By Jeff Truesdell
A missing Alabama teen’s dug-up skeletal remains were mixed with those of a dead dog in an effort to disguise their origin, then taken to a crematory where a man paid $200 to burn them so the ashes could be scattered off the coast of Aruba, according to the Oxygen series The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
The third installment of the six-part series, which aired Saturday, offers that detail along with still another twist in the mystery as Dave Holloway draws closer to learning what happened to his daughter, who went missing on the island in 2005.
Joran van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in Natalee’s disappearance, allegedly had sexual relations with the man who says he allegedly accepted $1,500 from Van der Sloot to dig up Natalee’s remains, according to that man’s account during a recorded undercover sting operation in the case, the episode reveals.
That February 2016 sting was set up by Holloway and his private investigator, T.J. Ward. It relied on an informant named Gabriel, who told Holloway and Ward he knew the man who claimed to have carried out Van der Sloot’s request to move Natalee’s buried remains in a moment of panic.
Natalee, 18, vanished May 30, 2005, after leaving a bar in Aruba on the final night of a high school graduation trip. Gabriel said the man revealed to him that Van der Sloot — who is serving time in Peru on an unrelated murder — gave Natalee the date-rape drug GHB, and that she later choked on her own vomit.
The Oxygen series is following Holloway and Ward as they pursued the informant Gabriel’s account, hoping to secure criminal charges against those potentially involved in the case.
Questioning why the potential accomplice would cozy up to Van der Sloot when he was already the target of a possible murder investigation, Holloway asks in the episode: “Why would anyone in their crazy mind want to be friends with him? And I found out that they actually became what I understand to be lovers.”
The sting — recorded in a New Orleans hotel room by Ward’s team using hidden cameras and audio — involved Gabriel talking with the man, who is shown discussing his friendship in Aruba with Van der Sloot, a Dutch national.
Bron: People
Hoeveel miljoenen heeft haar familie al verdient aan al die nonsense verhalen? Vraag me ook af hoe het kan dat die vader gewoon botten en DNA uit Aruba smokkelt. Moeten wij nu geloven dat die Arubanen zo dom zijn dat hun forensic experts geen mensen resten konden vinden in het DNA? Ook toevallig dat die vader nu opeens zegt dat er honden resten in zit nadat Aruba aangaf dat het om hondenresten zou gaan. Als je zelf DNA opgraaft en het uit het land smokkelt kan je het ook zelf mengen met wat je wil, toch?
Ik vraag me af wie beter liegt, Joran of de ouders van Nathalie?
Joran is een wel hele slimme jongen en meester verdwijner..
Wanneer krijgen wij te horen dat zij door marsmannetjes is ontvoerd?