Aruba-CARLOS N'CHARLIES
Aruba-CARLOS N'CHARLIES
8/24/2005, 4:35 p.m. CT
The Associated Press
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — An Aruba group is seeking divers to continue the search for Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teenager who went missing nearly three months ago on the Dutch Caribbean island.
The group wants to lead the divers in exploring waters off Aruba's east coast, where Holloway was staying with 124 Mountain Brook High School classmates, said Eduardo Mansur, co-founder of the Aruba Search and Rescue Foundation, which has been helping search for the teenager since she vanished May 30.
Although the waters have been searched before, the group wants to try again with the help of a machine invented by an American who claims it can detect human bones and teeth under water, Mansur said. The inventor, Joe Walker, came to Aruba to help in the search, Mansur said.
"We have been working very hard on the case from the beginning," Mansur said. "We are following all leads."
Mansur said he and Walker are recruiting local divers. He said they will start when enough divers volunteer.
Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Ala., vanished in the early hours of May 30, the last day of her trip. Police and hundreds of volunteers have scoured the small island and coastal waters in vain for her.
Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch teenager who has acknowledged being alone with Holloway the night she disappeared, is the only person still in custody in the case. Van der Sloot, 18, has said he left the Alabama woman on a northeastern beach near the Marriott Hotel and did not harm her. He has not been charged.
Hey Texkat,
WTF, is this scenario? Classless or clueless. Certainly not my type of a refined woman.
You belong to the city,
NSNR-MVGF