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Play CBS Video Video Brothers Released In Aruba An Aruban judge released two of the three young men detained in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Joran van der Sloot remains in custody, CBS News' Aleen Sirgany reports.
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(L-R) Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, leave court in Oranjestad, Aruba on Monday after appearing before a judge who decided to release them. (AP)
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Joran van der Sloot, left, arrives at court in Oranjestad, Aruba, Monday. A judge decided to detain him for 60 more days. (AP)
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Still in custody is 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot, son of a top justice official on the island, who admitted to being with Holloway alone the night she disappeared. The judge ordered that van der Sloot be held another 60 days. Van der Sloot has insisted that he did not harm Holloway.
"It's very clear where the finger is pointing now," Kock said, referring to van der Sloot.
Holloway vanished in the early hours of May 30, the last day of a five-day vacation on the Dutch Caribbean island to celebrate her high school graduation with 124 other students.
Beth Holloway Twitty, 44, arrived in Aruba within hours of her daughter's disappearance and has been on the island ever since, distributing fliers, monitoring searches and appearing on national U.S. television shows to keep pressure on investigators.
Attorney General Karin Janssen declined to comment Monday. Her office issued a statement saying prosecutors were considering an appeal of the judge's decision to release the Kalpoes. They have three days to do so.
Contacted by telephone, van der Sloot's father, Paul van der Sloot, said he had no comment on the judge's decision. Prior to the judge's ruling, one of Joran van der Sloot's attorneys, Antonio Carlo, would not say whether investigators had presented any new evidence against his client, but he said a judge did approve a motion allowing attorneys to be present whenever van der Sloot is interrogated. Carlo said previous motions requesting a lawyer's presence had been denied since the beginning of the case.
"It's important for me to say again today that my client maintains his innocence," Carlo added.
Under Dutch law that governs Aruba, a protectorate of the Netherlands, detainees can be held 116 days before being charged by a judge. Van der Sloot has not been charged.
Prosecutors have acknowledged they have no solid evidence to indicate that Holloway is dead. They have said a murder conviction is possible without a body, but the case requires strong evidence such as a confession, reliable statements and forensic evidence of wrongdoing.
The Kalpoe brothers have told police they dropped Holloway and van der Sloot off near the Marriott Hotel in the early morning hours of May 30 and that that was the last time they saw the blond-haired, blue-eyed teen.
Van der Sloot's mother, Anita van der Sloot, said her son told her during a prison visit that he was alone with Holloway on a beach that night but that he did not harm her.
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