Oh What a tangled Web we Weave

The first time anyone known to be directly involved was approached it was 3:00 AM on May 31, 2005 when several cars pulled up to the Vander Sloot home in Montana Noord, Aruba following polices cars which sounded their siren for a moment to awaken the slumbering Judge Van der Sloot to open the gate. It took several minute before he came outside. He was asked where his son Joran was, Paulus quickly said out gambling with friends. He called Joran then reported that Joran was at the Wyndham Hotel. The group quickly regathered into their waiting vehicles. Paul jumped in with a police officer and they drove to the Wyndham. But there was no Joran.
Having the experience of just reviewing the tapes at the Holiday Inn to see if her daughter was on them, Beth Holloway-Twitty knew to ask if she could review the tapes at the Wyndham to see if her daughter had been there with Joran that night. The room was small and only Mrs. Twittty was allowed in. She alone knew that Joran had not been to the Wyndham at all that night.

By 5:00 AM the group returned to the Van der Sloot home and upon arrival they found Joran and Deepak Kalpoe standing in the front leaning against Deepak's grey Honda. The car described as the one Natalee was seen getting into just 28 1/2 hours ago when she was last seen. That night Joran said "that he took her to the hotel, pulled into the front, and opened the door, and that she got out. And when she got out, she tripped and fell. And then got up, continued to walk into the Holiday Inn hotel". When confronted with the fact that he was not on the security tapes his father and Deepak both told him to say no more.

It was 2:00 PM when the police thought they should talk to the boys a little further. Perhaps they looked at the security tapes at the Holiday Inn for themselves by this time. We are not privy to what Joran said but we do know what the Kalpoes said. "According to testimony from two of the Dutch boy's Surinamese friends, they brought 18-year-old Natalee Holloway to Arashi beach, on the northern tip of the island, but they didn't get out of the car. Instead, Holloway and the Dutch teen, a 17-year-old honors student at Aruba International School, "were in the back seat kissing" in an intimate embrace, the Surinamese brothers said, according to testimony given to police.The brothers told police the young woman was drunk and refused to get out of the car when asked to the three young men said they then drove Holloway back to the Holiday Inn around 2 a.m. and that she stumbled in the parking lot but refused help from her Dutch escort Satish Kalpoe, 18, and his brother, Deepak, 21, told police they last saw Holloway being approached by a man in a security guard uniform before they drove off." These statements are credited to Satish's attorney David Kock.

Approximately June 2nd , Steve Croes volunteers information to police to about the security guards to help his friends.