Posted on 03/23/2006 3:35:31 PM PST by AUJenn
ARUBA’S LEAD INVESTIGATOR FEELS STRONGLY THAT NATALEE HOLLOWAY WAS NOT MURDERED, BUT PROBABLY DIED OF COMPLICATIONS INVOLVING ALCOHOL AND, POSSIBLY, DRUGS
Thu Mar 23 2006 18:00:38 ET
Gerold Dompig, deputy chief of police in Aruba and the man leading the investigation into the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, says he feels strongly that Holloway was not murdered, but probably died from complications involving alcohol and, possibly, drugs as well. Dompig makes his remarks in an exclusive interview with 48 HOURS Correspondent Troy Roberts that will be broadcast on 48 HOURS MYSTERY: “Natalee Holloway: New Clues in Paradise,” Saturday, March 25 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
The chief investigator tells Roberts that he has credible witnesses who say the young woman had drugs in her possession. Dompig also says police have witnesses who claim Holloway was drinking “excessively” on the day she disappeared.
Deputy Chief Dompig tells 48 HOURS that drugs are now part of the investigation.
Roberts: “Have you been able to confirm whether Natalee Holloway purchased or consumed illegal narcotics during her stay here [Aruba]?”
Dompig: “We have statements claiming that she had drugs.”
Roberts: “What kind of drugs?”
Dompig: “I cannot say.”
Chief investigator Dompig goes on to say, “We do not have proof that [Natalee] used drugs, but that [witnesses] saw her with drugs in her possession.”
Police say Holloway was last seen with Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. Dompig says all three remain prime suspects in the case.
Deputy Chief Dompig says he now believes that Natalee Holloway was not murdered. “We feel strongly that she probably went into shock or something happened to her system with all the alcohol -- maybe on top of that, other drugs, which either she took or they gave her -- and that she…just collapsed.”
The deputy chief believes that after Holloway’s death there was a panicked cover-up. Dompig says the investigation has entered a “critical last phase.”
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I DON'T CARE.
If this is the case, where is she?
She is dead..
Yes, I know I would ditch a body and cover up the lack of a crime in order to make a crime out of it.
Yes you do...you clicked on the thread....:-)
Shark food.
Maybe if you sold her the drugs??
Not "YOU" but, you know.
You are right, I do care. Every time I read her name in bold letters it makes me quite angry.
No fair you are using logic.....:-)
Is the same upright public servant who said, "no body, no crime?"
The whole thing has stunk of coverup from the beginning.
Probably in an Aruba crack house...
Fox News was covering part of the story today and some 'credible' witness came forward stating her body is in Northern Aruba and was buried twice. Once in a shallow grave and then moved the next day?
Weird.
Begs certain questions here, How did she get the drugs and did she know she was getting them? And if the body was hidden there was just a teensy weensy bit of heinous criminal behavior going on.
Why would you be so rude? I don't click on or respond to postings that I don't care about. Why would you?
Pretty good place to hide a body is where they just searched.
But then again the ocean is pretty big.
Now jmc....this means Greta will have programming for the nest month....don't you want full employment for media has-beens?
If she died innocently, then quite oddly there are an awful lot of people acting as though they are guilty of something and they are spending an awful lot of energy trying to cover it up.
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