Natalee Holloway, Psychics & Other Frauds

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Chapter: twenty-five

Fish Trap

This image has circulated on line as what this trap might look like. But still there is no record of one being stolen.

Hodges continues with his fantasy journal

December 20th

The next day, Louis and I left the boat while Tim Miller went back out. It was clear the first part of the search was going to take longer (before the ROV team was called upon) and we both had business in the U.S. I took him to the airport the next afternoon and he planned on returning after Christmas as did I. That afternoon (December 20th) I met with Diario publisher Jossy Mansur in his office for an hour or more to discuss the case in person. Jossy told me several things in person he had not been able to reveal over the phone—and gave me a good feel for the politics of the investigation and future investigation should Natalee’s body be discovered. We discussed my profile in more depth.

Later that afternoon, I drove out to the Lighthouse and then walked down the beach from the Holiday Inn to Fisherman’s Huts. Indeed it’s not a long walk going right past the nearby marina between the Holiday Inn and Marriott where the Gottenbos boat was moored.

Meeting with Jossy

Another troubling aspect to Hodges analysis is this references to discussions with Jossy Mansur. He says they had had been in contact by phone. And now Jossy is telling him details of the investigation in person. Details of what? Just how has Jossy been able to have real details of this investigation? Jossy is not part of law enforcement and yet Jossy has been embroiled into this case like no other and always since day one casting the blame square on Joran van der Sloot and to a lessor degree the Kalpoes. Jossy would only be able to offer up speculation and more theories based either on rumors or some of the false leads which often came from Jossy or Jossy helpers. It is very disconcerting to see how Hodges is linked with Jossy Mansur.

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Chapter: twenty-five

Journal entry continued...

December 20, 2007

The Fisherman at Fisherman’s Huts

There are three remaining small buildings collectively known as Fisherman’s Huts next to each other on the beach separated by approximately 150 feet. They were built some time in the 1940’s. (A 4th hut—the most distant one on the beach going north toward the lighthouse-- was destroyed several years ago in a hurricane.) Each building consists of 4 individual huts. As I approached the first of the three very small buildings of Fisherman’s Huts (the one where the break in occurred) there was a lone fisherman cleaning out his fishing boat on the beach. Uncertain as to his sympathies for the case, I engaged him in general conversation. He was very pleasant, friendly and unfailingly polite. Rather quickly it emerged that he was The Fisherman who had discovered the break in to the huts the morning of May 30, 2005. He related the following story.

He was at his hut at 6 am Monday morning May 30, 2005 and spotted that someone had broken into first 3 of the 4 huts (in this particular group, from north to south) prying off the padlocks in a crow bar type fashion, possibly with a tire tool. He showed me the still visible marks of the break in on each hut which he described in detail. Facing the huts from left to right (north to south): hut #1 contained a valuable stove, cooler and other equipment but nothing went missing; hut #2 had the lock pried off similarly but was seemingly not opened because the door was stuck (and later nothing was reported missing); hut #3 also had the lock pried off with the only missing item being a large new fishing knife (no rope was taken as had originally been reported); finally hut #4 suffered no break in. Clearly it seemed the perpetrators had broken into the huts in an orderly fashion until they found the definitive item they were seeking—the knife. Indeed it struck the fisherman as odd that nothing else of value was taken.

[Clearly also of the current 3 remaining Fisherman’s Huts buildings only one was accessible to break in. The huts in the closest nearby building were going mostly unused with sand covering the entrance door up to a couple of feet. The outermost building was seemingly abandoned and virtually in the water.]

He also noticed that a large fishing cage kept behind this hut at the southern most corner was missing. The cage had been there approximately a month since around Good Friday (April) and belonged to a fisherman who kept his boat next to these four huts. The boat was still there.

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