Texas volunteers to return to Aruba
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ORANJESTAD — Volunteers with a search group from Texas plan to return to Aruba with high-tech equipment as they help look for a missing Alabama teen. Members of Dickinson-based Texas Equusearch will dispatch three people to the Caribbean island on July 28 with groundpenetrating radar.
“We survive only on donations. We’ve never received a grant or large sponsorship from any large corporation. Volunteering instead of taking a vacation is always a help and offering specialized services is very valuable,” stated Tim Miller during a live interview yesterday with Tom and Red of Scared Monkeys which has over 35,000 visitors a day visiting at http://www.scaredmonkeys.com.
“We found a site that we feel as though was a possible gravesite. Our thoughts are that Natalee may have been buried in that hole for 1 or 2 days then moved. We have information that the cell phones were possibly being used in that area. Joran stated that something went wrong and they buried Natalee in the sand which we feel the spot we found is possibly it. The duct tape and hair was found 3/4 of a mile from where the possible gravesite was. With the information of her being buried, possible cell phone usage, discovery of possible gravesite, and duct tape with hair lead me to believe that Natalee was dumped in the sea in that area. We are anxiously awaiting the results of the hair samples which have been sent to the FBI lab and also the lab in the Netherlands,” concluded Miller.
Ruben Croes of the Aruba Search and Rescue Foundation, together with other team members stated that the shallow hole where the Equusearch team was surveying was not deep enough to be a human grave. “Because of the hardness of the ground and roots were still intact, this was an unlikely grave site, but possibly a place where drugs may have been hidden and then latter retrieved,” stated Croes. He also suggested that if a body had been thrown into the waters of Boca Tortuga, the body would come straight back to the shore. “We don’t have shark infested waters around Aruba, but if there was a shark attack, again evidence would be noticeable along the shoreline, everything comes back to the shore on the North Coast,” stated Croes.
Earlier reports said that, if a body were thrown in the water on the West side of the island, the tides would take it out to sea. Which is it?