3.24.2006

New witness in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway
DIARIO Aruba
3/24/2006

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Recently, it has come out in the renowned American newspaper USA Today, as well as in other US dailies, that Aruba has a new witness in the case of Natalee Holloway.

According to the article, police have a new witness and have planned to organize a new search for the body of the American youngster.

The witness gave specific information, which made the investigators plan a search in the dunes near the North part of Aruba.

Commissioner Gerold Dompig, during an interview with the program ’48 Hours Mystery” of CBS, said that investigators will use cadaver dogs to search near the lighthouse, because they believe that there are people who took careful steps to hide the body of Natalee Holloway, and that perhaps they buried the body twice.

According to Dompig, the witness knew more about where Natalee ended up and that the information that this person gave was very specific, to be an invented story.

The article said that authorities of Aruba refused to comment on the matter this Wednesday.

Natalee’s mother, Beth Twitty, said that she is aware of the program. “I am waiting to see the program on Saturday.”

In January, more than 50 policemen searched in the dunes near the lighthouse, because for some time they suspected that they could find something there.