Dutch Make Arrests In Natalee Holloway Case

[Refugee 7]

Dutch Make Arrests In Natalee Holloway Case

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (CBS) ― Three young men who were previously detained as suspects in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway have been re-arrested in the case, the Aruban public prosecutor's office said Wednesday.

Dutch teenager Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested on suspicion of involvement in manslaughter and causing seriously bodily harm that caused the death of the 18-year-old American, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Van der Sloot was arrested in the Netherlands, where he is attending a university, and is expected to be extradited to this Dutch Caribbean island. The Kalpoe brothers were arrested in Aruba.

Natalee Holloway of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen in public leaving a bar with three local men on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to board a plane home with high school classmates celebrating their graduation on the Dutch Caribbean island. She was 18 at the time.

Three men - Dutch teen van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers - were among the first of at least 10 people detained and released in the case. They have never been formally cleared as suspects, authorities said.

All three, who have denied any role in the disappearance, returned to the spotlight after prosecutors in Aruba said a review of the case by Dutch officials found "indications" that authorities should take another look at their homes.

A team of about 20 Dutch forensic experts dug outside the home of van der Sloot's family for two days in late April, and in May a group of Dutch and Aruban authorities conducted an "inspection" of the property where the Kalpoe brothers live with their parents.

The missing girl's father, Dave Holloway, called the renewed activity "a move in the right direction."

He said a search of the van der Sloot property in the opening days of the investigation was restricted to the apartment where Joran lived before leaving to attend college in the Netherlands, and that the Kalpoe home had never been properly searched.

"We'll remember it's been two years, but we still don't have Natalee," he said in an interview in May from his hometown of Meridian, Miss. "You start memorializing that day and you lose focus that you're trying to resolve what happened."

[agirl 0]

Well, let's hope this time they don't screw it up.

[KansasPettyFan 1]

^ Ditto that.

[Echosoftom 3]

^ I think it's too late for that. The damage has already been done. It took them two years to finally search their homes "thoroughly". Good grief! What the hell have they been doing all that time? I wonder if they're looking for something in particular.

[TheWildOne 1]

I hope the authorities continue to pursue this until the truth comes out. It is a travesty that the case has been drawn out this long.