Natalee Holloway's Dad To Search Deep Seas

(CBS/AP)  The father of missing American teenager Natalee Holloway says he and a team of experts will search for his daughter's body in waters off Aruba following the recent re-arrest of three suspects in her 2005 disappearance.

While authorities searched the sea to depths of 330 feet, Dave Holloway told The Associated Press that he believes his 18-year-old daughter was thrown into deeper waters - a belief based on talks with a police official and a private forensic expert.

Holloway said a private boat owner is providing divers, sonar equipment and the ability to map the ocean floor.

"It's like this: we've searched all the land areas ... It's common knowledge on the island that if someone were to dispose of the body, it would be out in the ocean," he said by telephone

Holloway said he would alert police on the Dutch Caribbean island if anything is found.

Authorities announced Wednesday they had found "new incriminating evidence" and re-arrested three men - Dutch student Joran van der Sloot and brothers Satish and Deepak Kalpoe of Suriname - on suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in Holloway's death.

Holloway 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

"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.

The 18-year-old from Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen leaving a bar with the three men on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to fly home with high school classmates celebrating their graduation.

A search by hundreds of volunteers, soldiers, police and FBI agents - even Dutch air force planes - turned up no trace of her.

Holloway's father, Dave Holloway, is a graduate of Jonesboro Westside High School in Arkansas who now lives in Meridian, Miss. The teenager has other family members living in the Jonesboro area, a grandmother in Pine Bluff, Ark., and an aunt in El Dorado, Ark.

(AP)

Van der Sloot, seen left, and the Kalpoe brothers were first detained in June 2005, but they denied involvement in the woman's death and a judge later released them for lack of evidence.

Van der Sloot, 20, was re-arrested in the Netherlands, where he was attending a university. The Kalpoe brothers - Deepak is 24, Satish, 21 - were taken into custody in Aruba.

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."

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[pam1sadge]

Good luck to the Halloway family. They are looking for closure and answers and I hope they get what they are seeking.

To all of you people who are making inhumane comments think about your karma. One day this could happen to you and you might just be able to understand a loss of this enormity. Shame on you! Learn some compassion if that is possible.

[judyd123]

I can understand the pain of Natalee''s parents because I am a mother also and the unimaginable pain that they go through just not knowing for sure what happened to there daughter is almost more than the human soul can bear. I hate to see people making remarks as if.. oh, well, let''s all move on because this story is just a little old. Please have a little empathy for people because, after all, you could one day be in a situation where you would like some understanding and hey, it just might not be there. I pray that there will be ANSWERS in this case but I know statistics don''t bear that out because of time and of course the expanse of the ocean. One day the people who did this terrible things will pay when they go before the Almighty but I fear only then will justice be truly done. And to you dear parents.....I pray for peace in all this, the peace that passes understanding.

[keithle1]

Young women need to stay sober while in the company of men they don''t know well. When a woman gets drunk, she has to rely on the men around her to act like gentlemen. Not a good position to be in.

[gmond]

Spoiled rich kids are the same anywhere in the world. The boys dumped her someplace when she no longer amused them and left her there, and most likely don''t know and most definitely don''t care if she was alive or dead or what happened to her after that. I can''t believe they could enlist help to cover up her murder, dump her body in the sea or sell her into white slavery, these are just rich little hedonists who hooked up with the wrong girl on the wrong night and tried to brazen it out to show how cool and tough they are when they were arrested, just like any young protected punk would behave.

[Krazcarl]

It''s a fools errend finding a body on the ocean floor is the equevilent of winning megabucks. I understand dad wanting to bring his daughter home but grew up on the coast of Me. in colder waters occasionaly a fisherman would net a body or at least that''s how the stories went. I believe these punks know a lot more than there telling and should be leaned on hard and looks like that is whats going on she could easily be in a shallow grave. I wish pops luck but it took them nearly a 100 years to find the titanic and they had an idea of where she was. There is no need to bring up gory details but there are 100''s of creatures in the sea.At this point the best thing to do is set up a educational memorial in her name so her legacy can live on not spend 10''s of 1000''s of dollars without any better info than you have unless he has obtained some reliable information off the record.

[mjmarjo]

I have read the book. These creeps gave different reports of what happened to the police every time they were interviewed. Van der Sloot states Natalie kept falling asleep and waking up and describes her underwear and what he did to her. If she was incoherant I would call that sexual assualt. I believe he should be in jail. Daddy cannot protect him in jail.

[kailumego1]

newster1, from my understanding sharks don''t eat people, because they are absent of "blubber", not enough fat, too lean, don''t like the taste...

Sharks munch on blubber, that''s why they are attracted to seals, sea lions, and whales, for the "blubber".

Now the sharks may bite off a limb, but he/she won''t eat it, so maybe if they search the bottom..

Now, as for scavenger fish and bacteria, that''s another question altogether..

They''ll never find her body, there are other ways to dispose of a body besides casting it out to sea, such as mutilation and decapitation. And if they had cast her body at sea, don''t you think they would have applied a heavy object, e.g. an anchor to weigh her down..

With all the missing men, women, and children, why is the press giving such nonsensical attention to this one?

Either she''s dead or has been sold into "human trafficking", of which they''ll never find her, hundreds/thousands are sold throughout Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, etc., it''s only when it touches Americans when it becomes paramount.

[keithle1]

Good luck finding her.

You''re not wasting your time, Dad. Oh no. I''m sure she''s floating face-down out there somewhere.

[nothappyatall]

"Her familys 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."

And it all begins again witht he non headlines of "3 arrested AGAIN", give us the headlines if they are CONVICTED, not everytime the 3 men *** or every time Nat''s mom has her period, I''m sick of these people already.

"I dont believe that Natalee Holloway is dead. Her body never surfaced from the water"
Rosie1012

Belief doesn''t make it so, ever hear of SHARKS? just because a body doesn''t float up or surface doesn''t mean a thing out there in the open waters, what do you think those fish, sharks and bacteria EAT?
A shark of any size could make short work of a body in minutes, there wouldn''t be anything left to float up and wash ashore.

[erasmus6]

Let''s hope other kids learn that it isn''t safe to leave your friends and go with THREE guys you don''t know. What would possess someone to do this?