'The Abrams Report' for Nov. 2nd
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Updated: 10:31 a.m. ET Nov. 3, 2005
Guests: Dave Holloway, Chris Lejuez, Clint Van Zandt, Tim Miller, Ron Kuby, Jan Ting, Deborah Norville, Steven Clark
DAN ABRAMS, HOST: Coming up, breaking news out of Aruba. Natalee Holloway‘s divorced parents have come together to demand that most of the senior officials working on the case be replaced.
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ABRAMS (voice-over): In a stinging six-page letter, they accused the Aruban authorities of asking for money, ignoring leads, and bungling the investigation. They want a whole new team. This a day after the deputy police chief had some tough words on this program for Natalee‘s mother. Natalee‘s father, Dave, is with us.
ABRAMS: Hi everyone. First up on the docket tonight, there is a war of words unraveling in Aruba. Natalee Holloway‘s divorced parents who up to now have been proceeding separately, sign a letter. Here it is. You see Dave Holloway, Robin Holloway, Beth Twitty, Jug Twitty, all signing this letter in agreement with what is in this six-page document. They are demanding that Aruba‘s attorney general pull the team investigating Natalee‘s disappearance.
Quote—“It has become increasingly difficult to hold our tongues. It is our contention that it is in the best interest of everyone concerned to instigate a fresh start in this case. We respectfully request that Dennis Jacobs, Karin Janssen, and Gerold Dompig be removed from the case.”
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TIM MILLER, EQUUSEARCH DIRECTOR: ... And you know I got a phone call this morning, while I was drinking my coffee. I mean the Natalee case has just been eating at us, and it was Gerold Dompig. And he really apologized to me for the lack of communication last week, while we were there, and Gerold‘s words to me was, Tim, you know what? I really don‘t think that Natalee‘s alive.
And we do have to find her. He said I‘m looking forward to you coming back to the island. I think Gerold has been overwhelmed. He‘s been hit in every single direction, and you know what? Right now what I would like to do is go ahead and mobilize again, go on back over there. I think we‘re going to get 100 percent cooperation... from Gerold right now...
ABRAMS: ... after this letter, Tim. I mean you can understand why after this letter, there could be some new problems.
MILLER: Well you know what? I think they can deal with those problems. I‘d kind of like to ask Dave and Beth—you know what? It‘s been almost five months now, let‘s step back for a couple of weeks and kind of take some deep breaths and stuff and kind of everybody hold their tongue and allow us to go back over there. I truly, from the bottom of my heart, think that we‘re going to get the equipment over there we need. We‘re going to be able to search the areas that they want searched. And Gerold and I talked this morning, if she is out there, even with the sophisticated equipment...
ABRAMS: Yes.
MILLER: ... we‘re taking, chances are slim, but you know what? Let‘s work together and do everything we can possibly do and I‘m looking forward to going back over there. And the problems with Gerold and me right now, I think that they‘re repaired and I want to focus...on locating Natalee.
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