Does Julia Renfro Have a Vested Interest?

The Villas owned by ARS group.

Julia Renfro has a variety of interests in Aruba besides being the editor-in-chief of Aruba Today News Magazine and the Photo Journalists for it's sister newpaper Bon Dia.

It seems she is the contact for Windsurfing competition on Aruba.
She is connected to Aruba Travel Guide.
World-wide Travel Guide
Island Temptations.
Aruba Rentals
Sailing
And the ARS Group.

The ARS Group and World-Wide Travel Guide may be related to each other as they both cover the same types of activities but it seems that the business grew from Aruba to World-Wide.
These groups handle many types of businesses including yacht rentals, The Screamer, real estate, Villa rentals, apartments, office space, virtual offices and corporates identities, Business services to include...
Administration Services
Architectural Services
Business Brokerage Services
Car Rental Services
Charters
Cellular Phone Rental
Commercial or Residential Real Estate Services
Concierge & Reservations Services
Conference Room
Fax and Copy Services
Financial Services
Fiscal Services
Internet Services
Insurance Services

Julia has one main competitor on Aruba. That is Diario-Aruba owned by Jossy Mansur. The Mansur family has a colorful background that has been made very public with the help of Ms. Renfro and her media contacts. Ms. Renfro's background on the other hand has been kept secret.

Let's look at a few things that Ms. Renfro has had to say about this case.

"Locally there was never even a mention or a breath of concern that this was a racial issue nor a status issue," Renfro said. HUMMMMM Does 'locally' mean the Dutch community?

"It was not 200 people protesting. It was 200 people demonstrating what Aruba was about, the friendliness of the island, that Aruba was turning into a welcome mat that was just being absolutely stepped on." So it was NOT a protest but in her next breath she says....
"No question about it. I was there at the protest demonstration. And it was all about, this is who we are. This is our justice system. We believe in our justice system. Let it prevail." OK, Julia which was it? An Unbiased view.

Do you want to guess who the gardener works for? The boss that he told about the suspicious car and the 3 young men hiding in it on the night Natalee disappeared? Can you imagine why this native Aruban was afraid to come forward when his boss said that she would inform her good friend the Chief Police Commissioner.

Revised Opening Statement

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Some Startling Revelations

After learning of the story about the pond near the Aruba Racquet Club and how law enforcement and the fire department kept Equusearch from the area the more important it became.

Unable to find the handy dandy map I was using, I was forced to do a search and found a very interesting listing that caught my attention. I try very hard to ignore the multitude of real estate listings that invariably come up wheneve I search for a map but this one screamed out at me for some reason. It looked familiar. It appears to be the Van der Sloot home, I am pretty sure about that. So I clicked the See owner's other properties and then found this. When you look at this photo of the home you will see that the side of the house faces the racquetball court, as I have drawn it on the map. You can click on the map to enlarge it. This will give you a better perspective of the areas discussed by the emerging witnesses and this house that appear to belong to the Van der Sloot family or possibly a corporation that Mr. Van der Sloot is involved with. This begs the question, did Joran have access to that house?

3 New Witnesses Come Forward

Today we have learned of 3 new witnesses in the Natalees Holloway case.

The first was introduced to us by Jossy Mansur the managing editor of Diario Aruba. According to his report on the Greta VanSustern show, one of his investigators learned of this witness after a domino game at KIA prison. When an inmate playing againt one of the Kalpoe brothers said "my gardener saw you at the raquet club on the night the girl disappeared between 2:30 and 3:00 AM." Per Mr. Mansur, the reporter tracked down the gardener that was afraid to come forward for at least 3 weeks to say that he was driving home and saw the car parked with the lights off. He almost hit the car and slowed enough to see Joran in the driver seat lean over to hide, One Kalpoe in the front passengerseat and one Kalpoe in the back try to hide, he did not see Natalee. The witness was finally convinced to come forward last night.

The second witness is the one reportes by NBC News which has learned that there is a new witness in the case. This witness claims to know where Holloway's body was placed.

A third witness was reported tonight on Larry King Live by T.J.Ward the private investigator hired by the Holloway-Twitty family. This is a woman that lives in the area of the Aruba Raquet Club which is a new housing development. She recalled seeing a car identical to Deepaks, even describing the custom taillights and custom wheels drive by 3 times one night about 10:00 PM. She found this suspicious as there are few people living in the area and the car drove by 3 times rather slowly. She stated this occured approximately 7 weeks ago, just after Natalee disappeared.

updated 11:10 PM

Lorenzo Van Rijn

Very little is really known about the infamous 23 year old Lorenzo Van Rijn but the rumors fly. We have heard that his father is both Paulus Van der Sloot and a man that owned a VW dealership in Aruba that may have committed suicide a few years ago. This photo of Lorenzo was taken on the Tattoo . Photos 112 and 115 include Steve Croes, 116 is of Lorenzo.

We have heard that he lives in the largest house in Aruba and is a big-time drug dealer. His house in Jaraweg has a basement and supposedly some of Natalee's clothes were found there. He is supposed to own a cigarette boat.

What we haven't heard is that Lorenzo Van Rijn and Jaime Carrasquilla are more than likely one and the same person. If you study the comparison photos at the top you'll see the likeness. Granted his hair is bleached blonde and his eyebrows are grown out, he appears to be wearing aplenty of sunscreen to keep his naturally dark complexion from getting more sun than necessary and the oils show in his skin. He may even be donning colored contacts in one photo.

Or he he really blonde and dyes his hair dark and sports a tan to look Columbian, even adopting a Columbian name?

What do you think?

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.