Selected Essays by Sam Redman

Since I completed this chapter with many thoughts and probative writings from Mr. Redman regarding the Holloway Case, Sam himself has been busy with his own blog,"Sam Redman's Musings." Please check it out as there some very interesting, often timely and very well written articles by Sam who is truly a brilliant man and gifted writer:

 
A strange plan with mysterious documents

An essay by Sam Redman

Jamie Skeeters, the private investigator working for the Dr. Phillip McGraw television program (called the Dr. Phil Show), may have been one of the culprits in the now famous recording deception, however his role was only a small part of a much wider and more detailed set of circumstances. What we know now is that were two versions of that tape and what was broadcast internationally was clearly not a confession. It is now apparent that there is only one version of the tape which has any interest and that is the one with Deepak shaking his head in denial. As Arlene Shipper, an Aruban attorney, pointed out, this body language denial is the crux of the matter. Any other version is a lie and the altered version of the tape has no use in this case. But, there is an interesting aspect to all of this because the altered tape was planned, probably unwittingly by Dr. Phil and Beth Holloway, to be used as part of another scenario involving Aruban politics.

Dr. Phil announced on his show that his manipulated version (which he probably assumed was legitimate), was to be released as evidence to the Aruban authorities after the elections in Aruba. And although we know now that the two hour version in Dr. Phil's possession was phony (and not just his 8 second snippet), those reading about this case might wonder about what was behind the plan to turn this over only following the election results.

Around this time (and earlier) Beth Twitty (Natalee Holloway's mother) had made accusations based on documents and confessions which the Aruban police say they don't have. Beth had come to the conclusion that that the police were corrupt on the island. Beth believed that the copies of the confessions and documents which found their way into Beth's hands were real and that the police for whatever reasons, maybe related to fear of negative publicity for the island (one can only speculate) destroyed their originals. Beth based her conclusion on her experience at the police station when she and her husband at the time (not Natalee's father) confronted the police about the confessions. Jug Twitty (Beth's husband, Natalee Holloway's stepfather) and Beth described their visit to the police station, telling how they provided to the police officer quotes from Joran's "confession documents." The policeman repeatedly replied, "No, Joran didn't say that." Jug, in a later TV interview, told how they were now keeping what they had a secret, explaining that he had acquired his knowledge from copies of "confession" documents in his possession. Many observers at the time seriously questioned why Jug didn't turn those over (he could have kept his originals in a safe) to the police. That remains somewhat of a mystery. The only logical explanation assumes that they concluded that such would be pointless and that Jug and Beth were then relying on getting this information to new authorities (the police denials indicating to them that the current group was corrupt). They concluded their only hope was new officials who would be installed after an upcoming election and that these new people wouldn't continue blocking the confession documents from being considered.

Where did Beth and Jug get their confession documents? We can only assume that they came from Jossy Mansur, the primary advocate for a change in power in Aruba. One of the confessions, which might have been real, we don't know, was released, translated into English and published in Josey Mansur's Aruban newspaper. Eduardo Mansur, Jossy's son, told how they had come to possess it. He stated that it was left in an special mailbox outside of the newspaper which they own. That newspaper had been for a long time the primary voice trying to overthrow the party in power