Dr. Phil: 'Natalee Holloway is alive'
(JND) - Is Natalee Holloway alive?
Dr. Phil was hesitant to reveal what he termed, "too much information" Wednesday night. However, the doctor's light-hearted appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno turned serious when discussing the issue of the missing Alabama teenager.
"Without giving up too much information... we believe Natalee Holloway is alive.'
Dr. Phil pointing to what he termed the "sex slave market" as the main point of focus in the ongoing investigation.
Holloway Bio:
Holloway and 124 fellow graduates of Mountain Brook High School was visiting Aruba on an unofficial senior class graduation trip. She was last seen leaving Carlos’n Charlie’s, a popular tourist-oriented bar and grill, early in the morning with Dutch-born Joran van der Sloot, the then seventeen year old son of an ex-judicial official trainee, and two companions, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, Surinamese-born brothers of East Indian origin, in Deepak's car.
Natalee Holloway did not appear for her return flight the next morning, nor did she appear in any security camera footage of the hotel lobby in the course of the night. Her passport, packed bags, and cellular phone were found in her hotel room. Searches of the island began immediately, but have been fruitless as of 2005.
Holloway was, according to her parents, to have started her undergraduate pre-med studies on a full scholarship at the University of Alabama in August 2005
http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/1105/news/holloway.html?1130994790609
The Search For Natalee Holloway: A Producer's Diary - Day 1
Natalee Holloway disappeared while on vacation in ArubaThis is the first in a series journal entries written by AMW correspondent Rick Segall as he searched in Aruba with Dave Holloway, Natalee Holloway's father, and the EquuSearch team.
10/25/05
I'm in Aruba and for days, I've been talking with Tim Miller, the director of EquuSearch - a Texas-based search and recovery team. Hopefully today, Tim will introduce me to Dave Holloway, Natalee Holloway's father.
I can't even fathom what Dave is going through -- returning to Aruba five months after his daughter was last seen alive, still holding onto the hope of finding her. Dave came back to the island with the EquuSearch team, an amazing group of volunteers and experts who travel the world to locate missing persons, and this time they're hoping to find some answers.
It has been rumored on the island that Natalee was at a series of shacks known as "the fishing huts" the night of her disapperance. It's an area on the beach close to the Holiday Inn, where she was staying, and now, locals say that Natalee was there with the three boys who have been the focus of the investigation.
Yesterday, Dave went went back to the fishing huts to look around for himself. He wanted to see things first hand, and I still can't wrap my head around what he discovered.
Dave said that seeing the cross unraveled the thread of hope
Memorial To Natalee
Dave Holloway at the makeshift memorial for his daughter, NataleeAs Dave walked down the beach, he happened upon a small wooden cross. When he looked closer, Dave noticed a rosary and the initials "N.H." carved in the corner. I wouldn't have wanted to be in Dave's shoes for anything in the world at that moment.
Today, the crew and I went back with Dave Holloway to the makeshift memorial. It was a touching dose of reality - Natalee is probably never coming back. Dave said that seeing the cross unraveled the thread of hope - the thread of hope that the Holloway family has been holding on to, the thread of hope that Natalee may still be alive.
What's The Reason?
Knowing what we know about that area, that a gardener had spotted the boys in the wee hours of the morning right near that spot, knowing that the boys may have taken Natalee to those fishing huts, knowing that a large steel fishing cage and a knife were stolen from those fishing huts and knowing that tips have come into Aruban police that a boat left from those spots -- all of those things combined, that cross means something to the investigation, something yet to be discovered. The memorial is not close to any of the places where people have gathered to memorialize Natalee, like the church and the lighthouse. So why there?
Mere Coincidences?
AMW correspondent, Rick Segall, accompanied Dave Holloway to the makeshift cross As hard as I try, I can't imagine that the makeshift memorial is just a random coincidence. Yes, there is widespread media attention on the fishing huts a few hundred yards away. But why would someone put the cross there unless they knew the significance of this area? It certainly adds credibility to the tips indicating that something sinister happened from that very spot.
The cross has become a sort of headstone by default for Dave. It's the closest thing that the Holloways have to a grave. The emotion while we were there was just overwhelming, and Dave was doing his best to hold it together. That cross was obviously put there by someone that knows something or maybe someone with a guilty conscience.
But it now becomes obvious why Deputy Police Chief Dompig wants the EquuSearch team to search the waters off this stretch of beach. That search is now underway. I will join it tomorrow in the hopes that the ocean floor holds some answers and some closure.
http://www.amw.com/features/feature_story_detail.cfm?id=827
Sorry! I somehow missed your post on Dr. Phil on Leno. Does anybody have any idea what is going on with him or what this means? SM thinks he blindsided the H/T's.
I don't know if I buy Dr. Phil's story. Blood in Deepaks car, on the seat and on the ceiling - that suggests something pretty violent to me. Then the boys pointing fingers and accusing each other of killing her. Beth herself stating that "We buried Natalee on June 10th". The continual searches for her remains at great cost to the family. Sounds strange to me. Out of the group there I could see them grabbing other girls besides Natalee for the sex slave trade. I'll bet she's dead and has been since May 31st.
WOW!!! I missed that ~