ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were re-arrested Wednesday, the Aruban public prosecutor's office said, citing new evidence in the case.
Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to fly home to Alabama after a high school graduation trip to this Dutch Caribbean resort island. The 18-year-old was last seen in public leaving a bar with the three young men who now are again suspects in her disappearance.
Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to fly home to Alabama after a high school graduation trip to this Dutch Caribbean resort island. The 18-year-old was last seen in public leaving a bar with the three young men who now are again suspects in her disappearance.
Dutch teenager Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested on suspicion of involvement in manslaughter and causing seriously bodily harm that caused the death of the American teenager, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
"The public prosecutor's office has ordered their renewed arrest because further investigation into the disappearance has led to new incriminating evidence," the prosecutor's office said in the statement.
"The public prosecutor's office has ordered their renewed arrest because further investigation into the disappearance has led to new incriminating evidence," the prosecutor's office said in the statement.
Van der Sloot was arrested in the Netherlands, where he is attending a university, and is expected to be extradited to Aruba. The Kalpoe brothers were arrested in Aruba.
All three young men previously have denied any role in Holloway's disappearance. The brothers were expected to appear in an Aruban court on Friday, when prosecutors planned to president new evidence to judge.
The brothers were expected to make an initial appearance in an Aruban court Friday, at which point prosecutors were expected to present the new evidence to a judge. A court date in the island had not yet been set for van der Sloot.
Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Dutch national prosecutor's office, said van der Sloot could be sent to Aruba without an extradition hearing and the transfer would occur "within several days."
Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Dutch national prosecutor's office, said van der Sloot could be sent to Aruba without an extradition hearing and the transfer would occur "within several days."
The three were first arrested in June 2005, but a judge ordered their release, citing insufficient evidence. All three have denied any role in Holloway's disappearance. Van der Sloot has said he dropped her off at her hotel and never saw her again.
In April, investigators from the Netherlands dug around the home of van der Sloot's family for two days without revealing what prompted the search. Then in May, Dutch and Aruban investigators visited the home where Deepak and Satish Kalpoe live with their parents for what authorities termed an "inspection," without revealing details.
Vinda de Sousa, an attorney Dave Holloway, Natalee's father, said she has left a message for the family but has not talked to them and is not privy to the new evidence.
"I'm as excited as the Holloway family can be," she said. "Anything new in this case, or any development, just gives you rekindled hope that one day this will be solved. I know the investigation never stopped."
"I'm as excited as the Holloway family can be," she said. "Anything new in this case, or any development, just gives you rekindled hope that one day this will be solved. I know the investigation never stopped."
4 comments:
amen to that, i thought all along he raped and killed that poor girl
What DUMBASSES!! They were texting and calling each other about this three years later - what morons! I think whatever they did to natalee should be their punishment, if they drugged her, they should be drugged, if they raped her, they should be raped, and if they killed her and dumped her in the ocean than that too should be their fate. And if the parents helped to cover it up or dispose of natalee, I think natalee's parents should be able to decide their fate. Ultimatly though I just hope the family gets closure of some kind.
What a tragedy. Such a smart beautiful girl got wrapped up in the wirlwind. It was sad a year or so back when the media was trying to lay blame on Natalie. These three men sought a young girl out and took her life. I honestly do not think that she was meant to be killed but surely raped and drugged. When something took a twist for the worse these three boys began to panic and threw this poor girl away like yesterday's trash. I just hope that this new evidence gives Natalies family some closure and put these 3 losers where they belong wherever that may be.
^^^I agree, first and foremost, I hope somehow the family can get her body to be properly buried. Second, I agree, that these boys most likely did not set out to kill NH but there is no question in my mind, they drugged her in the bar and had every intention the second they left the bar of raping her. I suspect at some point she became coherent enough to try and get away and either fell and hit her head or Joran became angry and hit her. I tend to believe the later that Joran struck her. There is also no doubt in my mind that the father helped cover this up. I do hope and pray that these boys and parents are punished for their actions. By every account, this was a smart young woman with a bright future ahead of her and it is shameful that these boys robbed her of being a doctor and having a family one day of her own.
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