Jug Twitty reacts

Reacting to the interview with Greta, Natalee's stepfather, Jug Twitty will offer this. "I understand Anita's feelings, but Beth's feelings are ten times worse." Jug said that in the initial days after Natalee's disappearance, Paul van der Sloot told one of the Kalpoe brothers and his son Joran not to talk to her family. The night of the "posse visit," Paul was saying, "you say nothing!" Jug feels that the father and the son know more than what they are saying right now.

Beth Holloway Twitty has insisted in every interview, almost since that first night, that the Kalpoes and Joran know what happened to her daughter, and if the police would only press them harder to tell the truth they would have answers by now. She also keeps questioning why after only a couple hours of interrogation initially, they were let go for ten days before they were arrested.

Of course, in all fairness, Anita van der Sloot said the same thing in her interview to Fox News. She said, "Joran should have been interrogated from the beginning. Why did they let the kids go?"

Natalee's father, who we have heard little from up until this point, feels confident that the investigation is going in the right direction and would be solved. He says this in spite of the dozens of searches by officials and volunteers that have all turned up nothing so far. "I am optimistic," Dave Holloway would say in an interview with the Associated Press. "The FBI has indicated to me that the Aruban police are very adequate and doing a good job." Dave also voiced almost the exact same words of his ex wife, " these three boys hold the key to the investigation. They cannot commit the perfect crime."

Emotional early Beth interview

Ruben Trapenberg defends the Aruban government

Ruben Trapenberg, the Aruban government spokesman would defend the island's response with these words. "Our law enforcement officials get most of their training from the United States and Holland." He also defended the statement that Aruba did not have sufficient resources to undertake this investigation. Trapenberg also said that Aruba would welcome the help of the Texas EquuSearch Search and Recovery Team that the Holloway family had called upon to help in finding their daughter.

One day after Greta van Susteren and Beth Twitty visited with the van der Sloots, and later in the day of the interview that Paul and Anita did with Greta, Paul van der Sloot would again be brought in for further questioning. Some felt that perhaps things that had been said during the meeting with Beth perhaps had initiated this interrogation. As there still seemed to be in Beth's eyes or perhaps ears that Paul had said he picked up Joran at 4 A.M. not 11 P.M. at the McDonald's the night that Natalee went missing. Whether something of that nature was again said to the police after Beth's visit I am not sure. Paul would however go back in and answer more questions on the 23rd and shortly after he and his wife Anita would leave the San Nicolas prison where Joran is now being held, Paul was arrested.

One mother's anguish!

For me personally this picture of Anita says it all. She is devastated, first her son and now her husband. How can this be happening? I cried with her that day and every time I see this picture I cry again.

Anita van der Sloot said she and her husband received a call from neighbors saying police were waiting for them at their home in Noord, northwest of the capital, Oranjestad. She then called Police Superintendent Jan van der Straaten, who asked them to come to the police station. When they arrived, authorities "took my husband into custody as a suspect," Anita van der Sloot said, adding, "I don't know what to think."

Joran warned his mom about Dad's arrest