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Julia Renfro Part Deux

By Meri, Aruban Boycott Blogger

Last night, February 20th, appearing on "On The Record" with Greta Van Susteren, was the co-writer of Dave Holloway's book about Aruba and his daughter Natalee. The gentleman's name is Larry Garrison and the words that came out of his mouth were shocking and disturbing.

Greta asked him if he had persuaded Joran van der Sloot to come to NYC so that he could be served with a subpoena by the Holloway/Twitty legal team. Mr. Garrison replied that he had not attempted to get Joran to come to the USA for any other reason than he had brokered the deal between ABC and the van der Sloots for an interview that will air this week.

I should add here that it was Julia who threw down the gauntlet where Mr. Garrison was concerned and implied via telephone conversation to Greta, that Mr. Garrison had tricked Joran into coming to America.

Mr. Garrison spoke about wanting to hear "both sides of the story" since he had already co-authored a book with Natalee Holloway's father and that he wanted Joran to be able to tell his side of the story as well.

What was shocking was that when Greta asked Larry who he thought had possibly tipped off the Holloway/Twitty legal team he commented that it might have been Julia Renfro.

He stated that Julia herself, was planning on writing a book that would claim that Natalee was pregnant by her step-father (Jug Twitty) and that she had disappeared of her own volition and was probably still alive. I admit that it took me a few seconds to recover from the absurdity of this comment but when I did I decided that Julia Renfro was a far more sinister person that even I believed her to be.

According to Mr. Garrison, Julia wanted the interview with Joran and his family and was upset that a deal had been brokered elsewhere and maybe she had tipped off someone that the van der Sloots were coming to NYC and that Joran would be on a specific plane at a specific time. I don't know if Mr. Garrison spoke the truth about the "tip" because he himself was accused of convincing Joran to fly to America (which he denies) and he may have been deflecting the blame to someone else.

I DO know this...the very thought that Julia Renfro might have been planning to write a book claiming that Natalee was pregnant by her step-father is disgusting and Julia would not have one shred of proof to back this up.

As I mentioned in my first blog, Julia befriended Beth and her husband when they first came to Aruba. She offered to help them and to aid them in their search for Natalee. What made her change her mind toward these grief-stricken people who have never wanted anything but answers?

Let me offer my own ideas as to why this may have happened. Julia works for a newspaper. Newspapers like to get information before anyone else (just like all of the media whether it be print or electronic). Julia figured that by befriending Beth that she would get all of the information before anyone else did. That was not to happen because soon enough Aruba was besieged by media from all over the world. Greta was there, Rita was there, everyone was there, and Beth was followed from place to place and Greta even sat in on meetings that Beth had with the van der Sloots in their home. Greta and Rita were on the scene, "On The Record" and "Live and Direct"....Julia was left behind to pick up the crumbs.

Even El Diario got more tips than Julia's paper did. Julia must have been livid. She has so many financial interests on Aruba and so much to protect that when it began to look like the police were NOT going to communicate with the Holloway/Twitty's and that Beth was going to have to investigate her daughter's disappearance herself, I believe that Julia (like the preverbal worm), turned.

Boycott? Keystone Kops? Lies? Drugs? Sleazy Nightclubs, kids drinking and gambling underage? How must Julia have felt seeing and hearing her precious Island battered in the American media?

She began a campaign of her own and there was no Cable News Show that she wouldn't appear on. Whether via telephone interview or on satellite...Julia was there to give "the other side". She would throw in a reference here and there that indicated that the Aruban police were doing a good job, that the investigation was going strong, continuing, making progress, anything to protect her Island and her interests.

Now we hear that she was planning on writing a bogus book about a girl she never knew with facts so disgusting and salacious that I have to question what sources she used to obtain such sleaze. Maybe Joran was her source; that man of his word, that pillar of society, that good son. Who knows? I doubt that authenticity matters much to Julia Renfro, I doubt that proof and truth factored into the decision to come up with such a disgusting idea in the first place.

I am now eagerly awaiting Julia's first defensive move. I suspect that it may come first on The Abrams Report or on Rita Cosby's show or maybe even on Greta's show since the co-author made his comments on there in the first place. I expect to see Julia all over the place in the next few days. I also expect that one of the hosts of the above mentioned shows will ask the right questions of Julia, "Where did you get your information"? "How do you know that Natalee was pregnant"? "who were your sources for an allegation of such magnitude?"

Of course, Julia can refuse to give the names of her sources or answer in a vague manner. That is so-called freedom of the press isn't it? Protect your sources...even when they are either non-existent or lying?

I can't wait to hear your defense or denials Julia. Let the games begin because many of us will be watching and listening AND reporting on YOU.