New Search Begins For Natalee Holloway

Private Investigator Will Scour Pond For Clues In 2005 Case Of Missing U.S. Teen In Aruba

(AP)  The father of a U.S. teen who went missing nearly four years ago in Aruba said Sunday that a private investigator will scour a retention pond for answers that have eluded the family throughout numerous false leads and fruitless searches.

Dave Holloway Miss., said tracker dog specialist Fred Golba, from Chicopee, Massachusetts, will begin his latest search for evidence into Natalee Holloway's May 2005 disappearance early Monday. He said the tracker, who has searched for her eight times before, must be accompanied to the pond by Aruban police escorts, who delayed an anticipated weekend search.

Natalee Holloway, from Mountain Brook, Alabama, was 18 when she was last seen leaving a bar in the Aruban capital on the final night of a high school graduation trip. No trace of her has been found despite extensive searches involving hundreds of volunteers, Aruban soldiers, FBI agents and even Dutch F-16 jets with special equipment.

But Dave Holloway said a witness last year alleged that he saw the only remaining suspect, Joran van der Sloot, coming out of the brackish pond in northwest Aruba with only one sneaker on after Natalee's disappearance. He said the witness has passed a polygraph test.

“I've been looking for (nearly) four years and I intend to search all the evidence and every lead,” said Holloway, speaking to The Associated Press from his home in Meridian, Mississippi. “(The witness) saw what he saw - or he believed he saw what he saw.”

Sections of the remote pond area have been searched previously and no evidence was ever found.

Holloway said he had been waiting for the retention pond to dry up before commissioning this latest search, “but the weather has not been cooperative.”

Ann Angela, a spokeswoman for the Aruba Prosecutors' Office, said neither police nor prosecutors have any new information in the case, but they gave Dave Holloway permission to search the pond, which is about a kilometer (mile) away from where she was last seen.

Before he left for Aruba on Friday, Golba told Fox 25 television in Boston that he planned to stick his hands into the pond's muddy bottom and feel around for “bones and his sneaker” while his tracking dog searches the marshy scrubland.

“I have more confidence in this pond then anything I have done in eight trips to this island,” Golba told the TV station.

In early January, Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos said his office was “approaching the end of this lengthy investigation” and appealed to the public for help.

[LegalWatchDog]

I am very concerned for Aruba's lack of human rights. Their government needs to ensure the safety and security of their citizens (non-dutch born) and all visitors.

The game that?s played on Aruba is little more than cover up and confuse who is doing what to whom and thus condone drug trafficking, prostitution and organized crime.

It?s time for the world to ask Aruba?s justice system, what are you doing?

Violence and criminal activity is systematically tolerated by their government. Anyone who wants to stop something can not ignore law?s ability to do nothing while looking like it is doing something.

We need to communicate to Aruba the need for change. It would be to their native citizen?s benefit and to all visitors.

This is why BOYCOTTING ARUBA would be helpful not harmful.

This is why I have boycotted all Dutch islands since May 2005. It?s time for Aruba to change.

[WickedStorm]

also never give up and it is not a losing battle whether shes dead or alive its still worth fighting for and these people who have wrote mean comments about this need to get over themselves put yourself in the hollaways shoes what if it was your child? to you would it be a losing battle? NO!!!, it wouldn't be at least thats if you cared... I really hope ya'll find Natalee that poor girl has probably went through hell and she needs peace and justice... and as for the comment above saying she was shark meat and saying shes dead and gone, how the hell would you feel if it was your child or yourself? i swear this really pisses me off how people can just act like oh well it don't matter, it won't my child but what if it was your child and someone said that? its wrong and twisted and you would feel the same way that the hollaways are probably feeling right now.

[WickedStorm]

I think personally if she is still alive out there that she was kidnapped and sold into white slavery, i mean if you can't find a body and can't find any corpses or should i say remains of her then she has to still be alive which personally i hope she is because its ashame that someone so full of life and so young just disappears in a foreign country it seems to me from what i have read that the aruba authorities are covering up something and i believe that white slavery goes on in that country and whomever claimed to kill her is covering for someone and is just saying that because they were told and payed to take the wrap for the other person or probably feared that they'll be killed if they open there mouth i mean there could be many reasons and it seems to me that the police is overlooking that possibility.
i hope they do find her and i pray that shes alive and i pray for her family as well.
whether she's dead or alive i hope they find her so she can be brought to peace and i hope whomever did this to her is brought to justice.

[rrozsa]

The police on Aruba is taking this confession seriously and will be looking into every aspect and all of those who have a helping hand in this.

i found this doing a simple search...
Posted by netjunkie1 at 5:30 PM : Mar 23, 2009

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It's been at least a year (maybe two) since the recorded confession story broke. Or is there a later one that you are referring to?

[the74blaster]

I'm sorry for the loss of Natalee.. But I think you are fighting a loosing battle.. She will never be found.. Unless you can get those punks that did it to talk.. (sometimes you have to work outside the law to get results)
Posted by cornbiker at 9:57 AM : Mar 24, 2009

Unfortunately, you do have a point. What they need to play a little game called prisoners dilemma. The way its played is hook each of them up to a polygraph and ask questions without the others knowing the previous answers. The best part is the polygragh will make the interrogation process more efficeint.

When you have the answers you need take them for a little boat ride, pour 55 gallons of blood into the ocean and let them swim to shore. If anyone makes it you prosecute them.

[aziridine]

I feel for the guy. Maybe I'd do the same. The thing is if she's dead it doesn't matter. If she's not she's drugged out of her mind being pimped to drug lords for their pleasure. Either way she won't come back as Natalie.

I guess I wonder how many people have been killled since Ms Holloway and whether each has gotten he same attention. I know the answer, but I ask "Why Not?"

[edward1975-2009]

netjunkie1: That video was shot a while back and aired on 60 Minutes if I remember correctly. This young lady is no doubt dead, though I understand that the family wishes to bring her home and bury her, they need to move on. They may never find her and each new attempt just adds to the fact that closure will never be theirs. There comes a time to let go and go on with life. That time has come.

[tomhw99]

She was sold into white slavery, which is very active in South America! It is only a 30 minute boat ride from Aruba, and some rich Arab shiek is now enjoying her company! She will be well cared for!!

[SusanStoHelit]

This case has been a classic example of jumping to conclusions. Joran is the one remaining suspect - the other two so many were ready to lynch turned out to be innocent bystanders. All of the places, all of the suspects, all of the possible rumors that supposedly showed how incompetent Aruba was, to not search them - none of them have turned up anything. All the rumors spread, all the paranoia about the foreign government protecting the son of a failed judge candidate - it all boiled down to nothing.

Natalee went off with Joran, part of a night of partying, extending her last night in Aruba. She vanished, and whatever happened, no evidence was left anywhere. After jailing and persecuting Joran for 60 days on no evidence, with no charges - they couldn't find enough to charge him. If he had been in America - he wouldn't even have spent those 60 days in jail - we don't allow that without charges.

[brook30white]

People-
All of us and yes even those of us that are Christians have made bad choices while in our youth. I would rather have compassion for young people versus judging them and stating, that because they are not perfect or lack perfect judgment...they deserve what happened to this young girl. Shame on those people for throwing stones- with out a doubt if you are a Christian...you should have forgiveness and compassion for this young girl as well as her family!

[mjlewis6]

We have suspects, we just need a location and a body. Very likely a fair trial will entail a lot of circumstantial evidence to tie the facts together.

It is NOT PLAUSIBLE that anyone would walk away from an unconscious female in the middle of the night, Kennedy/Kopeckne jokes aside, with no trace of her body.

[socs70]

Dave & Beth,
I pray for closure for your family. ?Don?t give up? the truth will come out someday. A vigilante will some day cross the path of the culprit. It?s only a matter of time. He knows were she is. I?ll pray until she is found.

[rrozsa]

I really hope they turn something up this time. This family needs some closure, and justice for Natalee.

[dawnlite24]

Those of you on here who do not want to hear about this case that is your right but if it was my daughter missing I would be doing the same thing and making sure that it got out to all of the media as much as possible. I think you need to be a little more sensitive to this family because what if it was you and your family then how would you feel?

[klewt]

i had a much better opinion of the general public before i started reading online comments. i really can't believe how ugly and insentive so many people are! if you had a loved on missing, how would you feel to read these thing? As for it's news value -- if it doesn't interest you, go on to the next article. Why READ it, and then complain?

[hologram5]

Aruba should bar the entire Holloway family from visiting the island. As to the media - whatever the Holloway family does is their own business. Please do not bother your readership with this junk.
Posted by ramos1129 at 10:37 AM : Mar 23, 2009
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Just hope that one of your family members do not suffer the same fate as I am sure Karma will catch up with you at that point if not sooner.

[Newster1]

said Sunday that a private investigator will scour a retention pond for answers "

Oh good GAWD not this idiotic NON-story AGAIN!!!!!!!!! I swear these Twitty twits are media s.luts, so have the PI dredge the stupid pond, dont bother US with this non news unless you find a BODY there this time!!!
What'll happen is they wont find anything AGAIN, and then we'll have to read and hear all about THAT.
She's DEAD! D-E-A-D as in G-O-N-E as in SHARK FOOD when in her drunken stupor that night she decided to take a last dip in the water before heading home the next day, she passed out, drowned and the sharks got the body, case CLOSED!

[ramos1129]

Aruba should bar the entire Holloway family from visiting the island. As to the media - whatever the Holloway family does is their own business. Please do not bother your readership with this junk.

[gold_standard]

They just need to run a drag line across the pond and they will find anything if it is there. It is pretty standard procedure for finding a body under water if they can get the equipment and afford the expense.

But the police in Aruba do not want to solve this case since the suspect is politically well-connected. That might explain why they like to delay evidence hunting--to check and make sure no evidence will be found.

[moonpie2383]

Yes! Obviously! How inconciderate of you. Obviously you're just an anger person and rude! Some boy/boys have gotten away with murder...justice needs to be served.