HOUSTON--I THINK ARUBA HAS A PROBLEM

AGAIN, ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL PROTEST!


AND ANOTHER SUCCESS IN PISSING OFF THE ATA!

Thank you Dan from TX for this report and your hard work (along with the others...if I knew who they were I'd personally thank them as well...so thank you other boycotters!)

A Great Public Interest!

We handed out all the supplies we had- probably 300-400 fliers, 50 totes, and 150 business cards! Everyone who was at the protest is really curious to know how many fliers we had because they all went like mad- I couldn't keep a flyer in my hand!


We saw two guys with cameras walk right past us, so I don't think they were with the TV stations. There was a bridal show going on in the same facility, so they may have been down there for that. As far as I can tell, no media showed up. We did get people who were willing to go in and 'talk' to the ATA booth for us.


A travel agent working at the booth (he was American) came out and chatted with us and took a photo of the protestors - no clue why, and I really don't care why. (Michelle's note: I wouldn't have done that, but it's too late. You can't trust those people, so just be careful now. You never know what they have up their dirty sleeves.) We got a couple of photos of the Aruba booth- it was pretty small, just a table really, but that seemed typical.

Note: Not the actual ATA table...just a fun
example of imaging how pathetic and
embarrassing it must have been!

The only sour note was toward the end of the day the people at the doors (security) made people coming into the show with our totes to turn them inside-out.

(And that would be for what reason? Do these idiots not realize that an 'inside-out' tote bag is going to catch someone's eye and then wonder...curiosity strikes and here come the boycotters outside with all the bad acts of Aruba and what was done (or not done-justice) to Natalee.)

That kind of sucked but I don't know what could be done about it- as far as I can tell, the convention center people have the right to dictate behavior on their property.

(Legally, I'm not sure if that constitutes a violation of freedom of speech. The tote bag was not obscene, it did not cause the person carrying the tote to create any specific "behavior", the tote did not have foul language, it was not causing a distraction that would incite a riot or disturbance. But since this was on private property, I'd have to research that one just out of principle.)

One guy also came out and told us that the ATA booth took one guy's bag away from him- apparently they demanded that he give the bag to them and he did. That was stupid since they had no right to do that, but at least we have some dirt on the ATA.

(Need I say more?)


Before we left I talked to the guy in charge of the show, and he said that the ATA had been complaining to him about the protest all day, and he had to tell them that we had permission, we were behaving, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

(When I first read that I about pissed myself laughing...ok, not really, but I was laughing pretty darn hard. The actions of the ATA are just putting more negative attention on Aruba! They have and are continuing to dig their own graves. Oh wait, there's no room for graves in Aruba...I guess it would have to be a cremation or just throwing them into the ocean, I suppose.)

THIS BOYCOTT WILL BE ANOTHER "100 YEARS WAR"


JUSTICE FOR NATALEE OR SUFFER THE
CONSEQUENCES OF THE AMERICAN CONSUMERS!

NEXT TARGET: HOUSTON--BE THERE OR BE SQUARE

The next tourism convention/protest will be on March 29-30, 2008, in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center. This brings our loud voices of protest to a grand total of SEVEN in the past year! I'm so proud of everyone who has become so involved with full faith and 110% effort in our crusade for what is right...justice.

DO IT FOR NATALEE!

Who said THE PEOPLE can't make change?
Here's your evidence!



Aruba, be prepared for the US public to be there
representing Natalee Holloway and JUSTICE.


We will continue to haunt you every day,
every minute, every second...until JUSTICE is served.


WILL YOU BE IN THE HOUSTON AREA ON MARCH 29-30?


NEEDED PASSIONATE BOYCOTTERS
AND PEACEFUL PROTESTORS


Email ME and I will 'forward' you to the next level and dimension!

michellesaysso@yahoo.com

PORN & LAWSUITS--YOU COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP...

Here's a letter to Greta from a loyal Aruban Boycott member:

Greta,

We have been discussing the absurdity of the lawsuit the ATA has planned to file against you. If the goal is to elevate the island in the minds of tourists then reminding them of the travesty of Natalee Holloway for the next several years is probably not the way to go.


There must be another reason, and here is my take.

Aruba and all the Caribbean islands are overrun by organized crime. The meager budgets of these mini-nations are no match for the immense power of the Mafias of Russia, China, Italy, Israel, and Japan to name a few.

Could it be that by keeping attention on the island they are calling out to the US and to the US media to clean up something they have no hope of cleaning up themselves?

--Bill, United States.



(Michelle's note: Aruba's media guru for their Prosecutor's Office is John Pauly, a former media consultant [gee, that leaves the imagination open for interpretation!] in Philadelphia. He is good buddies with Steve Cohen, and owns property in Aruba. He's is a "frequent flyer", so to speak, and is allegedly involved in Aruba's sexual deviancy underworld.

See a previous post on this dirty old man:

JOHN PAULY--MEDIA/SEX CONSULTANT?

MAIL BAG TIME! LETTER TO VALERO OIL

Here is a recent letter from Aruban Boycott Member, Richard to Sylvia Rodriguez, who is the community relations director for Valero Oil Company, an American company doing business in Aruba.

March 3, 2008


Ms. Sylvia Rodriguez
Manager, Community Relations
Valero Oil Co.
1 Valero Way
San Antonio, TX 78249

Dear Ms. Rodriguez:

Thank you for our telephone conversation of today, to which this letter is a follow-up. As we discussed, I am writing to urge that Valero consider donating money to Texas Equusearch to help it continue searching the waters offshore Aruba for the remains of Natalee Holloway. I have no personal affiliation with, or other ties to, Texas Equusearch.


It seems clear that an American-based company with operations in Aruba has an interest in promoting good bilateral relations. Since the disappearance of Natalee in May 2005, the reputation of Aruba has been tarnished by the seeming inability, or lack of desire, of its government to take effective action in this case. Many persons believe that elements of that government and its law enforcement have participated in a cover-up to destroy evidence and to prevent the prosecution of certain local residents last seen with Natalee.


In consequence, a movement to boycott tourism to Aruba has been gaining strength. Nelson Oduber, prime minister of that country, in January said on Dutch television that Aruba already has lost tens of millions of dollars in tourist revenue owing to this case.


So far, American generosity, American volunteers, and American determination have achieved searches on land and in the ocean. The latter have been suspended owing to lack of money; however, the searchers are convinced that they have successfully mapped the ocean floor and identified every possible location where her remains might be. If you call Texas Equusearch at 281-309-9500, they can certainly provide more information.


Here is where Valero can play a role. It is in the interest of ordinary Aruban citizens, as well as Natalee's grieving family, to find answers. Texas Equusearch now seems best equipped to provide them. Helping this group is not a partisan activity, or interference in foreign relations, but an action of decency and compassion. I have donated to them as I am able; were you to do likewise, it would be hailed by all those who seek simple justice.


Sincerely, (Richard)

"AND WE SEE YOUR TRUE COLORS SHININ' THROUGH..."

ORANJESTAD -- Patrick van der Eem has threatened Poentje Castro of the programme Un Dia Den Bida, with death. That's what Castro said today and he wants to report this with the police. He showed the recording he made from Van der Eem live on TV last Sunday.


Van der Eem called Castro on the phone immediately after the broadcast; he was very angry...Van der Eem said at certain point during the interview that he had known Joran van der Sloot for years. (Which is contrary to what he has previously stated) He also said that he knows who had thrown Natalee Holloway into the sea.


Castro says that TeleAruba management didn't venture to do this, because they were afraid to be sued. TeleCuracao and the Dutch current affairs Nova and De wereld draait door have indicated their interest in broadcasting the integral images. Director Robert Kelly of TeleAruba said in a reaction that the recordings are 'illegal'. "The person in the recording didn't know that he was being recorded and that can have legal consequences." (How is that possible, if Joran was unknowingly recorded? He was in a public place. Where's the legality of that when Joran has no legal recourse under the same situation? The 'picking and choosing' of what is legal and what isn't is LUDICROUS!)


What's important for Castro is that 'the questionable image' of Van der Eem is shown. "Van der Eem is a dubious person with a big mouth. His scar shows that the underworld had already made that clear; they mutilated him. With what he told me, he confessed who he really is. He says that he wants to help the Aruban people solve the case, but what he really wants is make money. He wants to become a millionaire."

Hey Patrick...that 'ain't gonna happen...keep on dreaming.

Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
I said dreamer, your'e nothing but a dreamer
Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
Oh no!

Take a dream on a Sunday
Take a life, take a holiday
Take a lie, take a dreamer
Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream along...


--Supertramp "Dreamer"

GEE...WHAT ARE "FRIENDS" FOR?

Patrick van der Eem, the man who helped secretly record Joran van der Sloot confessing to being with Natalee Holloway when she died, has himself been secretly recorded by an Aruban tv company, Dutch media report on Friday.


After an interview on a local television station, Van der Eem carried on talking, thinking the cameras had been switched off. But instead he was recorded saying that he knew who had dumped Natalee's body at sea and that Van der Sloot had asked him for €2,000 to buy the man's silence.


Van der Eem was also heard saying he had known Van der Sloot for several years. He previously claimed he befriended Joran in a Nijmegen casino in 2007.


According to the Telegraaf, Van der Eem expects to become a millionaire because of his role in the Holloway affair. 'And I will make sure that Joran and his entire family fall flat on their face. They had better emigrate to Africa."

WHO DOESN'T WANT TO
MAKE MONEY OFF THIS TRAGEDY???

Parts of the interview, which was recorded in Papiamento two weeks ago, have already been aired by TeleAruba. The interview was made following the news that Van der Eem has signed a US book deal. News agency ANP reports that Van der Eem was furious after the partial broadcasts and has threatened interviewer Poentje Castro. Castro is seeking legal advice, ANP said.


http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/03/friend_knows_who_dumped_natale.php

SATISH SAYS SO...

SATISH KALPOE: "I have met Freddy two times after it was confessed that the girl became missing...the second time was when Joran, my brother and I took the camera to Freddy’s house. We delivered the camera to Freddy, and afterwards all four of us ate Chinese in the area of Freddy’s house." (Source)

What camera? We all know that Freddy enjoys taking pictures of willing and unsuspecting women. Often underage, of course. Was this camera ever seized from Freddy? Are there pictures on any hard drives? Was this EVER checked out by the Aruban police?

I doubt it, don't you?

A LETTER TO JOSSY MANSUR

From Richard, Aruban Boycott Member


On February 18 I wrote to you suggesting that your newspaper, which has been a consistent voice in Aruba seeking justice for Natalee Holloway, might consider taking on a leading role in seeking donations there for the Persistence. Despite press reports that Arubans were outraged at the recent videotapes of Joran van der Sloot, they seem indifferent ito what seems to be the most promising effort to solve this mystery.


It was recently announced that the Persistence is returning to the United States, at least for a time, owing to a lack of operating funds. The crew are convinced that they have identified all items likely to contain Natalee's body. But with their efforts over for now, Natalee's family are left in the most cruel position imaginable. I dare not think of their anguish.


As a supporter of the family, I am asking that you redouble what efforts you have made for their behalf. Let those Arubans who profess sympathy for the family do something useful; give them a way to contribute. You perhaps have read on certain blogs that efforts to promote the 'boycott Aruba' campaign are continuing, and are drawing new vigor. The crime took place on Aruba; let the people there show that they are genuinely concerned, as otherwise the consequences for them may not be pleasant.


I deeply appreciate your attention and assistance on this matter. I am certain that you want an end to this case, and that you agree that no guilty party should escape punishment. The attitude of the Aruban government seems to be otherwise; if that is so, then Aruba's main business, tourism, shall bear the consequences. I cannot think of a greater service that you can render to the Aruban people than to convince them of the urgency to help find answers.


Thank you again for taking the time to read this.

SECOND ANNUAL NEW YORK ATA PROTEST A SUCCESS!

Aaah...New York City.
My absolute favorite city in the entire planet.

What a great place to send a great message.
I'm so glad our message reached one of
the largest and most prominent cities in the world!

WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE!


We Refuse to Give Up Aruba!
Bring us Natalee!
Put Joran in Prison!

The Aruba Display Man (a/k/a "The Fool on the Hill")
Don't you like my Beatles references this morning?

"He's a real nowhere man,
sitting in his nowhere land, making
all his nowhere plans for nobody."

**Kathy, thanks for the pics and all you do!

ANGELA HARENZA! WAY TO GO!

Angela, kudos to you and your fabulous article, and most importantly, taking the time out and writing your local paper about donating money for Persistence to continue its search for Natalee! It is caring, self-less proactive citizens like you that make every bit of difference. I am so proud to say that you are a member and a valuable part of this boycott--and now a movement.

Way to Go Girl!

Search crew continues to hold out hope

Sometimes, it is just time to ask for help. Those of us who have devoted the past "almost" three years to finding and returning Natalee Holloway to American soil have reached that time. We need you. We need your help, your hope, your prayers... and yes... we need you to make a donation to allow us to finish the search and bring Natalee home.


Natalee Holloway, a then-recent American High School graduate, traveled to Aruba to celebrate what should have been a wonderful milestone on her way to a fulfilling education and eventual career in medicine. The night before she should have returned home, she instead, disappeared off the face of the earth. Natalee was last seen with an island resident named Joran Van der Sloot who said he didn't know what happened to her. He has since made the horrific admission that he dumped Natalee's seemingly-lifeless body into the cold ocean depths offshore from the beach where he'd taken her.


Kemah businessman, Louis Schafer, has personally spent in excess of a million dollars over the last four months funding a sophisticated, deep sea survey boat, named the Persistence. This aptly named ship, and her wonderful crew, have surveyed the entire 50-square miles area off Aruba. Schafer says, "We have identified at least 60 of the targets. We have about 150 more targets to inspect." Any one of those remaining 150 "targets" could be the remains of our missing American teenager. He went on to say, "We have completely mapped the ocean floor, we know every object that's there, we know every object that could be a container holding her in the sea."




Unfortunately, right now... with the recovery of Natalee within our grasp, the money has run out.


With just 150 objects remaining to be inspected, we are at the brink of finding Natalee or... incredible as it sounds to our hearts... abandoning the effort, coming home empty-handed... and never knowing, never knowing... did we have her right there amongst those targets. Tragically too... not finding Natalee and whatever evidence may be submerged with her... will almost certainly allow the perpetrator of this terrible crime to forever escape the justice deserved.




Texas Equusearch is the non-profit organization. Words can't express how desperately we hope they will hear from you. They can be contacted at: 281-309-9500 (www.texasequusearch.org) We need you. Can you help?



http://www.meridianstar.com/opinion/local_story_062005533.html

WHAT IN THE HELL IS CHENEY DOING IN ARUBA?

WTF??

VP Cheney and Air Force 2 in Aruba????

by Greta Van Susteren

I have received a few emails this morning telling me that VP Dick Cheney, via Air Force 2, is in Aruba……that the plane arrived about 9pm last night and is to leave Monday morning…and that the VP’s security was given permission to carry guns while in Aruba which is routine. We need security for our leaders when they are out of the country (and in the country, too!!)


Here is one article sent to me which is not helpful…(for obvious reasons) but at least corroborates all the tips I am getting that the VP is in Aruba.


http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/03/01/air-force-2-in-aruba/

JORAN & BRITNEY IN THE SAME WARD?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Part II

Has Joran FLIPPED OUT?

ORANJESTAD - Joran van der Sloot has spend the past week internally in a psychiatric Institute in the Netherlands. This was confirmed recently by his close family. The motive of this was because Joran had flipped and wasn’t himself anymore.

It therefore was necessary that he spend time internally and was given treatment necessary better health. This news did not come as a surprise here, to see the inner state van der Sloot was in and the way he was acting by which he involved himself in the case of Natalee Holloway. A youngster of his age, getting so much negative attention will crack any minute.

Comments one can hear on the news here, that this did not come as a surprise. In the past his family wanted to give psychiatric attention because of his bothersome actions within the family. There have been several attempts to have him undergoing treatment of a psychiatrist.

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2008/02/28/is-joran-van-der-sloot-in-a-psychiatric-hospital-in-the-netherlands/

SECOND ANNUAL BOYCOTT OF ARUBA IN BOSTON A SUCCESS!

"We'll freeze for Natalee!"

Note: These folks are not just "Monkeys"
they are Aruban Boycott members as well.

People couldn't wait to snatch up all
the 'goodies' the boycotters provided
to all interested individuals! And boy, there
were some really interested and livid people!

Boycotters being bombarded
by onlookers.

"Where is Natalee?"
"Why haven't they arrested Joran?"
"I don't plan on going to Aruba ever!
"Her poor parents!"
"What a travesty of justice!"

PARADISE "LOST"--ARUBA NEVER TO BE THE SAME

An Island Paradise? Or an Island Nightmare?

All the non-believers of Natalee were in for a big surprise, as her friends, Laraine Watson and Claire Fierman didn't say anything bad about Natalee and certainly nothing incriminating nor atypical behavior from a straight A, naive and sweet girl.

PAULUS = DAURY?

I wonder if Paulus watched or read any of this because it's been said by Art Wood that Paulus = Daury. Is Daddy Sloot afraid of getting caught? Joran will never give him up. So who will? His "judicial friends"? I highly doubt it. Last year a confidential source told me that Paulus has more clout on the island than we ever imagined. As Joran would say, Paulus has "shit on them, too (governmental officials, etc).

There is a myriad of interesting activities on the Island of Aruba..after hours sex shows, child prostitutes, drugs of any kind, homosexual encounters, and shady money/business dealings. He's got all of his conspirators in his back pocket. As long as the Prosecution keeps on with the infamous "catch and release" facade, Paulus stays out of the spot light, along with his precious psychopath son, Joran.


(These are excerpts from Dateline with Chris Hanson (You know him from his undercover show, "To Catch a Predator"...how fitting.)

Watch VIDEO HERE

Beth Holloway explained her excitement, yet concern about the trip to Aruba, "I was excited the Mountain Brook students had been there the previous two years. Even my step-son -- the year 2003. And there were going to be over 150 plus classmates. So, we felt like, you know, there's safety in numbers."


She felt good about it except for one troubling piece of information about a nightspot down there, a bar called Carlos 'n Charlie's. "My step-son had had an encounter at Carlos 'n Charlie's during 2003," Beth stated.


She continued with the negative story her step-brother experienced. Beth's step-son told her that the locals had coaxed some young females into leaving the establishment with them… and he (the step-son) stepped in at the last minute because just didn't feel good about the situation, you know, with them, and he stepped in at the last minute because of the situation."

But class member Laraine Watson, who's never spoken publicly about their trip, or Natalee's last night, until now, says it couldn't have started better. "We were so excited. I mean, it was a tropical paradise... without our parents! Together."


Claire Fierman had been friends with Natalee since they met in junior high. "We were on the beach. We stayed outside all day. You'd usually take a nap, get dressed, go eat dinner, and then go to one of the bars. Come home whenever you wanted to."


On the last night of the trip, Sunday, May 29, Natalee and her friends headed down to the hotel casino. They soon struck up a conversation with a young man. He said he was 19 years old, a tourist visiting from Holland. His name was Joran.


Laraine Watson stated, "I met him in the casino and I didn't shake his hand or anything, I just said, 'Who's that?' when my friends introduced me."


Chris Hansen: What did you make of him?


Laraine Watson: He just looks like an average, normal high school guy. I mean, I remember he's really tall. I remember looking at him thinking, "Oh, who's that guy?" You know, he's hanging out with my friends.


Chris Hansen: What was the 'buzz' on him with the rest of the gang?


Laraine Watson: You know, I don't know if he initially came up to my girlfriends and said, "Hey." and started talking to them. Or if they approached him. But Natalee was in there when I saw him near the blackjack table. And I don't know if they were even talking. I just remember seeing him and wondering what he was doing hanging out with my friends.


Chris Hansen: Did he create any suspicions?

Laraine Watson: Not really. I just was curious to see who the boy was. I wasn't really suspicious. I mean, he's going to come out with us later.


In fact, Joran did join Natalee and her friends later at that same well-known nightspot that had worried Natalee's mom.


Laraine Watson: It was fun. I mean, when you go with a big group of your friends out to a bar, it's fun. And we were legal. You know, we were 18 and we could drink. Joran seemed to fit right in with the hundred-plus kids from Mountain Brook, who essentially took over the bar Sunday night.


Chris Hansen: Did you see him at Carlos 'n Charlie's that night?


Laraine Watson: I did see him. I didn't talk to them. I just saw him dancing.


Chris Hansen: Did you see him have any interaction with Natalee at all?


Laraine Watson: No.


Chris Hansen: What time did you wrap it up at the bar that night?


Laraine Watson: I think the bar closed at 1:00 a.m. So, we pretty much left when the bar closed. So, you know, the last song came on..."Sweet Home Alabama" came on. I think they all knew we were from Alabama, so they played it for us. And we went outside and started trying to get in taxi cabs to get back to our hotel. And it was kind of chaotic.


Chris Hansen: Did you think that's how Natalee got separated from the rest of the crowd?


Laraine Watson: I do. I do. I didn't see her in the car that she was last seen in. But some other members of the group did see who Natalee had gone off with. They didn't think anything of it at the time but she had gone off with Joran and some of his friends. The next morning, Monday, the group was scheduled to catch flights taking them all back home. But at the Holiday Inn, no one had seen Natalee.


Claire Fierman: So, I'm boarding my plane. One of our friends, Francis Ellen, comes running through the airport, grabs me as I'm getting on my plane and says, "Natalee is not coming home. We can't find her." And I say, "Beth is going to be so mad." Because my initial reaction is she's overslept. Where is she? You know, it wasn't panic.


But as Natalee's plane pulled away from the gate panic did begin to set in. Less than 12 hours after her daughter Natalee was reported missing, Beth Holloway Twitty's plane touched down in Aruba. She was joined by her then-husband Jug and a few friends from home, and the group wasted no time tracking down clues about what had happened to Natalee.


Their first stop: the Holiday Inn -- where Natalee had stayed --- and where they began asking questions about that Dutch tourist named Joran. Beth Holloway: So, all I did was give this little bit of information to the nighttime manager and she knew instantly who he was. ...Minutes later the group from Alabama was arriving at his family's home.


By now police had arrived at the house and Paulus van der Sloot, a politically-connected legal official, hovered as police questioned his son, Joran. And when it came to the key question -- when did Joran last see Natalee -- he said that he and two friends, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe -- had dropped her off at her hotel around 2 am. End of story.


By now at least 20 people had gathered around -- Beth, her husband, their friends, and police -- and they all got in cars and headed back to the Holiday Inn. At the Holiday Inn, Joran himself showed Beth and the group where he had supposedly left Natalee, right at the hotel's front entrance. Beth Holloway: So, he spread his arms out. Said, "This is where I dropped her off." and he explained how she got out of the car, and she stumbled. And he said, "She fell and she hit her head."

The Next Morning

The group tried to get some rest, and the next morning Beth went to the police station hoping to follow up on what she had learned the night before.

Beth Holloway: (After they arrived at the police station) The lead detective (Dennis Jacobs), told me that he would have to have a shave. And he rubbed his cheeks, and his stretched his arms down to his large stomach and said he would have to have his Frosted Flakes first before he could deal with me. And then, after two hours, he came out and said that he'd changed his mind. That he didn't need to meet with us after all.


The next day Beth was back at the police station and this time the detective had questions for her. "He asked me if Natalee ever had a history of seizures or epilepsy? And I said, "No." Beth Holloway Twitty says she didn't understand the significance of that question at the time and wouldn't for more than two years. But soon after that question was posed to her, there were arrests in the case. Just not who she thought. Then the family brought in a hard-charging, hard-living Texan named Tim Miller. If anyone could find Natalee, they thought that perhaps he could.

Watch Tim Miller's VIDEO HERE

Little did Tim Miller know, but he'd spend nearly a year of his life in Aruba knocking on doors, hunting down leads, sifting the sand -- and the sea. "I'll never forget that day when Dave Holloway's in the bottom of that well on Natalee's birthday, putting trash in a bucket, and I'm pulling it up thinking, 'Maybe they put Natalee in a well and threw trash on top of her.' And I said, 'It's a hell of a way to spend your daughter's birthday.' I said, 'Dave, get out of that hole.'


And so, he got out, and I went down. And then he said, 'Tim, get out of that hole.' He said, 'I'm leaving Aruba. I will never come back here again.' "


But Tim Miller says that very day, in October, 2005, there was a turning point. The deputy police chief saw Miller and Dave Holloway and shared a hunch. Miller said, "There's no need for you all to be searching the landfill anymore." He said, "I think you all need to be out in the sea, three to five miles."


Soon, there was another tip -- one that seemed to add credibility to that theory. On the night Natalee disappeared, Miller learned that there had been a break-in at a fisherman's hut on the beach. Among the missing items --- a metal and wire box --- a fish trap. Miller wondered if they could have used it to dispose of Natalee's body and weigh her down at sea so her body couldn't be discovered.


"Well, we talked to a lot of people in Aruba. And they say 90 percent of anybody that drowns on that side of the island, their bodies will float up to the banks of Venezuela. I don't think that they was willing to take a risk on Natalee's body floating." Miller was determined to launch a search, but one sophisticated enough to find a target so tiny -- a fish trap -- in an area so vast seemed just about impossible.

Louis Schaefer & The Persistence



How a ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicles) Works

Until Louis Schaefer entered the picture. Schaefer is a self-made multimillionaire who made hisfortune in the underwater exploration business. Schaefer was one of the few people in the world with the expertise to help find Natalee's body if Tim Miller's theory was correct. And he was offering his services free of charge.


The plan was to use high-tech equipment to map the ocean floor off Aruba, and then, step-by-step, use state of the art equipment to scan the bottom for anything that looked like it could contain Natalee's remains. Just before Thanksgiving, 2007, Dave Holloway came to see the Persistence -- the vessel that he hoped would bring Natalee home. "There's been times, I'll be honest with you, you look up at the sky at night, or get up and you can't sleep. Look up at the stars. Think, God help us. Answer some prayers for us," stated Holloway.


In November 2007, Tim Miller and Dave Holloway went to New Iberia, La., to see off the research vessel named Persistence. Dave Holloway said, "Your boat says it all -- persistence. I've been persistent, and Tim's been persistent and everybody else is going to be persistent."

Example of a ROV in progress

Dave Holloway: And when this went out, I thought, gosh, the only thing I can hold on to is, is this

boat search. I said, that's my last hope. That's my very last hope.

Tim Miller: The sea has always been calling us back.


In December 2007, Miller returned to Aruba, and based on his theory and study of water currents, literally drew a line in the sand.


Tim Miller: I stepped on the boat and said "Natalee we're coming to get you." Now we're finally coming to get you. And I still believe that from the bottom of my heart. She's out here and now we're on our way.


On Christmas Eve sonar pictures revealed what looked like a large trap, almost exactly where Tim Miller theorized it would be. And on Dec. 29 the crew dropped a remote operated vehicle, or ROV, into the water to get a closer look. Tim Miller: It looked like a skull. Still looks like a skull.


Tim Miller: I'm thinking at this point, "Oh, my God, maybe we've got something. Maybe we've got something." Could they have found her? Or was hope, perhaps, making them see what they wanted to see?


Tim Miller: In my years of searching we have seen several bodies, skeletal remains--I have seen my own daughter's skeletal remains. I can't help but believe at this moment that that is human remains in that crab trap. Tim Miller couldn't help but think that the date they first saw that trap -- Christmas eve -- was a sign that just maybe they were on to something.


Tim Miller: Maybe that was some of God's timing. I hope maybe Beth and Dave can have what they have been looking for two and half years. , "Dave, we found her." Dave Holloway: "Are you sure?" and he said, "I'm 99.9 percent sure." He said, "We hadn't gone down and dove under or anything. But the photographs--" he said, "I tell you, Dave." I-- he said, "That's what we're looking for. And that's gotta-- that-- that's it."



Tim Miller: Everything was going right. That morning there was actually a double rainbow when we got started. Another sign from above? A school of dolphins followed the Persistence as it sailed out to the target.


Tim Miller: I know I looked at somebody on the boat, and I said, "The-- the dolphins are going with us to go ahead and get Natalee."

An answer from the depths

The researchers had discovered a fish trap about 90 feet below the surface in almost the exact spot search expert Tim Miller had theorized Natalee's body might be. The divers approached the target and signaled above. And then...it's thumbs down. Negative, not it. A crushing disappointment. To be sure there was no relevant evidence, material from the trap was given to the FBI.


For the Holloways, though, another wild ride began. Natalee Holloway's parents were about to be thrown another bombshell --perhaps the biggest yet. An elaborate hidden camera sting in the Netherlands, arranged by Dutch reporter Peter de Vries, caught Joran van der Sloot on tape with a man named Patrick who had gained his trust.


Van der Sloot not only said he was with Natalee when she collapsed on a beach, but that he had a friend with a boat get rid of her body. For Dave Holloway, watching the show was the most painful moment yet.


Dave Holloway: It was a good thing he-- there was an ocean between us and Holland, because I would have come after him.


Though the tape was difficult to watch, for Natalee's parents it seemed to confirm many things they have believed all along. First and foremost that Joran was with Natalee -- and had something to do with her disappearance.


Beth Holloway: I wanted to come to the TV and kill him. I wanted to peel his skin off his face. Second, that her body was, indeed, dumped at sea.


Tim Miller: You know, I think there's a lot of truth in it. And I think it validates what we've been wanting to do for the last couple of years, and that's search that water. But for Natalee's mother, there was something else about the tape that was particularly revealing.


On the tape, Joran van der Sloot says all of a sudden it was like a scene from a movie, the way Natalee was moving. "Shaking?" his friend asked. "Yes," he answered. When Beth heard van der Sloot describe what happened, she said it not only made sense, it confirmed to her what she had believed from the start.


Beth Holloway: The facts are within 48 hours of Natalee's disappearance, a lead detective asked me if she had a history of epilepsy or seizures. Two and a half years later, the main suspect himself, admits that Natalee -- he felt as if she suffered an epilepsy or seizure. And he even indicates how she's shaking. So, if we look at just that one-- just that one piece, that's one thread out of a lot. Then, I have to say yes, there definitely was some collusion and corruption going on in the early days of Natalee's disappearance. Absolutely.

Excuses From Corrupt Morons

However, according to the prosecutor's office it's standard procedure to ask if a missing person might have a seizure disorder. Police and prosecution officials declined on-camera interviews, but have consistently denied that there was any corruption, collusion or mishandling of the investigation. The director of Aruba's hotel and tourism association says everyone wishes the Holloway case had been treated more urgently in the first 48 hours, but that police wrongdoing was certainly not an issue.


Rob Smith: In fact, quite the opposite, you know, our island is very focused on tourism, so we've put a tremendous amount of effort into solving this case, millions and millions of dollars from our police budget have been focused on nothing but bringing resolution for the family. Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers insist they had nothing to do with Natalee's disappearance or death. And when it comes to that videotape, van der Sloot claims he was lying, impaired by marijuana. After the hidden camera footage aired, prosecutors sought to arrest Joran van der Sloot again but judges denied the request.


Joseph Tacopina (van der Sloot's lawyer): For two courts to deny his rearrest shows you the value, the evidenciary value of this tape, which is none.


Joseph Tacopina: Joran's story, over 20 hours that he was taped, is disprovable by fact, disprovable in its inconsistencies internally, and incredible because he was under the influence of narcotics when he was making those statements.

Not Giving Up Joran and Paulus!

Dave Holloway: That search will continue. They have the capability to find something as small as a quarter on the ocean floor. I mean, that's how sophisticated this equipment is. Today Natalee Holloway would be 21 years old, a junior in college, phoning home to chat about friends or boys or maybe a biology test she'd aced that afternoon. Instead, she is gone. Her final resting place, a mystery.


And so her parents keep searching, hoping that somewhere off the coast of Aruba, a boat called the Persistence, may bring them an answer -- and peace.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23301056/

FREDDY--THE MISSING LINK?

"I'm too sexy for this shirt..."

What Does Freddy Know?

**Thank you Natalee's Freebirds! Awesome as always!

Several references have been made by suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway about the knowledge of another suspect - Freddy Alexander Arambatzis. There have been references made regarding Freddy about Joran's shoes, Natalee remaining "passed out", a camera, and Freddy knowing "the truth".


Diario 12/6/2006

http://www.diario-aruba.com/2006/12/6/


...the fact that Joran had already on the 30th of May told Freddy the story about the Holliday Inn and that Joran told Freddy also that “they” went into panic when Natalee remained “passed out”!


Statement
Freddy Zedan
June 12th 2005


The girl had fallen several times on the way to the beach. Joran told me that at some point she "no longer came around/no longer regained consciousness" and that they had left her on the beach.

He also told me that he had left his gym/sporting shoes on the beach. After Joran had told me this, I asked him why he had left her there. He answered me that at that moment he had not known what to do.

Freddy was brought to the van der Sloot home after he spoke with Aruban authorities in the early days of this investigation. He was grilled by Joran's parents as to what he told police regarding their son, and Natalee Holloway.

Freddy states that Joran told him they had left Natalee at the beach, while at the same time Joran was still telling authorities he and Deepak and Satish Kalpoe had left Natalee at the Holiday Inn.


Paulus van der Sloot
Suspect Statement
June 18, 2005


“I believed the story that Joran, Deepak and Satish told, until Joran changed his statement. After that Freddy came to us and told us a different story. Joran had gone with the girl to the beach. (With Freddy is meant the witness Freddy ZEDAN; comment TROMP).

Freddy had told this story shortly after he was interviewed by the police. He had called my wife and had said that he found it important to tell the truth. After that he came over to us and he first talked to my wife. After that he came back one time and and he spoke with Joran's lawyer, his parents, me and my wife were also present. My wife and myself were very crushed/saddened/injured and angry at Joran for apparently not telling us the truth. My wife and the lawyer then confronted Joran about this. According to my wife Joran reacted calmly and said that he had always told Freddy the truth.


Paulus van der Sloot
Suspect Statement
June 23, 2005

To your question whether Freddy ZEDAN came to our house out of his own accord or whether I had invited him, I can state the following. According to me Freddy phoned my wife after he had been questioned by the police. According to me he and his girlfriend came over to see my wife and he told what he had stated to the police. I was busy in the kitchen and did not hear everything Freddy was saying. Only at the end of the conversation I joined them. My wife and I were angry at Joran, because he did not tell the truth from the beginning.

My wife planned to confront Joran with Freddy's statements. That night we were going to have a meeting with Mr. A. CARLO, this was a previously planned meeting. My wife called Freddy again and asked him if he could tell his story again to Joran's lawyer. At first he didn't want to come because he had an exam (Wasn't Freddy out of school and graduated by then?? He is older than Joran, so WHAT EXAM is he speaking of?) the very next day but in the end he and his parents came over. He then told the story he knew to Joran's lawyer. I am convinced that Mr. CARLO did this with the best intentions possible


JORAN'S BOOK
Page 154, Freddy after his June 12 statement:

(Joran) That night Freddy, per request of my mother, visited, to tell everything. Freddy's parents are coming along, because they do not find it a good idea that Freddy goes alone. Besides my father Paul and my mother Anita. My lawyer Anthony Carlo is also present at our home per request of my mother. My mother asks Freddy to tell everything again.


Freddy: I could see on Anita's face that she did not know Joran had left the girl on the beach and that he has lost his shoes.

I also told that Joran, Deepak, Satish and me had talked about it that I would buy new shoes for Joran. Anita could not believe everything I was telling. (as in amazed). Carlo asks several times why Freddy thinks that Joran left his shoes behind.

Freddy: Joran did not want to walk with his shoes on the beach and probably left them behind because of that.

Freddy tells the beach story again that I would have told him on Monday May 30.

Carlo in between asks questions all the time.

Freddy: I felt he asked me those things because he thought that me as a good friend of Joran could understand why he had done these things. I do not believe he asked those questions because he thought Joran would have told me, because he repeated every time: Why do you think that?

My father does not ask Freddy anything, but he does react on Freddy's answers to my mother.

He says: why does Joran lie, and why did he not tell us that? My mother had promised the conversation would last 10 minutes max, but after half an hour Freddy's father gets up. My parents did not agree with Joran's parents having invited me, Freddy says. After Carlo had called the head officer for permission to visit Freddy's father, he confronts me with what I had said. I immediately admitted I had lied and that Freddy was telling the truth.

Deepak Kalpoe
Suspect Statement
June 11, 2005

I also have to tell you that Joran was wearing white sneakers/sport shoes that night. If you search/investigate his home then you will see that the shoes aren't there. He had told me that he had theft them on the beach.

To your question whether I of if Joran told the story to someone else, than I can say the following. I know Joran told his story to his friend named Freddy ZEDAN. Freddy lives behind Joran. His mobile phone number is inside my mobile phone.

To your question whether Joran told me what he had told Freddy, I can say the following. Joran told me that he had told Freddy the truth and the story that was made up. I know that he trusts Freddy more because they have known each other for a long time. If you go and talk to Freddy, he will tell you the made up story and maybe also the truth.




Satish Kalpoe
Suspect Statement
June 30, 2005

On your question who can tell the truth to you, with the exception of Joran, Deepak and I, I can tell you the following:

Freddy is the person Joran confides in and he can tell you the truth.


Satish Kalpoe
Suspect Statement
June 24, 2005

On your question who Joran's best friend is:

Freddy Zedan is Joran’s best friend. Freddy knew about the invented Holiday Inn and the tale which my brother and I and Joran told and that the missing girl was dropped off at the beach at the Marriott. My brother Deepak had told me that he and Joran invented the tale but to Freddy the beach tale was told. I thought that stunk, because I was not aware Freddy was told the beach tale. (note: tale does not necessarily mean lie, could mean story).

I have met Freddy two times after it was confessed that the girl became missing...the second time was when Joran, my brother and I took the camera to Freddy’s house. We delivered the camera to Freddy, and afterwards all four of us ate Chinese in the area of Freddy’s house. Freddy also lives in Montanja. I do not remember his house number. We had bought food and we then we went to Joran’s apartment afterwards. According to me Freddy was informed then already about the missing girl. We may have spoken some about the missing girl, it is possible but I don’t remember.

You ask me if I was scared when we were talking with Freddy about the missing girl. It is possible that I don’t remember. I say that we, Deepak and I, did not know that Freddy knew the real story. The real story, which was on the beach. It do not understand why Freddy was told that, according to me he knew both stories already.


Wednesday June 22, 2005

While being transferred from police station to KIA, Deepak and Satish are secretly recorded in a 40min conversation:

D: And I also trusted Freddy like a brother.

S: Yes.

D: But he also talked shit, that's why we've been arrested.

S: What did he say?

D: He keeps information behind. You know that Van der Sloot trusts Freddy with his life. Freddy knows what has happened. Freddy knows the truth.

S: I know he knows truth

D: Freddy knows, Freddy knows.

S: I've just said, Freddy also knows about the story of what happened, ask him.

D: Freddy knows


Deepak and Satish are being questioned in Orangestad at the same time and are transported back to KIA along with Joran in a minivan. The following conversation is recorded:


Joran: You know no good that my father has nothing to do [with this}. I have read your statements, friend. You two are lying shit. (then very calmly) You know what happened with that girl. If you don't know it, then nothing happened. (then angrily) So, fuck you. What do you say, that Freddy has to be arrested?


Deepak: That Freddy has to tell the truth.


Joran: You know very well that Freddy has told the truth.


Satish: You will see, you will see.


Deepak: You could have prevented it from the beginning, this, of your father. You know it. That he wasn't arrested.


Freddy himself was detained by authorities in this case - and then subsequently released. .


Diana Emerencia - Freddy's attorney
Decatur Daily News
August 31, 2005

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/050831/aruba.shtml


Freddy Alexander Zedan-Arambatzis, a friend of van der Sloot and the Kalpoes, was arrested on suspicion of having unspecified "physical contact" with a female minor, said his lawyer, Diana Emerencia.



Zedan-Arambatzis, 21, is also suspected of photographing the girl in "tempting poses" and showing the images to other people, Emerencia said. The Kalpoe brothers and van der Sloot are also suspected of involvement in the incidents, which allegedly occurred before Holloway disappeared, she said.

*Did Freddy have involvement in Natalee's disappearance?

* What "truth" does Freddy know that could shed
light on the circumstances surrounding this tragic crime?

* Why did the Kalpoe brothers need to give a camera to Freddy?

* What sort of history regarding similar crimes do Freddy and Joran share?

* Why did Paulus and Anita need to find out what Freddy told police?

* Has Freddy told Aruban authorities all he knows
about what happened to Natalee Holloway?


Natalee and her family deserve justice -
and we will not let up until they have it!

Natalee's Freebirds