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"On the beach...she wasn't ticking anymore. So I went to a phone booth and called this friend. [...] He went into the sea and dumped her." -Suspect Joran van der Sloot He had billed it as "the most interesting and revealing crime show" of his career and it was sold to US networks before it was broadcast on Dutch television. In a gripping two-hour whodunit, crime reporter Peter R. de Vries reconstructed in detail what happened on that fateful night on a sandy Caribbean beach in mid-2005. De Vries took his viewers to Aruba where, on 30 May 2005, US...

I am currently watching the tv-program about the Holloway case. Earlier was disclosed an undercover operation was used to make the suspect Joran van der Sloot confess about the dissapearance of Natalee Holloway. At the moment this came out: -an undercover operative was used. A businessman befriened Joran and became one of his best friends, giving him soft-drugs and promasing Joran a deal to be a partner in a weed-plantage -after the last arrest he and Joran were driving a car that was fitted with listening devices and the undercover guy gained Joran's trust by not asking anything about the...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Dutch student Joran van der Sloot said in a television interview Friday that he was lying when he told someone privately he was involved in Natalee Holloway's disappearance. The statement came hours after Aruban prosecutors announced they were reopening their investigation into the disappearance of the Alabama teenager after seeing secretly taped material from a Dutch journalist. Van der Sloot was interviewed telephone by the respected Dutch television show "Pauw & Witteman" following reports that crime reporter Peter R. De Vries had captured him in an apparent confession. "It is true I told someone. Everybody will...

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ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Authorities have closed the investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway and do not have evidence to charge anyone, the prosecutors' office said Tuesday. The three young men who were last seen with the Alabama teenager have all been notified that they will not be charged, the Public Prosecutor's Office said. "The public prosecutor's office and the police have gone the extra mile and have exhausted all their powers and techniques in order to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the girl," it said. The three suspects — a Dutch college student and two Surinamese brothers...

By MARGARET WEVER Eighteen-year-old Joran van der Sloot, center, a resident of Aruba who had been held by police on the Caribbean island in connection with the disappearance of American tourist Natalee Holloway, exits Schiphol airport accompanied by unidentified relatives in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in this Tuesday Sept. 6, 2005 file photo. Van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007 on suspicion of involvement in manslaughter and causing seriously bodily harm that caused the death of the American teenager, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP)...

HEADLINE: Dutch police arrest Joran van der Sloot on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, prosecutor tells AP

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) -- An Aruban attorney for Natalee Holloway's father said Monday that her client was happy to see Dutch police renew investigation into his daughter's disappearance, but the family has not been told why they searched the home of a one-time suspect. About 20 investigators from the Netherlands dug up earth outside the house Friday and Saturday, reviving a case that had seemed to grow cold since the American teenager vanished during a school trip to the Dutch Caribbean island nearly two years ago. ``Of course they are happy that new or extended investigations are taking place,'' said...

Officials Dig In Yard Of One-Time Suspect Joran Van Der SlootDutch police searched the yard of a one-time suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, the Aruban prosecutors' office said. Using thin metal rods and shovels, police and forensic investigators on Friday churned up the earth outside the home of Joran van der Sloot, the last person known to have seen Holloway alive before she vanished nearly two years ago during a school vacation on the Dutch Caribbean island. "The investigation has never stopped and the Dutch authorities are completely reviewing the case for new indications," Vivian van...

Oranjestad, Aruba— Aruban deputy police chief Gerold Dompig announced earlier in the day that four arrests had been made in a twenty-four year old unsolved case of public jaywalking. Detainees Clyde Simmons, Edgar Honeywell, Randolf Myers, and Grover Williams III, all of Orlando, Florida, smirked for the cameras prior to leaving the police precinct after all had posted the thirty-five dollar bond. Bond was expected to be set higher for Honeywell, 97, the alleged ringleader of the foursome who recklessly endangered the lives of a senior citizen group en route to an orthopedic shoe convention hosted at the island's Grand...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba -Aruba's need for cheap labor and proximity to countries with people who need jobs has inflated the number of undocumented migrants there -- at a level far exceeding that fueling the debate in the States. As the U.S. government argues over illegal immigration, this tiny island of 99,000 residents is grappling with an immigration onslaught of its own -- uncounted hundreds slipping in each year. Aruba's turquoise waters, powder-white beaches and location outside the hurricane belt give it a booming tourism industry that needs cheap labor. The island also boasts one of the highest per capita incomes in...

Dutch police have arrested a new suspect in last year's disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, the Netherlands' national broadcaster reported Sunday. NOS said police in Utrecht had arrested the suspect, but it was unclear where and when. The new suspect was said to be of Aruban nationality and an acquaintance of Joran van der Sloot, another suspect in the case. Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was 18 when she disappeared in May 2005 during a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island with classmates. She was last seen leaving a bar with three young men on May...

Could it be that Washington is trying to intimidate Venezuela with large-scale naval maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea? According to this article from Venezuela's Cadena Global, President Hugo Chavez said, 'We aren't afraid of the Paper Empire!,' and 'We are preparing ourselves' for America's attempt to 'enslave us.' During his Sunday "Hello President [Alo Presidente]" program, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez maintained that the purpose of the American military presence in the Caribbean is to "intimidate" his Government, and he warned that the "Bolivarian Revolution isn't afraid of the Empire." Chavez also announced that he would push forward a legal reform...

According to what Holloway's friends have told authorities, the blond-haired, blue-eyed van Cromvoirt was seen with their classmate after she left van der Sloot - the pals say they saw them in the Holiday Inn casino together. But when the casino's video surveillance tapes were turned over to police, investigators could find no sign of Holloway and van Cromvoirt, the source noted. Van Cromvoirt's father is the security expert in charge of video surveillance at the hotel. Aruban authorities are also scrutinizing a surveillance tape taken earlier on May 30 that shows Holloway arguing with a light-haired young man in...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Authorities have made an arrest in the case of a young Alabama woman who disappeared while vacationing in Aruba, an Aruban official said Saturday. Mariaine Croes, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office, said Aruban authorities were not prepared to disclose why the person was arrested. Croes also would not say how the arrest was linked to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway nearly a year ago, on the final night of her high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island. Croes would only say that the person who was arrested is 19 and has the initials...

Authorities have made an arrest in the case of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, an Aruban official said Saturday without providing details about the development in the high-profile case. Mariaine Croes, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office, said Aruban authorities were not prepared to disclose why the person was arrested or how they are allegedly connected to the disappearance of the American teenager on the Dutch Caribbean island nearly a year ago. Croes would only say that the person who was arrested is 19 and has the initials "G.V.C." Authorities in Aruba typically only release a suspect's initials upon...

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...

AMSTERDAM — Police are to begin a new search for missing US teenager Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba. Deputy police chief Gerald Dompig told CBS in an interview to be broadcast at the weekend that a new witness has come forward with credible information about where Holloway's body is buried. Dompig told CBS the information is "too specific to just be a story that was just made up by someone". It has prompted investigators to organise a search in sand dunes along the northern tip of the island. Police searched this area last year but found...

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