It's an attempt to smear her, to infuriate the native Arubans and plant the idea that she's profited from her daughter's disappearance, and to make it harder for her to return to Aruba again. I also think they're trying to guage how much more of her family searching for her they are going to have to put up with. If people have donated $ 100,000, that would not last all that long. If it's a million, then they know there is no end in sight to how much searching and traveling to Aruba the family can afford to do. That's my guess on what they are up to.
I also think they're trying to guage how much more of her family searching for her they are going to have to put up with.
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BINGO!
That is exactly the question ALE just recently asked Dave along with how much money he had. The also told him the investigation of most cases would have ended long ago. It's the glare of the media cameras that makes Aruba react. Turn them off and it's back to business as usual and this case will be damned.
Somewhere along the way I read that Beth said they had collected $110,000 and had just spent $20,000 on this last search effort.