or even prove a crime was committed. They cited the lack of a body as a major reason for ending the investigation into the role of the three young men in Holloway’s
Authorities have said the case could be reopened if new evidence surfaces.
Holloway was on a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island in May 2005 when she vanished without a trace. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers, who have been arrested a number of times but never charged with any crime.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Search for Natalee Holloway Blogspot
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Joran’s Wine Throwing Incident
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Transcript of the NOS radio interview with de Vries and Witteman
De Vries: I did not see it (coming) myself, but the moment when I was not watching Joran throw a glass of red wine into my face, and it was alcohol so it itched for a while, it was a strange ending of the program.
Interviewer: The ending was sort of tense wasn’t it?
De Vries: Well I think the end was not that…
Interviewer (interrupts) : Well he did not believe that you would ever apologize if it turned out to be something else.
De Vries: Well that is his good right to not believe that. But other then that, the broadcasting was spicy but did not get out of hand or anything. So I was very surprised that after the show he then suddenly throws a glass of wine into my face.
Interviewer: What do you think about this?
De Vries: Well this tells something about Joran of course.
Interviewer: What? (does it say about Joran?)
De Vries: That he cannot control his behavior. His parents did their best to insist during the broadcasting that their son was well mannered, that he always was correct with girls, that there were so many things he would just never do. Then I think to myself, well this probably was something the parents would have agreed upon in advance also our child would never do something like that.
Interviewer: He was standing here, he does not want to talk to us, he said this was the last interview we ever gave. Hmm, his mother was very angry with him.
De Vries: Yes his mother of course was embarrassed hugely, she had tried so hard to protect her son, and to present him as a well mannered young man. On the moment that after such a conversation he does something like this then everything the parents tried to do he destroys that with such an act of course.
Interviewer: What a strange ending of the broadcasting!
Paul Witteman: Yes, horrible. And ridiculous! This did not make any sense at all.
Interviewer: How do you feel about the program?
Witteman: I found it exiting and balanced.
Interviewer: People who were watching claim you have allowed Joran to talk very lengthy.
Witteman: Yes, he was of course the main guest. And Peter de Vries can take very good care of himself that was obvious in this broadcasting, verbally that is. And we now had the occasion to get the discussion going between these two, and that had not happened prior. So we let that happen. But a fact is that Joran van der Sloot was released, was interrogated in many ways, that the justice in Aruba does not see grounds for prosecution, and that juridically then there is something like, then it has to be over with, that is why we made the show now, as in; what now, how to go from here.
Interviewer: I had the feeling you were defending Joran at times during the show towards Peter de Vries.
Witteman: I honestly feel that Peter de Vries, who of course has investigated, in Aruba, but he did not found much damaging material that would make Joran closer to the qualification of a murderer, and that is why I feel why Joran during such a program, when he is being called a liar over and over again, I do not feel it being not correct to defend your guest a little bit. That would go the other way around also by the way.
Interviewer: And what Joran van der Sloot then does at the end, how would you want to qualify that?
Witteman: Incredible and hugely stupid. I mean it was of course the intention of the family van der Sloot to come her and show they want to continue their lives, and that they want to leave this case behind them, but that will be difficult as long as the body of Natalee has not been found, and when you want to get at least some understanding of the public, you of course should not perform things like this (referring to throwing wine).
Interviewer: How would you describe this broadcasting?
Witteman: The broadcasting itself, I found it to be very good and exciting.
Interviewer: The ending though was sort of strange.
Witteman: Dramatically, and nasty and incredible.
Translation by: Lazlo
Former Suspect’s Mother Wants Probe Into Natalee Holloway Investigation
2008-01-12 01:37:01 –
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The mother of a former suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba said Friday in a television interview she hopes there will be an investigation into the investigation that failed to find a trace of the U.S. teenager since she vanished in 2005.
“I would like the investigation to continue,” said Anita van der Sloot, mother of Joran van der Sloot, one of three youths extensively interrogated by police and prosecutors.
“I would also like to see an investigation into the investigation,” she added.
Joran, Anita and Paul van der Sloot appeared on the Dutch late-night talk show Pauw & Witteman in what was billed as the family’s last television interview about the case.
Anita van der Sloot said her family, as well as Holloway’s family, needed answers.
“I think it’s also very important that for them, for everybody, but particularly for them, there has to be clarity,” she said. “Then we can move on. As long as that doesn’t that happen, there will be questions, there will be fingers pointing at Joran”.
Holloway went missing May 30, 2005, hours before she was to return home to the U.S. She was on the final night of her school graduation trip to the island.
Van der Sloot and two other suspects, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, were seen leaving a bar with Holloway on the night of her disappearance.
They were questioned early in the investigation and again late last year before being released when they refused to answer any questions. All three deny involvement in Holloway’s disappearance.
Prosecutors now say they cannot prove a crime was committed without a body.
Extensive searches of the island turned up no trace of Holloway, who was 18 at the time of her disappearance, but the Aruban prosecutors have said they believe she is dead.
Authorities in Aruba say the case against the three could be reopened if additional evidence surfaces. But if they were to go to trial now with virtually no hope of guilty verdicts, they would lose the opportunity to try them later if strong evidence emerges.
Joran van der Sloot talked little during the show and made no new revelations about the case. When asked if he believed Holloway is still alive, he said he doubted it.
“If a person has been missing for three years, you would be a very bad person if you see everything that has gone on and don’t come forward with a sign that you are alive,” he said. “And if she is still alive, I think she is being held somewhere against her will”.
