DEAD END

The supporters of Natalee Holloway's family have the attention of the Dutch embassy in Washington.

AP writes:

On Wednesday, family friend Sunny Tillman said she and others were distributing e-mails asking people to write to the Dutch ambassador in Washington to urge the country's continued help in Aruba, a Dutch protectorate.

On Thursday, Ambassador Boudewijn van Eenennaam issued a statement saying, "I fully understand and appreciate the feelings of the many Americans who have expressed their legitimate concerns to my embassy. As the ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, I want to reassure the American people that everything is being done to resolve this tragic case. We are standing together in our efforts and our hopes."

A spokeswoman for the embassy said it had received about 30 phone calls and several e-mails.

...The Dutch ambassador said the Royal Netherlands Marines, the Joint Dutch-Aruban Investigation Team, the Netherlands Forensic Institute, the Netherlands Coast Guard and Dutch legal experts are assisting Aruban authorities in the investigation.

Although a letter-writing campaign keeps the pressure on the Dutch to resolve the case of Natalee's disappearance, I doubt it will help. The ambassador claims that "everything is being done" that can be done. That may be, now.

The problem is everything that should have been done was not done WHEN it should have been.

Let's be realistic. Unless by some miracle Natalee is found or some investigator stumbles on some forensic evidence, no one will be held accountable for what happened to her.

Paul van der Sloot, his son Joran, and brothers Satish and Deepak Kalpoe aren't going to talk. They aren't going to confess to anything, nor are they going to rat each other out. They decided on their strategy just a few days after Natalee was reported missing.

All they have to do is wait out the 116 days.

Aruba's attorney general Caren Janssen says she could prosecute a case without a body. OK--but what kind of case could Janssen argue if it's true that investigators have found NO evidence to suggest that Natalee is dead?

I feel so sorry for Natalee's family. How I wish this nightmare would end for them!

What angers me is someone could put an end to it. Someone has the answers.