Someone Confesss and Recants

From Kwabs' Top news and Fox News
Deputy Police Commissioner Gerold Dompig told The Associated Press that the man was leading police late Friday to the scene. He refused to identify which of the three young men who took her to a beach the night she disappeared made the statement. Police investigating the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba said late Friday that one of three young men in custody has admitted "something bad happened" to her during her island visit.

JVdS and Kalpoes Arrested

Shortly before Joran's arrest he apparently sent a few emails and his tickle website is taken down.

From Aruba Today and Columbia Daily Tribune and Birmingham News

Something of interest in the Birmingham article "Police have said van der Sloot and the Kalpoes told them they drove Holloway back to the Holiday Inn and dropped her off there after 1 a.m., but no witnesses have confirmed that." Note that the article quoted Jan Van der Straaten several times.

They said they dropped Natalee off at 2:am to the officers that questioned them on Tuesday May 31 at 5:am. That is after 1:am but why a different time?

Deputy Chief Commissioner Gerold Dompig is the lead investigator on the case and he reports the supposed confession then Commissioner Van der Straaten quickly denies it and that story that one of the suspects is leading them to the body. Deputy Commissioner Dompig soon disappears from the case. The rumors that Jan Van der Straaten is Joran Van der Sloot's Godfather begin to circulate. This rumor is finally confirmed on July 23 by an FBI agent that has been in Aruba watching on this case unfold.

Van der Straaten Returns

Officers wait outside the home of Antonious Mickey John on June 5, 2005 before arresting him and searching his home. It is odd that the press was notified to be there for the photo opportunity.

From CBS News
Croes said police questioned and released two Surinamese nationals and a native of the Netherlands who said they dropped Holloway off early Monday at the Holiday Inn where she had been staying, rectifying police reports that the three men had been Aruban students. He said the three men were residents of Aruba. The search has not been extended to Venezuela, whose coastline is only 25 miles from Aruba at the nearest point, or the neighboring Dutch island of Curacao, Jan Van der Straaten said. Posters with a photograph of Holloway have been put up throughout island, with a caption reading: "Kidnapped since 1:30 a.m. May 30 (sic)."

Security Guards Arrested from CBS News and About.com.

With the help of Steve Croes, the Kalpoes and Joran Van der Sloot were able to shift the last known person to be seen with Natalee to the security guards. AFWI.com reports "the whole scene is causing a rift between Arubans with calls of racism."