Friday the 17th before signing? Glaring is exactly what it is, imo.
Maybe we need to go back and see exactly what was going on in the so called investigation between june 13th and june 17th?What were they doing in this time period?
ABBREVIATED TIMELINE FOR PART OF JUNEJune 3 - Aruban Coastguard searches waters
June 3 – first American News Media crew on island was MSNBC, following the first correspondent to the island from the syndicated show, “a Current Affair.”
June 3 – Reportedly a former policeman follows a KIA sedan with a blonde woman matching Natalee’s description from an ATM location. After following the car from house to house, the police are called. The girl is brought to the police station, the Twittys are called in, but the woman turned out to be an American tourist. Similarly it is later reported that Hubert Tiel follows another woman from house to house, before she leaves by helicopter.
June 4 - Allegro Hotel searched room by room
June 5 - Johns & Jones arrested.
Bloody mattress found on SE end of island
Ladies sunglasses & white security shirt found in Colony area of SE end of island
June 5 – Gerold Dompig reportedly replaced vd Straaten as lead investigator per Oduber’s orders. Vd Straaten becomes lead investigator again within a few days, allegedly around the 10th.
June 6 – Island-wide search for Natalee Holloway
500 gov't employees show up for
search of SouthEastern tip of island
June 8 - Judge J.S. Kuiperdal remands Johns & Jones in custody for an additional 8 days
June 9 – ~6 – 6:30 AM - J2K arrested on “reasonable suspicion of murder, manslaughter or intentional containment with the dead as consequence”
June 9 - 6:00 PM - International School of Aruba senior graduation @ Wyndham Hotel
June 10 – Natalee’s loved ones rush to the lighthouse area after a police official tells the media that one of the three young men in custody admitted “something bad happened” and was leading police to the scene.
June 10 - Beth stated that her D.N.A. was requested by JANSSEN (BETH gave saliva and blood samples)
June 10 - Late that evening FOX News, AP and CNN reported that Dompig and Edward Croes stated that one of the arrested suspects had confessed, and police were being taken to a crime scene. DOMPIG also stated that one of the persons in custody had stated "that something bad happened to NATALEE.” Shortly after that statement became public, a press conference was held in which one senior government official made no reference to the Assistant Commissioner's statement, choosing rather, to say that the authorities were at a critical juncture in the investigations.
June 10 - Beth & Dave told by FBI that Natalee may no longer be alive because the 3 Main Suspects were “beginning to implicate each other, and they were not denying the crime, and they were finger-pointing at each other.”
June 10 - BETH phoned her mother and told her that Natalee was probably no longer alive.
June 10 - This weekend began scaling back of search for Natalee. ALE search teams venturing out only after credible tips & coast guard patrols offshore
June 10 - Oduber addresses Aruba that if something bad happened to Natalee it would be bad for the island long considered one of the safest CARIBBEAN OCEAN nations to visit, whose main industry is tourism.
June 10 – Aru-Bay video of what appears to be the recovery of a body is filmed. It is later claimed to be that of a 7 year old illegal immigrant from Columbia, although the body is later reported to have been found a year earlier
June 11 - Rudy Croes states twice that one of the boys is talking and a body will be found soon.
June 11 - Oduber says there is blood in Deepak's car
June 11 – The radio stations in Aruba are also reporting that ARUBAN police are heading to recover NATALEE’s remains. First it was lighthouse, then it was Bubali Plas (shallow lake), then it’s Canashito, at the rock quarry.
June 11 –Vivian van der Biezen, spokeswoman for the Attorney General said, “The investigation (is) was at a very crucial point.”
June 11 – Video tape of strange events taking place near the lighthouse were uploaded to the internet.
June 11 – Public announcements regarding confession & body location are officially retracted
June 11 – Aru-Bay video of rock painting is filmed
Aru-Bay video of body recovery is uploaded to internet
June 11 - vd STRAATEN was asked by a DUTCH journalist if he had any hopes for a positive outcome? STRAATEN replied, “You always have to be hopeful, but I don’t believe anymore that we will find Natalee alive.” When asked why not, STRAATEN replied, “Because I know the details of the investigation and you don't!”
June 11 - Curacao criminal judge DICK van den BRINK came to Aruba & remanded J2K to be held for an additional 8 days
June 11 or 12 – Julia Renfro hysterically notifies the Twittys that Natalee had been found dead and moved to the island’s courthouse. Julia inserts herself to the Twittys’ overcrowded mini-van as they rush to the courthouse where they are met by a throng of television cameras. The family finds the courthouse locked and apparently empty. Julia claimed her information came from a deputy information office in the justice department, but it was found that no official ever leaked the information.
June 12 - Families asked to stop talking to the press
June 12 - Amalin Flanegin was added as second prosecutor after rumors that she would replace Jannsen
June 12 – An Amigoe article in the Aruban newspaper stated, “The father of one of the boys is a substitute judge. And every impression has to be prevented that the judge that is assigned is friends with the father of the boy.”
June 12 - Aru-Bay video of rock painting is uploaded to Internet
June 13 – Joran reportedly tells ALE that Deepak killed & buried Natalee near the huts. Joran reportedly also claims that he was dropped at his home at 1:40.
June 13 - “FoxNews” RIVERA reported he just got off the phone with the Justice Minister RUDY CROES, and that CROES said there would a “resolution to the case momentarily.”
June 13 – John & Jones were released. JONES was released after his wife and mother testified that JONES was home sick all day 5-29 and 5-30 and wife was continuously with JONES.
June 13 – The lawyer of suspect ABRAHAM JONES, CHRIS LeJUEZ stated the following:
Two suspects: Joran van der Sloot and Abraham Jones were/are detained in the same cellblock at the police department in Noord.
It is here that a crying suspect, Joran van der Sloot supposedly commented to another suspect, Abraham Jones the following:
He is very preoccupied because he thinks that the other two Surinamese suspects might be lying and blaming him for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. His new story is that they (with they, I mean the two other suspects) dropped him off at his home, with Natalee Holloway still in the car, further he and Natalee exchanged e-mail address and that was the last time he saw her. He also added that the story that he told the officials was orchestrated at his home, near the pool.
June 13 – a second “Wall of Hope and Prayer” is erected
June 14 – 3 condoms, duct tape, and women’s size 14-16 pink polka-dot or pink floral underwear are found near the Marriott Hotel Beach
June 15 – Search & Seizure of vd Sloot’s red jeep & medium-blue SUV, computers and misc. other physical evidence. Ben King present during search. Kalpoes home searched & car impounded
June 17 – Steve Croes arrested
June 17 – Dutch judge Bob Wit rules that Paulus not be allowed visitation with Joran. Wit also barred Carlos (Joran’s attorney) from visting b/c Carlo had visited with security guards during their arrest. Joran’s family hires Richie Kock and Arjan Debie as attorneys for Joran. Judge Wit extends remand of J2K
June 18 – Paulus questioned for 5 hours as possible witness
June 18 – Rene Van Heyningen found partially beheaded in a cemetery
June 19 – Judge Wit retains S Croes for an additional 8 days
June 20 – Joran reportedly is on suicide watch
June 21 – J2K transferred to KIA
June 21 – Beth & Greta visit with Paulus & Anita at vdS home for 90 minutes. Allegedly Anita describes Natalee’s underwear & genitals, as well as provides a graphic description of Joran’s sexual encounter with Natalee.
June 21 – J2K transferred to KIA
June 23 – Paulus vd Sloot is arrested under suspicion of complicity to premeditated murder, complicity to murder and complicity to kidnapping.
June 24 – Police secretly tape conversations of J2K while they are being transported together in police vehicle
