Chicopee man leaves for Aruba to help with search for missing teen Natalee Holloway
by The Republican Newsroom
Friday March 20, 2009, 6:48 PM
From staff reports
CHICOPEE – A Chicopee man left for Aruba Friday morning to help with the search for Natalee Holloway, of Alabama, who has been missing for nearly four years, television station abc40 of Springfield is reporting.
The station, also known as WGGB-TV, Channel 40, is reporting that Fred A. Golba, who runs a canine rescue unit he calls Coast to Coast Canine, left for Aruba at 6 Friday morning.
The television station says that Golba was sent by Natalee’s Holloway’s father. He and a cadaver dog will be searching the bottom of an Aruban pond, according to the station.
Natalee Holloway was reported missing in Aruba in May 2005 when she was 15 years old.
In an exclusive interview with abc40, Goldba said that a witness has just come forward, claiming he saw lead suspect Joran van der Sloot leaving a pond the night the girl disappeared. The witness said van der Sloot was wet up to his chest and was missing a sneaker. Golba will be looking for either Natalee’s body or that sneaker.
“I have more confidence in this pond than any other of the eight trips I’ve made to the island,” he told abc40’s Kathy Reynolds.
Golba brought his search dog Rhino to Aruba with him.
Golba has been involved with the case since 2005, according to abc40.
