Aruba prosecutor does not believe new Natalee Holloway ‘witness’

May 19, 2015 8:51 PM
ORANJESTAD - Alabama student Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba in 2005 and has not been seen since.Authorities in Aruba say a man who recently came forward to say he saw Natalee Holloway being killed 10 years ago doesn't know what he's talking about.
 
Jurrien De Jong told the television program "Inside Edition" that he saw the 18-year-old Alabama student being chased into a building by longtime suspect Joran van der Sloot, who emerged a short while later carrying Holloway in his arms.
 
He slammed the young woman into the ground and then dug an opening in a crawl space, De Jong told police. The building was under construction, De Jong told reporters, and is now the Spyglass Tower of the Marriott Hotel in Aruba.
 
But a press release issued Tuesday by Chief Prosecutor Eric Olthof's office debunked that claim, which investigators first heard in 2013. De Jong did not come forward sooner because he was involved in "illegal activities."
 
After checking with Marriott officials, the prosecutor learned that on May 30, 2005, the day Natalee disappeared, there was no construction work going on at the site and the foundation of the hotel had not even been poured yet.
 
"This means that Natalee Holloway could never have been hidden and/or buried there," the statement said.
 
De Jong's claims prompted the missing teen's dad, Dave Holloway, to return to the island earlier this month with a private investigator and a cadaver dog.
 
Van der Sloot, who was seen with Holloway the night she disappeared, was never charged in the case, but was long considered the perpetrator. He was sentenced in 2012 to 38 years in prison for the murder of a 21-year-old woman in Lima, Peru

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