New Angle In Aruba Search
Police Comb Beach Near Natalee Holloway's Hotel
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Play CBS Video Video Natalee's Mother: They Know Missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, tells The Early Show why she's convinced the young men in still in custody in Aruba know what happened to Natalee.
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Police search a brush area next to the Marriot hotel on Palm Beach in Aruba, Tuesday, June 14, 2005. (AP)
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Antonius "Mickey" John, center, stands with his lawyer Noraina Pieterz, left, and mother Amy John after being released from the police station in San Nicolas, Aruba, Monday. (AP)
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Undated family photo of Natalee Holloway. (AP)
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Interactive Paradise Lost Star student Natalee Holloway disappears during a senior trip to Aruba.
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John's comments came the morning after authorities released him and fellow former guard Abraham Jones, 28, after more than a week in detention. Prosecutors refused to give their motives for letting the two go, which also came just a day after Janssen told The Associated Press there was "reasonable suspicion" to continue holding them because authorities were still "in the middle of an investigation."
Trapenberg said the men's release "probably means they had nothing to do with this case and prosecutors were able to check out their alibis."
The teen's mother, Betty Holloway Twitty, told CBS News Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm she believed the two ex-security guards were innocent.
"I just never felt they were involved in our daughter's disappearance," Holloway Twitty said.
She also stressed that the three other young men knew what happened and should be pressed to tell the truth.
"All three of those boys know what happened to her," Holloway Twitty said Sunday. "They all know what they did with her that night."
Holloway vanished following a five-day trip with more than 100 other students to celebrate their high school graduation from Mountain Brook High School, near Birmingham, Alabama.
In Mountain Brook, family spokeswoman Marcia Twitty said she didn't know what authorities were looking for and had not seen live TV coverage of the search.
"I'm not even watching it. I just can't," she said.
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