Natalee Holloway's Dad To Search Deep Seas
Father Of Missing Teen Says He Believes Daughter's Body Was Thrown Into Deeper Waters
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Natalee Holloway, 18, left stands with her father Dave Holloway on her graduation day from Mountain Brook High School in Mountain Brook, Alabama, Tuesday, May 24, 2005. (AP)
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This is undated family photo released by Marcia Twitty shows Natalee Holloway of Mountain Brook, Ala. (AP)
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Joran van der Sloot is transferred from the police station to court in the capital city of Oranjestad, Saturday, June 11, 2005. (AP)
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Deepak Kalpoe, 21, left, and Satish Kalpoe, 18, leave court in Oranjestad, Aruba, Monday, July 4, 2005. (AP)
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Holloway Suspects Arrested
Three men have been arrested in connection with the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, who vanished while on vacation in Aruba. Kelly Cobeilla reports.
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New Evidence In Holloway Case?
Maggie Rodriguez speaks with Joran van der Sloot's lawyer and his family's private investigator about allegations that he is connected to Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba.
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Star student Natalee Holloway disappears during a senior trip to Aruba.
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.
It's common knowledge on the island that if someone were to dispose of the body, it would be out in the ocean.
Dave Holloway, fatherHolloway'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.

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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And of course the media is only too happy to be complicit. Bull_sh1t stories like this are, what, the new "opium of the masses"?
Oh yeah like he is going to remember all those minute stupid details now two YEARS later. These people are insane and obsessed, now the father is going to basically dredge the entire ocean around Aruba now after TWO YEARS???? anyone really think anything is left of a body dumped overboard that long ago? I''d say the sharks and other fish out there long ago consumed the flesh.
I''m really sick of these people and their pathetic story, hundreds of people go missing every day, and THEY don''t get the massive press this one family has the last 2 years, and it''s ONLY because the girl is a typical white bread blond, if she was black you would barely even have heard of the case.
Posted by reaper221"
Keeping heat on cops is going to produce evidence that doesn''t exist, unless you are happy with charging an innocent person with a crime they didn''t commit, or trying to frame very shoddy "evidence" on someone so the case goes away?
If the 3 were smart they would keep quiet, admit nothing, say nothing and Dec 31st the statute of limitations expires and the whole thing goes away, then hopefully WE won''t hear about this tiresome case and those tiresome parents'' obsession any more.
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Posted by cactuscomet
"A child is dead & justice must be served. "
HDINSIGHT
She was not a "child" she was 18, that''s adult.
You are assuming she was murdered, there is no evidence of that, like I said, chances are excellent she went for one last swim in her DRUNKEN condition and drowned, the tide and currents took her out to sea before daybreak, and soon after the sharks and other fish ate the meat and whatever else they could.
I was going to vote for Ron Paul, but Phrophet convinced me only whackos support Ron Paul.
There hasn''t been any hard evidence found either way.
I hope the family finds closure to, this is a terrible tragedy. And I hope that whoever did this pays for his/her crime.
But it is also a tragedy that people are so quick to judge as guilty whomever the media has pegged.
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"The questions they asked were so obvious: things like, ''Why did Joran leave his shoes on the beach?"'' she said, referring to the place where her son said he kissed Holloway alone before her disappearance. "I think it''s ridiculous after two-and-a-half years to be doing this."
I bet she does think it''s ridiculous. She wouldn''t if the scenario were different and her son was missing. All the people that wish this story would go away because it is somehow an inconvenience to them would feel diffently if it were their child. I would love for any of you to post back and actually say, "If it were my child, I would just let it go after so long a time, so other less fortunate families can have air-time for their missing relatives." Give me a break.
I think she was so drunk she passed out on the beach and drowned. But I guess if they''re determined to blame those boys, they won''t stop until they succeed.
If it were my child I would never stop looking for answers BUT I would not participate in endless blow-by-blow media coverage either, for my own sanity. The media can be helpful to a point, but at this late date it feels self-serving and ghoulish.
I see your point. Makes sense, but some of these posts are so cruel, that I still find it hard to believe that they would feel exactly the same way if it were their child. If they care nothing for the missing teen, you''d think they would at least want to know if there were criminals that needed to be removed from society. As young as these suspects are, if they are guilty, imagine how many more people they will victimize in their lifetimes. As far as the media going overboard is concerned, you are probably right, but even if they went overboard to this extent on every missing person''s case no matter what race, etc...some would still be offended because of "too much coverage" and it doesn''t concern them, so "big deal". Just my opionion, though.
That said, the story is out of hand. The media has basically convicted these three of being murderers when, in fact it is entirely possible that as drunk as Natalee was, she could very well have drowned accidently.
I don''t think that the media is helping the case get solved. If it was, I would be all for the coverage. However, as it stands, I think the media is just making a circus out of this and this website is a prime example.
And for that reason I can see why some individuals have developed apathy for this story, there are hundreds/thousands of missing men and women, now tell me when does the media have time to cover at least 1% of them, for blasting stories of missing young white women all over front page...
Now you think those mothers and fathers are any less grieved stricken than Natalie Holloway''s parents?
1. Most likely scenario: Alcohol/drugs resulting in some sort of accidental death. Some or all of the suspects know something but freaked out and have been trying to cover their tracks ever since. New "evidence" will likely have little or no impact.
2. Next most likely scenario: She disappeared because she wanted to, for reasons known only to her. Alive & well in Rio (or wherever).
Alot to be said for persistence, but if Scenario 1 applies chances of finding something in the ocean 2.5 years later are less than chances of winning Powerball.
WWRPD? (What Would Ron Paul Do?)
We all know what happened, and so do those three young men. They need to save their souls and tell the truth.
Judge not and you will not be judged.
This is a disgrace, to the families whose love ones memory has been purposefully swept under the rug, or given the back seat for this continuous saga of Natalie Holloway.
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 ride" of redundancy..
I assume there are no sharks or other flesh eating creatures in the sea, if that is where she is?
For the amount of time spent searching the sea, I am sure we could find 1,000,000 missing people somewhere on land.
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.
You''re not wasting your time, Dad. Oh no. I''m sure she''s floating face-down out there somewhere.
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.
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by pam1sadge
November 26, 2007 11:10 AM PST
- Good luck to the Halloway family. They are looking for closure and answers and I hope they get what they are seeking.
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See all 49 CommentsTo 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.