Hidden camera footage broadcast in the Netherlands on Sunday showed Dutch student Joran Van der Sloot saying he was with Natalee Holloway when she collapsed on a beach in Aruba. He said he believed she was dead and asked a friend to dump her body in the sea.

"She'll never be found," he said.

A series of conversations between Van der Sloot and a man he believed to be his friend were recorded in a Range Rover that had been rigged with three hidden cameras by Peter R. de Vries, a Dutch television crime reporter. They were shown on Dutch television.

Last week, Van der Sloot said he was lying in those conversations and denied that he had anything to do with the Alabama teenager's disappearance.

Holloway, 18, vanished in May 2005 just before she was due to fly home to Alabama, at the end of her high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island. No trace of her has been found. The mystery of her disappearance has frustrated authorities and garnered wide attention on television and in tabloid newspapers in Europe and the United States.

In the recordings, Van der Sloot said Holloway was drunk and that she began shaking and slumped down on the beach as the pair were making out.

"Suddenly she started shaking and then she didn't say anything," Van der Sloot said, adding that he did not kill her.

"I would never murder a girl," he said.

He said he panicked and tried but failed to revive her. He said that Holloway looked dead but that he could not be sure she was not still alive when the friend took her away.

He used a pay phone next to a hotel's swimming pool to call the friend and asked for help in disposing the body. When the friend arrived at the beach, the two put Holloway's body into a boat. The friend then took it out to sea and pushed it into the water, Van der Sloot said.

"The ocean is big," he added.

He said he and his friend agreed that Van der Sloot would go to school the next day to avoid arousing any suspicion.

Van der Sloot said his friend assured him he had taken care of Holloway's body and that the police were not going to locate it. "They will know nothing," Van der Sloot quoted the friend as telling him.

"I've not lost any sleep over this," he added at one point.

Aruban prosecutors said last week they were reopening their investigation into Holloway's disappearance after seeing De Vries' material. But on Sunday, they said a judge on the island had ruled that while the information merited an investigation against Van der Sloot, it did not meet the threshold for an arrest warrant.

"This means that the office is legally not able to have J.v.d.S. arrested in the Netherlands," prosecutors said in a statement, referring to the Dutch student by his initials. The statement did not say when the judge made the ruling.

The prosecutors said they would appeal the judge's ruling and seek to have the Dutch student re-arrested. They also cautioned that the Holloway mystery was far from resolved.

"While video tape may present a strong case in a TV news show, it may be insufficient for a finding of guilt by a judge. It is up to the court to evaluate the materials and the statements, and to find out their significance," prosecutors said.

Van der Sloot was interviewed last week by the respected Dutch television show "Pauw & Witteman" following reports that De Vries had captured him making statements about the case.

"It is true I told someone. Everybody will see it Sunday," Van der Sloot said, referring to De Vries' planned television show.

"That is what he wanted to hear, so I told him what he wanted to hear," Van der Sloot said, adding that he had built up a relationship with the man he spoke to, but had never fully trusted him.

De Vries has said he paid the man Van der Sloot spoke to, Patrick van der Eem, $37,000 for his help, saying it was to cover his expenses.

Phone calls seeking comment from Van der Sloot's Aruban attorneys and his New York-based lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, went unanswered Sunday.

Last week, Tacopina told The Associated Press that "the evidence refutes what Joran supposedly said."

"It doesn't change the truth of this case. And the truth is, Joran had nothing to do with Natalee's death," he said.

Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen in public leaving a bar with Van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers — Deepak and Satish Kalpoe — hours before she was due to board a flight home.

The three were re-arrested in November, but released within weeks for lack of evidence. All three have always denied any role in her disappearance.

The Dutch student's father, Paul Van der Sloot, declined to comment when reached in Aruba before the tape aired.

De Vries also aired images of Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, as he showed her the footage.

Clasping together her hands, she moved her lips silently as she watched the images.

"They could have just dumped her alive in the ocean, unconscious," she said. "They don't even know."

"I hope his living hell is about to begin and that he never gets another night's sleep," she added.

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Thanks, Brian

1.4.2008

I still think you're right!!

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Hi, I have seen the undercover video...it looks like I was wrong to me.

But, right or wrong, there is still the possibility that she may still be alive and was taken by drug smugglers...it happens all the time.

I also could not find confirmation that Natalie visited a drug rehab center before she visited Aruba, despite what the story says.

Everyone just wants closure, but would not jump to conclusions over a kid caught bragging on video just yet.

Was this the only confession they taped, if not, did his other confessions match this one?  Did he ever mention drug use?

Did he really assume the case was closed, or did he suspect a trap. 

He said his friends disposed of the body...why would they volunteer to do this in the first place?

Brian

On July 3, 2007, the Dutch Antilliean newspaper Amigoe reported on a documentary video being produced by Renée Gielen, previously best known for exposé documentaries about Curacao's Bon Futuro prison. The video is based in part on interviews with Dompig and with Renfro.

According to interviews done in preparation for the film, Aruban authorities had been systematically obstructed in their investigation by the FBI and other American authorities.[89] They also indicate that within a day of Holloway being declared missing, a medjet, unauthorized by Aruban authorities, had arrived on Aruba and remained for several days. They further indicate that, while the purpose of the medjet was not even known to its crew and medical personnel, it was in fact to spirit Holloway off the island if she were freed from a drug house in Oranjestad, and that Holloway's departure was to be covert and without notice to local authorities.

The article states that the interviews indicate that Renfro and Beth Twitty received a phone call from an unknown woman on June 2, 2005, offering information about Holloway's location and the information that Holloway was still alive but was unwilling to return to her mother for the sum of $4,000. Twitty was unwilling to pay more than $1,000 for the information, and in fact did not pay anything. Believing there was a good chance of finding Holloway, Renfro and another American went to the drug house where Holloway supposedly was, bringing money. However, they found that Jug Twitty had already been to the area, spreading "a lot of uproar and panic in the direct vicinity," and nothing could be accomplished. They blamed Jug Twitty for the failure. The same story, in less detail, appears in the Vanity Fair article.

Further, according to Amigoe's report on the interviews, Aruban authorities were obstructed at the highest level in their attempts to investigate Jug Twitty, and they received very limited cooperation in their attempts to question Holloway's fellow graduates.

Documentary maker Gielen has also raised questions about Holloway's "clean image." According to Gielen, one of Jug Twitty's Aruban chauffeurs reported hearing Twitty and a friend discuss time Holloway spent in a rehab center in the United States shortly before the Aruba trip.

2.5.2008

Hi Brian,
 
I have a question about the Natalee Holloway case and Joran van der Sloot.
 
Im from the netherlands , one thing that always gets to me is the fact that he makes statements and then later says he lied! This happens everytime, so if you are right about her still being alive, is he trying to protect her by lying? Even the so-called confession op tape he said was also lied. Have you seen anything about him in your dream , specifically about his all-the-time lying?
 
On a sidenote , been following your site for quite some time now , keep up the great work you do!
 
love Karin

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Hi Karen, thank you and will do.

Let's say that Joran was involved in the drug trade, and he was being protected by the police and legal system in Aruba.  This would be something that he would never confess, as others involved would not be too happy.  I do not think he knew he was being recorded, but this does not mean he was telling the whole truth either.

I have not had any dreams lately that I know of about this case, but I also have no reason to believe she is dead. 

Working on the Madeleine McCann case I have learned that the media does not always act in the best interests of the victim.

Lets say Joran and friends are arrested and tried for hiding a body, there is a good chance that they could spend no time behind bars even if they are found guilty...especially if Joran has friends in the legal system.  The case would now be officially closed, and tourists would feel safer about visiting the island...all of this without finding a body and without know the real story.

Brian

2.6.2008

Regarding Joarn Van der Sloot's "confession" in the Natalee Holloway case.
Two parts of it have already been debunked.

1. The phone Joran claims to have called Daury on
can't be used for local calls.

2. Daury was in Europe at the time.
 

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Thanks...Brian

you can post this

Joran had a debt that needed to be paid so he took her.  Police had GHB bottle from day one and before. Nats mother had the option to buy her back.  She was in the house, but she was too cheap.  This is how it work here.  She is in Barranquilla and does not want to come home.

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Hi, this is not what her family says happened, they seem to believe what he said on video...they are calling is a confession.

When I was stationed at camp Stanley in South Korea, just outside the gate was a village with dozens of bars.  Each bar had around 10 girls that were working off debts that their family owed...their families basically sold them into prostitution.  This is a very common and accepted practice all over the world...but from what everyone tells me, Natalie's body was dumped into the ocean, which is a very strange thing for Joran to do.  Anyway, they are already calling this case closed.

Take Care,

Brian

2.12.2008

Every psychic in the world says Natalee's body is in the water you do not agree?

B

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Hi,

I'm not a psychic, and I I guess I do not agree with the experts...I have had nothing to date that would indicate her body is in the water...or even that's she is not alive.

Hate to go against the flow, but I have to trust myself first.

Brian

2.23.2008

Hi Brian,
Interesting comments from Sandra Belanger. Might help piece together
this case. Her technique, used successfully by a few people, is to tape
record messages from those who have passed over.
Regards
Chris

http://www.heliumraven.com/casefilesunresolved

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Will post this and the link Chris...I'm afraid that police and everyone else are assuming that she is dead and in the ocean.

This might be what Joran and others involved wanted people to believe in the first place.

Brian

3.2.2008

I don't have special powers or anything like that, but I am similar to you in a way in terms that sometimes I see things in my dreams.
I've mostly seen people die in my dreams and within days this happens. But it usually has to do wiht people that I know.
I too however, can feel what is really happening in a situation, like the truth behind a murder, who did it why and so on.
With the Holloway case I have never been sure. And that's a little strange for me because I can usually sense what happened.
I have had confusing dreams about her, sometimes she is dead, after drowning and other times she has another identity, like a split personality. I hadn't dreamt with her for a while until a few days ago, and she was dying because she could no longer live because her husband had drowned.
I have no idea what this means, all I know is that in my dream I told her to hold on and that she could make it without him, but seh just cried and said that she was going to die.
So again, I don't know if she was ever killed, or died, or is a case of human traficking, but this dream led me to water and drowing and it was her with shorter hair in dispair.

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I thanks, to me the feeling of death in my dreams is very specific, and usually I remember it.  It's actually a very warm, enjoyable feeling...I'm usually absorbed in a very warm light...then I wake up.  In this case, I do not remember this feeling.

Brian

3.4.2008

At 13:32 - 13:48 you can clearly see that Joran is being shown the camera, I believe it was #4.  You can also see the bag of drugs. 

They failed to broadcast that part of the record and they are still calling it a confession.

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Hi, thanks please send me a copy of the video again.

Brian

7.3.2008

Dear Brian,

I just found your site and was reading your page about Natalee Holloway when suddenly I felt brave enough to share with you a dream I had just the other day after watching a program about Natalee Holloway which featured a couple of psychics.  I feel I am psychic through dreams similar to how Allison Dubois dreams. They always have clear but strange details. I have only shared my dreams with my husband, you would be the first "outsider" that I have told that I have these vivid dreams. Sometimes I dream in color, I'm considering starting a journal. I am 37 years old.

It was afternoon time when I watched the recorded show about Natalee with the psychic investigators. My thoughts about the show was that the psychics seemed to depict details that were already assumed, or could easily be assumed. I felt dissatisfied that there was no great reveal by watching the show. There was no mention in the show that Natalee was still alive or they did not elaborate on a sex slave situation. Afterwards I took a short nap, and I believe this dream that I had as soon as I fell asleep, was giving me details about Natalee and her disappearance. I dreamed in color. Prior to this dream it had been a long time since I had learned about Natalee and her missing status, I would say last I watched anything related was about 2 years ago.

The Dream:

I was Natalee but I could not see my face as she, only my arms and lower body, I was walking around and I knew I was her. I (Natalee) was taken to what I believed to be after party (after the bar closed) to a home that was very square, with a pool that was inside the house in an odd location, the pool was very square. When I say square, I mean square no rounded edges of any kind. The room was well lit. The house was single floor only. I was in a bathing suit (Bikini, light in color maybe white, with a striped horizontal pattern), no shorts no shoes. I'm holding a drink. I like the loud music and dancing and watching the people around me, but I'm not sure if I like them, I don't feel like they are my "friends." There were many people around jumping in the pool, drinking, dancing, loud music, there were cups everywhere, I was having on o.k.  time just hanging out there. I appear to feel like I was a loner mostly. The floor surrounding the pool was of different shades of Terracotta, i
n a brick style pattern. The pool seemed to be in an odd location, like right in the center of what appeared to be a large kitchen. I see kitchen counter tops Terracotta colors as well, as I am in the pool, a boom box on the counter, and large different colored plastic see through cups, like picnic cups. Some are half full with booze others are completely empty. I am taken to the next phase of the dream where I awake in a back bedroom, The bed is against the wall to the left. It's a very homely room nothing special about it. I feel like I am wearing a silk black tiny flowered robe and nothing underneath. I remove myself from a bed and walk outside the doorway to the bedroom. I see a short hall but I don't go down it. I note the house now seems quiet now (it's the next day maybe) and I am curious about the bedroom across the hall. I go to it and push the door open gently, lightly like I'm peeking in to see who is in there. I am disappointed and sad that I have seen a man that I admi
re and somewhat respect and/or trust sleeping (not having sex, really sleeping) with another woman, but I'm upset because he is supposed to be with me, like he's my boyfriend. (Don't laugh) but he was Ben Affleck! I say nothing and slip away unnoticed, I'm tearing up and want to wash my face, I feel like I'm not supposed to be seen crying. I then continue down the short hall which leads to that kitchen I was telling you about, but I stop at a door to the left, I peek in and I know it's the bathroom, but I don't just walk inside. The mirror is one that covers the wall to the right of me, it has a line of bulbs on the right and left going vertically they are on, I look in the mirror and notice a female bathing and the water is gray dirty like dirty soapy water only I cannot see her face. I also see a sex toy, it is dark blue navy colored and resembles a rabbit with ears, I recognize it on the edge of the tub where the woman is bathing. I leave that doorway unnoticed, and I walk throu
gh the kitchen/pool area. I see a man fully clothed and maybe a bit intoxicated wanting to jump into the square pool which is now only half full, like someone drained it half way. I'm concerned that if he jumps in he will hurt himself, but I brush it off as silly drunk. I notice the kitchen is still riddled with half full or empty see through colored cups, I feel like it is a mess, and I don't want to look at it. I feel like I need some fresh air so I decide to go outside on the steps, which are to my left and I have now joined a couple of other women standing on the short gray concrete steps which is on the side of the square house which is right on a canal way? (like when you live near a large body of water and people park their boats next to there house) It is daytime as I socialize with the other women standing near me. To my left is a yacht, two or three decks, it's white and has a elongated triangle shaped flag at the top and there are tanned or dark skinned men (foreign men)
standing in different areas of the yacht, about 5 or 6 each carrying one gun some long some short but all like automatics. Strangely when I look at the yacht it's night time, although when I see myself on the steps oddly its daytime. I am making small talk with the women, but I can't help but notice the yacht with the men. They are looking over at me and they make me uncomfortable so I wish to go back inside. I go back in and I'm just hanging around with everyone, I'm not scared, and I do not feel like my life is in danger, I would say I feel numb, no real feelings. I am hanging out with these faceless people, but I see Ben Affleck, the man I admire and want to be with solely, and although I am mad at him I cannot voice to him how I feel because I know I'm not supposed to say anything about it. We are standing around, another young man is present and he is playing a small electric piano and I am singing (a song I do not remember) but I like doing that. I feel like I've lived here
a while, and that these people live with me. (end dream)

Please tell me what you think,... I have never reached out or discussed the fact that I dream things that I know are psychic in nature.

Sincerely,

Lorakai

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Hi, not sure let, let me look this over.

Brian