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Had her dad tried to talk her out of going? What were his reasons?
“She approached me two days before she was supposed to turn her paperwork in and said, ‘Hey, Dad I need $500 bucks to go on my senior class trip,’” Dave tells HollywoodLife.com. ”And I said, well, where are you going? She said, “We’re going to Aruba!” I said, what? I didn’t even know where Aruba was and I told her I’m not supporting that. It’s just too much. It’s too extravagant for a bunch of kids to go somewhere, it’s not happening.”
“I put my foot down then, and of course I found out later that she went ahead and got her mom to sign her up,” Dave added. “I found out about it a few days before the graduation trip and I felt a little guilty. I said, ‘okay. Here’s your money and your spending money.’ And I kind of conceded and laid the blessing on her. She made a call to the house later on and thanked me for the money I had given her."
That contradicts the interview with her mother, back a few posts.
"A little after 11 a.m., Beth's cell phone rang. "Hello, this is Beth," she said in her soft southern accent. It was Jody Bearman, one of seven adults who had escorted a group of 124 students from Birmingham's Mountain Brook High School on a senior trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Twitty's 18-year-old daughter, Natalee, a hard-driving, straight-A student who was heading to the University of Alabama on a full scholarship, was on the trip. Beth's brow furrowed as she tried to digest Bearman's message: Natalee had not appeared in the Holiday Inn lobby for the return flight to Alabama.
No one, in fact, had seen her since the night before. Another mother might have surmised that her daughter was still out partying, maybe passed out in a hotel room. Not Beth Twitty. "I knew immediately that my daughter had been kidnapped in Aruba," she says today. "Natalee has never been late in her life."
She says that now, but the poster kind of speaks for itself. I think Beth was in such a complete panic the whole time that she doesn't see things clearly. She got lots of details wrong in interviews with Greta Van Susteryn, including things she believes she heard Joran say, although she couldn't have. She was in the car while Dave Holloway and others spoke to him a distance away.
In times of great panic, memories aren't always reality.
The scientist said they found only mitochondrial DNA which takes longer to test and will be done in Sept. He says you can't tell male or female from this DNA but it's definitely human. I sure hope this isn't just a ruse to sell Dad's show and that these bones really did come from Aruba.
The scientist said they found only mitochondrial DNA which takes longer to test and will be done in Sept. He says you can't tell male or female from this DNA but it's definitely human. I sure hope this isn't just a ruse to sell Dad's show and that these bones really did come from Aruba.
Aruba police say that they investigated animal remains with Dave Holloway. Dave Holloway claims he removed human remains from Aruba. Aruba authorities have no knowledge of human remains taken from the country, and the FBI has no knowledge of human remains taken into the USA. If Dave removed human remains from Aruba, it is a criminal offence, and removing the remains would prevent that evidence from being used in any trial.
Dave claims that the alleged human bone he illegally [if human] removed from Aruba belongs to a Caucasian of European descent, yet no testing has been completed on the bone. The only comparison option is mitochondrial DNA analysis.
Regardless of whether the bone is human or animal, I am still left wondering why Dave Holloway does not view the person who led him to the bone as a suspect. According to Dave, this person blamed Joran van der Sloot, and Dave accepted this explanation for the suspect knowing the location of the alleged remains.
It looks like we're looking at some sort of fake news. The USA has problems with fake news - per the President of the USA. There is no information to suggest that Aruba or the Netherlands has problems with fake news.
Yeah, we all get it.. Aruba authorities are trustworthy, excellent at what they do and everything they say should be trusted without question.
The Holloway are emotional and untrustworthy and only out to impede the flawless Aruban investigation.
If Dave removed human remains from Aruba, it is a criminal offense, and removing the remains would prevent that evidence from being used in any trial.
Trial ??, that is hilarious that you think after 12 years of Aruba doing nothing they will have a trial.
Juron has confessed multiple times and Aruba says that is not enough to arrest Juron.
I trust Dave Holloway. He really comes off as completely genuine and respectable.
Me too. Why would he be playing games with something as serious as this...this poor father wants some answers, and I hope he gets them!
And , if this is the way he has to go abt it...more power to him.
Me too. Why would he be playing games with something as serious as this...this poor father wants some answers, and I hope he gets them!
And , if this is the way he has to go abt it...more power to him.
That's what I think, too. This is his daughter he's trying to find - or at least find the truth. This story is a parent's worst nightmare. I know there are some sick people out there who would try and capitalize on a missing child but this man doesn't strike me as the type to do that. Then again, I've been disappointed in people before. It wouldn't be the first time. Still, I hope Natalie's parents find answers.
Trial ??, that is hilarious that you think after 12 years of Aruba doing nothing they will have a trial.
Juron has confessed multiple times and Aruba says that is not enough to arrest Juron.
Joran, not Juron, has not confessed to murdering Natalee Holloway. He confessed to murdering Stephanie Flores.
It sounds like we agree that the FBI should have done a better job of solving the disappearance of Natalee during their investigation in Aruba.
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