Aruba Dead End

News from Aruba:

Beth Holloway Twitty's attorney, Benvinda de Sousa, said her apology was not inspired by threats from the attorneys of the Kalpoe brothers to sue if she kept insisting their clients were guilty.

De Sousa said Natalee Holloway's mother will wait on the island in hopes that answers to her daughter's fate will be found.
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Tim Miller, director of Texas EquuSearch, a Dickenson, Texas-based volunteer group that has been here for more than two weeks doing ocean and land searches, said forensic diving specialists and two Navy SEAL divers who were volunteering vacation time were to arrive later Friday, bringing specialized search equipment.

But Miller said EquuSearch was planning to leave on Tuesday if nothing new was found. He acknowledged prospects for success were slim and said he was convinced the girl was not on the island.

"We are not any closer than we were 16 days ago when we got here," Miller said.
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On Tuesday, a three-judge panel will hear appeals of the conditional release of the two brothers, Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18.

It will also hear an appeal of a judge's order to hold Joran van der Sloot, the 17-year-old son of a judge-in-training for another 60 days. The hearings will not be public.

De Sousa said the judges could rule that day or the next.
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It has to be so discouraging for Natalee's family for suspects in the case to be released and for the volunteer searchers to be planning to leave the island.

One wonders if Beth Holloway Twitty's vow to stay on the island until she has answers about her daughter's fate means she would have to take up permanent residence there.

Justice is not always achievable in this life.