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TV Tries To Recreate Natalee's Night

Dutch television crews are fanning across Aruba, trying to reconstruct what authorities believe were the last hours of Natalee Holloway's life.

Authorities hope the Dutch equivalent of "America's Most Wanted" will result in new clues in the search for Alabama teen, who vanished from the island last May while on a school graduation trip. The show, which is called in English "Arrest Requested," is scheduled to air on April 11.

CBS News correspondent Bianca Solorzano reports that portions of the show have been shot at the airport, on the beach where Holloway was reportedly dropped off by the Kalpoe brothers and the lighthouse where authorities are still searching for her body.

The attorney for the Kalpoe brothers, whose car Natalee was in the night she disappeared, was impounded Thursday to be used in the reenactment, Solorzano was told.

Holloway was last seen leaving a local nightclub with three males. The only three known suspects in the case remain free.

Authorities resumed their search for Holloway's body Wednesday, Solorzano adds. Searchers are scouring sand dunes in what may be a last ditch effort, using everything from cadaver dogs to sophisticated radar and digging equipment. But, so far, nothing has turned up.

This latest round of searches is based on what Aruba's deputy police chief, Gerald Dompig, described to 48 Hours correspondent Troy Roberts as "a very reliable tip."

Police from the Netherlands are in Aruba, working with local authorities, Solorzano says.

They've been searching several spots along the island, but have been focusing on a strip of dunes near a lighthouse that's one of the places the three boys previously held in the case said they had stopped with Natalee the night she disappeared.

They've also looked at a nearby pond, and a strip of beach where Holloway is said to have been dropped off that night.

Solorzano spotted a group of searchers on a beach Thursday. They reportedly will be doing searches for two weeks.

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