Well heck O'Reilly reported that the chaparones who were supposed to be watching the kids left the island in a private plane before the kids.
good find.
LOL, O'Reilly has misspoke so many times about this case it is not funny. He does not like to report on these types of cases and it shows like a sore thumb.
You're kidding, right? Why would they do that?
Lack of clues frustrates missing teen's stepdad
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Twitty said the family had no misgivings about Natalee's trip with about 100 classmates. Seven chaperones traveled with the students. And Twitty pointed out that his son had traveled there with his high school class two years ago.
Like Twitty, Merrill said she was comfortable with the trip. It was planned by parents and travel agents. The students had check-in times, and the chaperones were there for emergencies.
"With just seven chaperones and all those kids, we'd be nuts if they thought they could do everything," Merrill said. "We know them. We trust them. We love them."
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ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES Transcript - June 3, 2005
BETH HOLLOWAY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S MOTHER: Natalee, you can reach me on your cell phone. I have it and it's set up for international use now. And I will stay here until I find you, Natalee. RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): A mother's desperate plea for her missing daughter. Natalee Holloway was among more than 100 seniors to a graduation trip to Aruba. This picture was taken just hours before she disappeared from a nightclub.
MARCIA TWITTY, NATALEE'S AUNT: They're just typical high school girls.
SANCHEZ: Out on the beach?
TWITTY: Out on the beach. Having a good time on their senior trip. There's nothing unusual. Thousands and thousands of kids go on senior trips every summer and they should. I mean, these kids are growing up.
SANCHEZ: Marcia Twitty is Natalee's aunt. She says nobody seemed to notice that when the friends left the nightclub, Natalee wasn't with them.
TWITTY: Everybody thought everybody had each other. Because there's a bunch of them. A bunch. It wasn't, you know, 20 or so. There's a whole bunch of kids. And they all kind of went in, went to bed that night.
SANCHEZ: It wasn't until people started waking up Monday morning, ready to return to Birmingham, that they realized she was missing. Natalee's friend, Frances, was staying in an adjacent room.
What did it feel like Monday morning when you guys were all getting ready to go and you realized that she wasn't around?
FRANCIS ELLEN BYRD, NATALEE'S FRIEND: We immediately knew something was wrong because she was the first one to wake up. And when her roommates knocked on my door and said that they didn't know where she was, we went straight to the chaperones and they immediately started working on it.
TODD (voice-over): As police, military and rescue teams comb every inch of a small Caribbean island looking for a missing American teenager, her mother appeals directly to the girl.
BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, MOTHER: Natalee, you can reach me on your cell phone. I have it, and it's set up for international use now. And I also have my cell phone, and it's set up for international use. So please call me.
TODD: FBI and Aruban officials tell CNN the FBI is helping investigate the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway. She was on a trip to Aruba with more than 100 other seniors from Mountain Brook High School near Birmingham, Alabama, celebrating graduation. The celebration took them to a local bar late Sunday into Monday.
TWITTY: She was seen leaving Carlos & Charlie's at approximately 1:30 a.m. Monday morning.
TODD: Police and family members tell CNN at least 20 other students were with Holloway at the bar. Police say some of her classmates asked her to leave with them, but she chose to get in a car with three young men, all locals.
JAN VAN DER STRAATEN, POLICE SUPERINTENDENT: We find them and we talked with them, as witnesses, three young boys that went to school, too. And we talked with them. And we proceed with the investigation, around them, too.
TODD: Police tell CNN the boys claimed to have dropped Holloway off at her hotel between 1:30 and 2:00 AM on Monday. That's the last time she was seen. Police have released the young men for now and are reluctant to characterize how they view them in the investigation. They say they hope to make an arrest soon.
Back home, friends and family are looking for any break in the case.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just want everybody to keep praying for Natalie because we know she's going to come home. She's a strong girl. And she'll get through this. And she knows that we're all praying for her. And we're here for her, waiting for her to come back.
TODD: Police say there's a slight chance Holloway could have left the island. But her passport was found in her hotel room.
And there's a key question about supervision. Family members say about 150 kids were on the trip with at least 10 chaperones. Holloway's stepfather tells CNN the chaperones bear no responsibility for what happened. But the bar owner tells CNN there were no chaperones at the establishment in the early hours of Monday morning, when Holloway and some 20 other kids were partying there. A friend who was at the bar that night has only a slightly different account.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There was a chaperone there.
TODD: Holloway's parents are offering a $10,000 reward for her safe return.
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TODD: We've tried repeatedly to get officials from the high school and the school system to answer questions about the chaperones. Mountain Brook High School principal Dicky Barlow did not return our phone calls. The superintendent of Mountain Brook Schools also did not return our calls, Wolf.
BLITZER: Brian Todd. We'll keep watching this story for any developments. Thanks for updating us.