Janssen says criticism not justified

Chief Prosecutor Karin Janssen said criticism of the way Aruban authorities have handled the case "is not justified." "We have a civilized society. We have a decent law system. We can't book people when we want ... like a bunch of cowboys," she said. "We have made some progress, and we are doing it in our way. It is maybe not fast enough for a lot of people, but it is no grounds to have such criticism."

The legal system in Aruba, an autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is based partly on Dutch civil law. Janssen said she thinks island police "are doing a hell of a job."

The prosecutor said the investigation is being conducted around the three suspects in custody, "so we get a clear picture of where they were, and what has happened, and what happened to Natalee." She described the process as "millimeter work" going on "around the clock."

"It's a real puzzle, but we are getting the picture of the puzzle, I think," she said. Janssen said authorities in Aruba are working Holloway's disappearance as a missing person's case with the possibility of murder, although they have not definitively concluded that the teen is dead.

Why this case?

It would be a question that would begin to be asked after a month of solid coverage. It would continue to be asked throughout the next two years and counting. Here is a video that to some might be very troubling.

Oduber responds to criticism

Beth Twitty not happy

"I know in my heart he has some answers," Beth Holloway Twitty told The Associated Press in an interview. She said her suspicions were based on his behavior when she went to his house looking for those answers last week, and Paul van der Sloot, who's training to be a judge on the Dutch Caribbean island, could not stop perspiring.

I guess that means if you perspire you have to be guilty?