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To: TexKat

Thanks! Now I at least have a name. Also at that Hasibokos.com site is this:

"SUNDAY: Missing man has been identified as Sergio Gomez. This case and the dead, partially decapitaed, body found at Sabana are not believed to be related to the Natalee Holloway case."


1,932 posted on 06/19/2005 8:13:35 PM PDT by blub
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I asked earlier today, and I can't seem to find any answer to this question:

What happened to that LORENZO fellow? Remember, there was a post from a girl (yesterday some time) in Aruba who has been supplying information. She said that Natalee had been held in Lorenzo's basement. She said Natalee was there because most homes in Aruba don't have basements.

Lorenzo was questioned by the police two days ago. It was also posted on FR that Lorenzo was the son of P. van der Sloot, Joran's father. Evidently P. van der Sloot had a relationship with another woman on Aruba before he married his present wife. Lorenzo was the product of that relationship - hence he is Joran's half-brother. Lorenzo's mother married another man, and he committed suicide - but even that is skeptical, because some said it might have been murder.

I think all of this is very mysterious (like everything else with this case). If the story about Natalee being held in the basement is true...why is Lorenzo free? After he was questioned he was let go and nothing more has been said about him - no TV reporter has even pursued it. Shortly after that the police brought in S. Croes. Now he is being held.

So, did they let Lorenzo go the same way they let VDS and his two friends go...giving him time to cover up evidence, get rid of something? What gives with those police?

Any news on this guy?

1,943 posted on 06/19/2005 8:28:31 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: Andy'smom; sarasota; cyborg; kcvl; brigette; maggiefluffs; No Surrender No Retreat; ...
Aruba police question detained teen's dad

6/19/2005, 8:09 p.m. CT

By PETER PRENGAMAN The Associated Press

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — Aruban police on Sunday questioned the father of a Dutch teenager held in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, hoping the island justice official may know something to help solve the mystery of what happened to her, an official said.

Paul van der Sloot, a judge-in-training on the island, was questioned for two hours Sunday afternoon after five hours Saturday night, said Police Superintendent Jan van der Straaten.

Joran van der Sloot, 17, one of the people last seen with Natalee Holloway the night she disappeared. Three other men have been detained, but no one has been charged.

Van der Straaten said the father was asked to come back Sunday because officials were not able to finish the interrogation on Saturday, but declined to give more details.

"He was questioned as a witness, no more or no less," van der Straaten told The Associated Press.

The attorney general's spokeswoman, Mariaine Croes, said witnesses are questioned when prosecutors believe they may be able to add something to the case.

"You may know something more or you may have seen something more, but you are not a suspect or thought to be part of any crime," Croes said.

During Sunday's interrogation, van der Sloot's wife, Anita van der Sloot, met with Joran in jail, said van der Straaten.

Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Ala., disappeared in the early hours of May 30, the last day of a five-day vacation with 124 students celebrating their high school graduation. Her U.S. passport and packed bags were found in her room.

Joran van der Sloot and two friends said they took Holloway to a northern beach but dropped her off at her Holiday Inn, where they claim she was approached by a security guard.

On Saturday, a judge ordered Joran van der Sloot and his two friends, brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, to stay in jail for at least another week while the investigation continues.

A fourth detained man — a party boat disc jockey — was to appear before a judge Monday, Croes said. He was identified by his boss as Steve Gregory Croes, 26.

Steve Croes was arrested Friday after giving police a statement, said Marcus Wiggins, his boss on the boat Tattoo. Steve Croes is not related to Mariaine Croes.

It was not known how the disc jockey might be connected to the case.

Under Dutch law, which Aruba follows as a Dutch protectorate, authorities can detain people for up to 116 days without charging them.

Investigators refuse to say whether they believe Holloway is dead. Her mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, has said she will continue to believe the teen is alive until she has proof to the contrary.

Holloway Twitty, 44, sat in the front pew during a Saturday night Mass dedicated to her family at a Pentecostal church.

"We admire the strength and courage you've shown as a mother," pastor Gilbert Martes told the Holloway Twitty, who listened to the sermon with her eyes closed.

Holloway Twitty has insisted that Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoes hold the key to the investigation and that authorities pressure the young men harder to tell the truth.

In Alabama, a Holloway family friend said Holloway's relatives identified and located Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers less than a day after the teen vanished. But the three young men were not detained until 10 days later.

"It's just disappointing that they (authorities) weren't able to move faster," Jody Bearman, who organized the graduation trip, told AP.

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Associated Press reporter Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala., contributed to this report.

1,944 posted on 06/19/2005 8:28:39 PM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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