New Aruba Search Turns Up Nothing

Dutch Student's Father Demands To See Jailed Son

(CBS/AP) 
John swore he was never in the area at that time of the night and said that Kalpoe apologized to him in jail. "He told me, 'Sorry,' and told the police I should be free."

Attorney General Caren Janssen declined comment on John's statements.

No one has been charged in the case, and lawyers for the three youths still in custody and the two freed men all say their clients are innocent. Lawyers for the three young men did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday.

A couple of Holloway's family members arrived on the scene Tuesday afternoon as police cordoned off several streets in front of the Marriott and investigators descended upon the swampy terrain next door.

Asked why police searched the area, Comemencia replied, "We got some information we needed to check." He would not say if authorities were acting on what John said. He also declined to comment on whether any of the three young men still in custody had changed their versions of what happened the night the teen disappeared.

In Mountain Brook, a family spokeswoman said she had not seen live TV coverage of the search.

"I'm not even watching it. I just can't," Marcia Twitty said.

Relatives described the last two weeks as a roller coaster ride and that this latest trip was another trip up, Cobiella reports.

Reporters from Aruban radio station Top 95 launched their own search before police arrived, at the Marriott, finding a pair of torn pink-and-white polka dot panties and three condoms, two of them used, said one of the journalists, Albert Vrolijk.

He said they also found some duct tape wrapped around a tree. The reporters handed their findings over to police, who refused to comment.

Tourism Authority Managing Director Myrna Jansen-Feliciano told the AP that "the whole beach area is a place where couples go."

"It could be anybody's" panties and condoms, she said.

The release from jail of John and another former hotel security guard, Abraham Jones, 28, came after Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, told several media outlets that she believed they were innocent but that the three other youths knew what happened to her daughter.

The Dutch teenager is an honors student at Aruba International School and the son of a high-ranking judicial official in Aruba.

He is only one of the three who has not talked to Holloway's family, Cobiella reports.