Mom: Aruba Suspects Know More

The mother of a missing Alabama teenager said two hotel guards detained in connection with her daughter's disappearance are innocent but three other men in custody know what happened to her.

Beth Holloway Twitty also said if she does not see results soon, she might start to believe that authorities are trying to protect the three young men.

"All three of those boys know what happened to her," Beth Holloway Twitty said during a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press in her hotel room at the Holiday Inn, the same hotel where 18-year-old Natalee Holloway was staying before she disappeared on May 30. "They all know what they did with her that night."

Holloway Twitty declined to say what she thought the young men had done or whether she thought her daughter was still alive.

The teen vanished hours before she was expected at the airport following a five-day trip to the Dutch Caribbean island with 124 classmates and seven chaperones celebrating their graduation from Mountain Brook High School, near Birmingham, Ala. Her U.S. passport and packed bags were found in her hotel room.

It has now been two weeks since Natalee Holloway vanished. There is no sign of her, and rumors outnumber hard facts, reports CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella. Reports swirled over the weekend that one of the three suspects admitted "something bad happened," that the 17-year-old confessed, that a suspect led police to a body. They all turned out to be false. Aruba's prime minister gave a rare Sunday night address on local television, promising that progress is being made, but prosecutors have yet to call Natalee's disappearance a crime, and none of the five suspects has been charged.

The three young men — the 17-year-old son of a Dutch justice ministry official and two Surinamese brothers — were detained Thursday. The two former guards who worked at a hotel not far from the Holiday Inn have been detained since June 5. Lawyers for all five have insisted their clients are innocent, and no one has been charged in the case.

The mother for the 17-year-old suspect told CBS News her son had nothing to do with it. Anita Van Der Sloot, said her son is a star student, a good athlete, with a wide circle of friends. She doesn't remember him talking about Natalee Holloway.

Van der sloot also said her son wanted to help with the search, but was advised against it.

"It drove him crazy that he couldn't do anything because of the investigation, and he wanted to go out and look, and he's still very positive that she's alive, and she's somewhere," Anita van der Sloot said.

Prime Minister Nelson Obuder went on national television Sunday night to reaffirm Aruba's commitment to solving the case. Authorities "are doing all that is possible to resolve what happened as soon as possible," he said.

But Holloway Twitty, 44, said she was not satisfied. "I'm not getting any answers," she said. "I don't feel any further along than the day I got here."

Composed but clearly tired, she said she had lost 10 pounds since the search began and was having trouble sleeping. The preschool speech pathologist spoke of drawing strength from her deep faith in God and the support of relatives and concerned Arubans.

She said she had visited the former guards — Antonius "Mickey" John, 30, and Abraham Jones, 28 — at one point in their custody and "they looked as surprised as I did with all this."

"I think they are being wrongly held," she said.

The Dutch boy and the Surinamese brothers have told police they brought Natalee Holloway to a lighthouse beside the island's Arisha Beach, but didn't get out of the car.

The brothers, Satish Kalpoe, 18, and Deepak Kalpoe, 21, also told police that Natalee and the Dutch boy had been kissing in the back seat of the car. They said they dropped her off at her hotel about 2 a.m. and last saw her being approached by a man in a security guard uniform before they drove off, a lawyer for the brothers has said.

But Holloway Twitty said that she herself reviewed security videos from the Holiday Inn and has concluded that the young men never brought her daughter back to the hotel.

"That story was a lie," she said.

Cobiella reports that not a single frame of security video at the Holiday Inn shows her coming back.

The security guards' lawyers said they will file suit Monday demanding their clients be freed. One, Noraina Pietersz, said "The prosecution is pretending it has information we don't have.This is turning into a game, carrying on an illogical investigation."

Attorney General Caren Janssen said that wasn't the case but declined to elaborate. "We are still in the middle of an investigation," she said.

Investigators have said they are pursuing all leads, and Oduber told a news conference last week that "nobody stands above the law."

Arubans tried to come to grips with all the attention their island has gotten since Holloway disappeared.

"They feel Aruba has been misrepresented in a way," Rubin Trapenberg, a spokesman for the prime minister, told CBS News Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen. "Because Aruba has always been and still is a safe island. It is an isolated case, we feel. But that doesn't mean we give it less importance. It's not every day when someone goes missing that it gets national priority and it does have it from the government."

Islanders and tourists attended church services Sunday to pray for the teen.

Valerie Stanton, a 35-year-old computer technician visiting from Washington, D.C., prayed at the Alto Vista chapel outside the capital. "This could happen in any city and it's unfortunate a dark cloud is now over the island because people here are so nice," she said.

At the Santa Ana Catholic church in the town of Noord, also outside the capital, the Rev. Rudy Lampe told about 300 parishioners to "pray to give the family an oasis of peace."

Holloway Twitty said she will not leave Aruba until her daughter is found.

"I will not be satisfied until they give me back my daughter. I want her and I want her now."