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I don't know if this is an inadvertent repeat of an announcement of an event that took place last July, or if this is a new search to take place soon.

http://www.amigoe.com/english/

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Search for Natalee Holloway resumed

ARUBA – A team of investigators of the University of Florida in Panama City will soon start with searching for possible remains of Natalee Holloway, the American teenager that disappeared in May of last year. The team consists of experts in the field of underwater crime scene investigation and will search the bottom of the sea around Aruba.

The team will use advanced sonar equipment that is remotely controlled from a boat. The investigators have a lot of experience with these kinds of searches and have collaborated in the past with searches under water for victims and evidence after hurricanes and murders. The team is doing the search upon request of Prime Minister Nelson Oduber (MEP).

Remember this from Tim Miller last year?

Miller later goes on to say a rather interesting piece of information in that in his discussions with Police Chief van der Straaten that they have enough evidence to prosecute:

MILLER: I’ve spent a lot of time with the Police Commissioner van der Straaten, and he told me that he has got enough stuff without a body for prosecution. Our deal is to bring Natalee home. That family needs that body. They need to be able to say goodbye and start their healing process.

Natalee is not alive. I’m sorry. And somebody knows. And now we’re starting to get angry our own self. We’re searchers over here on their island, but now I’m getting angry.

What can best be described as one of the biggest differences in perceptions in the extent of which Aruban officials and Americans ones are willing to go can best be summed up with Tim Miller’s next comment.

MILLER: Well, you know, it could be hopeless. But you know what, going back to the family’s house, we brought in some special equipment to do wells and manhole covers and stuff. And I would love to get in their backyard, because I understand there’s an abandoned well in their backyard that I certainly would like to put this equipment down into. So, I would hope somebody would honor us in letting us — us in their backyard to do that. And if I get egg on my face, I get egg on my face. But you know what, I want to clear that.