Re-Arrests Bring Holloway Family "Hope"

Missing Teen's Father Pleased By Police Decision To Put 3 Suspects Back In Custody

(CBS/AP)  The father of Natalee Holloway, the American teenager who disappeared in Aruba in 2005, said the re-arrest of three suspects in the case has renewed some hopes that he might finally find out what happened to his daughter.

Three young men previously detained as suspects - Dutch student Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe - were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Holloway, the Aruban public prosecutor's office said.

"It just gives us hope that they're still involved, and maybe we'll finally get some answers," Dave Holloway told CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella.

Aruban prosecutors issued a rare public statement saying they found new incriminating evidence that van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers caused serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Natalie Holloway, Cobiellareports.

Joran Van Der Sloot's lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold, played down the arrest during an interview with the CBS Early Show's Maggie Rodriguez.

"We heard that there was new evidence. We don't know what the evidence is. We know that it's not a body, and we don't even know if it has anything to do with Joran." Arnold told Rodriguez. "When they arrest somebody in Aruba they could just doing it to detain them and question them and in this case that's what we expect to happen."

Arnold said that the statute of limiations on the case will expire at the end of this year, adding "they're just making a last ditch effort to get some more information."

Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen leaving a bar with the three men on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to board a plane home with high school classmates celebrating their graduation on the Dutch Caribbean island. She was 18 at the time.

Hundreds of volunteers, Aruban soldiers, police and FBI agents spread out across the island for the missing teen. Later efforts would include divers, Dutch F-16 jets equipped with search equipment, and specially trained dogs. No trace was ever found of her.

Van der Sloot admits that he was alone with Holloway that night, and that he kissed her, but he insists that he never hurt her, CBS Newsreports. But Holloway's mother is convinced he's lying.

Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were previously detained on suspicion of taking part in her death, but they denied involvement and a judge released them for lack of evidence.

Twenty-year-old Van der Sloot, seen at left, was re-arrested in the Netherlands, where he was attending university. The Kalpoe brothers - Deepak is 24, Satish, 21 - were taken into custody in Aruba.

Authorities "ordered their renewed arrest because further investigation into the disappearance has led to new incriminating evidence," the office said in a statement.

Hans Mos, chief prosecutor in Aruba, declined to discuss the new evidence or any other details about the case.

"Our intention is to keep them in detention for a longer period," he said.

Joran van der Sloot's parents told CBS News their son's arrest came as a complete surprise, and that prosecutors are keeping them in the dark. According to his lawyers, Yoran is being brought back to Aruba to reconstruct the day Holloway disappeared yet again, this time with investigators from Holland.

The brothers were expected to make an initial appearance in an Aruban court Friday, at which point prosecutors were expected to present the new evidence to a judge. A court date in the island had not yet been set for van der Sloot.

Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Dutch national prosecutor's office, said van der Sloot could be sent to Aruba without an extradition hearing and the transfer would occur "within several days."

In April, investigators from the Netherlands dug around the home of van der Sloot's family for two days without revealing what prompted the search. Then in May, Dutch and Aruban investigators visited the home where Deepak and Satish Kalpoe live with their parents for what authorities termed an "inspection," without revealing details.

Prosecutors are running out of time to make a case. They have until Dec. 31 to bring charges, but CBS News has learned the new evidence is weak, at best.

[erasmus6]

Let''s hope that other kids learn something from this. Of course it is unlikely because it seems like no one actually learns from others mistakes, they just keep making them over and over again.

What would possess a girl to leave her friends and go with THREE guys she doesn''t know? How stupid is that?
One guy would have been bad enough, but THREE?

[lisann326]

And let''s not forget Martha Moxley, while we are at it, whose killer had rich parents who covered for them too. I think this case brings attention to all missing indiviuals rich, poor, black, latin whoever. More power to this family if they can get press. What we need are answers.

[susanhelit]

I see we''ve got a lot of the misinformation the Holloway family, and some misguided people have been putting out. Natalie was 18 - so she was an adult - the ''chaperones'' were guides, and not responsible for telling her not to drink or when to be home.

And she was a drinker - there''s video of her drinking at parties in her home town - this was not a naive child who had never tasted booze before.

Did Joran do it? No way to know - but Natalie, by all reports, was having a wild time, the whole trip, drinking from morning until night. A lot of things could have happened. Nothing would excuse her murder - but with the condition she was in, it''ll be very hard to ever know if there was a murder, or just a swim at night that went wrong.

It''s a case all about stereotypes - the parents portray her as the innocent, knowing that if they don''t some people will say she was drinking, and deserved it. The fact it happened in another country, allowing guilt-free trashing of the local culture, police, etc. - although we''ve got far more missing people we never find. The pretty white girl, the image of an 18 year old adult as a child, etc.

[kailumego1]

Binge drinking and drugging doesn''t constitute death, however, this story has received way more coverage than it should, there are hundreds probably thousands of missing teens, young women, etc. here in the United States and abroad, which don''t get this much media coverage..

Her family''s prestige has contributed to the outlandishly amount of coverage, which has/had thwarted headlines in other cases of missing women, and for that this case has become a redundancy of overly-exaggerated and unnecessary drama.

This should be a "slap in the face" to all the missing women in Aruba that hasn''t received this much attention or police/media dedication.

Equally beautiful young women, black, Hispanic, etc. had been reportedly missing only receiving a minutest amount of media coverage, while the Natalie Holloway story just dragged on for over a year..

And now the "media circus" has started all over again, with the same old sensationalism and over-dramatizations, becoming nothing more than a washed out piece of journalism and creating apathy among readers and listeners, whom have grown tired of this continuous "rollercoaster" of redundancy..

[mdell27]

--We heard that there was new evidence. We don''t know what the evidence is. We know that it''s not a body,--
Joran Van Der Sloot''s lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold

Really now? and how do you know its not a body? Are you that confident that your client got away with murder?

[lambofgoth]

So what if the Van der Sloots are Eurotrash? Natalie was a dumb redneck hoho. As for the part about Natalie not being used to alcohol, who did you hear that from, her even more naive mother? No one deserves cold blooded murder but it doesn''t take a neurosurgeon to know that hanging out in a bar, in a foreign country, with 3 guys and none of your friends around can lead to trouble... unless you are from bumblefudge Alabama and haven''t a clue.

[sparks224]

I think I know what happened;
She fell into a big vat of who gives a c.r.a.p.

[dennisaok1]

The van der Sloots are Eurotrash. Joran was gambling and drinking regularly in the wee hours of the morning at age 17 and younger with full knowledge of his parents. Natalee wasn''t used to alcohol and a bit too naive. The boys repeatedly lied and changed their stories.

Newster1, if you believe Joran left her on the beach, there is a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you.

[nothappyatall]

" and Natalee suffered DEATH at the hands of some over-privleged and over-indulged boys who probably believe their own "story" that they didnt do anything wrong.
kevzgrl"

So you are convicting people before you even have any evidence or proof? How do you KNOW she didnt get out of the car as they said, they left like the said and the girl decided to take a quick swim on the beach knowing that she wouldnt be able to come morning when her flight was. She DROWNED and was washed out to sea, simple as that.

The entire island was combed by thousands, body sniffing dogs and all the rest, no sign of a body was ever found anywhere, no body, no witnesses, no confession- no case.

[nothappyatall]

"Hundreds of volunteers, Aruban soldiers, police and FBI agents spread out across the island for the missing teen. Later efforts would include divers, Dutch F-16 jets equipped with search equipment, and specially trained dogs. No trace was ever found of her."

No body, no case, My guess is she was so plastered on alcohol and drugs that night and knowing she was going to ship home in the morning, decided to go for one last swim on the beach in paradise, and she drowned, washed out to sea and sharks etc ate her.

I also believe the "new evidence" is probably a farce which is why theyrefuse tosay what it is, it''s an old suspect rattle trick designed to create an impression the cops have evidence they don''t and then offer you a plea deal if you plead guilty to that hoping you get the lower 20 year sentence instead of death, or life in jail.
Bet they are just trying to rattle the men''s cages to force them into a plea deal or to break down and confess, trouble is these guys were grilled and interrogated for weeks and jailed, and the cops got nothing.

[piercetheval]

Whatindahell was she doing unescorted in a bar in a foreign country at the age of 18 in the first place. Where were the chaperones?

[deemsnyd]

krg12171936,
You are a waste of oxygen. Should be weeded out of the gene pool.

[kevzgrl]

To vbnvbnvbn: You are absolutely right in your post to that idiot krg. This family has suffered enough pain, and Natalee suffered DEATH at the hands of some over-privleged and over-indulged boys who probably believe their own "story" that they didn''t do anything wrong. That "boys will be boys" mentality leads to outrages and crimes against women and girls all the time - maybe, this time around, they will pay for what they did. The police wouldn''t have re-arrested them after all this time, if they didn''t have something pretty compelling to go on.....

There is a 13 year old girl at my church who was molested/raped by her father repeatedly from the time she was 11. Turns out, he did the same thing to his daughter by a first marriage, too. Her mom is siding with him and blaming poor Maggie - and the trial is coming up in Feb. Daddy Dearest though she wouldn''t testify and he might get off - thank God the older girl has agreed to testify too, and hopefully, the cell door will slam closed on this piece of sh--, just like it will on these three.

Point I am trying to make is that this happens all the time, and until courts get tougher and that mentality of "she asked for it, it was her fault" is wiped out, girls and women will continue to suffer. KRG is probably someone who can''t get a date, so thinks that the women he wants and can''t have deserve to be "put in their place". Stick to your guns ladies - and pray for Maggie and her sister as they testify...

[greeneyes222]

The good news is that the investigation is ongoing.

The bad news is that any concrete evidence still isn''t forthcoming.

I hope the family eventually learns the truth and can gain peace, and that other families learn from the mistakes made by this one.

[scugene]

Whether you sleep around or not, no one deserves
to die like that. The family needs to know what happened to their daughter. She and her friends made a error in judgement. Natalie and her family deserve peace. It is sad that there are human beings out there like the guy above.

[krg12171936]

How the hell can this be?
No body has ever been found!
She was nothing but a *** in the first place.
She should never have been allowed to be out
drinking at 1:30AM in the first place.