'Scarborough Country' for June 2
SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you, Frances Ellen, when is the last time you saw her?
BYRD: That night.
SCARBOROUGH: Yes, you saw her the night...
BYRD: I was with her that night.
SCARBOROUGH: You were with her that night.
BYRD: Yes. Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: All the friends went back to the hotel. And did you all see her go back to the hotel or not?
BYRD: I am just leaving it that we saw her there.
SCARBOROUGH: Saw her that night.
BYRD: Right.
YODER: Yes. Absolutely.
SCARBOROUGH: All right.
Well, Frances Ellen, thank you so much for being with us tonight.
Mark, thank you. And, of course, our prayers are going to be with you, with Natalee and with Natalee‘s family on this very important search.
BYRD: Thank you. Thank you so much.
I don't get "I am just leaving with we saw her there". Hopefully she told the authorities more than that. What time, who she was with, her condition, etc.
The transcript is one I have seen and it has never been, and will never be, clear to me that she was saying she saw Natalee back at the hotel after leaving the club.
And my reasoning stands: just tonight, with Greta, Beth made a slam-dunk, unequivocal statement that she knows, she absolutely knows, that Natalee never made it back to the hotel. This was in response to Greta asking for details such as, had her bed been slept in, etc. (As for Frances, she would have been shouting this from the rooftops, and be the most sought-after interview in the world, if she could state that she saw Natalee back at the hotel.)
For all of these reasons, plus the lack of clarity in the transcript, I have no doubt in my own mind that Frances did not see her later at the hotel, and that that is not what she was intending to say in the interview.
Greta questioned her and another friend for a whole segment way back when, and there was not one word of it from the girls...not even a slight hint.