Supposedly there was an MB student named Haleigh (sp?) who's parents owned a condo on Aruba. She and her mother remained there and helped search for Natalee. Supposedly, Haleigh knew some of the locals from her previous times on the island. I think that some of us saw this as a possible connection to Lorenzo.
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Also going to be talking to Marjanne Havelaar. She is the editor of the largest Dutch newspaper. I am going to talk about—to her—about the family of this Dutch judge‘s son who has been arrested and, obviously, from what we‘re hearing tonight, was intimate with Natalee. We are also going to be talking
Haleigh Uncapher. She is a friend of Natalee‘s who was with her the night she disappeared and is now helping in the search. All that, plus the Jackson case, Tom Cruise, Scientology.
A lot ahead. SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY is just getting started. Stick around.
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SCARBOROUGH: We‘re going to be right back.
And when we return, we are going to be talking to people on the island of Aruba, also going to be talking to a friend of Natalee‘s who was with her the night that she disappeared and searching for her.
And, also, we are going to go out to California and get the very latest in the Michael Jackson case. The circus act continues, except Michael Jackson may be going to jail soon. That is what a lot of experts are claiming. We‘ll talk to our experts out in L.A., when SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY returns.
But, first, here is the latest news that you and your family need to know.
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SCARBOROUGH: With the arrest of three more suspects and also the search for Natalee Holloway entering the 11th day and counting, the question remains, what could have happened to this beautiful, intelligent, attractive young girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama?
With me now to talk about it is Marjanne Havelaar. She is the editor of “The Amigoe,” which is, from what I understand, Marjanne, the largest Dutch-language newspaper on the island.
Thank you for being with us tonight.
Your island is such a safe island. I know this has to be a shock to everybody down there. How often do you have tourists from America or any other country end up missing like this?
MARJANNE HAVELAAR, EDITOR, “THE AMIGOE”: As far as I can remember, it never happens. I work as an editor for five years now on this island. I live here for 15 years. And something like this, it‘s really the first time.
SCARBOROUGH: It just doesn‘t happen.
Now, let me ask you something. You know the family of the Dutch teen. Obviously, they‘re a very well respected family there. What can you tell us about them tonight?
HAVELAAR: Yes. You‘re right. It‘s a very respected family. As we know, the father is a local judge. The mother is a teacher. I mean, they have three kids. They‘ve never been in trouble. It‘s a normal, decent family, nothing extraordinary about them. So, this came really as a shock that their son was named as one of the suspects.
SCARBOROUGH: Yes. I‘m sure a lot of people are shocked by that.
Let me ask you something. Last night, we had an FBI profiler come on this show. And they said, you know, one of the things that happens, not only in Aruba, but happens—I mean, it happens in Miami. It happens all across America, all across the world, is, sometimes, you have date rape drugs that are slipped into drinks. It happens on college campuses. A lot of speculation that that may have happened in this case.
Has that ever happened in Aruba before? Have police or newspapers ever felt the need to issue warnings to tourists because this happens?
HAVELAAR: Yes. It‘s something that happens on Aruba. It happened a few times last—over the last few years.
And, sometimes, in our paper, we issue a warning, not only for the tourists, but also for the local teens. Once in a while, we hear information about this kind of thing. .
SCARBOROUGH: All right, thank you for being with us, Marjanne. Obviously, we are all going to continue to focus on this story, just like you are. We greatly appreciate you being with us tonight.
Let‘s go back now to Tom Parker. He‘s a former FBI agent.
Tom, you know, a lot of people are talking about possibly Natalee being killed, murdered on the island. They‘re searching for her. But there is a possibility, because of Aruba‘s geographic location, that she could have possibly been taken off the island. Talk about that.
PARKER: Well, obviously, anything is possible as to where she has ended up as a result of this situation.
And it really comes back to, what was the motivation of whoever took her? If there was a need to conceal her or to get her removed from any opportunity of somebody finding her, then to take her to another remote island would be very, very logical. This is why a very important part of this investigation, which I can assure you is under way, they will be dissecting from A to Z all of the activities, the background, where they‘ve been, what they‘ve been doing this past weekend as it relates to these five suspects that are now in custody.
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SCARBOROUGH: I‘m sorry. I was just going to say, let‘s put that map back up for—that shows how close Aruba is to Venezuela.
You had the attorney general coming out earlier today talking about—and there‘s the map—talking about how this search has expanded beyond their borders. Does the FBI—I mean, have you heard of cases before where somebody got kidnapped from an island and taken to the mainland? And, of course, the speculation is—and it‘s all speculation—that could have been sold into prostitution or slavery. Does that ever happen?
PARKER: Absolutely. It‘s happening all over the world.
And, certainly, that‘s one of the possibilities that the investigators down there are looking at. And it‘s also logical to start looking beyond Aruba, when we are 10 and 11 days into this and no trace of her has been found, at least as far as we know. You do start expanding your search. So, I‘m presuming that it was a natural forward movement for them to expand the search. But I‘m also guessing that they have developed some information which would indicate that this other island, this remote island, is perhaps somehow involved in this.
SCARBOROUGH: All right, Tom, thanks a lot for being with us. We greatly appreciate it.
PARKER: My pleasure.
SCARBOROUGH: And, obviously, I‘ll tell you what. A lot of people In Mountain Brook, Alabama, very concerned about what‘s going on tonight, concerned about the fact that Natalee, obviously worst-case scenario, that she is on the island and something terrible happened to her there, but also that she may have been taken off the island. And, again, this investigation now has expanded beyond Aruba.
Now let‘s bring in Haleigh Uncapher. Haleigh is a friend that was with Natalee the night that she disappeared. And, also, she continues with the valiant search for her friend from Mountain Brook, Alabama.
Haleigh, thanks a lot for being with us tonight.
HALEIGH UNCAPHER, FRIEND OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: Thank you.
SCARBOROUGH: Talk about the emotions of today, now in the 11th day. Are people starting to think that this story just may not have a happy ending?
UNCAPHER: I think people are still hopeful. And they‘re trying not to focus on whether it is going to be a happy ending or not. I think we‘re really just trying to find Natalee and get some closure to this case.
SCARBOROUGH: You know, today, we got a lot of information on the Dutch man. You spoke last night—Well, I say man. He‘s 17 years old, the 17-year-old son, a judge‘s son who is a Dutch guy.
You talked about the fact that they met the night before she disappeared. But we‘re hearing now that they met in the casino. Can you set the stage for those of us in the United States that want to know what the hotel was like where you were staying? There was a casino nearby. There were bars nearby. Talk about the casino where they met.
UNCAPHER: OK.
Well, the casino and lobby and all that is kind of separate from the sleeping quarters or whatever. But you have to walk from where your room is, across the way, and then there is a bar on your right. And then, as you keep walking straight, it comes right into the hotel, the main hotel, where the lobby is and the casino and everything is just right there. And so, the main hotel kind of...
SCARBOROUGH: Yes. And...
UNCAPHER: Go ahead.
SCARBOROUGH: Keep going.
UNCAPHER: Oh, I was just going to say, the hotel surrounds the pool and the bar, kind of.
SCARBOROUGH: OK. We‘re hearing also obviously that what Natalee did, meeting this young Dutch man, was not out of the ordinary, that, actually, you had a lot of locals coming into the casino, a lot of locals coming into these bars trying to pick up tourists, which, of course, happens in the Caribbean and also in other vacation resorts. Is that correct?
UNCAPHER: Well, yes.
I mean, locals are everywhere you go, because they‘re just like you, trying to enjoy themselves as—just as much so. They were—you know, were pretty much wherever we were, not necessarily only where we were. But everywhere we went, you know, were locals.
SCARBOROUGH: Yes.
Now, Natalee—we‘re hearing from these reports that Natalee was intimate with this young man. Had Natalee talked to you, had she talked to anybody else from Mountain Brook High School that was down there with her on this senior trip about this young man that she had obviously met the night before?
UNCAPHER: She had never talked to me about it. I have not talked to any of her friends. And from what I know of, they didn‘t know. They only knew him from Sunday night when—at Carlos ‘n Charlie‘s.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, OK. So, they don‘t know the backstory to it, how—what we‘re hearing today, again, from the statements that were released.
Talk about the search today. It looks like you‘ve been out in the sun for the better part of the day looking for Natalee. It‘s been 11 days now. This island, as we said last night, is no bigger than Topeka, Kansas.
There are 700 people that have been out searching. The FBI is out there. There are divers out there. There are search dogs out there, still no—searching for Natalee.
Where did you all go today? What—what‘s left to search on the island of Aruba?
UNCAPHER: Well, normally, they‘ve been searching from the lighthouse to the Alta Vista, which is a church which they think that Natalee may be. And then this area, there is just a lot of brush and just a lot of ground to cover and also little homes that we may think that, you know, people don‘t have cable or—we can‘t imagine people not knowing about this, but we are just trying to go out there just to see if, you know, people haven‘t heard about it.
SCARBOROUGH: Can you talk about talk about your friends, fellow people from Mountain Brook? What are their thoughts tonight?
UNCAPHER: I just think we‘re all just really worried now.
You know, it‘s our 11th day. And we‘re all just anxious to find out more news. And, yes, that‘s about—just really worried.
SCARBOROUGH: All right, Haleigh. All right, Haleigh, thanks a lot.
We appreciate you being with us tonight.
UNCAPHER: Thank you.
SCARBOROUGH: Again, good luck on the search. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and Natalee‘s friends and, obviously, everybody that‘s searching for this young 18-year-old woman.
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