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Rocks or remains?

Tonight, Natalee Holloway’s grandmother says she is not sure.

Ann Reynolds spoke exclusively with Sandra Kirk, a reporter from CBS 21’s sister station in Little Rock, Arkansas, About the pictures, taken by a Lancaster County couple that some believe is her missing granddaughter.

Reynolds: “It doesn’t look like anything to me. I’ve looked at it, I don’t know how many times, every time they show it. They say it looks like a skull. Beth says it looks like a rock to her. She’s bitter. You know she’s had so many ups and downs, she refuses to get up.”

The roller coaster of emotions is familiar ro Ann Reynolds, after her 18 year old granddaughter disappeared in Aruba five years ago.

Reynolds: “It was hard, it’s been real hard.” “I have to believe she is in the hands of God.”

because Holloway’s disappearance is still a mystery.

Reporter: What is it like to not know what happened? Reynolds: I don’t know how to answer that. I don’t know how to tell you what its like. If you can imagine it, it’s one of the worst things in the world that I ever thought I would have to live through.

But she is. Reynolds has watched as investigators detained Joran Van Der Sloot several times, letting him go each time. Holloway was last seen leaving a bar with Van Der Sloot.

Reporter: “Do you think Van Der Sloot killed Natalee? Reynolds: I think he did. I have no doubt about it what’s so ever.”

But Reynolds says faith, friends and memories have helped her find peace.

Reynolds: “I love all those stages of her life. I think about the funny things she used to do…that’s how I keep her alive.”

It is unclear when divers will start diving again to search for the possible remains. Authorities are trying to find the tour guide that took the Lancaster County Couple out to sea.

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The lead investigator for Aruban police said Saturday night that divers will resume searching Sunday in an area where a couple snorkeling took an underwater picture they believe may be the skeleton of missing Mountain Brook teen Natalee Holloway.

Deputy Police Chief Adolpho Richardson told The Birmingham News that nothing was found in the area searched Saturday.

“The FBI is helping Aruban authorities by conducting more interviews with the Pennsylvania couple who took pictures,” Richardson said. Also being interviewed are members of the group on the snorkeling trip, he said.

“We are trying to narrow down the search area,” Richardson said. “We have an idea of where it could have been but we are just guessing based on the information we have. The moment we have more accurate information, you can conduct a more thorough search.”

The search is the latest of many that authorities have launched since Holloway disappeared in Aruba in 2005 while on a school trip. The 18-year-old was last seen leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot on the final night of a high school graduation trip.

Richardson said the dive team will remain on the scene as long as it takes.

“The FBI has been in contact with the Holloway family,” he said.

Efforts to reach Holloway’s parents, Dave Holloway of Mississippi and Beth Twitty of Mountain Brook, were unsuccessful Saturday.

Larry Garrison, who has been a spokesman for Dave Hollway, said Natalie’s father has received similar pictures in the past only to find out they are rock formations.

“He is more or less dismissing this,” Garrison said Saturday. “I think they’ve found the same thing other people have found in the past, rock formations.”

Aruban spokeswoman Ann Angela told the Associated Press it is too early to say whether the Pennsylvania ouple’s underwater photo is more viable than other tips authorities have received.

“It could be a skull, it could be a stone, it could be anything,” she said. “That’s what we’re trying to figure out.”

The couple cannot pinpoint the exact location, but an Aruba resident believes he can find the spot, Angela said.

“We are a very small island with lots of people diving or snorkeling, so it’s not unusual for one of us to see an underwater picture and recognize the location.”

John and Patti Muldowney made the pictures while vacationing in Aruba in early October 2009. John Muldowney, who appeared on CNN’s Nancy Grace show Friday night, said his wife took the pictures in about 15 feet of water.

He said the film was not developed until December. Fearing the photos may be remains of Holloway, Muldowney said he turned the pictures over to the FBI.

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A Pennsylvania couple thinks they may have found Natalee Holloway’s skeleton on a vacation to Aruba.

Patti and John Muldowney want investigators to take a good look at a picture they took while snorkeling.

It shows what they think is a skeleton on the bottom of the ocean.

Patti didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary when she snapped the photo last November. No one noticed until mid January when they met up with a couple that was on the same cruise, to compare vacation photos.

“They came over and discovered it when they were looking through our photos,” John Muldowney told NBC Philadelphia .

“You can see a fish. You can see some rocks. And then you can see this body lying on its back, facing up,” John, 78, said in an interview with the Intelligencer Journal.

They showed the photo to friends, police, even a doctor and everyone agreed it looked like a human skeleton. John wondered if it could be the remains of Natalee Holloway, 18, who disappeared in 2005 during a high school graduation trip.

The Natalee Holloway case has yet to be solved. Joran van der Sloot, the son of a Dutch diplomat, was allegedly the last person to see Holloway, and he told authorities that Holloway died and he dumped her body in the ocean. He later said he sold Holloway as a sex slave. Van der Sloot’s stories could not be confirmed by police and he was never charged in the case because Aruban prosecutors said they didn’t have enough evidence.

John thought it couldn’t hurt to send the photo to Holloway’s family and investigators. He mailed a copy to her biological father and says he hasn’t heard back.

John’s efforts to get the picture to the right people connected to the case have been frustrating.

“I’ve called Quantico so much the receptionist said, ‘We’ve got to stop meeting like this,’ ” he told the Intelligencer.

John sent the photo to the FBI in Philadelphia.

“We did receive that photo, and it was sent to the lead agent down in Miami who handles that area in the Caribbean,” Special Agent Frank Burton Jr. told the Intelligencer.

“I didn’t hear nothing for a month,” said John.

John called the FBI again after hearing that van der Sloot’s dad had died of a heart attack and that the case was being reopened after van der Sloot told a TV reporter another story, in which he disposed of her body in a swamp after she accidentally fell from a balcony.

“This time they told me, ‘John, we’re not allowed to tell you what we’re doing with it,’” he said.

“The thing is, they haven’t found her yet,” Patti told the Intelligencer. “So, for the parents’ sake, I would hope that this picture does help.”

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AMSTERDAM – Justitie op Aruba is er na twee bekentenissen van overtuigd dat Joran schuld heeft aan de verdwijning van Natalee Holloway. Maar een oplossing is verder weg dan ooit.

Hoofdofficier van justitie, mr. Peter Blanken, zegt: “Hij weet waar Natalee is gebleven, dat staat voor mij wel vast. En dat hij haar als laatste levend zag, acht ik zelfs onomstotelijk. Het kleinste steunbewijs zou al genoeg zijn.” Blanken beaamt dat de nieuwe bekentenis van Van der Sloot als puzzelstuk in de tijdlijn van de verdwijning past, zoals oud-politiechef Gerald Dompig deze week aanvoerde. Het gaat daarbij om het ‘vermiste uur’.

“Zijn beschrijving van de gebeurtenissen beslaat precies de periode tussen het moment dat de camera’s Natalee voor het laatst signaleren totdat Joran ’s nachts om drie uur op internet actief wordt.”

Volgens hem is daarom afgelopen maanden alles gedaan om de details te checken. “En dan blijkt toch dat hij zaken achterhoudt of wellicht toch weer iets verdraait. Zo kan Natalee inderdaad van een balkon zijn gevallen, maar dan was dit niet op dat adres.” “We hebben dat huis nauwkeurig bekeken. Die reling is zo smal dat, als ze daar zou hebben gedanst, ze een koorddanseres had moeten zijn. Ook is de reling te hoog, met weinig ruimte tot het dak. Het was dus niet dit balkon. Dan rest op dat punt voorlopig niets.” Ook stelt hij dat de auto van de familie van de vermeende medeplichtige A. onlangs uitgebreid op sporen is onderzocht.

“Het autoverhaal kan waar zijn, maar dan was het niet deze auto. We vonden geen bloed. Zelfs een miniem dna-spoor van Natalee zou genoeg zijn om hem voor de rechter te brengen.” “We hebben dus Joran zelf nodig om zo’n spoor aan te wijzen, en die weigert dat. Ik hoop dat hij ooit de moed vindt. Zelfs een integrale bekentenis bij de politie volstaat niet, omdat er zonder steunbewijs geen zaak is.” Blanken stelt dat vooral in de VS veel onbegrip heerst over het Europese rechtssysteem: “Bij een Amerikaanse jury zijn twee bekentenissen voldoende voor een veroordeling.”

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TRANSLATION (Hat tip GBMW)

AMSTERDAM – The OM in Aruba is convinced that after two confessions Joran is to blame for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. But a solution is further away than ever.

The Chief Prosecutor, Mr. Peter Blanken, says: “He knows where Natalee is, that’s an established fact for me. And that he was the last one to see her alive, there’s no doubt whatsoever about that as far as I’m concerned. The smallest piece of supportive evidence would be enough.” Blanken agrees that the new confession of Van der Sloot is a fit in the puzzle piece concerning the timeline of the disappearance, as former Police Chief Gerald Dompig week claimed this week. This is the “missing hour”.

“His description of the events covers the period between the time the cameras signal Natalee for the last time until Joran is active on the internet at 3 in the night exactly.”

According to him that’s the reason why these last few months everything has been done to check the details. “And then it does turn out he’s still witholding things or twists things. It is possible that Natalee fell off the balcony, but then it wouldn’t be at that address. We’ve thoroughly checked that house. The railing is so narrow that, if she would have danced, she should have been a rope walker. The railing is too high as well, with little space to the roof. So it wasn’t this balcony. You’re left with nothing concerning this point.” He also claims that the car of the family of the alleged accomplice A. has recently been thoroughly investigated.

“The car story can be true, but then it wasn’t this car. We didn’t find any blood. Even a tiny trace of Natalees’ DNA would be enough to bring him to justice. So we need Joran himself to supply us with such a lead, en he refuses to do so. I hope he’ll ever find the courage.” Even a full confession to the police isn’t enough, because without supporting evidence there is no case.” Blanken says that there is a lot of miscomprehension concerning the European legal system in the US especially. “With an American jury two confessions are enough for a conviction.”

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