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  • Joran Van Der Sloot Says Eyewitness To Natalee Halloway’s Murder Is A ‘Crackhead’

    It seems that the Natalee Holloway’s case has reached another dead end as Aruba’s prosecutor dismissed an eyewitness’ claims that he saw Joran van der Sloot kill the American teenager.

    The claims were made last week by Jurrien De Jong, a new witness who alleged that he saw primary suspect Joran van der Sloot chase Holloway into a building before hiding her body in a crawl space.

    The allegations were enough to drive Aruban authorities to look into the case again. It also prompted Holloway’s father to return to Aruba with a private investigator and a cadaver dog to follow up the lead.

    But a statement released by the office of Aruba’s Chief Prosecutor Eric Olthof debunks De Jong’s testimony.

    The Prosecutor’s office requested for information regarding the Marriott hotel’s Spyglass Tower construction site at the alleged time frame, specifically “what was built and what was not yet built” on the night of Holloway’s disappearance.

    Based on the information provided “it becomes indisputably clear that on the 30th of May 2005, no construction or building activities were started at the location that Mr. De Jong has specifically pointed out as the spot where Natalee Holloway would have been hidden and/or buried.”

    In short, the missing teenager could not have been hidden or buried on the site.

    Joran van der Sloot has also spoken out against De Jong, calling him “a crackhead, a f***ing liar, a compulsive liar.”

    Van der Sloot, who’s serving time in a Peruvian prison for the murder of another young woman, told his lawyer that he knows De Jong as “someone who sold drugs in Aruba to all of his friends.”

    Maximo Altez, van der Sloot’s lawyer, also said his client is advising the Holloways to disregard De Jong’s statement.

    “You know the mind of a crackhead, he’ll do anything to get money, and that’s all he wants,” Altez said. “You shouldn’t waste your time listening to him.”

  • Natalee Holloway: Dad Pursues New Lead in Hunt for Her Body in Aruba

    Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a school trip in Aruba back in May of 2005. She was just 18 years old. Joran van der Sloot has long been suspected of murdering the pretty blonde teenager from Alabama. He even confessed to it.

    Joran van der Sloot has a penchant for lying, however, and has led investigators–and the family of Natalee Holloway–on wild goose chases countless times. He is presently serving a prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 murder of another young woman.

    Now–nine years after Natalee Holloway’s disappearance–her father, Dave Holloway, has returned to Aruba to pursue a new lead that he hopes will result in finding his daughter’s body.

    Fox News reports that island resident Jurrien de Jong has come forward–after nine years– and told the syndicated TV program Inside Edition that he was an eyewitness to what happened to Natalee Holloway.

    The biggest question here is why did he wait so long?

    “I saw Natalee Holloway on the last night she was alive,” he said. “I was the eyewitness.”

    “I saw that Joran was chasing Natalee into a small building under construction,” De Jong continued. “In about five minutes he came out with Natalee in his arms, and slammed the body of Natalee on the floor, and then he made an opening in a crawl space… I knew she was dead.”

    Dave Holloway now has an investigator and a cadaver dog in his employ, and will soon set out to see if De Jong’s claims have any merit.

    Joran van der Sloot has claimed to have left a drunken Natalee Holloway alone on a beach. On hidden camera he confessed to killing her. He once even told Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren that he sold Natalee Holloway into slavery. van der Sloot was also charged with trying to extort $250,000 from Natalee Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, by claiming he could lead her to her daughter’s remains.

    De Jong told the distraught father what he knew last year, and also told the same to a Dutch newspaper, Algemeen Dagblad.

    Will Jurrien de Jong’s claims lead a tired, heartbroken, and discouraged father to his daughter’s remains? Will Dave and Beth Holloway–who divorced several years before their daughter went missing–finally be able to lay Natalee Holloway to rest?

    No one expects Natalee Holloway is alive–at least not many people do. It would no doubt give her family some peace to properly inter her remains.

  • Natalee Holloway: New Witness Comes Forward With Shocking Claims About Her Disappearance

    A decade after her disappearance, Natalee Holloway’s family might finally get some closure as a new witness claims he saw what happened to the teenager.

    The witness, Jurrien De Jong, has come forward with shocking claims that he saw the 18-year-old Holloway on the last night she was alive.

    De Jong told Inside Edition that he saw suspect Joran van der Sloot carrying her body on the night she vanished.

    Jurrien De Jong claims he saw Joran Van Der Sloot chase Natalee Halloway on the last night she was alive

    “I saw that Joran was chasing Natalee into a small building under construction,” De Jong described. “In about five minutes he came out with Natalee in his arms, and slammed the body of Natalee on the floor, and then he made an opening in a crawl space.”

    “I knew she was dead,” he concluded.

    Joran van der Sloot has always been the primary suspect in the case and was even arrested twice but never charged.

    The suspect, who was 17 at the time that Holloway disappeared, is currently serving time in a Peruvian prison for the murder of Stephany Flores, a college student.

    He still denies any wrongdoing in connection to Holloway’s disappearance.

    But why did it take De Jong 10 years to gather the nerve to come forward?

    De Jong says that he didn’t go to the police at the time because he was involved in some illegal activities. But he decided to reveal what he saw after watching a TV report where van der Sloot confessed that Holloway was buried at sea.

    It’s a claim that De Jong vehemently says is a lie based on what he saw that night.

    Aruba’s prosecutor, Eric Olthof, says that his office is looking into De Jong’s claims and that the investigation might take about two months.

    In the meantime, Holloway’s father Dave has returned to Aruba with a private detective and Inside Edition’s Lisa Guerrero to follow up on the new lead.