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please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website Thursday May 26 2005 was an exciting day
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for 124 of the 300 senior students from Mountain Brook high school having graduated two days earlier the
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classmates left their hometown of Birmingham Alabama to spend five days holidaying in Aruba a tropical island in
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the southern Caribbean Sea the senior class trip had become somewhat of a rite of passage for fresh graduates from
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Mountain Brook higher providing one final bonding experience before they parted ways for college and other
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endeavors Aruba was the ideal destination for the students to one want after a year of intense study located 18
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miles north of Venezuela Aruba is a constituent country of the kingdom of the Netherlands and along with other
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nearby islands like the Bonaire and curaçao it makes up part of the Dutch Caribbean as the island lies below the
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Atlantic hurricane belt that boasts warm sunny weather all year round ensuring the students could make the
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most of the golden sand beaches turquoise waters and a thriving nightlife not only was the destination easily
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reached via a short flight from the United States but given that Americans accounted for 72% of visitors to the
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island the students could also expect to all the comforts of home including familiar fast-food restaurants and
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international hotel chains Aruba was also relatively easy to navigate spending just 20 miles long and 6 miles
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wide with a population of approximately 100,000 inhabitants although most the Reubens spoke Adarsh
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or Papiamento a creole language that blends Portuguese Spanish Dutch and several West African dialects many also
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spoke English takeda through American visitors the 124 students and their seven chaperones
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arrived at the Aruban capital of aronia start in the islands Northwest it was only a 15-minute drive from the airport
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to Palm Beach to check in to the Holiday Inn Resort located directly on the oceanfront it was one of the many major
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hotels that lined the palm-fringed Beach in addition to the more opulent Marriott
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Radisson and a Wyndham the beach was studded with Sun lounges and tiki bars and also housed the small collection of
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concrete fisherman hearts where locals could store their equipment downtown aronia start was just a ten
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minute drive away providing easy access to the city's lively bars and nightclubs and was a
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stop off port for visiting cruise ships the mountain Brook high trip was all inclusive meaning all food and alcohol
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was already paid for unlike the United States where the legal drinking age was 21 the loosely enforced the minimum
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drinking age in Aruba was 18 for many of the visiting students it was their first
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experience with liquor and to that first time overseas the job of the chaperones
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was merely to conduct a roll call once a day and to be available if any issues arose leaving the students free to enjoy
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their time however they pleased [Music] [Music] eighteen-year-old Natalie Holloway had
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been looking forward to the senior trip for months her divorced parents initially had conflicting views on
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whether she should attend but they eventually agreed that she had earned it Natalie had always been responsible
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trustworthy and dependable she was a dedicated student who graduated with honors in maths and Spanish and
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participated in several extracurricular activities including the Bible Club and dance team she volunteered for several
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charity organizations including Habitat for Humanity the Humane Society and the American Cancer Society her efforts had
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earned her a full 8-year scholarship to the University of Alabama's School of Medicine where she intended to become a
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doctor Natalie stepbrother had taken the senior trip to Aruba years prior and remembered
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it fondly and two of her step cousins were also attending with the class of 2005 although this company her mother
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Beth Twitty she warned her daughter to be extra cautious during her time on the island and to never let her guard down
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Natalie was slim with long blonde hair and blue eyes and Beth felt she might be taken advantage of Natalie reassured her
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mother that she was aware of the potential dangers and promised to be careful saying she would always be
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surrounded by her large group of friends in Aruba Natalie was assigned to a grant
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floor hotel room with three of her close friends Ruth Lee and Katherine the girls spent
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the first days of their trip alternating their time between the hotel pool and the beach while taking advantage of the
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free drinks Natalie had never been much of a drinker but she embraced her newfound freedom her drink of choice was
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a combination of diet coke and two Bacardi 151 the Puerto Rican rum with an alcohol content of 75 person in the
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evenings the Mountain Brook students typically went out for dinner and to then partied at the local bars and
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nightclubs until the early hours of the morning on Saturday May 29 Natali joined
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a group on a snorkelling venture to see the Antilla shipwreck the largest the shipwreck site in the Caribbean that
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evening she went bar-hopping with her classmates and had a little too much to drink at five foot four and weighing 110
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pounds Natalie's tolerance for alcohol wasn't as strong as some of the others and one of her friends had to walk her
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back to the hotel the next day of Sunday May 30 was the final day of the trip Nathalie woke up early and had her first
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the cocktail almost right away prompting one of her classmates to warn her to take it easy so she didn't have a repeat
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of the night before she and her friends spent most of the day on the beach returning to their hotel room around
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6:00 p.m. to get ready for their last night hour after dinner Natalie and her group went to the Excelsior casino
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located on the second floor of the Holiday Inn they sat at the blackjack table where Natalie's friend Ruth struck
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up a conversation with the young Caucasian man who introduced himself as Euron he was approximately 6 foot 4
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inches tall with an athletic build and short sandy colored hair he spoke English with a Dutch accent and said he
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was a 19 year old student on vacation from Holland Ruth had lost the sum of money gambling at the casino over the
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past few days and asked your aunt to give her some pointers to help her win some back they played for a while with
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Nathalie and the others watching on until Ruth was up 100 dollars and decided to quit while she was ahead
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around 9:45 p.m. Euron joined at the Americans while they ordered drinks from the poolside bar he
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had to leave five minutes later but the mountain brook girls told him to meet them later at Carlos and Charlie's
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a franchised restaurant and bar chain aimed at young American partygoers by a day the venue served American and
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Mexican Caribbean cuisine in a relaxed ambience but by night it became a popular hotspot for drinking and dancing
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it had become a fast favorite with the Alabama students and a group of around 60 of them had arranged to meet there
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for one last hoorah the Dutchman hesitated telling them the venue would likely be quiet given it was
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a Sunday night but he eventually agreed to do his best to catch up with them later on just after 10:00 p.m. Natalie
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and her roommates attempted to board a bus into a runya starts main hub but they had drinks with them and the driver
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refused to let them on they called a taxi instead arriving in town ten minutes later where they headed into
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Carlos and Charlie's to meet up with the rest of their classmates the Mountain Brook High students accounted for a
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majority of Carlos and Charlie's clientele that night and crowded onto the dance floor at around midnight
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Euron arrived this time accompanied by two friends he eventually started dancing with Natalie and the two drank
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together at the bar Carlos and Charlie's closed at 1:00 a.m. to appease his American crowd the DJ ended the night
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with the song Sweet Home Alabama by u.s. rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd Natalie was nowhere to be seen so her best friend
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Ally walked to another popular bar nearby called chooser named assuming she might have gone there with some of their
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other friends there were between 70 and 100 Mountain Brook students milling about on the streets but Lee couldn't
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say Natalie among them she returned to the Holiday Inn and set up in the lobby until around 3:00 a.m.
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before retiring to bed expecting Natalie to make her way back with the others at
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8:00 a.m. on Monday May 30 Lee and Ruth woke up and realized that Natalie wasn't
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in their hotel room her bed was still fully made and had obviously not been slept in many of the students had
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swapped the rooms during the trip so the girls assumed she must have slept in another room they inquired with some of
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their classmates but no one knew where natalie was the last time anyone had seen her was outside of Carlos and
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Charlie's shortly after closing time Natalie had told several classmates that she was going for a ride with Euron and
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his two friends and would meet them back at the Holiday Inn later on some others
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had seen her get into a silver Honda Civic with the three men but as not all cabs were clearly marked in Aruba they
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assumed that their car was a taxi at one point the Honda Civic had pulled up alongside a group of Natalie's friends
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and she had a leaned out of the rear window and enthusiastically yelled out Aruba the chaperones had rounded up the
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students from chooser named at around 2:00 a.m. but their role as supervisors didn't require them to keep tabs on each
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individual a majority of the students had been drinking heavily by this point and no one was monitoring one another's
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activity one student had been sitting outside by the Holiday Inn pool until around 5:00 a.m. and said she saw
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several classmates return in the early morning hours but Natalie hadn't been among them her passport and belongings
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were untouched in her hotel room as was her mobile phone which she had intentionally left behind as it didn't
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get coverage on the island the students were scheduled to fly home to Alabama at 3 p.m. but as the hours
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passed there was still no sign of Natalie when the time came to depart for the airport she still hadn't shown up
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unsure of what to do one of the chaperones decided to stay behind until Natalie was located another was tasked
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with calling Natalie's parents in Alabama to deliver the news that their daughter was missing her mother
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Beth Twitty was returning from a weekend away when she received the call and immediately turned her car around and
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drove to the Birmingham Airport she was pulled over for speeding along the way but when she explained to the reason why
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she was driving so fast to the officer he gave her the number for one of his contacts in the FBI and to let her off
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without a ticket while Natalie's family frantically put plans in place to travel to Aruba a
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chaperone went to one of the four police stations on the island to report natalee's disappearance they informed
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the officer on duty that she had last been seen driving away from Carlos and Charlie's around midnight in the company
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of a Dutch tourist named Euron the Aruban police advised that they couldn't launch an official missing person
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investigation unless Natalie was missing for 24 hours that reassured she was likely off having fun and would
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resurface again soon it was common for young Americans visiting the island to extended their stay at the last minute
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or to lose track of time so the police weren't overly concerned given the Dutch Caribbeans proximity to Venezuela
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Aruba was often used to transport narcotics between South America and to the United States which meant the island
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was no stranger to criminal activity an agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Agency who was stationed in
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the nearby Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao was in Aruba for the weekend and heard about Natalee Holloway's
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disappearance one of the chaperones he agreed to help with the search and to used his contacts
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to notify the FBI on behalf of her family Beth Twitty was able to charter a private jet and arrived in Aruba at
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10:00 p.m. along with her husband George jug Twitty a prominent Alabama businessman and
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several of their friends pre-arranged escorts helped them to get through customs quickly and provided them with a
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van and a driver the group checked in to the Holiday Inn where the mountain Brook
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high chaperon told them that Natalie had a last been seen in the company of a Dutch tourist named at Euron Beth asked
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the hotel's night manager if there were any guests checked in by that name and -
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the manager immediately knew who she was talking about however Euron wasn't a guest at the hotel nor
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was he a tourist he lived in a rubra having emigrated with his family from the Netherlands as
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a child and was known to frequent the casinos and poker rooms on the island where he liked to gamble and hit on
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foreign women Beth and jug went to the Excelsior casino and requested to see the surveillance footage taken from the
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blackjack table where the girls and Euron had met once they spotted the Dutchman they took a note of his
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physical characteristics and with the help of their escorts walked around Palm Beach offering money to anyone who knew
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the young man a local teenager accepted $100 to give them your ons full name and
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address he was your own van der slowed and he wasn't 19 like he had told the girls but a 17 year old high school
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student Beth and her entourage went to the police station with this information but
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the officers remained hesitant about checking out the lead they were used to young Americans partying too hard on the
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island and were sure Natalie was likely sleeping off a hangover somewhere and taken drugs or had decided to extend her
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holiday Beth insisted this wasn't possible saying her daughter wasn't a big drinker and would never touch
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narcotics Natalie was also traveling with a limited amount of cash and had left her credit card in the United
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States so she didn't have the funds to travel on woods the police suggest that she might have intentionally run away
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and didn't want to be found a possibility that Beth strongly rejected at 2:00 a.m. the police reluctantly
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agreed to accompany Beth and her crew to the van der Sloot residence to check whether natalie was there Euron lived in
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a detached apartment at the rear of his family home his two younger brothers aged 10 and 14 resided in the main house
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along with their schoolteacher mother Anita and their father Paulus Vander slowed a lawyer for the Aruban
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government who was in training to become a judge palace was the only adult home at the
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time as his wife was in Holland visiting relatives and Huron was out with friends
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he insisted he hadn't seen a blond American girl on that property the called his son's mobile phone and
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insisted he returned home immediately Euron arrived shortly after he was joined by his friend 21 year older
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deepak calper a Surinamese national who had been with him at carlo's and charlie's the previous evening emotions
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were running high for Beth and her group and too they became aggressive when confronting the two young men
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Joran denied knowing natalie but eventually admitted that the two had been flirting at Carlos and Charlie's
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the night prior and had the later kissed he said Natalie wanted to see sharks before she departed the following day so
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he and his friends had driven her to the California lighthouse on aera she Beach
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a popular snorkeling spot on the northwestern tip of the island at around 2:00 a.m. they dropped her off at the
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Holiday Inn and hadn't seen her since deepak confirmed this story and he and Euron agreed to accompany the group to
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the hotel to show them where they had dropped Natalie off Euron pointed to a spark outside the lobby and said that
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when they arrived Natalie was so intoxicated that she fell over and hit her head while getting out of the car a
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security guard dressed in black had come over to help her deepak backed up this version of
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events adding that the security guard was carrying a walkie-talkie Beth was convinced the young men were lying
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Natalie's friend Ali had waited in the hotel lobby until around 3:00 a.m. that night and didn't see Natalie during that
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time additionally the hotel employees wore green pants with grey shirts and a nun
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had reported seeing anyone drop off an intoxicated woman to the lobby in the early hours the police told Beth that a
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detective would be sent out to visit her the following morning in that night she and judge stayed in
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Natalie's hotel room leaving the lamp on in the hopes she would return beth later
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stated that's what parents do you leave your light on and wait until your child comes home
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the following morning of Tuesday May 31 Euron vendor slowed was taken to the police station to provide an official
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statement he said that on the afternoon of Sunday May 29 he had been participating in a poker tournament with
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his father at the Excelsior casino although your own was underage his father allowed him to play in the
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tournaments that didn't require a financial buy-in Paulus had to leave the tournament early to take care of yearns
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two younger brothers but agreed to return to pick urine up whenever he was ready to go after the tournament your
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arm decided to stick around for a while longer he sat down to play a round of blackjack when an American girl asked
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him for gaming advice she later invited him to join her friends that night he was hesitant at first because he had
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exams at school the following day but eventually agreed knowing he could get away with a late night with his mother
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out of town he left the casino to get something to wait from a nearby McDonald's and then
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called his father to come and get him at home he called several friends to see if
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anyone wanted to join him to meet up with the American girls several declined but Deepak Calpol agreed he later picked
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a urine up in his silver Honda Civic along with his brother 18 year old Satish Kapoor the trio arrived at Carlos
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and Charlie's at around 12:30 a.m. when Natalie immediately pulled your on over to the bar afterwards they drank what he
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described as a yard of whiskey Cola together Euron said he didn't take drugs and
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didn't think natalie did either when Carlos and Charlie's closed Natalie asked if she could go with Joran
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and his friends they got into Deepak's Honda Civic and she requested that they drive past her friends so she could wave
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it done you're on and Natalie then started making out in the backseat he told her they couldn't go back to his
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place so she asked if they could go to the coast to see the Sharks your untold - Natalie there were no sharks but she
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insisted deepak who drove towards the california lighthouse which was approximately 20 minutes away from a
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rania start but Natalie changed her mind on the way and told them to take her back to the hotel instead the boys
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claimed that Natalie was highly intoxicated and allegedly made several racist remarks including that her mother
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was related to a Dolph Hitler they arrived at the Holiday Inn around 2:00 a.m. when Natalie drunkenly fell out of
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the car and was helped up by the security guard who was dressed in black Deepak and Satish Coco provided
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statements that back to Euron's version of events entirely Deepak said that when
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Natalie entered his car he told her to get out she was drunk and he didn't want any trouble
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but Natalie insisted on going for a ride to the lighthouse after she and Juran kissed for a while
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Natalie fell asleep on the drive and they had to wake her up to ask her which hotel she was staying at when they
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arrived at the Holiday Inn a dark-skinned man with a walkie-talkie approached - Natalie once she entered
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the lobby after providing their statements you're on Deepak and Satish were all free to go the Aruban police distributed
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missing person posters to the local media telling Natalie's family that many young people on the island took hard
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drugs and - Natalie could be off partying with them although this seemed implausible joke Tweety and his friends
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located a known drug houses in the area and went searching for Natalie dissatisfied with the hesitancy of local
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police to launch an official investigation Natalie's family recruited American experts to assist in finding
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her Beth distributed posters that appealed for Natalie directly using her daughter's nickname she wrote please
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call me Judy I miss you and love you mum is here on a rubra and I really want to
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talk to you please call me on my local cell to some locals this poster implied that Natalie had run away and didn't
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want to be found it was quickly replaced with an attention-grabbing poster featuring two smiling images of Natalie
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head aligned with the word kidnapped in bold red text on Wednesday June 1 Neda Lee's disappearance made the front page
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of local newspaper Aruba today the papers editor Julia Renfro helped organize a search of the island and
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encouraged locals to assist with a series of radio announcements also calling for volunteers
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after some complications regarding flights Natalie's father Dave Holloway his wife Robin and other family members
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arrived on the island to help they hired a car and headed straight to the closest police station
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eventually visiting all four police stations on the island according to Dave's book Aruba the
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tragic untold story of Natalie Holloway and corruption in paradise two of the four stations were unaware of
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Natalie's disappearance when he told one detective who he was and why he was there
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the detective allegedly responded by asking how much money Dave had he told the distressed father not to worry
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because like so many other young visitors to Aruba Natalie was likely just swept up in a holiday romance Dave
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ventis family went to Carlos and Charlie's and saw for themselves just how lakhs the security was with
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teenagers drinking openly at the bar within a space of two hours they were accosted - multiple times by local drug
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dealers the Holloway's asked around and were told there was a strict rule against the drug peddlers committing
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crimes against foreigners as the island relied so heavily on tourism and they couldn't risk and negatively impacting
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the industry in the meantime a Rueben police retrieved and viewed the surveillance footage from the Holiday
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Inn Deepak Campos Honda Civic was not captured pulling up to the establishment at any time nor was Natalie seen
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entering the lobby the footage confirmed your own Deepak and Satish were lying police had also noticed a few other
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discrepancies in the trio statements in addition to them incorrectly describing the hotel staff as being dressed in
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black all three had specified a slightly different location where they had supposedly dropped to Natalie off
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a security guard at the California lighthouse where the boys allegedly took Natalie prior to the hotel was also
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questioned he said that the night of Natalie's disappearance was extremely quiet throughout the night he had seen
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less than 10 cars in the area none of which had been a grey Honda Civic Euron Deepak and Satish officially became
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suspects in Natalie's disappearance but the police didn't feel there was enough evidence to warrant an arrest
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instead they requested access to the trio's mobile phone records and sought permission to place listening devices on
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their phones by Thursday June 2 the story was making headlines across the United States intensifying the pressure
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for a Reuben law enforcement to arrest the suspects Natalie's family continued searching the island on foot and by car
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with the help of locals and started handing out money in exchange for any information regarding her whereabouts
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this prompted many unfounded leads with one local coming forward to claim that Natalie had been kidnapped by a couple
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who operated a local drug house Dave Holloway launched the ground search of the area surrounding the California
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light house which angered her Rubin officials the light house was a major tourist attraction and they felt that
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Dave's actions would generate negative media attention and deter visitors the search went ahead regardless but the
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efforts were hindered by the harsh landscape that consisted of cacti and jagged rock formations
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Beth focused on conducting interviews with local and foreign media while also visiting schools a twenty thousand
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dollar reward for information was announced by the Aruban government and tourism boards additional contributions
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from Natalie's family and several Aruban businesses and individuals quickly boosted the reward to fifty thousand
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dollars on Friday June 3 staff at the Aruba Today newspaper received the tip-off that a blonde American woman
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matching Natalie's description had been witnessed at an ATM in a Rania start before taking off in a Kia sedan several
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car loads of newspaper staff and volunteers drove around town searching for the vehicle the Kia was eventually
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sighted and followed to a house not far from the Aruba today headquarters a member of the search party approached
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the car and found two women and a man inside smoking cannabis with a baby in the back see the blonde woman was
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American but had a slightly heavier build - Natalie Holloway the Kia drove off and the crew trailed it to another
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house where the occupants remained in the car for 40 minutes the driver then got out and started swinging a baseball
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bat the police were called and they took the driver and the blonde female passenger into custody
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an officer announced over the police radio that she was 98 percent sure the woman was Natalie Holloway Beth then
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jogged were summoned to the station but their hopes were immediately crushed when they realized that the woman was a
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stranger according to the book the Holloway files secrets from the police archives by wim van der Pol and a
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Vincent Verve a a reuben law enforcement were working diligently on the case though were barred from speaking to the
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media about their efforts in any capacity this gave the impression that they were
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doing little to find Natalie investigators view Doron Deepak and Satish as obvious suspects
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but we're also trying to avoid focusing exclusively on them they remained open to all possibilities including that
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Natalie may have accidentally drowned or had run away supporting this theory was
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an entry in her high school yearbook in which Natalie had quoted the lyrics of a
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Lynyrd Skynyrd song titled free bird that when if I leave here tomorrow would you still remember me for I must
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be traveling on now because there's too many places I've got to see the police spoke to locals who said
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there were several vagrants referred to as quote beach bums who frequented the Palm Beach area surrounding the Holiday
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Inn some were known to sleep on the hotel's Sun Loungers overnight police questioned a known
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beach bum and thief named Marlin solare who said he had been on the beach near the Holiday Inn on the night of
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natalee's disappearance he had crossed paths with a dark-skinned security guard he knew only as Marty who worked at the
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neighboring Allegro Hotel Marty had been wearing black clothing and carrying a walkie-talkie as described by Euron
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Deepak and Satish Mullen solare said he watched Marty walk into the Holiday Inn and approached a group of American women
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who were gathered by the pool a friend of Marty's soon joined them and started chatting with a blond Caucasian
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woman Mullen knew this man only as marker another darks been to security guard from the allegro hotel Marlins
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statement was backed by a Holiday Inn employee who had also seen two security guards from the Allegro hotel milling
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about the pool area on the night of Sunday May 29 he told police that one of the security
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guards often frequented their establishment to hit on female tourists another staff member told police that he
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had seen a dark-skinned man wearing black talking to a blonde woman who resembled a Natalie Holloway the two had
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embraced and then walked towards the entrance to the Excelsior casino a Holiday Inn security guard said that in
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the early morning hours he had heard a dogs barking on the beach and when he went down to investigate he saw two
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dark-skinned men dressed in black the Allegro hotel security guards who Malin solare knew was Marty and maka were
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identified as Abraham Jones whose nickname was Marga and antonius Mickey John police checked their work records
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and confirmed that neither of the men had been working on the night of May 29 in the early morning hours of Sunday
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June 5 Abraham and Antonius were placed under arrest and questioned in relation to Marlin sellers assertions Antonius
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top police that he had gone to the Holiday Inn alone the blonde woman he was witnessed speaking to wasn't Natalie
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but an American woman from Boston named Joan the two had met the previous year and had organized to meet at the hotel
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pool that night Antonius had to work early the following morning so he left the Holiday Inn at
00:36:41
around 11:30 p.m. he denied ever meeting Natalie Holloway and said he would never
00:36:48
do anything to harm a tourist as he had lived on Aruba for a decade and understood how important that tourism
00:36:54
industry was to the island he suggested that Marlin sell air maybe trying to implicate him and should be
00:37:02
the one viewed with suspicion Abraham Jones denied going to the Holiday Inn at all on the night of May
00:37:09
29 but admitted that Antonius John frequented the hotel to flirt with tourists the pair's work uniform
00:37:18
consisted of a pair of navy pants with a white t-shirt and dark-colored windbreakers of their choice
00:37:25
Antonius said there were two other docks being two security guards working at the
00:37:30
Allegro Hotel on the night of natalee's disappearance who wore dark clothing and
00:37:34
carried walkie-talkies these security guards were questioned and told police they had run into Marlin solare and
00:37:43
another white man on the beach on the night in question and had worn to the Holiday Inn security guards of their
00:37:50
presence as a constituent of the Netherlands Aruba operates under Dutch law which specifies that suspects can be
00:38:00
held in custody for up to 116 days while the investigation continues during this
00:38:07
time a judge must grant permission for the suspects to remain in custody at certain intervals although the police
00:38:15
interviews hadn't generated anything incriminating against Abraham Jones or Antonius John a judge ruled there was
00:38:22
sufficient evidence to hold both men in custody while the police continued pursuing other leads
00:38:32
Monday June 6 marked one week since Natalie had disappeared 4000 officials and 700 volunteers from both Aruba and
00:38:42
the United States were now involved in the search they were assisted by a helicopter sniffer dogs police divers
00:38:50
and Dutch Marines who used their f16 aircraft to scan the island with infrared cameras a blood-soaked mattress
00:39:00
was found in a shack on the beach but testing of the blood revealed it to be canine back in Birmingham Alabama a
00:39:08
sermon was held at a Jewish temple where several of Natalie's friends were members rabbi Jonathan Miller told his
00:39:16
congregation we have learned that when things become the darkest that is when we are called upon to envision the light
00:39:24
we have learned that when everything has gone wrong that is when we have to believe that things can be made right
00:39:32
again that is the message of hope we must never abandon hope we must never let darkness extinguish the light the
00:39:43
Holloway and Tweedy families organized the public prayer service while Beth continued to take advantage of every
00:39:50
opportunity to keep the story in the news media crews from 22 countries had descended on the island while the FBI
00:39:59
launched a hotline for anyone who had any information relating to the case Nelson odor bear the prime minister of
00:40:07
Aruba met with Natalie's family and reassured them he would do everything in his power to help find their daughter
00:40:15
although local law enforcement resisted handing the case over to the FBI they were unprepared and ill-equipped for an
00:40:23
investigation of this size the Aruban Police Chief later stated we wanted to investigate all the possibilities with
00:40:32
an open mind yet a growing portion of the public viewed Huron vendor slowed and the kaupo
00:40:39
brothers as the obvious suspects at one point nataly's missing person posters were
00:40:45
edited to read kidnapped by your own vendor slowed this led to the van der Sloot family receiving an onslaught of
00:40:54
negative media attention and the posters were changed to read missing instead of
00:41:00
kidnapped behind the scenes the Aruban police were honing in on your arm deeper concerti sh investigators checked the
00:41:11
trio's phone and Internet records and confirmed there had been ongoing communication between your own and
00:41:17
Deepak throughout Monday May 30 the day after Nataly disappeared they were also suspicious of the fact
00:41:25
the two had met up that evening despite being out late the night before Euron had attended school and went to
00:41:33
the Aruba racquet club in the afternoon before going gambling at the Windham casino with a friend he into D PAC spoke
00:41:42
on the phone on three separate occasions throughout the night around 6:00 11:00 and 11:30 deepak then drove to meet your
00:41:52
own at the Radisson Hotel around midnight Satish had been unable to join them as
00:41:58
he had overslept that day and missed school completely angering his parents witnesses said Huron and Deepak seemed
00:42:07
agitated and were both drinking they were at the casino when they received the 2:00 a.m. phone call from Euron's
00:42:15
father palace who explained that Natalee Holloway's family had arrived at their house with the police investigators
00:42:25
theorized the whether the purpose of urine and Deepak's meeting that night was so they could get their story
00:42:30
straight or perhaps destroy evidence early on the morning of Thursday June 9 your own Deepak and Satish were taken in
00:42:44
for questioning under suspicion of murder or manslaughter and unlawful detention prior to being taken into
00:42:52
custody urines father told the young men that if there was no body weapon or other
00:42:57
physical evidence investigators would be unable to hold a case against them Deepak maintained his original lie about
00:43:06
dropping Natali at the Holiday Inn adding that a customer at the internet cafe where he worked at witnessed this
00:43:13
incident and could confirm his story his brother Satish refused to provide a second statement and instead chose to
00:43:21
remain silent Euron also stopped by his original statement but added several new details
00:43:28
including that Nathalie allegedly asked him if Deepak and Satish were his slaves
00:43:34
your unstated quote to her black people are slaves Euron was transferred to a different
00:43:45
police station while the kaupo brothers were detained in the same Center as allegro hotel security guard
00:43:52
Antonius John who was also being held in relation to Natalie's disappearance Deepak allegedly told Antonius that the
00:44:01
trio had lied about dropping Natalie at her hotel and that the brothers had really dropped her at the beach with
00:44:08
Euron Antonius immediately relayed this information to the prison guards who took it with a grain of salt urine was
00:44:19
questioned multiple times over the course of the day during which the police encouraged him to talk by
00:44:25
threatening the possibility of a life in prison they also reiterated that the calpro
00:44:31
brothers would likely remain loyal to one another which could have a dire consequences for your on the Aruban
00:44:40
justice system forbade the offering of plea deals meaning investigators couldn't offer any of the suspects
00:44:46
immunity or a less severe criminal charge in exchange for information one detective resorted to lying to your on
00:44:55
saying that the brothers had made incriminating statements against him it was enough to scare you around into
00:45:03
requesting a lawyer and admitting that he hadn't been truthful on Friday June 10
00:45:11
Euron made another official statement this time telling detectives that he had not been with Deepak and Satish when
00:45:19
they dropped to Natalie at the Holiday Inn he said the brothers had dropped him home first at around 1:40 a.m. prior to
00:45:28
his departure he in turn utterly exchanged email addresses and shared one last kiss at 3:00 a.m. he called Deepak
00:45:37
on his mobile phone who told him they had dropped an utterly off at her hotel the following night when they received a
00:45:46
word that Natalie's family were looking for her Deepak told you our honor would be best if he said he was with him and
00:45:54
his brother when they dropped to Natalie at the hotel he also suggested they added the false detail about her falling
00:46:01
over and hitting her head Joran told investigators that Deepak typically kept his car in a warehouse at
00:46:10
the airport and that if anything had happened to Natalie that was likely the brothers had taken her there
00:46:21
Satish chose to break his silence and provide a second statement in which he revealed that it was his job to wash his
00:46:28
brother's car weekly which was kept at a warehouse in the airport the last time he had washed it was on May 29 before
00:46:38
Natalee entered the vehicle when asked if he would make incriminating statements against his brother
00:46:44
Satish responded I would do everything for my brother even if it costs me my freedom investigators told the kaupo
00:46:55
brothers that Euron had provided a new statement incriminating them in Natalie's disappearance which prompted a
00:47:02
revised statement from Deepak he said that when they reached the lighthouse Euron and Natalie were busy making out
00:47:10
so he kept driving they reached LJ Smith Boulevard near the Marriott hotel at around 1:45 a.m. and
00:47:19
Huron asked to be led out saying he would walk Natale back to the Holiday Inn via the beach and to then find his
00:47:27
own way home both hotels were on the same beachfront approximately 0.6 miles apart and to the
00:47:35
walk between the two only took around 10 to 15 minutes sometime between 2:45 and
00:47:43
3:15 a.m. urine called the Deepak to let him know he was on his way home this was something the friends always
00:47:52
did to make sure everyone was safe Euron said he and Natalie had gone for a swim
00:47:58
but she then fell asleep on the beach so he decided to leave her there and to walk home alone he had left his
00:48:06
sneakers on the beach and was annoyed because he was barefoot after they entered that phone call Euron sent
00:48:14
deepak a text message to say he would go online to chat as soon as he got home a
00:48:21
little while later deepak received an online message from Euron thanking him for waiting up and the two agreed to
00:48:29
meet again the following evening deepak said he had the text message to prove Euron was lying about the brothers
00:48:38
dropping him home before taking nathalie to the hotel he also retracted his previous statement
00:48:44
about Natalie being highly intoxicated and said she seemed to quote reasonably with it he denied that Natalie had made
00:48:54
any racist comments to the brothers but that Euron had told them of her alleged remarks days later deepak said he
00:49:04
thought urine had allied to detract attention from himself and to cover up the fact that he had raped Natalie
00:49:12
Satish also made a new statement in which he back to Deepak's updated a version of offence including that
00:49:19
Natalie hadn't seen too very drunk when they dropped her and urine at the beach there was only one discrepancy between
00:49:27
the brothers statements deepak said that at one point he had pulled over to urinate on the side of the road near a
00:49:34
Rashi beach while Satish had no recollection of this ever happening the police questioned Iran's best friend
00:49:46
and a neighbor Freddy's our dad he said that on Monday May 30 the day after Nathalie disappeared your
00:49:54
aunt told him that he had picked up an American woman and taken her to the lighthouse before dropping her back at
00:50:01
the Holiday Inn this was of significance to the police as natalee's disappearance
00:50:06
wasn't known at this time so Euron had a no valid reason to lie to his friend unless he was already
00:50:13
attempting to cover his tracks the following day of Tuesday May 31 your aunt told Freddie that natalie was
00:50:22
missing and had admitted the story about dropping her at the hotel was a lie he said that he and the kaupo brothers
00:50:30
had taken her to a beach near the Marriott hotel but she had been so drunk that she fell asleep they decided to
00:50:39
leave her there because they didn't know what else to do urine also mentioned that he had left a
00:50:46
pair of sneakers on the beach that he would need to replace urine had purchased the trendy k-swiss brand pair
00:50:54
of blue and white shoes from the United States and they were coveted amongst teenagers in Aruba if he had simply left
00:51:02
them on the sand near the Marriott hotel it would have been an easy task for him
00:51:07
to retrieve them he should have been motivated to do so as the walk home would take him 45 minutes across rough
00:51:15
terrain he also lied to police about his shoe size saying the sneakers were a size 14 when he actually wore a size 10
00:51:25
this led some to theorized that Euron had disposed of his shoes because they were stained with Natalie's blood and
00:51:32
had then fabricated the story about forgetting them on the beach to explain why they were no longer in his
00:51:38
possession it would also come in handy if matching shoe prints were later found in an
00:51:45
incriminating location however the story also worked against him if he hadn't mentioned leaving his shoes on the beach
00:51:55
the police would never have known that a pair of his sneakers were missing by interviewing several of Euron's other
00:52:03
friends and former girlfriends the police learned that he had a history of treating females poorly they were told
00:52:11
that urine derived pleasure from using girls for sex and to then boasting about what he had done after having sex with
00:52:19
one girlfriend he allegedly gave her a change for the bus and then chased her out of his home at the time of Natalie's
00:52:28
disappearance he had a girlfriend as well as another girl he was saying whom one friend said he treated like a
00:52:35
doormat he also had violent tendencies and was easily aggravated often getting into physical fights especially when he
00:52:44
was under the influence of alcohol over the past few years he had gotten into trouble at school and home and was
00:52:53
constantly lying to and stealing from his parents they had become so concerned that they sent him to see a psychologist
00:53:01
though it did a little to curb his behavior on Monday June 13 the Allegro hotel security guards Abraham Jones and
00:53:17
Antonius John were released from custody after their alibis checked out fearing that the kelpo brothers were
00:53:26
incriminating him further Joran van der Sloot elaborated on his previous statement he admitted that the
00:53:33
calpro brothers had dropped him into natalie at the beach and that his intention was to have sex with her along
00:53:40
the walker back to the Holiday Inn his shoes had sand in them so he took them off near the Marriott hotel hey Internet
00:53:49
Ollie then lay down neither fisherman's hearts a ten minute walk from the Holiday Inn and started making her urine
00:53:57
didn't have a condom so Natalie refused to have sex with him they engaged in other sexual activity
00:54:05
and at around 3:00 a.m. your aren't alternately it was time to go home but she wanted to stay on the beach when she
00:54:15
refused to leave he tried to carry her she wouldn't let him and eventually fell asleep on the sand
00:54:23
Euron then called the deepak to come and pick him up and he arrived shortly after
00:54:29
with two dogs in tow when he saw that Natalie was asleep Deepak allegedly said don't [ __ ] with that [ __ ] and told
00:54:39
Euron that someone would take care of her the next day Euron told the police he believed that
00:54:46
after Deepak dropped him home he must have returned to rape Natalie and had probably buried her body next to the
00:54:53
fisherman hearts up until this point only Deepak and Satish had spoken of Natalie falling asleep on the beach now
00:55:03
that you're on had repeated the same story this possibility gained credibility however no other witnesses
00:55:10
had reported seeing Deepak with two dogs on the beach nor did Deepak ever mention this detail
00:55:17
in addition the police had already thoroughly searched that area including draining a nearby
00:55:24
mangrove swamp and found nothing these factors indicated urine still wasn't telling the whole truth Deepak continued
00:55:34
to insist that he and Satish went straight home after dropping urine and nataly at the beach as his car was
00:55:42
fitted with the dual exhausts he said the loud noise would have no doubt woken his mother who could vouch for their
00:55:49
return home the Capo's mother was questioned but said she was a heavy sleeper and hadn't stirred at any point
00:55:58
throughout the evening that Natalie went missing mobile phone records confirmed that at 2:26 a.m. on the night of
00:56:06
Natalie's disappearance Euron had placed an 8 minute phone call to Deepak shortly
00:56:13
after Deepak sent your honor a text message which read I'll wait until you get home and - then I'll go to sleep
00:56:21
give me a missed call when you arrive ok Deepak's computer records confirmed he logged into an online chatroom around
00:56:31
this time at 3:13 a.m. your on message to Deepak to say hey thanks may trust all is well I'm home the location the
00:56:45
suspects were in when this phone activity occurred was unable to be determined but the records corroborated
00:56:52
Deepak's version of events and further proved that Euron was lying he had claimed to Deepak had come to pick him
00:57:01
up after Natalie fell asleep on the beach if that were true it didn't make sense why he would then send a Deepak a
00:57:08
text message to say he was home safe when confronted with this discrepancy Euron was unable to provide an
00:57:16
explanation the next day he said he had made a mistake and it was Satish who had
00:57:23
picked him up not Deepak the last confirmed sighting of Natalie occurred around 1:15 a.m.
00:57:32
phone and computer records proved Euron was home by 3:15 regardless of who was telling the truth that only left the
00:57:41
two-hour window where the trio could have harmed Natalie and to raised all evidence of a crime
00:57:47
given this was such a short timeframe the police considered the possibility that more people were involved in
00:57:54
Natalie's disappearance [Music] one such person was Steve crows a DJ who worked on a party boat called the tattoo
00:58:05
the boat was moored at the Holiday Inn and took young tourists here to see at sunset where they could drink and dance
00:58:13
until the early hours Steve was a regular customer at the internet cafe where Deepak worked early
00:58:22
in the investigation he had voluntarily gone to the police station and validated the trio's claims
00:58:27
telling the police he had seen a great vehicle drop a blonde intoxicated woman at the Holiday Inn in the early hours of
00:58:35
May 30 when police asked if someone had coerced him to make this statement Steve
00:58:42
insisted it was the truth given police already knew this story was a lie there was no valid reason why
00:58:50
Steve would have made such a claim unless he was helping your aunt and the capo Brothers create a false alibi for
00:58:58
other witnesses had also placed Steve crows in Carlos and Charlie's at the same time Natalie and other Mountain
00:59:04
Brook High students were there celebrating their final night on the island he therefore became a person of
00:59:11
interest and was taken into police custody for further questioning on Saturday June 18 Steve crows admitted
00:59:21
he had lied about witnessing the Holiday Inn incident for no reason other than he
00:59:26
had overheard a Deepak story at the internet cafe and a belief that was true he said he didn't even know Deepak's
00:59:35
name and had never met your own or Satish before he denied having anything to do with Natalie's disappearance and
00:59:42
claimed to have been at work on the night she went missing this was disproved by his employer who told
00:59:50
police the tattoo party boat didn't operate on Sunday nights two days later Steve provided another
00:59:59
statement calling his boss a liar he said he had picked his friend Jeremy up at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday May 29 and
01:00:09
two the two had taken a motorized fibreglass dinghy out to the tattoo to check on things the two men had only
01:00:17
stayed on the boat for ten minutes before returning to shore and spending the next few hours bar hopping but he
01:00:24
couldn't recall if they went to Carlos and Charlie's after the bars closed at 1:00 a.m. he and Jeremy went back onto
01:00:33
the tattoo and stayed there until 4:30 a.m. the staff at Carlos and Charlie's who knew Steve from his workers at DJ
01:00:43
told police he had arrived at the bar alone at around 10:30 p.m. not after 11:30 with the Jeremy as he
01:00:51
recalled additionally neither he nor Jeremy could be accounted for between the hours of
01:00:57
1:00 and 4:30 a.m. this left a three and a half hour window where Steve claimed they were out on the tattoo party boat
01:01:06
which wasn't in operation at the time this led police that theorized that Steve either alone or with the help of
01:01:15
his friend had met Natalie on the beach and used the dinghy to take her out to the tattoo where they could have killed
01:01:22
her and thrown her body into the sea forensic investigators searched the dinghy and the tattoo but nothing of
01:01:30
interest was uncovered Steve was held in custody for 10 days before the magistrate deemed there wasn't enough
01:01:38
evidence to hold him any longer he was released and subsequently fired from the tattoo which went out of business
01:01:46
shortly after urines father palace van der Sloot was also considered a person of interest
01:01:59
Natalie's family had been suspicious of him from the start knowing that his position as a lawyer
01:02:05
and judge in training meant he had expert knowledge of the Aruban legal system he was also well connected with
01:02:13
authorities and could use these relationships to his advantage furthermore when Natalie's mother Beth
01:02:20
arrived in Aruba 24 hours after her daughter vanished she visited the Ventus flight residence to question Euron
01:02:29
palace answered the door and allegedly told her that he had peeked to Natalie and Euron up from MacDonald's the night
01:02:36
before and dropped her safely to her hotel later on once Palaces wife Anita had returned from her trip to Holland
01:02:45
Beth had sat down with the couple to ask them more questions she noted Palace had
01:02:52
sweated profusely despite the room being quite cool at the time she had given him a hope for
01:03:00
Natalie bracelet which were being worn in support of her daughter and saw that his hands were shaking as he accepted it
01:03:08
when police initially began surveilling neurons phone calls they recorded a conversation On June 6 in which Paulus
01:03:16
encouraged his son to stick with the story about dropping Natalie off at the Holiday Inn and quote nothing more prior
01:03:26
to the arrest of his son and at the kaupo brothers palace had explained to them exactly how Criminal Investigations
01:03:33
work and had provided a level of legal advice that went beyond the role of parental counsel this led to the opinion
01:03:42
that he had likely played a part in helping the trio create their false statements and had therefore interfered
01:03:49
with the investigation Paulus admitted to the police that Euron was a bad liar but that it was out of character for his
01:03:58
son to leave a young girl alone on the beach he also denied ever telling Natalie's
01:04:04
family that he had dropped her at the Holiday Inn clarifying that his comment related to when he picked a urine up
01:04:11
from McDonald's earlier in the evening the police agreed this may have been a misunderstanding on Wednesday June 15
01:04:22
the ventas loads home was searched and two vehicles belonging to Euron's parents were confiscated and processed
01:04:29
for forensic evidence nothing was found but by this point had it been six days since their son's arrest and two weeks
01:04:38
since Natalie went missing on Thursday June 23 Pallas vendor slowed was arrested on suspicion of complicity in
01:04:48
murder manslaughter and kidnapping resulting in death chief prosecutor Karen Hanson described his actions as
01:04:58
disturbing and obstructive his wife Anita held a press conference in the van der Sloot's back yard calling her
01:05:06
husband's arrest ridiculous she accused the American media of hijacking the Aruban justice system saying this is not
01:05:16
about Natalie anymore it's about enormous pressure from the states and to the media I believe in my husband I
01:05:24
believe in my son Pallas was released from custody two days later due to a lack of evidence
01:05:32
justifying holding him any longer he released the statement calling his arrest utterly ridiculous and absurd but many
01:05:41
continued to view him with suspicion [Music] three fishermen came forward to confirm
01:05:50
they had been on Palm Beach in the early morning hours of Monday May 30 they didn't notice a great hunter civic in
01:05:58
the area nor had they seen Natalie your are the cowpoke brothers or anyone else on the beach the only vehicle they
01:06:07
witnessed all night was a Suzuki Jeep which pulled in around 1:45 a.m. and stayed for approximately 45 minutes the
01:06:16
fishermen heard the voices of a male and female coming from the Jeep both of whom
01:06:21
spoke with English accents but neither sounded like they were in trouble or distress of any kind the beach front was
01:06:30
narrow and it had been a calm quiet night with good visibility the fishermen had remained there until 4:30 a.m. and
01:06:39
stated it would have been impossible for them not to see Natalie and Euron if the
01:06:44
pair had been on the shore one stated if someone says that he came there with the
01:06:51
girl he's telling lies all three fishermen recalled that the weather was still contradicting your own
01:07:00
statement that it had been difficult to hear deepak on the phone because it had been a windy night
01:07:06
Euron also hadn't mentioned seeing a Suzuki Jeep in the area at any point on Thursday June 30
01:07:15
Joran Deepak and Satish were transferred between police stations together in the
01:07:21
same vehicle granting them contact for the first time since their arrests almost three weeks earlier a covert
01:07:30
audio device recorded their conversation during which Euron confronted Deepak with several questions including why are
01:07:39
you saying that we drove to the lighthouse while we absolutely did not do that deepak responded that they did go to the
01:07:48
lighthouse Euron also brought up an instance in which deepak had allegedly told him that
01:07:54
he wanted to rape a girl deepak responded who's going to believe you now you lie so much investigators remained
01:08:06
convinced that the trio were covering up something but on Monday July 4 2005 the
01:08:13
kaupo brothers were released after a magistrate determined there were no serious justifications to hold them any
01:08:20
longer Euron was ordered to be held for an additional 60 days no travel restrictions were given to the
01:08:29
kaupo brothers prompting Natalie's mother Beth to tell the media my greatest fear is that they will leave a
01:08:37
rubra these criminals are now free to walk among the tourists of Aruba well I have not seen my beautiful daughter in
01:08:45
36 days I am asking all nations not to offer them a safe haven she openly criticized the decision to release
01:08:55
Deepak and Satish remarking two suspects were released yesterday who were involved in a violent crime against my
01:09:04
daughter as the brothers hadn't been charged with any crime and that there was no
01:09:14
conclusive proof that they were involved in Natalie's disappearance Beth's comments spurred backlash against
01:09:21
her family a Reubens accused her of disrespecting local laws while statesas lawyer called her remarks prejudicial
01:09:30
inflammatory libelous and totally outrageous and threatened to take the legal action on behalf of his client
01:09:39
while local support had been strong in the early stages of Natalie's disappearance things were starting to
01:09:46
turn on Tuesday July 5 over 200 locals gathered outside the courthouse in support of the Aruban judiciary system
01:09:55
with some holding signs saying innocent until proven guilty and respect our laws
01:10:02
or go home an angry businessman later told a journalist for Vanity Fair magazine this
01:10:12
is just a concerted attack on Aruba a terrorist attack why blame the whole island a whole country for something
01:10:20
that is out of our control Beth Twitty attacks our justice system what about yours Jon Benet was that ever solved
01:10:29
Michael Jackson he gets off Oh Jay that's American justice enter the woman is criticizing us three days later Beth
01:10:41
released a statement apologizing for her comments saying I would like to apologize to the Aruban people and to
01:10:50
the Aruban authorities if I or my family offended you in any way I realized that
01:10:56
the Aruban legal system abides by the presumption of innocence and I want to reassure everyone that I do respect the
01:11:03
Aruban legal system in mid-july a park ranger searching on the northeast coast of Aruba came across a piece of duct
01:11:14
tape with several blonde hairs attached the tape was sent to the Netherlands for
01:11:19
forensic testing but it was determined the hairs didn't belong to Natalie then on Monday July 18 divers found a barrel
01:11:29
in the ocean near the Marriott hotel speculation arose that it could contain Natalie's body but it turned out to be
01:11:38
full of concrete a homeless man came forward claiming he had been at the dump three days after Natalie went missing
01:11:47
and had witnessed someone bury an object that looked like a human body he was able to describe the exact location the
01:11:55
item had been buried banaz several weeks had passed by the time he made his report a significant amount of garbage
01:12:02
had been piled on the alleged site police officers cadaver dogs FBI agents and a volunteer search team came to the
01:12:12
landfill using backhoes and machinery the cadaver dogs reacted to several specific areas but they had only
01:12:20
identified medical waste after a week of searching in unpleasant conditions the search was called off with no trace of
01:12:29
Natalie found a fisherman also came forward to report that on the night of Natalie's disappearance the fisherman
01:12:38
hearts had been robbed and a knife and a lobster cage had been stolen he didn't think to report the theft at the time
01:12:46
but now wondered whether it could be linked to the Holloway investigation as the cage was large enough to fit a human
01:12:53
body according to Dave Holloway's book he received an anonymous email claiming that Natalie's body had been put in the
01:13:02
cage and dumped two miles offshore investigators ultimately ruled out the lead as other witness statements had
01:13:12
failed to place Natalie or Euron on the beach near the fisherman huts in the first place
01:13:19
on Friday July 22 a handyman and a gardener named Carlos Pineda came forward to police to provide a statement
01:13:29
in the early hours of Monday May 30 Carlos was unable to sleep as it was hot and his apartment didn't have
01:13:37
air-conditioning he decided to drive to his boss's house where it was cooler and sometime between
01:13:44
2:30 and 3:00 a.m. he took a shortcut down a dirt road near the Marriott hotel and came across a grey Honda Civic with
01:13:53
a large pile of dirt nearby his headlights lit up the car and he saw the faces of your own vendor slowed and a
01:14:01
d-pad capo in the front seat and satish capo in the back Carlos refused to sign his statement
01:14:10
saying he wanted nothing more to do with the case and to then left Aruba to go on
01:14:16
a sailing holiday upon his return to the island in early August Carlos Pineda spoke to the police again
01:14:24
explaining that he hadn't come forward sooner with these information as he was nervous he was aware of the two innocent
01:14:32
security guards who had been taken into custody in relation to the investigation
01:14:36
and was hesitant to draw any attention to himself his employer had also advised him to wait before speaking with
01:14:45
authorities due to the amount of media attention the case was getting when it initially broke based on Carlos's
01:14:53
assertions a large-scale search of the area surrounding the Marriott Hotel was carried out infrared technology detected
01:15:03
a heat source in a pond near the ocean but it turned out to be a decomposing shellfish on Monday August a beth twitty
01:15:14
confronted deepak capo in the internet cafe where he worked she was accompanied by a film crew from American cable
01:15:22
channel MSNBC she stood over him silently for several minutes before asking him a string of
01:15:29
questions including whether he was involved in Natalie's disappearance or if he had tried to help her
01:15:36
Beth offered him a choice between the reward money or life in prison Deepak responded that his lawyer had
01:15:45
advised him to remain silent police suspected that Euron's best friend and neighbor Freddie Zidane knew
01:15:54
more than he was letting on it had been brought to their attention that Freddie had allegedly taken explicit photographs
01:16:01
of an underage teenager which he had then posted to his website where he referred to himself as the loco man pimp
01:16:10
on Friday August 26 police arrested Freddie on suspicion of committing a sex offense in the hopes
01:16:18
that would compel him to reveal more information about what happened to Natalie freddie denied knowing any
01:16:26
further details and his lawyer argued the images on his website were nothing more than a teenager wearing a bikini
01:16:34
Freddie's charges were dropped and he was released the same day also on August 26 the police took a risk by reeling
01:16:44
deeper concertation capo Huron had claimed that Natalie had passed out several times while he was touching her
01:16:52
an act that could be considered sex without consent the police tried to scare the capo brothers into talking by
01:17:01
threatening that they could be considered accessories to this crime by virtue of being in the same car but
01:17:08
neither of them revealed any new information and were free to go on Saturday September 3 a magistrate
01:17:17
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01:17:25
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01:17:33
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01:17:42
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01:17:50
reflecting on his involvement to Dutch television news program her current affairs
01:17:55
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01:18:05
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been missing for three months and not a single piece of physical evidence had emerged to indicate her whereabouts had
01:24:40
her body been dumped at sea it would have likely washed up on shore by now or been discovered during one of the
01:24:47
various searches even if her remains had been destroyed by marine life some items
01:24:53
or scraps of clothing would have likely surfaced despite investigators holding great fears for the missing 18 year old
01:25:01
there still wasn't a shred of evidence to indicate that a crime had occurred the reward for information was increased
01:25:10
to 1 million dollars with a separate reward of $100,000 available for the recovery of Natalie's remains the
01:25:18
American media continued to follow Natalie's case making it the most reported news event in the United States
01:25:25
in 2005 an article in Vanity Fair titled missing white female claimed natalee's disappearance received at the same
01:25:35
amount of media coverage as the Iraq war it was also critical of the attention as
01:25:42
it detracted from other missing person cases especially those with less public appeal the article stated quote
01:25:52
Natalie's story has all the elements the Justice shows adore an innocent victim missing or murdered avenging loved ones
01:26:01
and a handsome white male suspect throwing a gaggle of luckless cops and colorful minor characters said it all in
01:26:10
an island paradise and you have the kind of a real-life mystery that keeps Americans glued to their seats
01:26:17
Dave Holloway later said in his book though some might view Natalie as just another blond white American girl to
01:26:26
whom the media tends to pay more attention than minorities people of every race and religion have come
01:26:33
forward to extend to us compassion and Dundas the ending the media allowed her into
01:26:39
everyone's home and everyone's hearts this tragedy could have happened to anyone's child black-white rich-poor
01:26:48
Christian Jewish Muslim whatever there are no lines to be drawn when it comes to a parent losing a child
01:26:58
hopefully the media has brought that home to the world after four months in Aruba searching for her daughter Beth
01:27:08
Twitty returned to the United States she told reporters that was idealistic to expect that Americans would receive the
01:27:16
same kind of justice overseas that they did at home stating when Americans leave
01:27:22
the United States we should be prepared to leave behind to all of those expectations in early October Beth
01:27:31
preceived a voicemail on her phone from a private number the message contained a
01:27:36
female voice saying mum help me the FBI analyzed the voicemail against the genuine recordings of Natalie's
01:27:46
voice and ultimately ruled it out as a hoax accusations that the Aruban police force was purposely thwarting the
01:27:55
investigation as part of some kind of cover-up ran rife in the u.s. in response a Reuben officials accused
01:28:03
Natalie's family of hindering their efforts claiming the pressure they put upon law enforcement to prematurely
01:28:09
arrest Joran van der Sloot and to the kaupo brothers ruined their chances of gathering the evidence required to find
01:28:17
their daughter a Reuben deputy police chief Gerald Adan peak told the media they
01:28:24
brought out their big guns on the very first day and they started shooting they didn't understand to the way things are
01:28:31
done in our system they didn't want to understand they acted like they came from a world where you can just crush
01:28:38
people it was very harmful to our investigation feeling let down by a Rubin law enforcement and to the locals who no
01:28:50
longer supported her bethe called for Americans to boycott the island she believed it would encourage anyone who
01:28:57
had information but was too scared to speak to come forward Beth appeared on various major
01:29:04
television networks to promote the boycott alleging that a Reuben police weren't doing their jobs and that they
01:29:11
refused to hand over a single piece of information regarding the case to the FBI a spokesperson for the FBI disputed
01:29:20
this claim telling television news channels CNN that the Aruban police had supplied them with all relevant
01:29:27
information and the prime minister had fully supported American authorities participation in the investigation
01:29:35
Beth's husband - junk Twitty was well connected with the American Republican Party and - they used his connections to
01:29:42
get various politicians involved Beth told Vanity Fair that she intended to strike against the rubra and on Tuesday
01:29:51
November 8 the Governor of Alabama Bob Riley held a press conference to urge all Americans to boycott Aruba and
01:29:59
called for all other states to follow his lead quote until their lack of law enforcement practices can be evaluated
01:30:07
and until they offer some resolution in Natalie's case tourists are not safe in Aruba or any Dutch territories
01:30:16
a Reuben Prime Minister Nelson odor bear called the boycott preposterous and irresponsible telling the media a Reuben
01:30:25
investigators have done that best to solve the mystery and to the entire island doesn't deserve to be punished
01:30:32
we are not gorillas we are not terrorists a few other American states including Georgia and Arkansas called
01:30:41
for a boycott but they received no support from the federal government in response members of aruba's tourism
01:30:49
hospitality and public relations industries formed a task force to speak out against the negative portrayals of
01:30:56
the island Natalie's father Dave was against the boycott although he was disappointed with many elements of the
01:31:05
investigation he didn't want the actions of a small group of officials to negatively impact the whole island
01:31:13
yet local support for Natalie's family in Aruba had sensed the wind or exacerbated by reports that the Mountain
01:31:21
Brook hire students were poorly behaved throughout their visit in May as a result the Holiday Inn had told the
01:31:29
school that their senior class was not welcome to return the following year Anna Rubin businessman who had
01:31:37
previously been an ally for Natalie's family told Vanity Fair their killing of rubra that girl Natalie I wish she'd
01:31:47
stayed home I hope she's found a life there the kid is just not worth all this trouble this
01:31:53
heartache is Natalie worth it is she American psychologist turned television host dr. Phil McGraw had been outspoken
01:32:09
in his support of Natalee Holloway's family having sent his own investigative team to search a robot and speak to
01:32:16
witnesses he advocated for the boycott of the island and on Wednesday November 2 appeared on American late-night talk
01:32:25
show The Tonight Show with the Jay Leno where he stated he had reason to believe
01:32:30
Natalie was still alive and being held as a sex slave after the segment aired Dave Holloway received a phone call from
01:32:39
a woman who claimed she had been across the street from the Holiday Inn on the night Natalie went missing she saw two
01:32:47
men whom she believed to be some kind of royalty trying to coerce a young blond-haired woman to join them the
01:32:55
witness didn't think anything of it at the time and to left the rubra the following morning she then put the dots
01:33:01
together after seeing dr. Phil's the late-night interview a Saudi prince was on the island the night Natalie
01:33:09
disappeared but nothing further came from the lead a private investigator and polygraph expert named Jamie Cedars was
01:33:20
hired by dr. Phil to travel to Aruba using a hidden camera he interviewed Deepak kaupo who called Natalie a [ __ ]
01:33:29
based on the way she dressed spoke and because she chose to go driving with three strange men quote and her mother
01:33:38
claiming her to be the goody two-shoes enough witness B s already portions of the hidden camera interview were aired
01:33:48
on the dr. Phil show with the footage showing Deepak respond to the question as to whether Natalie had sex with Joran
01:33:55
Satish and himself by saying she did you'd be surprised how simple it was he was also shown saying if I knew where
01:34:07
the body is I would tell them a long time ago let them start the trial and get this over with I don't care
01:34:16
after the snippets of the interview aired a Reuben officials accused the dr. Phil's producers of editing the footage
01:34:23
to fit their agenda in support of this claim they released an uncut version of the tape which showed Deepak shaking his
01:34:33
head and saying no when asked if Natalie had sex with your aunt Satish and himself the answer Deepak a Gabe saying
01:34:42
you'd be surprised how simple it was was actually in response to another question
01:34:48
in December 2005 the Kalpa brothers sued the dr. Phil show for defamation with the lawsuit alleging that the interview
01:34:57
was altered to create false statements incriminating them in Natalie's disappearance lawyers for dr. Phil and
01:35:05
CBS the television network that aired the show disputed the allegations the case was ultimately dismissed after a
01:35:13
long legal battle also in December of 2005 an American woman named Tracy Ellen contacted Natalie's family as she had
01:35:24
been holidaying in Aruba in May 2005 nine days before Natalee went missing Tracy took a morning stroll at 6:30
01:35:33
along a quiet stretch of beach near the Marriott hotel as she approached the fishermen hearts a man who was naked
01:35:41
from the waist down ran out and launched an attack he threatened Tracy with a stone grabbed her by the arm and
01:35:49
attempted to pull her into his vehicle which was waiting nearby with the engine running
01:35:55
Tracy resisted and yelled out for help attracting the attention of some local fishermen and prompting the attacker to
01:36:03
flee she had reported the incident to a Reuben police at the time but nothing further came of it she now wondered
01:36:12
whether the same person who attacked her could have something to do with Natalie's disappearance
01:36:19
Tracy provided an official statement to the FBI and worked with a police sketch artist to create a composite image of
01:36:27
her attacker she described him as being around 25 years old with a dark complexion Roundhead almond-shaped eyes
01:36:36
dark hair a mustache and wearing octagonal metal framed glasses the suspect sketch was circulated
01:36:46
throughout Aruba but no identifications were made a few weeks later the FBI presented Tracy with a photographic
01:36:55
lineup she identified her assailant immediately saying she was 100% positive that was the right man in a bizarre
01:37:05
coincidence at the time Tracy identified him the suspect was already being held in custody in Aruba for an expired visa
01:37:14
the police who were holding him were unaware of his alleged involvement in the attack on Tracy Allen and that he
01:37:22
was a potential person of interest in the Natalie Holloway investigation before US authorities could question him
01:37:29
the suspect was released and he immediately fled to Colombia [Music] the theory that Nathalie had been solved
01:37:40
into the sex trade was a popular one with many suspecting Euron and of the calper brothers or an unidentified
01:37:47
kidnapper had facilitated the transaction there were stories of similar-looking women who had been
01:37:53
drugged in Aruba and sold to traffickers who transported them to Colombia Venezuela and surrounding Caribbean
01:38:00
islands to work in brothels this theory was bolstered by a report released by the u.s. Department of State the claimed
01:38:09
Aruba was commonly used to traffic women and children for sexual exploitation according to the report approximately
01:38:18
500 foreign women some of whom had been unwillingly trafficked were currently engaged in sex work in Aruba and the
01:38:26
nearby island of Curacao Anna Rubin woman reported she was talking on the phone one night when her lion became
01:38:35
crossed with a conversation between two men one of the men allegedly told the other
01:38:41
he had seen a woman resembling Natalie Holloway at a brothel in the Colombian capital city of Bogota he wanted to
01:38:50
report the sighting to the FBI but couldn't interfere his Bentley would find out he had visited a brothel
01:38:57
the call itself could not be verified another theory was that Natalie had been recruited or trafficked into the
01:39:06
pornography industry investigators cast their suspicions on Paul be an American expert who operated
01:39:15
a sex tourism business in Aruba under the pseudonym mr. pink Paul be offered erotic tours in which he would take
01:39:23
foreign visitors to the red-light district to find a woman who fit their personal preferences his website touted
01:39:32
prostitution is 100 percent legal in Aruba and from personal experience I can tell you that you will find the safest
01:39:41
and most passionate women in the world here we ensure that you will get unbelievable sex
01:39:48
Paul Bea also ran a photography studio in Aruba and had been seeking models to pose for him by running ads asking women
01:39:57
to quote join the party it was also discovered that he had returned to the United States shortly after Natalee
01:40:06
Holloway's disappearance Paul B's Aruban businesses were registered to a post office box in
01:40:13
Florida so the FBI obtained his phone records and kept a close eye on him with no new leads or breakthroughs
01:40:26
Natalee Holloway's slowly faded from the headlines and her case eventually went cold a year later in December of 2006
01:40:36
Beth then jug Twiggy filed for divorce after six years of marriage resulting in Natalie's untouched a bedroom being
01:40:43
packed up and cleared out decorated in shades of purple and green the room was adorned with photos of Natalie and her
01:40:52
friends certificates of her achievements and a collection of memorabilia from her
01:40:57
favorite movie The Wizard of Oz her graduation robe and several new outfits she had bought to take to college still
01:41:05
hung in the closet as Beth described in her book loving Natalie a mother's testament of hope and faith
01:41:15
Natalie loved it in here it was her place to work and her place of Solace it's where she giggled with friends and
01:41:23
studied for tests that's where she dressed for the prom that's Natalie's own space and
01:41:28
everything in it represents her she was a hard-working young lady full of life smart
01:41:36
gutsy determined and very dependable she had always been that way in 2007 Dutch investigators reopened the
01:41:47
case and forensic analysts who examined computers that had been confiscated from
01:41:52
your own Deepak and Satish following their initial arrest on June 9 2005 advances in forensic technology now
01:42:02
allowed investigators to recover their online chat history revealing some disturbing habits amongst the suspects
01:42:09
and their circle of friends the group appeared to have an obsession with picking up girls and taking them
01:42:16
back to hotel rooms to photograph or video them engaging in sexual acts in their online interactions the young men
01:42:25
encouraged each other to commit lewd acts while referring to themselves as pimps and to their group as the pimp
01:42:32
ology Cru a rumor had also circulated around Hurons high school that he had spiked Natalie's drink and she had died
01:42:42
of an accidental overdose based on this new information investigators believed that the three suspects did not take in
01:42:51
utterly to the beach as they alleged if they intended to film their encounter with the young woman for the pimp ology
01:42:59
crew the beach wouldn't have provided adequate privacy or lighting it seemed much more likely that Nathalie had been
01:43:07
taken back to Euron's the touch department at the rear of his family's home as his parents sometimes allowed
01:43:13
him to have girls over computer analysis also revealed that when your own returned home on the night of Natalie's
01:43:22
disappearance he had visited various pornographic websites that specialized in women having sex with men in the
01:43:30
backseat of cars and buses he had also downloaded two pornographic films from a website called nasty
01:43:38
dollars.com which was owned by an American production company called reality kings reality Kings was
01:43:46
registered to an office in Florida near the post office box belonging to sex tourism operator Paul B aka mr. pink
01:43:57
investigators considered the possibility that Paul B had been supplying videos to
01:44:02
reality kings some of which may have featured Natalie but there was no evidence to support this theory
01:44:09
Paul B was ultimately ruled out as a suspect he was later interviewed by Dutch investigators for the book the Holloway
01:44:18
files during which he explained that while he aimed to be a Content producer he had never actually produced the
01:44:25
single pornography video he blamed his sudden departure from Aruba on the negative impact the Holloway case had on
01:44:33
tourism the pornography link was ultimately ruled out but based on their online chat history it still seemed
01:44:42
plausible that your own and to the kaupo brothers had intended to capture footage
01:44:46
of Natalie she may have been killed by accident or died from a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol on
01:44:57
Wednesday November 21 2007 urine was reeling in the Netherlands and two transported to Aruba this time on
01:45:05
suspicion of manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm deepak and Satish cowpoke were also
01:45:13
arrested for the same offences prosecutors put forward that V online chat transcripts provided a new evidence
01:45:21
against the trio but lawyers for the accused argued there was nothing amongst them to confirm that Natalie Holloway
01:45:28
had died or that their clients were involved an attorney for the kaupo brothers said it's like trying to say
01:45:37
the Loch Ness monster exists a judge agreed there wasn't enough evidence to hold the suspects in custody
01:45:46
Deepak and Satish were released on November 30 while Euron was held for an additional week before he was let go on
01:45:54
December 7 almost three years after Natalie disappeared her case hit headlines once
01:46:04
again when Dutch crime reporter Peter DeVries claimed he had a video of your own van
01:46:10
der Sloot confessing to her murder and would soon be broadcasting it on Dutch television a preview for the
01:46:17
segment showed Dutch prosecutors reading a transcript of the alleged confession and remarking this is very impressive we
01:46:27
have thought to ourselves that this was a very probable chain of events but until now we lacked submission evidence
01:46:34
clearly it's the first time that he's confessed to somebody this is his coming out the footage aired on Sunday February
01:46:44
3 2008 7 million Dutch citizens almost half the population tuned in to watch it featured a sting that had been
01:46:55
orchestrated by the race and a friend of your aunt's named Patrick van Durham Patrick had contacted the reporter
01:47:03
months earlier to say he didn't believe your own story about what happened to Natalie and agreed to take part in a
01:47:09
sting operation in exchange for $35,000 the Rees installed three hidden cameras in Patrick's car and captured 20 hours
01:47:19
of footage over a five day period as he and Gerard drove around chatting and smoking cannabis the conversation
01:47:27
eventually turned to the subject of Natalie Holloway you're on confessed that he and Natalie
01:47:34
had been having sex on the beach when she suddenly had a seizure and died he had used the pay phone to call a friend
01:47:42
named Dori who had a boat and helped him take Natalie's body out to sea afterwards he walked home alone your
01:47:52
aunt told Patrick she's dead of course I think I'll never get caught for this I had absolutely no bad feelings about it
01:48:02
I have not lost the one night of sleep over it I think that I am incredibly lucky that she has never been found
01:48:10
because if she had been found I would be in deep [ __ ] after the footage aired you are on told
01:48:19
the Dutch reporters that he had been lying to Patrick in a bid to impress him Patrick was a former criminal turned
01:48:27
successful businessman who had served time in prison for dealing drugs and Euron claimed he thought the story was
01:48:34
what Patrick wanted to hear Euron did have a friend named a dory who was tracked down but he denied having
01:48:43
anything to do with Natalie's death telling investigators he wasn't even in Aruba at the time a Reuben prosecutors
01:48:53
attempted to use the video confession to have urine ray arrested but the request
01:48:58
was denied by a judge on account of Euron alleging it made the whole story up regardless Natalie's mother who had
01:49:07
since reverted to her first married name of Beth Holloway was of the opinion that
01:49:12
the alleged confession was likely true she believed the person who had helped dispose of her daughter's body was not
01:49:20
Dory but Euron's father Pallas van der slow Beth also stated that if the story was true Natalie might have still been
01:49:30
alive if your own had sought help once again Euron was facing intense public scrutiny he told his parents he
01:49:40
needed a fresh start when nobody knew his name so he flew to Australia according to the book portrait of a
01:49:48
monster by Lisa Pulitzer and Col Thompson he was refused entry and decided to meet a friend in Thailand
01:49:55
instead he enrolled in a university roughly 20 miles north of the bustling capital of Bangkok
01:50:07
in November of 2008 urine reached out to American journalist to Greta Van Susteren who had covered Natalie's case
01:50:15
extensively over the years for her Fox News Current Affair show on the record Euron said that for the price of $25,000
01:50:25
he was ready to confess the truth and had evidence to prove his claims Greta and her production crew were dubious but
01:50:34
they paid him in installment and traveled to Bangkok to conduct an interview when the cameras were rolling
01:50:41
Joran stated that he sold Natalie Holloway into sex slavery and had finally decided to come clean because
01:50:48
there was a chance she could still be alive according to your own he was in an Aruban casino in February 2005 when a
01:50:58
man aged in his 30s offered him $10,000 to supply him a blonde woman the man didn't specify what he wanted the woman
01:51:07
for and Iran didn't give it much more thought until three months later when he met Natalie he told the man he had found
01:51:16
a suitable girl and was ordered to bring her to the beach outside the Marriott hotel later that night and to call him
01:51:24
once they arrived your unclaimed that he did not intend to go through with the plan until Natalie started hitting on
01:51:32
him that Carlos and Charlie's at 1:00 a.m. in front of Natalie he called the buyer and spoke in Dutch to tell him to
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meet them on the beach in one hour you aren't old Natalie they were going to the beach so he could take her out for a
01:51:48
boat ride when the boat arrived it wasn't until she was onboard that she realized he wouldn't be joining her and
01:51:56
to begin to panic the boat's bed away with Natalie on it and urine then called the Deepak to come and pick him up
01:52:05
Deepak was busy chatting with his girlfriend online so he sent Satish instead Euron then gave each of the COPO
01:52:14
brothers $1,000 for their assistance Euron claimed his father later found out about the sale and said that Natalie had
01:52:22
been shipped to Venezuela he insisted that he had a wire transfer receipt proving the $10,000 transaction took
01:52:31
place in addition to a second identical payment which the buyer wired to him to encourage his silence he also had three
01:52:41
audio tapes implicating his father and two Aruban police officers in the cover-up he provided these items to the
01:52:49
production team who passed them on to relevant experts but their authenticity was unable to be verified
01:52:59
soon after beyond the record team returned to the United States Euron sent greta van susteren a text
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message saying that everything he had told her was a lie he had fabricated the entire story for the money and to get
01:53:14
back at her for relentlessly pursuing him during the 2005 investigation regardless the interview was aired four
01:53:23
months later garnering high ratings Iran's American attorney Jota Kapena appeared on the show and
01:53:31
accused the journalist of exploiting his client for her own gains quote if you offered you around ten thousand dollars
01:53:40
tomorrow and asked him to tell a fifth story he would do it clearly he's a sick kid no one expects anyone to believe
01:53:49
anything this kid has to say anymore quite frankly he's on the verge of sociopaths
01:54:00
Dutch crime reporter Peter de frase received reports that the real recent Euron had moved to Thailand was that a
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friend had told him there was the potential to earn lots of money by trafficking Thai women to the
01:54:12
Netherlands to work in the sex trade according to news website The Daily Beast urine spent his evenings posing as
01:54:21
a modeling agent named Murphy Jenkins who was looking for exotic dancers to work in high-end strip clubs in Holland
01:54:28
going so far as having a fake business card created in reality upon their arrival to Europe the unsuspecting women
01:54:37
would be forced into sex work after his first few weeks in Bangkok Joran allegedly came out friends back
01:54:46
home and des bragged that he had already recruited a dozen women earning him a finder's fee of $13,000 for each one he
01:54:55
invested his money in a local coffee shop that became a popular hangout for students providing an easy hunting
01:55:01
ground for him to find new recruits Peter Davis and his team traveled to Bangkok and set up a hidden camera
01:55:10
inside a hotel room capturing urine telling a group of underage women they could earn fifteen thousand dollars a
01:55:16
day in the Netherlands to quote shake your ass the women handed over one thousand euros to secure the required
01:55:25
travel documentation in November 2000 a diverse aired the footage but this time the journalist was
01:55:34
accused of hiring the women featured to pose as potential recruits to set up your own and to the footage was deemed
01:55:41
as tabloid ism it is being reported that Dutch authorities launched an investigation
01:55:47
into your own for human trafficking but did not uncover enough evidence to place
01:55:52
any charges in 2009 Euron continued to spend his time traveling throughout Asia to compete in various poker tournaments
01:56:04
struggling for money he agreed to an interview with the yar Perez a Dutch reality TV star turned host of the shock
01:56:11
value television show terror yacht he agreed to undergo a polygraph test during which he claimed to have taken
01:56:20
Nathalie to a friend's house where they snorted cocaine she had fallen to her death from a balcony and urine then
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disposed of her body in a swamp the polygraph test indicated he was lying prompting urine to storm dramatically
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off the stage in February 2010 Euron's father Palace bandhas load was playing tennis when he
01:56:45
suffered a fatal heart attack and died Euron sold his Bangkok cafe and returned to Aruba to support his mother
01:56:57
I'm not flattered in March 2010 Beth Holloway's lawyer John Kelly received an email from the now 22 year old Joran van
01:57:07
der slowed claiming his family had run into financial difficulty following his father's death and he was ready to come
01:57:15
clean about what happened to Natalie for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Euron said he would disclose the
01:57:23
location of Natalie's remains and provide specific details about how she died he requested an initial payment of
01:57:32
twenty five thousand dollars with the remainder to be paid after he had provided the information recognizing it
01:57:40
as an opportunity to have Euron arrested for wire fraud and extortion Kelly contacted the FBI who helped set
01:57:48
up a sting on Monday May 10 an undercover agent arranged to meet your are in Aruba where a hidden video camera
01:57:57
captured him handing over ten thousand dollars in cash the remaining fifteen thousand dollars was wired to a bank
01:58:05
account in Euron's name with the payment in his possession Euron took Kelly to a single-story house
01:58:13
approximately five miles from the Marriott hotel he claimed to their house had been under construction in May 2005
01:58:22
and his father had buried initally underneath the Foundation's this information lacked any credibility as
01:58:30
the house you're on was referencing was just a vacant block of land in May 2005 Euron sent Kelly another email admitting
01:58:41
everything he had said was a lie he later told Dutch newspaper The Telegraph I wanted to get back at Natalie's family
01:58:51
her parents have been making my life tough for five years when they offered to pay for the girls location I thought
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why not four days later while the FBI are prepared to charge your arm with extortion
01:59:06
he used the $25,000 extortion money to flee the country he left his mother a note saying he had been invited to
01:59:15
participate in a poker tournament in Peru on Sunday May 31 2010 58 year-old ricardo flores awoke in his home in
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choco rio an affluent neighborhood in the surco district of lima peru as a prominent businessman racecar driver
01:59:39
and former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club Ricardo's family enjoyed a comfortable
01:59:45
upper-class lifestyle in a country where much of the population was impacted by poverty he had been able to put all five
01:59:54
of his children through private school take them on overseas vacations and provide them with money and anything
02:00:01
else they needed as reported in the book portrait of a monster Ricardo's 21 year old daughter Stephanie
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Flores had recently asked for $1,000 to buy a new laptop which she needed for the Business Administration degree she
02:00:18
was studying at the University of Alima Ricardo had obliged even though he had growing concerns that Stephanie was
02:00:27
developing a problematic a gambling habit and would used the money at the casino
02:00:32
the Flores family had always enjoyed playing poker against one another but Stephanie had started frequenting
02:00:39
various casinos throughout Lima and expressing a desire to become a professional poker player although she
02:00:47
was incredibly smart and excelled at most things ricardo believed gambling was dangerous as his daughter had a very
02:00:55
competitive side and couldn't stand to lose stephanie had spent the previous night out
02:01:03
with new friends from college and when ricardo looked into her bedroom he was shocked to see she wasn't there
02:01:11
he called her mobile phone several times but it went straight to voicemail by mid-morning he and his wife Maria Elena
02:01:20
were panic-stricken and called everyone they knew but no one had seen their daughter by the afternoon they reported
02:01:29
Stephanie to be missing as they didn't know many of her friends they were unable to ascertain who she had spent
02:01:37
the night with or her last known whereabouts Stephanie was close with her family and two lived a happy life making
02:01:46
it unlikely that she had run away kidnapping for ransom was common in Peru with tourists and affluent families
02:01:54
often targeted at 1:00 p.m. on Monday afternoon a police officer located Stephanie's black Jeep in a poor
02:02:03
crime-ridden neighborhood the only obvious thing missing was a Nintendo Wii video game console that Stephanie had
02:02:11
with her when she left her house on Saturday but there were no signs of foul play
02:02:18
Stephanie's phone provider next hour was unable to provide GPS activity from her
02:02:23
phone but they were able to provide a list of the most recent outgoing calls Ricardo Flores called these numbers and
02:02:32
got hold of Stephanie's friend Corolla who confirmed she had spent the day and night of Saturday with Stephanie the two
02:02:41
had a lunch at a restaurant visited a carnival played video games and too then went out to a bar with another female
02:02:48
friend from college Stephanie had dropped each of the women home at around 2 am sending Corolla a text message
02:02:56
around an hour later to let her know she had arrived home safely Corolla said that Stephanie had been in
02:03:04
possession of a large sum of money which she claimed two of one at the casino days prior
02:03:11
stephanie was known to frequent the Atlantic casino in Miraflores an upscale casino owned by a friend of the Flores
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family the casinos surveillance tapes were reviewed revealing she hadn't actually returned home after her night
02:03:27
out with France but instead headed straight to the poker table the footage captured her in the presence of a tall
02:03:35
Caucasian man whom she appeared to be somewhat familiar with at 5:15 a.m. on the morning of Sunday May 31
02:03:45
surveillance cameras in the parking lot captured the pair driving off together in Stephanie's Jeep Casino staff
02:03:53
confirmed the young man seen with Stephanie had won a small prize in a raffle draw entered entered his name and
02:04:00
passport number on the winning ticket they retrieved the receipt revealing him to be 22-year old
02:04:08
Joran van der Sloot the immediate concerns of local authorities were that Euron had been
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kidnapped along with Stephanie and was also a missing person the Natalie Holloway case had never made headlines
02:04:26
in Peru and as he had never been charged for any crime authorities and customs officials were unaware of his history
02:04:34
but when Peruvian investigators googled Euron's name they were shocked to discover he was linked to the
02:04:41
disappearance of another young woman whom he had also met in a casino what's more the day he was last seen
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with Stephanie not the 5-year anniversary of natalee's disappearance a hunt commenced to find Euron and to the
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police prepared to release his image to the media meanwhile a call came in from the hotel tak a budget hotel on the
02:05:08
outskirts of mira flores her receptionist hadn't seen the occupant of room 309 in several days and his bill
02:05:17
was two days overdue she remembered - you're on Vanda slope clearly as his fair complexion and tall
02:05:25
stature stood out amongst the other Peruvian travelers using a spare key she entered his room and was hit with a foul
02:05:34
stench the room was in disarray with items scattered throughout and the TV blaring
02:05:42
a tennis racket was tangled amongst the bedsheets which were bundled up on the floor to the right of the bed played the
02:05:51
blood soaked and too badly decomposed body of Stephanie Flores her wallet sat beside her empty of its credit cards and
02:06:00
cash news of Stephanie's murder hit the media and an international manhunt for euro and vendor slowed ensued
02:06:11
immigration documents were checked and it was soon revealed that urine had crossed over the border into Chile along
02:06:18
with two Peruvian nationals the Peruvians were tracked down and today claimed Iran had offered them five
02:06:26
hundred US dollars to drive him from Iike a Peruvian town 150 miles south of Lima to arica a small Chilean town just
02:06:37
across the border the drive took approximately 15 hours once they had crossed into Chile Euron claimed the
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ATMs wouldn't accept his international debit card and only provided his driver's with a portion of the promised
02:06:52
payment to compensate he handed his escorts several personal items including his
02:07:00
watch cellphone digital camera a bottle of cologne a polo shirt and foot powder urines image was distributed by the
02:07:11
chilean media and citizens were told to be on high alert on Thursday June 3 2010
02:07:19
a toll booth attendant outside of the sapota tunnel west of the city of Karaka he saw a tall Caucasian man attempting
02:07:28
to look inconspicuous in the backseat of a taxi although he had slightly different hair than the image of your
02:07:36
aunt circulating in the press the attendant recognized the Dutchman and to notified the police
02:07:43
within minutes several police cars descended on the highway and placed him under arrest without incident he had
02:07:51
since shaped his head and dyed his remaining hair orange urine was taken to a police station in downtown Santiago
02:08:01
where he made no comment than to look too calm as he was ushered into the station as gathering hordes of press
02:08:08
yelled his name Euron initially told the police that two armed men posing as policemen had broken into his hotel room
02:08:23
demanding cash fearing for his life he had escaped leaving Stephanie behind he drove her car away from the scene dumped
02:08:34
it a few blocks away from the hotel and - then fled the country he claimed he only learned about
02:08:40
Stephanie's death upon his arrival in Chile when he saw an article about it in the news he soon admitted that he had
02:08:49
met Stephanie at the Atlantic casino a few days before her death after she won close to ten thousand dollars in a poker
02:08:57
tournament on May 30 she told Euron she wasn't interested in men but asked him to help hone her poker
02:09:05
skills urine was intoxicated having consumed approximately 10 alcoholic beverages and smoked cannabis when he
02:09:14
and Stephanie decided to go back to his hotel room to play online poker while Stephanie was playing on Euron's
02:09:22
computer a Facebook message popped up that read I'm going to kill you you little [ __ ] your unexplained the
02:09:32
threat was in relation to the disappearance of Natalie Holloway Stephanie googled - Natalie Holloway and
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- then panicked and started lashing out earlier on allegedly punching him on the
02:09:45
left side of his head you're on retaliated telling the police I did not want to do it the girl
02:09:54
intruded in my private life she had no right she was frightened we argued and she wanted to get away I grabbed her by
02:10:03
the neck and hit her Euron said he struck Stephanie in the face with his right elbow rendering her semi
02:10:13
unconscious there was blood everywhere which caused him to panic and to lose control he
02:10:20
grabbed Stephanie by the neck and started strangling her before removing his blood-soaked t-shirt and using it to
02:10:27
suffocate her until she stopped the breathing Euron quote I lost control of my actions I remember what I was doing
02:10:37
but not the motive it was an impulsive act after receiving a blow to the head after I responded with hitting her I
02:10:46
feared that she would go to the police I think I wanted to kill her because I wasn't thinking following the murder
02:10:57
Euron left the hotel room to purchase coffee and cake he returned to his room where he ate his meal while Stephanie's
02:11:06
lifeless body lay on the floor afterwards he took his laptop and some cash and fled to Chile
02:11:15
Euron tried to barter a deal with investigators offering to speak truthfully about the Natalie Holloway
02:11:22
case in exchange for being extradited back to Aruba an autopsy of Stephanie's body revealed that much of Euron's
02:11:32
confession was a lie a coroner found her injuries were consistent with having been beaten to death while the
02:11:40
toxicology report confirmed that urine had not taken any drugs at the time of the vicious attack he's claimed that he
02:11:48
was high on cannabis was viewed as strategic as perpetrators of serious crimes in Peru a given leniency if they
02:11:56
committed the act while under the influence of drugs Joran van der Sloot was held in lemurs
02:12:03
Miguel Castro prison to await trial on Friday November 12 2010 an American couple vacationing in Aruba
02:12:16
while walking along the beach near the Phoenix hotel approximately one mile south from the Holiday Inn when they
02:12:23
found what appeared to be a human jawbone with a single tooth attached the bone was determined to have originated
02:12:32
from a young female it was sent to the Netherlands for further analysis when the attached tooth was identified as a
02:12:40
wisdom tooth Natalee Holloway's dental records confirmed she had already had all of her
02:12:47
wisdom teeth removed ruling out the possibility that the jawbone belonged to her it was checked against the Ruby's
02:12:56
other missing person records but exposure to harsh elements made it impossible to determine the owners
02:13:02
identity given that an intense hurricane season had stirred up the surrounding oceans it was speculated that the bone
02:13:10
could have washed up from Curacao or Venezuela in June 2011 Dave Holloway filed a petition to have his daughter
02:13:20
declared illegally dead in order to settle her estate Dave told the judge he believed Natalie was no longer alive and
02:13:29
wanted to stop payments on her medical insurance and use her $2,000 College Fund to help her younger brother
02:13:37
Beth Holloway initially opposed the petition citing a lack of evidence to indicate Natalie was deceased but
02:13:44
changed her mind once she understood Dave's intend a probate judge signed the order officially declaring Natalie
02:13:53
Holloway legally dead Beth released the statement explaining that Dave wanted to see the order
02:14:00
through but she would quote always hope and pray for Natalie's safe return Dave told reporters
02:14:11
hopefully this meeting today will provide some closure we've still got a long way to go to get justice in
02:14:22
mid-september 2011 Beth Holloway and Dutch journalist Peter DeVries flew to Peru to visit Euron van der Sloot in
02:14:31
prison it was the first time Beth and Euron had met face to face since the day after Natalie's disappearance but he
02:14:40
remained tight-lipped saying that any requests for a meeting must go through his lawyer
02:14:46
Beth and a vase were accused of trying to film the interaction for television which Beth's lawyer John Kelly denied
02:14:54
explaining I just think she wanted him to know she wasn't going away this had nothing to do with the case there was a
02:15:03
mother trying to bring her daughter home the president of Peru Alan Garcia Perez stated that Euron
02:15:12
would have to stand trial in Peru before any requests for extradition would be considered in an attempt to delay legal
02:15:21
proceedings Euron tried to enter a plea of temporary insanity but On January 11 2012 he
02:15:29
eventually pleaded guilty to Stephanie Flores murder his lawyer requested a lenient sentence on the grounds that his
02:15:38
client had been under a significant amount of stress on the day the murder occurred as it marked the five-year
02:15:44
anniversary of Natalee Holloway's disappearance quote he was pointed out and persecuted the
02:15:53
world had been against him for five years two days later on Friday January 13 Euron van der Sloot was sentenced to
02:16:04
serve 28 years in a maximum-security prison north of Lima and ordered to pay approximately 74 thousand US dollars to
02:16:13
the Flores family a lawyer for the family who had chosen not to speak to the media throughout their ordeal told
02:16:21
the press this individual is a psychopath and a psychopath cannot be freed Peruvian authorities agreed to extradite
02:16:32
your on to the United States to face charges for extortion and wire fraud but not until his 28-year sentence was
02:16:40
complete prior to his conviction Euron's mother Anita Van der slowed told Dutch reporters I believe in karma I believe
02:16:53
that if you do things that you shouldn't do that a lot of [ __ ] happens to you he
02:16:58
didn't want to listen to his parents he didn't listen to me this the last time I
02:17:03
tried to do my best I don't think I could have done more while in prison Joran van der Sloot
02:17:13
began a relationship with 24 year old trainee accountant lady Figueroa whom he met while she was visiting an
02:17:21
incarcerated relative in July 2014 the two were married and a lady soon gave birth to that first child when he
02:17:33
allegedly threatened to kill the prison warden Euron was transferred to the notoriously
02:17:38
rough and unsanitary Cherlapally prison high in the Andes Lady Figueroa spoke to the Daily Mail newspaper about
02:17:48
the conditions he was forced to endure adding that Euron had since found God and was seeking forgiveness for the evil
02:17:56
he had committed in the past in 2016 dave holloway hired a private investigator named TJ Ward to go over
02:18:11
all the evidence relating to his daughter's disappearance during which a new lead emerged a man
02:18:19
named Gabriel told Ward that he's former roommate an American named John Ludwick
02:18:25
had been a close friend of your aunt's in 2005 and claimed to know what happened to Natalie Gabriel agreed to
02:18:34
participate in hidden-camera conversations with Ludwick capturing him confessing to helping dispose of
02:18:41
Natalie's body Ludwick was then interviewed by a ward during which he claimed that on the night of Natalie's
02:18:48
disappearance Euron laced her drink with the GHB a dangerous party drug that produces feelings of euphoria and
02:18:57
relaxation as well as increased social and sexual urges according to Ludwick Natalie had
02:19:05
subsequently overdosed and choked to death on her own vomit urine had called his father who helped him bury Natalie's
02:19:13
body behind a house near the Holiday Inn Ludwick claimed that in 2010 Joran feared that investigators were closing
02:19:23
in on him and offered him $1500 to move the body hey and Euron dugout nataly's remains
02:19:30
and attempted to crush her bones to the point that they would be unrecognizable they also set her skull on fire in a bid
02:19:39
to destroy any hair fibers Ludwick then combined her remains with those of a deceased dog and took them to
02:19:48
a crematorium where he told the worker they belonged to his beloved pet and offered two hundred dollars to let him
02:19:55
cremate the body afterwards he and Euron borrowed a boat and headed out to sea where they scattered the ashes in
02:20:08
collaboration with Dave Holloway and TJ Ward a production company decided to document the saga for a six-part
02:20:15
miniseries titled the disappearance of Natalie Holloway an excavation of the alleged burial site was permissioned
02:20:24
during which all bone fragments were recovered the bones were sent for forensic analysis with Beth agreeing to
02:20:32
provide a saliva sample to assist with the DNA testing although she wasn't informed that the process was being
02:20:40
filmed for television the series aired on the oxygen Channel on Friday August 19 2016 forensic scientist dr. Jason
02:20:52
Cole ASCII appeared on the show to present his findings concluding that only one of the four bone samples tested
02:21:00
positive for human mitochondrial DNA meaning it was the only one that was human yet it wasn't a match for Natalie
02:21:11
dr. Coletti explained we don't know how old that person is we don't know how long that person has been dead it was
02:21:24
later revealed that Jon Ludwick had knowingly obtained to all four bones from the remains of a wild boar
02:21:32
the bone that tested positive for human mitochondrial DNA had a likely done so because it had been handled by Ludwick
02:21:41
the producers of the show allegedly knew the bones weren't human before the segment was filmed but never relayed the
02:21:49
truth - Beth Holloway in February of 2018 Beth filed a federal lawsuit against the producers of the show
02:21:58
alleging that the disappearance of Natalie Holloway was a fake scripted documentary that subjected her to weeks
02:22:06
of agony and uncertainty as she waited for the results of the bone testing she alleged the show was a quote pre-planned
02:22:16
fast calculated to give the impression of real time events and that many of its participants including John Ludwig were
02:22:25
paid for their involvement she saw 20 million dollars in compensator e damages and 30 million dollars in punitive
02:22:34
damages for their actions which the lawsuit claimed completely and utterly destroyed her the case is scheduled for
02:22:43
trial in September 2020 one month after Beth's lawsuit was filed John Ludwick attempted to kidnap a
02:22:53
female former roommate for whom he had unreciprocated romantic feelings 23 year-old Emily was getting out of her
02:23:02
car just before 7 a.m. when Ludwig appeared held a knife to her throat and ordered her into her vehicle a struggle
02:23:11
ensued and Emily managed to grab the knife and stabbed Ludwick several times in self-defense bleeding profusely he
02:23:21
fled the scene on foot but later died from his wounds a spokesperson for the North Point Police Department said Emily
02:23:30
wouldn't face any charges explaining she was a victim in this case this gentleman
02:23:37
had some ill intentions she wasn't going quietly and it ended very bad for him on Monday April 16
02:23:48
Emily appeared on the dr. Phil show claiming that Ludwig had previously told her that Natalie Holloway died on the
02:23:56
beach after having a seizure and that Palace inventor slate had helped his son Joran dispose of her body
02:24:05
Ludwig claimed he later retrieved and to burnt Natalie's remains so her body could never be found
02:24:13
as far as the Aruban Public Prosecutor's Office is concerned the Natalie Holloway
02:24:22
case has never been closed and will continue to be reinvestigated anytime new information surfaces prosecutor Hans
02:24:31
clava told ABC news that the cases against the urine vendor slowed and the kaupo brothers have been dismissed and
02:24:39
that quote only new facts and circumstances unknown at the moment of the dismissal can lead to reopening
02:24:48
their cases to this day Natalie's unsolved two disappearance maintains an ongoing level of public interest her
02:24:58
story has been covered in several books and movies with both of her parents releasing their own accounts of the
02:25:05
experience in Dave Holloway's book he writes I cannot tell you how much it hurts to lose a child there are no words
02:25:15
to describe the feelings that choked a parent who outlived a daughter it is never supposed to happen this way
02:25:23
I was never prepared for this kind of pain this type of emptiness my heart has an insurmountable void that used to be
02:25:33
filled with Natalie's presence over the years Beth Holloway has helped fund several nonprofit organizations
02:25:42
including the Natalie Holloway Resource Center which provide support for the families of missing persons and the safe
02:25:50
travels foundation which provides education services for young travelers her 2007 book loving Natalie a mother's
02:26:00
testament of hope and faith made it to the New York Times bestseller list and provided the inspiration for two
02:26:07
subsequent films on the Lifetime movie network Beth's ongoing commitment to exposing
02:26:14
the truth about what happened to her daughter in addition to her advocacy for other missing persons earned her a
02:26:21
position as the host of a lifetime show called vanished with Beth Holloway which
02:26:27
focused on empathetically telling the true stories of abductions disappearances and other crimes the show
02:26:35
ran for one season and covered Natalie's story as well as others previously covered by case file including case 59
02:26:44
amy Lynn Bradley and case three Laura Bible and Ashley Freeman in loving Natalie Beth wrote that the main
02:26:54
question people ask her is how she manages to keep going on her journey to find her daughter
02:27:00
she explained my answer is always hope at one time or another we've all experienced hope that inexplicable
02:27:12
empowerment that enables us to move successfully from challenge to resolution with courage the guarantee
02:27:20
that there's light at the end of whatever tunnel we're trying to find our way through that's more than just a
02:27:27
feeling more than wishful thinking but let me tell you that's easy to lose faith when you're faced with bitter
02:27:35
tragedy that's easy to give in to pain and to let go of hope I learned this firsthand when Natalie disappeared I've
02:27:45
learned a lot of things about Hope since then you [Music] you