When I originally started the Milton Award, I wanted to give it to a person being stepped on by Big Government, or any powerful group in particular. I got away from it a bit, but we're back on track this week.
I've had this in the back of my mind for awhile, and I'm sad to say that I pushed Beth Twitty back because I knew nothing would change any time soon. It's been almost a year now since her daughter, Natalee Holloway, disappeared in Aruba on her school's graduation trip, and Beth Twitty is still stuck in limbo, waiting for Aruban authorities to get their act straight and find her daughter's killer. Sorry for assuming that she is dead, but there is little proof to think otherwise.
Aruba is like any other small community: Everybody knows each other, and when one of them is accused of a crime, the others seem to roadblock finding the truth. There have been a minimum of seven people incarcerated for questioning in her disappearance, and not one of them has been charged. Yes, Dutch law is odd, but finding the people responsible for this should have been easier. The number of suspects are pretty limited. Poor Mrs. Twitty has been getting jacked from Day One from the Police, The District Attorney and locals in Aruba. True, she made it very public from the start, and it probably ticked off some of them, but the lady lost her daughter on a supervised school trip. Things like this aren't supposed to happen - but they do.
I've heard a few talk radio guys hit Natalee Holloway pretty hard for putting herself in that situation, and it is true - good things don't happen too often when you get drunk, and maybe having a trip to a place with an 18 year old drinking age was a bad decision. That is in the past. I'll skip the guessing on whether it was VanDer Sloot, the Kalpoe Bros. , or someone else, but the Aruban police need to crack this case and give Twitty some answers.
When we watch a movie or read a book, we all like to find out the ending. Beth Twitty is in a movie from Hell, and there is no end to it right now. I imagine Mother's Day was not very joyful in her house. Here's a wish that someone finally talks and lets her know at last what happened to her daughter.
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"Poor Mrs. Twitty has been getting jacked from Day One from the Police, The District Attorney and locals in Aruba."
In truth Jug and Beth made most of their own troubles by playing "family" (Beth's word) detective at the outset.
It a matter of record that the people of Aruba opened their hearts to Beth for many weeks, then she later turned on them.
Beth has claimed she has proof that J2K committed crimes against Natalee, but has yet to produce a single item of evidence.
The claims in Beth's NY law suit seem to have no factual basis whatsoever. Hopefully this will now put an end to the wholesale fabrication that has been going on for 12 months.
My money is still on a tragic misadventure. Natalee's mistake wasn't going with three boys she hardly knew. Most likely it was going for a last, romantic, midnight swim after Joran left, and getting into difficulties.
"Here's a wish that someone finally talks and lets her know at last what happened to her daughter."
The saddest thing is that if Joran really doesn't know what happened to Natalee, then only Natalee does and the questions will never be answered.
http://member.telpacific.com.au/rolyroper/NataleeHolloway/index.htm
Today, Reuters reports that someone has been arrested in Holland related to Holloway's disappearance, and that person has ties to Van der Sloot. Is this a big break, or just another dead end - we'll find out.
While I agree that Beth Twitty ruffled some feathers in Aruba by doing work on her own, this doesn't give permission for the DA and Police to stop talking to her.
Secondly, if you're implying that she drowned, then where is her body? Beach drowning victims rarely, if ever, don't wash up. Please don't try to tell me the sharks got her..
My agenda is not to bury Van der Sloot, it's to find who did this. I hope yours is the same.
Is Aruba 1/6 of a acre in size. Just trying to to make a bad situation better Mike. We will probably never know all the details and sure someone does. Where as Rolls seems to have about as much class as the authorities in Aruba. Did I write a hurtful thing I apoligize Rolls you heartless ..........
"Where as Rolls seems to have about as much class as the authorities in Aruba. Did I write a hurtful thing I apoligize Rolls you heartless .........."
Moye,
I guess you're right that a bald list of verifiable facts plus a very hedged opinion lacks the class of the heartfelt hystrionics on some blogs.
But ask yourself if you ever needed an emergency service would you want a bunch of drama queens, or dispassionate focus?
When you are searching for the facts of a matter emotion is a serious hinderance. Remaining detatched is vital but can be very emotionally draining. Ask any nurse, doctor, emergency service or SAR worker you know - you have to save the luxury of personal emotions for later.
No investigator had a chance after the Twitty's conducted their bull in a china shop "family investigation". Confronting Joran may be very *understandable* and emotionally satisfying, but it was a disaster for the investigation.
The so-called "chaparones" dropped the ball, then the Twitty's promptly scored an own goal. I'm sorry if you think that's being impolite, but it's the unvarnished truth. And after Beth's "Natalee doesn't drink" we need some of that.
I know if my son ever went missing I wouldn't want a gang of overwrought rank amateurs on the case, the apparently abrasive Jug Twitty in particular. Are they experienced investigatiors? No. Did they run around confronting and threatening people? Apparently.
Just about anywhere else in the world a detective would have taken Beth and Jug aside and told them very gently but very firmly to sit down and shut up and not get under the feet of experienced investigators while they crept up on Joran and built a case to solidly proved him guilty - or innocent.
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Mike;
"Beach drowning victims rarely, if ever, don't wash up. Please don't try to tell me the sharks got her.."
Sorry to flatly contradict you Mike, but the first part is simply wrong in point of fact.
I'd estimate that about 1 in 3 searches for fishermen washed off coastal rocks come up zip, no trace at all. Ever.
It even happened to an Australian Prime Minister, Harold Holt, in daylight while under the watchful eye of his security. *Huge* search, but no trace at all, and we knew for sure exactly where he was last seen.
In Natalee's case we had an off-shore wind of 12mph, an outgoing tide perfect for 'rip' conditions, and a deadly 5 knot current just off shore.
On the second point; the Nurse Sharks are only a mild threat, but particularly at night. Many tropical species will help dispose of a body. The real threat is the Great White shark which also occupy these waters.
I guess that's one reason why there is a shark net in the water opposite the Marriott (south end of the breakwater).
After reading posts from some Arubans who seem to think it quite a *likely* scenario I searched for wind, tide and current information (NOAA &c) for that night, and risks on Aruban dive websites (rips, sharks, barracouda) and it's the 'dummy test' that doesn't fit.
The three main options remain open; murder, accident and cover-up, and plain solo misadventure.
The tiny amount of physical evidence *suggests* that Deepak knows nothing, and that whatever Joran knows and is lying about (he may have had sex with her while she was out cold), he didn't actually cause or witness Natalee's death.
I hate loose ends and would love to know the truth, but at this point we don't know enough to form a *firm* conclusion (like so many have), and I doubt we ever will if she went out to sea.
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