Suspect Detained in Natalie Holloway Case

**Aerialist** · 05-21-2006, 02:01 PM

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.js...21/396768.html

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch police have detained a man on suspicion of participating in the kidnapping and killing of Natalee Holloway last year in Aruba, the suspect's lawyer said Sunday.

Gerard Spong said his client, whose name was not disclosed, was accused of "assisting in the murder, heavy battery and kidnapping" of Holloway. He also told Dutch national TV broadcaster NOS that the suspect was a croupier at the casino in the hotel where Holloway was staying.

The Mountain Brook, Ala., woman was 18 when she went missing in May 2005 during a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island with classmates. She was last seen leaving a bar with three young men on May 30.

It was not clear when the suspect was arrested, but he was questioned Friday and is being held in the city of Utrecht, Spong said.

Utrecht police spokeswoman Danielle Friedman said she could not confirm any arrests in the case.

"If there was an arrest, it was on the orders of the Aruban prosecutors and all information will be transmitted through them," she said.

Spong also told NOS the suspect is a friend of Joran van der Sloot _ the last person known to have seen Holloway alive. Van der Sloot says he left Holloway alone on a beach after kissing her.

Authorities have arrested at least eight people _ including two last month _ in connection with Holloway's disappearance but released them all for lack of evidence.

Holloway's parents are attempting to sue Van der Sloot, 18, in a New York court, alleging he imprisoned and sexually assaulted their daughter and caused her disappearance.

Dutch marines, the Aruban Coast Guard, the FBI and hundreds of volunteers have searched the island and coastal areas of Aruba for Holloway.

**pecha** · 05-21-2006, 02:08 PM

I didn't know you can sue somebody from the other country in a court of law of your country for something that happened somewhere else that the laws are different.
Doesn't make any sense to me.

**Aerialist** · 05-21-2006, 02:12 PM

Apparently you can even sue God.

http://www.paganlibrary.com/humor/suing_god.php

**pecha** · 05-21-2006, 02:17 PM

nen, nice one about suing god

any chance her parents are scientologists?

**Bigrus** · 05-21-2006, 02:33 PM

So does anyone else think its a lost cause and no one will ever know who did it? Pretty sure once they begin arresting everyone who was on that trip it will become old news.

**Ice Spiral** · 05-21-2006, 03:27 PM

that girl is from my hometown, birmingham... i am so sick of hearing about it.

justl like i was sick of hearing about 9/11 DAY after fucking DAY.

can't the media let go of shit?

**CaptainCaveMan** · 05-21-2006, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by Ice Spiral

that girl is from my hometown, birmingham... i am so sick of hearing about it.

justl like i was sick of hearing about 9/11 DAY after fucking DAY.

can't the media let go of shit?

The media only reports what people want to hear. It all comes down to ratings.