Posted on 06/02/2005 6:35:33 PM PDT by SonnyBubba
Family of Alabama teen missing in Aruba offers reward 6/2/2005, 5:04 p.m. CT By TITO LACLE The Associated Press ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — The family of an Alabama high school graduate who disappeared in Aruba offered a reward for her safe return Thursday, as scores of tourists and locals volunteered to post fliers and help in the search. Natalee Holloway's family asked Aruba radio and television stations to broadcast the reward offer, though they did not specify an amount, said her mother, Beth Holloway Twitty. The family promised to reward anyone who brings the missing teenager safely to a police station or hospital, she said. Holloway, 18, was among 125 seniors from Mountain Brook High School, near Birmingham, on a five-day trip to the Dutch Caribbean island. FBI officials, Aruba police and Dutch authorities have been searching for her since Monday, when she did not show up for her group's return flight. Several family members traveled to Aruba to help in the search. "Everybody has been quite supportive," the mother told The Associated Press. "I am not leaving. I am going to have Natalee with me." Holloway was last seen by friends getting into a vehicle and leaving the Carlos and Charlie's nightclub in the capital of Oranjestad before dawn Monday. Police questioned and released three Aruban men who said they dropped Holloway off early Monday at the Holiday Inn, where she had been staying, said police assistant inspector Jules Sambo. The three were not suspects, he said. "We don't have any indication as to if she is alive," Sambo said. "The whole population is aware that she is missing. The police are doing everything to find her." Police, using helicopters and all-terrain vehicles and patrol cars, were combing the Arashi area in the northwestern tip of Aruba, a rugged terrain of sand dunes, craters and beaches. The area is near the Holiday Inn, which is about three miles from the capital. More than 100 people, mostly American tourists, offered to help during a gathering Thursday morning at the Holiday Inn, organized by International Friends of Aruba, a group of wives of Americans working on the island. The volunteers were distributing fliers with the teenager's photo in various parts of the island. "She has a very loving family and is a very happy girl," said Haleigh Uncapher, a classmate who delivered a flier to local Magic radio station. Aruba, with a population of about 72,000, is off the north coast of Venezuela and is part of the Netherlands Antilles.
Prayers that this young woman is found safe and sound.
And the chaperones were doing what while this girl had a night out on the town and returning at Dawn with three men?
and the hotel cameras dont have video of her being dropped off.
She was 18, she should be her own responsibility.
I hope she's ok though. I just got back from a honeymoon in St. Lucia. I know this type of thing has to bear heavily on all the people on the islands that depend on tourism for work.
Strange for Aruba, although this can happen anywhere these days; too many evil people in this world. My experiences in Aruba have been wholly positive, never an ounce of fear even after midnite walking through the back roads of Oranjestaad by myself.
You tell them when to be back at the airport. Or if on a cruise ship, what to time to be on the ship. BTW, Mountain Brook (residents known as Brookies) is THE hoot-toot public school in Birmingham. Prayers for her safe return home.
You tell them when to be back at the airport. Or if on a cruise ship, what to time to be on the ship. BTW, Mountain Brook (residents known as Brookies) is THE hoot-toot public school in Birmingham. Prayers for her safe return home.
People who can afford to vacation in Aruba, can afford to get their butts out of jam without having to tap into the public at large for sympathy or strain public services of their host country this is another missing chick story which deserves little or no attention.
exactly Aruba has been the safest Caribbean Island I've ever visited, the Arubian guys are not anywhere near as aggressive as say guys in other Islands either, late nights are also not unheard of, dance till dawn and all, though my sister mentioned on her last trip, she's been about 4 times, that some Colombian guys at one of the bars were very sexually aggressive, though she was there during Carnivale so the island was really busy and jumping
it would be sad if they had a repeat of that murder in Bermuda of course that murder was not perpetrated by Bermudian but by, you guessed it, illegal immigrants.....
You are a complete f'ing loser. Scum
This doesn't sound good. Pretty girl gets in car with three locals and "poof" she disappears. I doubt she'll be seen again- alive anyway. Usually, if the police say the most obvious suspect is "not considered" a suspect, it means they just don't have enough evidence against him yet. But considering Aruba is part of the Netherlands, if the "locals" who picked her up turn out to be minorities, I doubt they'll ever be prosecuted.
Congrats.
That post wins first prize for "Ignorant Posts of the Day".
I can't believe you could be so small minded to say such a thing.
LVM
Since we don't know what happened to her yet, don't you think you are getting a bit ahead of yourself?
What if she was murdered ... how's she gonna get out of that jam? Bribe God?
Bad situation. Wonder if she was kidnapped by middle eastern slave traders?
What were her friends doing while this happened? I understand this was a school sponsored trip with chaperones, but kids got to learn to stay in packs on a trip like this.
I don't think that is a fair presumption, esp since tourism is the lifeblood of Aruba, they are going to want to be seen as coming down hard......
the problem in Bermuda is they accepted a plea bargain from the Jamaican guy who turned out to be the murderer, not his accomplice, because they accepted the plea before they finished the investigation,
however that happens in Canada too - can you say Karla Holmolka, the witch is getting out soon too, be careful if you're in Montreal now......
Divers are now combing the waters looking for her.
Columbian druglords would be more likely, Columbia is a short hop skip and jump away
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