In an interview with FOX, Aruban Prime Minister Nelson Oduber said that he will ask the Netherlands for help in the case of Natalee Holloway's disappearance.
"We are doing our utmost and everything we can to find her," Oduber told FOX News' Geraldo Rivera.
He said he was going to appeal to officials from the Dutch government for their help in solving the case.
"I'm going to call the Dutch government. I'm going to try to reach one of the Dutch ministers to convince him of the necessity for all Aruba and our relation with the U.S. that we have to cooperate ... to try to find Natalee," Oduber said.
...On Monday, Aruban police freed Steve Gregory Croes, 26, one day after releasing the father of a 17-year-old suspect who remains in custody. A judge had ruled that there wasn't enough evidence to hold the men.
With the release of Croes and 52-year-old Paul van der Sloot, a judge in training in the Dutch protectorate, three people remain jailed: Van der Sloot's 17-year-old son Joran and his friends, Surinamese brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18. No one has been charged.
A judge on Sunday ordered their detention extended another week. Under Dutch law, a suspect can be held for up to 116 days without charge if a judge decides police have good reason.
"The son (Joran) is clearly the center of suspicion and the assumption is that he knows what happened," said Ricardo Yarzagaray, an Aruban defense lawyer not involved with the case. "The problem is, if a crime was committed, they have no body" to prove it.
Aruban officials say a murder conviction is possible without a body, but requires strong evidence, such as a confession, reliable statements and forensic evidence of wrongdoing.
...Attorney General Caren Janssen declined to say whether the judge's decision to free the two men harmed the case.
"We are still hoping to find the truth," Jannsen said.
Dave Holloway, the missing teen's father, said the release of Paul van der Sloot was a "disappointment."
"Finding out what happened to Natalee is like putting together a puzzle, and unfortunately that piece was taken out too soon," he said.
Natalee Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, has been on the island since her daughter's disappearance. She told FOX News that after meeting last week with Paul van der Sloot, she is convinced he knows more than he is letting on.
"What I walked away with was a confirmation that he definitely has some information and could be very instrumental in helping us find out what happened to Natalee and where she is," Holloway Twitty told FOX News on Tuesday.
She said that during the 90-minute meeting, Paul van der Sloot was "sweating profusely," so much so that his perspiration was dripping onto the table.
Will help from the Netherlands make a difference? I doubt it. If the suspects don't cooperate, continue to change their stories, lie, and lie again, what assistance can the Dutch government offer?
Beth Holloway Twitty's assumptions have been correct so far. She was sure from the beginning that Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers had information about Natalee.
I think her belief that Paul van der Sloot is sitting on information about Natalee is correct as well.
It seems like the van der Sloot strategy is to wait out the 116 days.
One can get caught up in the twists and turns of this mystery. Step back for a moment and think of the anguish Natalee's family is experiencing. Her disappearance is not an abstraction to them. It's real. She's gone, and each passing day it seems less likely she will be found unharmed.
In the final analysis, all that matters is that this bright, talented eighteen-year-old American girl is missing and may never be found.
At this moment, someone holds the answers Natalee's family is searching for. That someone is too self-centered to come forward with the truth.
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