Holloway Suspects To Appear In Court
A 20-year-old Dutch man who is a suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is scheduled to appear before a judge in Aruba Monday.
Prosecutors will seek to hold Joran van der Sloot for at least eight days while pursuing the case against him and two other suspects, brothers Satish and Deepak Kalpoe.
Prosecutors also said Monday they believe Holloway is dead.
New evidence that may include a phone record showing one of the brothers returned to the beach the night Holloway vanished without a trace, reports CBS News correspondent Maggie Rodriguez.
Van der Sloot's attorney Joe Tacopina disagrees.
"I don't believe they're going to have cell phone calls between Joran and the Kalpoe brothers," Tacopina told The Early Show. "I'm certainly convinced they're not going to have any incriminating statements by Joran on any of these tapes."
Meanwhile, lawyers for Satish Kalpoe accused prosecutors of rehashing old evidence and predicted all three suspects will be released again.
Attorneys Ronald Wix and David Kock told reporters that prosecutors gave them an 11 1/2-page summary of the evidence, and said it mostly contained segments of interrogations that had not been transcribed previously and recordings of conversations from cell phones and discussions inside the home of their client.
They disputed prosecution claims that the evidence -- submitted to a judge to justify detaining their client and the two others -- is significant or new.
"They will be acquitted. They will be freed," Wix said.
Holloway of Mountain Brook was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers on May 30th of 2005, hours before she was scheduled to return home with high school classmates celebrating their graduation on the Caribbean island. She was 18 at the time.
Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers have denied involvement in her disappearance.
Prosecutors announced the three had been re-arrested Wednesday, citing new evidence that has not been disclosed.
Aruba authorities said the hearing will be closed to the public.
Holloway's father, Dave Holloway, has commissioned a search for his daughter's body in deeper waters off the coast of Aruba than had been searched up until now, reports Rodriguez.
"My expectation, although it's a relatively low one in this case because of the history, is that we will hopefully have a situation where they interrogate him, which they've done already, make their presentation to the judge, and the judge finds there is not enough evidence to hold him and releases him, says Tacopina told The Early Show.
"I think the truth at the end of the day will set Joran free," says Tacopina.