Natalee Holloway - Case Discussion Extended Thread 15

Various News Outlets | 8/19/05

[TexKat]

Profile of Natalee Holloway

Missing: Natalee Holloway participated in a trip with 125 seniors from Mountain Brook High School to Aruba in the Caribbean. In the early morning hours on May 30, 2005 Natalee was seen leaving a nightclub and getting into a vehicle. She failed to turn up Monday morning for her return flight home and she has not been seen since. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance.

Profile: Natalee Holloway was born on October 21, 1986 to Beth and Dave Holloway. She grew up in the close-knit community of Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. She was very popular and respected by her classmates and had a reputation among peers at being very intelligent and focused on her future. She lived up to her reputation, graduating as an honors student from the Mountain Brook High School.

Extracurricular Activities: During Natalle's high school years she participated several extracurricular activities including: The American Field Service - A club which interacts with the foreign exchange students. Dorians Dance Team Future Business Leaders of America Mu Alpha Theta - Math honor society Natural Helpers - A peer based emotional support group. Outdoors Club Spanish Club Spanish Honor Society Spartan Pride - School pep group. TASC - Teens Actively Serving the Community

Future Goals: Natalee received a full scholarship to the University of Alabama. She planned to major in Pre-Med, in order to pursue her goal of being a pediatrician.

[Canadian Outrage]

It sure does and Aruba does NOT like it!! Me thinks Aruba has NEEDED to be under the surgical lights for a long time. I hope that the pressure is kept on until Aruba begins to "sacrifice" a couple of their own just to have something of a Resort Island left!!

[Dolphy]

why was the visit filmed & broadcast all over television?

Ask MSNBC or whomever filmed the 12 second clip that was played over and over.

The case hasn't even been adjudicated yet.

The Aruban criminal justice system has been on display for weeks and weeks now. (And by the way, had the police conducted themselves in similar fashion in the Peterson case I'm sure you would have seen equal outrage from her family.)

[Canadian Outrage]

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[looney tune]

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[justche]

*snorting* why not give a specific color necklace to wear? :)

Wow, the moderators must have been bored tonight, all the posts by that person were removed, I don't remember seeing that happen before.

More allergy medicine, back to bed....

[whitedog57]

Amazing! When it is PVS who is upset, justice is extremely swift and repressive in Aruba. When it is an Alabama teenager who has been drugged, raped and murdered (yes, drugging someone with the intent of rape and death occurs is murder), justice is slow and incompetent.

After reading that story that PVS delayed on the construction of a bypass to reduce traffic congestion because it went through his property (although people continued to be killed on the old highway), I realized that this person is a sick puppy.

I still can't believe that some people on this forum are willing to travel to Aruba and support this corrupt and twisted place.

[Froufrou]

Caveat: The family of Amy Bradley strongly voiced that they had THE SAME experience as the HT family is having with ALE. They sepcifically stated they were 'lead on many wild goose chases all over the island' with many 'sitings' reported. 'They really kept us busy.' And were no help at ALL. They basically did nothing.

[Froufrou]

Turn on your transponders, let the forcefield be with us!

*RATATATAT*

[Froufrou]

No, see, the jealous person is not a guy! Trueben, the NL native, is SURE that one of the GIRL friends of NH was jealous because she wanted to be with Joran. Ewwwww, as if!

Funny thing about the Dutch/Aruban machismo: they think Joran is good looking! HAH!

[Froufrou]

You're so cute! Either way, your brain gets fried!

[Froufrou]

TBV, you've been gone awhile. I'd have thought that would have improved your mood a little but I guess I was wrong.

BTW, what right does ANYONE have to suggest 'what Beth should do?' Pretty high and mighty.

[Dante3]

I totally agree with you about the Swift Boat. There have been a few other issues where I also disagree strongly with BOR. But the campaign for Jessica's Law is not a phony issue. It is absolutely essential, and here BOR has done an exceptionally good job, is one of the very few in the media to take a stand on it. I admit I would have behaved the same way if I had been in BOR's place. When it come to pedophilia and the rape of children, I have zero tolerance and have no use for anyone who supports it.

[Malichi]

Sorry, Che, you weren't here when we shut down Treuben's sub-space field. It was a regular Troll Rodeo.

TAW

[Froufrou]

Absolutely! The mindset of the Aruban people is like Julia Renfro stated "blame the LE but not the Aruban people," who are just fun-loving natives. After all, it only happened this once.

Wrong! Google Missing In Aruba and see what you get! There was even a Slovinian family with two young boys 11 and 13! Once a year every year for the past 10 years! It's an industry. They don't want us to know how much they hate us while they are robbing and killing us!

[MAWG]

DAMN! You mean I missed one?

[theophilusscribe]

[theophilusscribe]

Scared Monkeys Travel to Mountain Brook for Natalee Holloway Fund Raiser
http://www.scaredmonkeys.com/?p=1465
by Scared Monkeys

Today Tom made the ride to Birmingham, AL for the Natalee Holloway Fund Raiser. However, first he stopped in Mountain Brook to visit Natalee’s Wall of Hope to leave a Scared Monkeys promise to Natalee and her family.


Nat Wall 1

Then it was off to Birmingham to attend the Natalee Holloway Fundraiser which according to Tom was amazing affair. First we see a banner outside the event reminding us what this is all about.


Hope For Nat

This entry was posted on Friday, August 26th, 2005 at 1:08 am

[theophilusscribe]

Scared Monkeys at the Natalee Holloway Fund Raiser
http://www.scaredmonkeys.com/?p=1466
by Scared Monkeys

Once inside the Fund Raiser words almost can’t describe the scene. A picture is truly worth a thousand words. The crowd was standing room only and the many photos and collages of Natalee bring all of this home to its most human and emotional level. Let’s all not ever forget this is about a missing teenager, Natalee Holloway, and her family’s, friend’s, and community’s want to bring her home. It is also about the many others caring people who have never Natalee that want the same.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 26th, 2005 at 1:09 am

[Toespi]

"Once a year every year for the past 10 years! It's an industry. They don't want us to know how much they hate us while they are robbing and killing us!"

Let's say there was a murder or kidnapping every year for 10 years in a US town with a population of 70,000 people, do you think they would be looking for a serial killer?

[theophilusscribe]

Stars Step Up For Natalee
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/26/earlyshow/main796502.shtml
MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala., Aug. 26, 2005

(CBS) It's been almost three months since American teenager Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba. Extensive searches of the Caribbean island have turned up few clues and investigators appear to be are at a loss.

But, reports CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella, that hasn't stopped the teen's family and friends at home from giving up hope.

For three months, Mountain Brook, Ala. has been waiting and praying for Holloway to return.

"Everybody has been touched by this, so they all want to participate and help," says family friend Jodi Bearman.

That includes Mountain Brook's most famous "Friend," Courtney Cox, who graduated from the same high school as Holloway.

Cox and husband David Arquette wanted to help raise money to keep the search for Natalee alive.

So, says Holloway's aunt, Marcia Twitty, "They came up with this idea, 'What about a celebrity auction?' And we were like, 'That sounds cool!' "

Twitty says she was amazed by what happened next: donations from celebrities, the sports world, and beyond.

In the room where the auction was held Thursday night, one table had nothing but items contributed by the cast of the hit TV show "Friends," which Cox starred in.

There was a whole row of celebrity guitars, from Sting, Alan Jackson, and Bobby Weir.

The Grateful Dead sent an autographed drumhead along.

"Ruben Studdard, remember Ruben?" asked Twitty. "Ruben sent things for us."

The NFL donated a pair of tickets to the Super Bowl.

A piece of NASCAR driver Jimmy Johnson's race car was signed. Of course!

Twitty was hoping for two dozen items. Instead, she received 200.

She says, when she looks around at all the goodies, "I just, wow! You just go, 'Wow, this many people actually care about what's going on.' And they really do."

You would think, at an auction, the more bidders, the better, Cobiella observes. But the event was by invitation only. About 1,000 people were invited. Otherwise, organizers feared, the entire town might show up.

Says family friend Bearman, "This city has lots of roots, and everyone's connected."

Bearman organized the senior class trip to Aruba, the one from which Holloway vanished, and Bearman was on that first flight back with Holloway's parents the day after she disappeared.

"We discussed it on the flight that, when we get there and get our hands on her, we're gonna be scolding her and telling her she shouldn't have wandered off. Um, you know, nobody believed it would get to this point," Bearman says.

And, Cobiella says, no one has forgotten her. Not the people in her hometown, or the students she was supposed to join at the University of Alabama.

Student John Peters helped hang yellow ribbons around campus in her honor.

"We wanted to do it just to show support for (Holloway's) friends and family," he says. "We did it for the friends of Natalee, just to let her know we did care, and we still do care, and we're here to help them in any way we can."

Holloway should be two days into her new life as a college student. A full academic scholarship awaits her, and the school is holding her room in the freshman dorm for her.

Most of the money raised will help Holloway's family members pay their expenses in Aruba.