Natalee Holloway investigation remains focused on the original suspects, according to commissioner Dompig
DIARIO Aruba
10/26/2005

ORANJESTAD(AAN): During an interview, DIARIO asked Dompig if the investigation on the case of Natalee Holloway remains in the direction of the original suspects, Joran van der Sloot, Satish Kalpoe and Deepak Kalpoe.

The commissioner explains that it is true that that is the case, because everything shows that they have to know more, given that Natalee went with them in the car. However, this does not exclude other suspects in this case.

DIARIO asked Dompig how the story turned out where one or more of the suspects said during an interrogation that Natalee was perhaps killed.

According to the commissioner it turned out that they don’t know anything of this, and that they only know that they left her on the beach.

He continues to say that it is important to verify their version, where he explains that they have to prove that they went in front of Joran van der Sloot’s house, so people in the community think that they have seen the gray Honda Civic around 1:40 am.

If there are people who saw the car parked at the house at that time, it is very important that they get in touch with police.

DIARIO asked the commissioner about the verbal declarations made to police, where one of the suspects declared that he believes that one of the other suspects killed Natalee and if something is being done with this.

According to Dompig, he found it regrettable that the judge let the suspects go, because the police force saw it differently. They thought that they had enough proof for them to remain in detention still.

He continued to say that he has to live with the judge’s decision, but this doesn’t take away from the fact that the investigation continues, and that the focus remains on these suspects because they are not off the hook yet.

DIARIO asked the commissioner when he can tell us that the investigation is finished. According to the commissioner he can’t give a specific date and as long as he has enough things to investigate, he cannot close the case.

The moment one is going to close the case is the moment when you have nothing more to investigate, when all questions have been answered, but the answers have not completed the puzzle. That’s when one has to pull the plug on the case.

DIARIO asked the commissioner about a bone that was supposedly found, about which he explained that this is not true and that the deal with Equusearch is that when they find something they have to leave it in its place, notify police and wait for police to arrive.

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