The Unrevealed Time Line - Rene Gielen (Documentary Trailer)
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Natalee ~ Missing in Aruba ~ 37 Months
June 30th, 2008
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OVERBOORD by Partick van der Eem & E. E. Byars
June 26th, 2008
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Third Anniversary in the Natalee Holloway Disappearance
May 30th, 2008Friday, May 30, 2008 – 06:38 PM
By Jon Paepcke
MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala.—- Charlotte Botsford is a Mountain Brook youth pastor.
She said Natalie Holloway’s senior trip disappearance has forced parents to scale down the annual tradition.
“From what I can tell it has changed significantly. A lot of students are going to the beach or the lake and they are taking a lot parents with them,” Botsford recalled.
Today we reached Holloway’s father by phone at his Meridian, Mississippi office.
He said the last three years have felt like a heartbreaking dream which won’t end.
“I never would have thought that we would be here three years later talking about it and we’re really not any further along than we were in the first few weeks,” Holloway remembered.
Holloway does have hope that recent sonar searches off the Aruban coast could solve the mystery.
Meanwhile back in Mountain Brook, today’s anniversary came as a surprise to two women at the English Village.
“Oh wow, it has been three years. Three years exactly. She and i were in classes together when I was in mountain brook. It was a complete shock, but i didn’t realize it had been exactly three years”, Holloway classmate Katherine Ford said.
Ford remembered the day she saw her classmate’s picture on the news and said ever since she decided to reinforce her self awareness.
“You have to vigilant at all times especially as a woman it’s very important, be cautious in the world we’re in. No place is perfectly safe. Not even Mountain Brook,” Ford pointed out.
Dave Holloway says ocean floor sonar searches off the coast of Aruba found about 170 targets.
Due to bad weather and technological limitations, they were only able to examine a handful of those targets.
Holloway hopes to resume the searches as soon as possible.
Natalee ~ Missing in Aruba 3 Years
May 29th, 2008We Remember Natalee
March 30th, 2008Aruban Hotel & Tourism Attorney Sends Letter to Greta
March 14th, 2008Tribute to the R/V Persistence
March 2nd, 2008Below are some pictures of the Persistence leaving
Aruba and heading for home…
Godspeed to the crew.
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The RV Persistence to Leave Aruba
March 1st, 2008
(Photo Credit Kyle Kingman)
Posted by LegallyLex:
It is with sadness that I am reporting to everyone that the Persistence leaves Aruba tomorrow heading for home. As you are aware, the side scan sonar search is complete. There are many many targets for the ROV to look at. Sadly, this will not happen with the Persistence. The main reason is the lack of funding. This combined with the winter rough weather makes it difficult. John and the crew thank all of your for your help and many blessings and prayers you have provided. Please continue these prayers until the Persistence and crew makes it back to port in New Iberia.
I don’t know what to say! Everyone has tried. I urge you to continue to try to obtain donations so that a boat and ROV can go back and dive all the targets that the Persistence has collected. The feelings that John and the crew have are so mixed right now. I can only imagine… In any event, please continue with trying to get donations for the finishing of this search. I know I am… I will not give up.
Thanks everyone! You are the best!
Holloway Searchers Need Help
February 28th, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008 | 8:21 PM
By Cynthia Cisneros
KEMAH, TX (KTRK)—It’s been almost three years since Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba on a class trip.
But searchers have not given up hope.
A Kemah businessman has been on the front lines of the search for Natalee, spending over a million dollars of his own money. Over the past four months, he’s paid for an underwater search.
The morning we were there, Louis Schafer was signing a wire transfer for $250,000. The money used to operate a sophisticated, deep sea survey boat, named the Persistence.
“I’ve dedicated a million dollars, I’ve gone way above that,” said Louis Schafer of Underwater Expeditions. “I feel like it’s time to ask for help from the American people that want to see this case solved.”
The Persistence has been used every day since November to survey the ocean floor near Aruba. It uses remote operated vehicles, called ROVs, to sweep the ocean depths. What they’ve been able to accomplish is astounding.
“By Friday, we will have surveyed the entire 50-square mile off Aruba,” Schafer said. “We have identified at least 60 of the targets. we have about 150 more targets to inspect.”
Natalee Holloway traveled to Aruba two years ago to celebrate her high school graduation and disappeared. Natalee was last seen with Joran Van der Sloot who says he does not know what happened to her.
Schafer made a fortune in the deep sea diving business for oil rig removal and installation. He had access to unique technology and a team of experts that could find just about anything.
“So we have completely mapped the ocean floor, we know every object that’s there, we know every object that could be a container holding her in the sea,” he said.
A relentless search Schafer and his team say will stop, if they don’t get more funding.
“And we all feel, I’m speaking from everybody on the team, that she’s in one of the targets we have not looked at yet,” Tim Trahan of Underwater Expeditions said. “We can’t stop. I go to sleep at night thinking we’ve located it, we just need to get to it.”
The search of the rest of those targets will stop this week. For more information on how you can help, Click Here.