Shep also stated that thanks to the newest witness, they are searching additional locations.
So that and the tools (plus the ongoing FBI analysis) is all that was mentioned.
From SM:
"MSNBC at 1:30 p.m.
Reporter: More details about the 2 witnesses from the past couple days. We sat down with PI who said he identified witness #1. This is witness that lead to reenactment yesterday involving fbi, local police bringing out the kalpoe car, put it in the location.
He says someone approached him about a month ago and told him about the domino game with Kalpoe and the gardener story.
Acting on that, PI went out and located the gardener.
PI has a background in law enforcement, former secret service and believes he is credible.
This was about 3am the morning after Natalee disappeared.
EQS coming back ASAP, to look at the landfill based on witness reports. PI told us today that yes, there is a witness that claims that something he saw happened at at landfill and claims to know where Natalees body was placed.[/b]"
Tuesday July 26, 2005 8:31 PM
By MARGARET WEVER
Associated Press Writer
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) - Natalee Holloway's stepfather said Tuesday that two new witnesses have come forward with information about the night nearly two months ago that the Alabama teenager disappeared on this Dutch Caribbean island.
One witness told investigators that he saw Joran van der Sloot, a 17-year-old Dutch youth who has been detained as the main suspect, driving to a nightclub across the road from the Marriott Hotel around 2:30 a.m. on May 30, when Holloway disappeared, said George Twitty.
According to Twitty, the witness said van der Sloot tried to hide his face with his hands as he drove to the Racquet Club with two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe. The brothers were detained as suspects and later released.
The stepfather said the account is significant because it places the three individuals near the hotel beach where van der Sloot says he left Holloway alone the last night she was seen in public.
``What's interesting is the time - 2:30 a.m. - when the three were supposedly on their way home,'' Twitty said, referring to their previous accounts to investigators.
The witness, a gardener whose name was not disclosed, gave his account to investigators Friday, Twitty said.
The Kalpoe brothers first told police that they and van der Sloot dropped Holloway off at her hotel around 2 a.m. on May 30. Later, they said they had lied to protect their friend and that they had dropped him and Holloway at a beach near the hotel.
A second new witness told a private investigator hired by Holloway's family that she saw van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers drive into the Racquet Club three times that same night. The woman, who lives near the nightclub, has not yet spoken with investigators, he said.
Aruban authorities did not comment on the stepfather's statements.
Van der Sloot's lawyer said he had not received any information about it from authorities, and the attorneys for the Kalpoes were not immediately available for comment.
The family on Monday increased the reward for information leading to the young woman's safe return to $1 million, from $200,000.
No one has been charged in the case, and van der Sloot is the only suspect still detained.
Holloway, 18, vanished after an evening of eating, drinking and dancing at a nightclub that she left with the three, hours before she was to catch a flight home to Mountain Brook, Ala., at the end of a graduation trip with 124 classmates.