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[woman 1] Okay, I'm ready.

Um…

Okay, give me a minute.

No, let's start over.

"Joran, for 18 years, you denied killing my daughter, Natalee."

Oh, I don't know if I can do it.

[intriguing music playing]

[reporter 1] Nearly two decades after Natalee Holloway's disappearance,

Joran van der Sloot,

the man long suspected of playing a role in that case,

is on US soil.

[reporter 2] Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway went missing

in Aruba in 2005.

[reporter 3] Van der Sloot is the prime suspect

in Holloway's disappearance.

"Joran, you and I met that first night of May 31st, 2005."

Is anybody home?

I was trying to get answers.

Stop the cameras.

I've never touched a girl in an aggressive way in my life.

[snickers] Never. There's no one that can say otherwise.

[reporter 4] Volunteers continue to search.

Trying to solve the mystery, where's Natalee?

I need answers, and I need them now.

Millions of Americans are caught up in this mystery, expecting justice.

Anyone here in the police station?

Natalee Holloway's parents appear to have reached a breaking point.

Do not allow these criminals to get away with this crime.

I will stop at nothing.

"Joran, I need to put this nightmare to rest."

"And I think about what I would do to you, and I know what I would do."

"I want to kill you, because you are a killer."

[woman 2] He's a psycho, and he has to pay.

[man] Will they ever find her, do you think?

She'll never be found.

[woman 1] It's taken me almost 20 years to catch her killer.

It's time to finish this.

I wanna get him.

[tense music playing]

[humming]

[woman 1] Say hi, sweetie.

Hi.

Booger butt.

[woman 1] My life pre-2005 was really unbothered.

Dance lessons, swim lessons, friends over all the time.

A fish that big?

It looks like a snake.

[woman 1] Just as normal as vanilla ice cream.

Be careful. Watch where you're going.

As far as Natalee goes, I mean,

I would look up, and I would just see her dust.

She was always very determined

in what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it,

and I would just kind of be like, "Okay, boss." You know?

Just trying to keep up.

-Hello! -[Beth Holloway] That's my Natalee.

And then, when Natalee was about 12,

we moved to Mountain Brook, Alabama.

[woman 2] Mountain Brook is a fantastic place to live.

It's kind of like a Mayberry.

I met Natalee right when she moved to Mountain Brook.

We had a pool party.

All the moms had gotten together and were like, "There's this new girl."

I knew Natalee's parents were divorced

and that her mom was remarried to Jug.

[woman 3] I would not have wanted to move to Mountain Brook in junior high.

I mean, if my mom went to high school with your mom… I mean, that's a lot.

And Natalee just kinda came right in.

Everybody loved her. We were instantly friends.

And she had no issues transitioning. It was like a duck to water.

[Claire] We had this little core group.

We were big on nicknames, and Natalee, we called her Hootie.

-It's Hootie. -[girl] Hootie-Hoot Holloway.

Hi, friend. Just sitting in the back, cruising over to my place.

You're doing an excellent job.

[Madison Greer] We were just normal high school girls.

On Friday or Saturday, sometimes end up at, like, a house party.

We weren't crazy wild,

but we weren't like, you know, sitting in our rooms doing nothing.

[brass band playing faintly]

Natalee was on the dance team.

She was smart too.

And she tried harder than all of us.

I was always like, "Why are you studying?"

And she's like, "I'm gonna be a doctor."

She never really wanted a boyfriend.

I always had one. Claire always had one.

We'd be like, "Who do you like?" And she was like, "Nobody."

Like, that was just never really something that she cared about.

[Beth] Natalee had gotten a full academic scholarship

to the University of Alabama.

She had a calendar.

July was filled. August was filled. Rush. Starting school.

All the activities coming up. The first football games coming up.

It was all excitement for this next phase of life.

She had scheduled her life out.

[melancholy music playing]

Ah.

[Fierman] Senior trip was the light at the end of the high school tunnel.

[Greer] Almost a hundred of us were going to Aruba.

[Beth] It's hard to admit it now,

but at that time, we didn't have any feelings of trepidation.

I trusted Natalee. I mean, it's a rite of passage.

[Greer] You're excited, but you're also like,

"It's the last time we're all gonna be together."

Little did we know that it was really the last time

that all of us would be together.

♪ Don't you call my phone ♪

♪ What you calling me for? ♪

♪ Don't you dare come over ♪

♪ And knock knock at my door ♪

♪ It's like you're so much uglier… ♪

[Fierman] We were pumped.

I mean, we were going to this all-inclusive resort.

[girl] Hey, Natalee!

[Fierman] We arrive, put our stuff down,

and then immediately I went to this, like, outdoor bar.

[girl] Let's see, Natalee, legally… Natalee's legal first beer.

-Hey! -Yeah, right.

-Yeah. -All the time.

[Greer] It wasn't school-sanctioned.

The chaperones ended up being teachers.

Just 'cause they were, like, young and fun,

and it was a trip for them too.

They said, "We're here for emergencies."

But they weren't necessarily there to, like, babysit us.

[girl] Look how clear the water is.

[Greer] Typical day was wake up, throw on a bathing suit,

head out to the beach or the pool,

and then go out.

The last night, couple of us stay back. But most of the group went out.

[Greer] We go to the casino.

We were just like, "Oh my gosh, we can gamble."

There was blackjack tables and some poker tables.

Natalee was not gambling.

But I remember her just kind of bebopping around.

So I sat down, and there was a guy next to me.

He was playing with a good amount of money.

Very tall, dark hair.

Definitely had a presence.

So, of course, I'm like, "Hey, what's your name?"

And he said, "Joran."

He said he was from Holland.

He was a tourist, in college, on vacation.

I was like, "Oh, we are too."

"I think we're gonna go to Carlos'n Charlie's."

[up-tempo music playing]

It's the epitome of, like, an island nightclub.

Dark, loud, shots. Lots of long classic drinks.

Lots of, like, shot tubes.

Dancing on the bar, dancing on the stage.

[up-tempo music continues]

Later on in the night, Joran walks in. And I was like, "Oh, you came!"

I think I even, like, hugged him.

My friends invited him over, "You want to have some drinks with us?"

That's when he and Natalee started talking.

[tense music playing]

When they said the bar's closing,

everybody kind of shuffled outside all at the same time.

In Aruba, taxi drivers weren't like yellow taxis.

It was just somebody you would go and say, "Are you a taxi driver?"

They'd be like, "Yeah. Where you going?"

[suspenseful music playing]

So, when one of my friends saw Natalee in a gray Honda Civic

with Joran and two Aruban guys driving, we were not really worried.

There's no doubt in my mind she thought, "These two guys are local taxi drivers,

and they're going to take me where we want to go, and then the hotel."

She was hanging out of the car and saying, like, "Aruba!"

People said "Aruba" back,

and then she drove off.

I woke up at 8:00 the final day 'cause I knew we had to leave.

I had to pack up to go home.

Because I hadn't stayed out as late as everybody else,

I was asking everybody, "How late did y'all stay out?"

At some point, I'm like, "Where's Natalee?"

They're like, "I don't know, probably in someone else's room."

So I had to start calling different people's rooms

and being like, "Is Natalee in there?"

After a little while, we were like, "Okay, we can't find her."

We find the chaperone and said that, you know, Natalee was with this guy.

And so he was like, "All right, I'll wait here. I'll bring her home."

"But we can't all miss our flights."

[Fierman] My scared thought was, "She's going to be in trouble,"

because in high school, that's the worst thing that can happen,

is you're in trouble.

Out of the blue, my cell phone rang from a number I didn't recognize.

One of the organizers from the trip comes on the phone

and tells me Natalee did not show up at the airport,

no one has seen her, and she is missing.

It's hard to make that connection

that what I'm hearing is real and it belongs to me.

Because Natalee might be early for something,

but she was never late.

I knew instantly I had to get to Aruba, to be there where she was.

I had to go get her.

I grabbed Natalee's senior portrait on the way out the door and left.

I'm driving 120. I'm calling 911, told them the car I'm in.

"Do not pull me over. I'm not stopping."

I was just hammering full throttle.

[tense music playing]

We're in touch with Beth, trying to piece this story together.

You know, Natalee was with this guy, Joran.

[Beth] The person that she was last seen with,

they all knew who he was.

They could describe the gray Honda she was last seen getting into.

So I felt like we had enough information to begin searching

and see what happened to her.

We landed on the island at 11:00 p.m.

I had every thought that there was going to be police there to help us.

But there was no one there.

There were maybe a total of ten of us from Mountain Brook, family friends.

So we get, like, a 16-passenger white van, and we left.

They only thing going through my mind was,

"Find this guy, get Natalee, bring her home." That was it.

We passed a sea of shipping containers, triple stacked.

In my mind,

I'm thinking of all the hiding places where she could be being held.

What if she is in one of those?

It was scary, and I thought,

"How are we going to find her? We need help."

[man] The first time that I heard about Natalee Holloway,

I was awakened at night with a phone call.

There was a girl missing.

They said, "We need your help. We need phones."

I had a cell phone rental company at the time,

and, of course, I said, "Yeah, sure."

[Beth] We picked up Charles Croes.

[Charles] I had no intentions of getting involved.

But this feeling that Beth gave me was that she was in urgent need of help.

Simply because I had lived in Aruba for a very long time, I knew the island.

We sort of teamed up and, you know, went on this search

all over the island, all the outback, looking.

My thought was that these are two young people,

and they're probably, you know, holding hands

or walking along the beach somewhere.

How are you gonna go missing

on an island that's ten miles long and four miles wide?

At one point, we stopped at this big parking lot.

One car was full of kids. They were talking to each other, laughing.

And, uh, I said, you know, "Let me take a shot at it."

The only information I had

was that this fella that Natalee was with was called something like Joran Borg.

One of the kids said, "Esei ta Joran."

You know, like that. "That's Joran."

He had told Natalee's friends that he was a tourist just like them.

And now we're learning he was some Aruban local.

[Croes] I said, "Do you know where he lives?"

And they said, "Yeah."

[Beth] So we've got a name, we've got an address,

we have a description.

Then someone said, "We need to report that to the police."

So we went to the police station.

That was the first problem.

We get there, and everything stopped.

It took them, I can't tell you, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 35 minutes,

to even come out to talk to me.

[Croes] Police said, "They'll probably show up in the morning."

You know. "We have to give them an X amount of time."

"I can't put a whole police squad looking for two lovers."

[clock ticking]

Put yourself in the mother's place.

"Here we are. We've come all the way from the US."

"My daughter is missing,

and you're telling me I got to wait 48 hours?"

Finally, I said to the one policeman that was in charge,

"Can we just drive by the house?"

So he said, "Yeah, okay, Charles. Fine, let's go."

[Beth] We followed them to Joran's home.

I was feeling we're about to have answers, we're about to find Natalee.

And as we're pulling up,

I could see the gray Honda parked underneath the streetlight.

The door opened, and there was his father.

And his father said, "What is this all about?"

And the police said, "There's a young lady missing,

those are her parents, they're trying to find her."

"And we think that she was with your son."

On the other side, I just saw Joran's head stick out.

Joran looked at his dad,

and his dad said in Dutch, "Say it, just say it." Like that.

You know, as if to say, "Tell him the truth."

[Beth] That's where he gives the first detailed story

as to what happened.

[Joran van der Sloot] I remember her and her friends, uh,

telling me it was their last night,

and asked if I wanted to go to Carlos'n Charlie's.

When I walked in, I saw Natalee. She screamed at me to go dance with her.

She had, uh, a lot of drinks.

"Let's take another shot," is what she told me.

[Beth] Joran said he bought her some kind of like rum 151 or something.

He said that Natalee wanted to go…

[Beth and Joran] To the lighthouse.

[Joran] She told me about wanting to see sharks.

[Beth] His two friends, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe,

brought the car up,

and Joran and Natalee got in the back seat.

[Joran] We walk along the beach.

We lay down together in the sand.

I get her to kiss me. We start kissing each other.

I start feeling her up.

For a 17-year-old boy to act like that,

talking about this girl you've just been last seen with,

when you're facing her parents and looking at her mother,

it was… just sh… shocking.

I mean, he was showing me who he really was.

Finally, Joran says…

[Beth and Joran] Dropped her off at the hotel.

[Joran] She fell out of the car, and…

[Beth] "Stumbled, fell, hit her head."

And then he said

two security guards came from the Holiday Inn hotel entrance,

helped her up…

[Joran] Took her by the hand, then, uh, took her inside.

I thought, "I don't know what parts of that are true."

But I knew that he knew what happened to her,

and I decided right then and there,

"Tag, you're it."

Joran said, "I swear to you, I don't know where she is."

"I swear to you, I will do whatever I can to help you find her."

I knew in my gut Joran was lying.

I looked at that gray Honda and I thought,

"Could Natalee be in that trunk?"

"Could she be in that van der Sloot home?"

I'm clutching her picture,

and I just said, "Give her back. Now."

He said, "What do you want me to do?"

And he kept hitting his chest. "What do you want me to do?"

[Croes] Mr. Van der Sloot just held his son tighter,

walked all the way to the door, they did not turn around,

closed the door, and that was it.

[Beth] The police said, "Why don't you come on in to the police station

and give a statement?"

"Be there about eight o'clock."

I thought, "What the hell is this?"

[suspenseful music playing]

The next day, when I got there,

I did notice the gray Honda was parked behind the police station.

It seemed like, to me, all three of the boys were in there.

So I thought, "Okay, maybe this is gonna be some help."

But then the lead investigator, Dennis Jacobs, calls me into his office,

and he's saying, "Don't worry about Natalee."

"She'll turn up."

"Sometimes they get here, they don't wanna go back home."

"This happens all the time."

And I thought, "That's not Natalee."

I remember feeling that, if I were going to find Natalee,

it was going to be up to me,

because the police were obviously not going to do it.

[reporter] Joining us now is Aruba's Deputy Police Chief Gerold Dompig.

[Gerold Dompig] Based on my position as the deputy chief,

I went to visit Natalee's mother

to tell her that I would do everything in my power to find her daughter.

[ominous music playing]

[Dompig] Many of my team members and myself

did their training with the FBI Academy.

That was a standard.

In a missing person case,

48 hours waiting time, that's a universal thing.

But when something happens to a tourist,

it has priority because tourism's very important to Aruba.

For that reason, we decided to not wait for the 48 hours,

but to start preliminary work.

So we spoke to anybody that could give any information.

Specifically, Joran and the Kalpoe brothers

who were driving around with Joran when Natalee went missing.

There's also the security guard at the Holiday Inn.

The ABC of investigative work is, uh, assume nothing, believe nothing,

and check everything.

We wanted to do the correct police work.

But there was a lot of ingredients which were not really welcome,

let me put it that way.

[Tony Zumbado] My name is Tony Zumbado. I'm a cameraman.

If you talk to anybody in the industry,

they know, "Yeah, he's a pain in the ass, but he'll find the truth."

When we got there, the information was already that they knew

of a particular person who was seen with her last.

Police say, "We're just talking to him."

They don't even use terminology of, you know, "We're questioning him."

"He's a prime suspect." They don't use any of those words.

We have to find out what's going on, so we start knocking on doors,

but they're like, "No, you don't do that here."

"You have to wait."

But we're the media. We can't wait.

We saw the press conference with Beth.

And a mother who's desperately trying to find her daughter

was definitely something that was worthwhile for the evening news.

[somber music playing]

Natalee is truly an angel.

She's a member…

of the National Honor Society.

She's a straight-A student.

Our primary goal is to bring Natalee back home.

I'm not leaving Aruba without her.

As a reporter in Aruba, everybody was exposed to this story.

Having somebody gone missing is almost a slap in the face.

We take care of our people.

Our slogan, "One Happy Island," that's who we are.

There is a sense of… of being kind to the visitors,

because Aruba depends entirely, at this point, on those who visit.

We have a group to go to search for Natalee.

[Geerman] It was important for the island to find this girl.

We are here because we would like to help.

[Dompig] There was this huge search operation.

We had Aruban police, we had the local Aruban people,

we had the American FBI, and we had the Dutch police also helping.

[Geerman] Everybody was ready to help. They were all searching.

So it was very disappointing when the American media came,

and the impression was created that Aruba was doing nothing.

And that was the clash.

[reporter] No sign of Natalee Holloway.

Police here are under enormous pressure to show that they are making progress.

I need more, I need answers, and I know that those three individuals…

I know that they know where my daughter is.

They know what they did with her, and they know where she is.

Even for locals, it was hard to understand

why the three were not picked up right away.

Beth… was very frustrated with the progress of the investigation.

[Beth] We wanted them to do forensics on the home, forensics on the car,

but no, none of that.

We tagged along with her because she was doing a lot of the work

the police should have been doing, while they're going, "You gotta wait."

[Beth] We had set up a tip line. The Natalee Line, we called it.

All these tips started coming in, all these sightings of Natalee.

"She's at this restaurant." So we would rush there.

Or, "She was at this pizza place."

One day, we got a tip in that Natalee was being held against her will

in this crack house.

It was such a hot tip

that we were not allowed to go into the crack house

until the police got there.

And I thought, "Okay, this is real."

[Zumbado] Aruba is basically two parts.

The one that all the tourists see

and then the one the locals live in.

There's places where a white American person

does not go in that island.

But we would go to the crack house.

I hung out with the drug dealers because we wanted to help find this girl.

[Beth] We got there, and I'm standing on the side, waiting.

The police pushed through the house, leading this young woman.

This is it.

Our nightmare is going to be over.

When I see the young woman,

my heart just sank.

I mean, it was devastating.

It's not Natalee.

[somber music playing]

And that was what was so devastating,

and it was hard to ride these roller coasters out.

We're about to find Natalee, and then there would be nothing.

And over and over again.

Ah.

[Fierman] At that moment, Natalee is all over the TV,

and we were all watching.

I was scared out of my mind.

But my brain was not letting me go to that she could not survive this.

[Greer] We would go and have prayer vigils all hours of the day.

I don't think any of us wanted to sit still long enough

to think about what was probably the reality.

It was really frustrating watching the news

and wanting to have something happen, something move forward.

It made us all very angry that it was taking them this long.

Why are we not arresting him? That's what would happen here.

[reporter] Police in Aruba are questioning three men.

Investigators say they're not suspects,

but they might know something about Holloway's whereabouts.

Interest in the Natalee Holloway case was growing.

I started getting phone calls at one o'clock in the morning

from American producers asking for any update.

Hoping to find what, so far, an entire island has missed.

…this is a very delicate investigation…

[Geerman] The shows go on at seven o'clock in the morning.

They need to confirm something.

Just a brief… Just real quick.

I'm not even saying right now, on camera.

[Geerman] It was eye-opening. We never worked like that in Aruba.

Of course you have deadlines,

but not urgency to have something on a daily basis.

[reporter 1] Is this related to the Natalee Holloway case?

[reporters clamoring]

-Come on, come on, please. -[reporter 2] Trying to get the rumors--

[man] No interview.

[Geerman] They didn't come for hospitality,

they came for news.

How can you give them news if there's no news?

[Zumbado] Our companies are expecting something.

They're paying us to be down there.

They're spending money. We gotta get something on the air.

[man] It's a different society.

The way they conduct their interviews

is not as aggressive, perhaps, as we would do in America.

The whole judicial system there,

totally ill-equipped to deal with, uh, a case like this.

So the stereotype starts building, "They don't know what they're doing."

We get about 100 leads, tips, every day.

And, uh, what we do is basically on the basis of that,

uh, search certain areas.

We couldn't find forensic evidence, etc.

But we had so much publicity, so much pressure on Aruba.

So we put it on steroids. We go.

[reporter 1] New developments in the case of Natalee…

[reporter 2] …the big break they've been waiting for.

Two men have been arrested

in connection with the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway.

It was such a huge relief to us, because we thought, "Wow, finally."

[Zumbado] We all thought and assumed that they would arrest Joran.

Since day one, he has been the prime suspect.

But that's not what happened.

[reporter] The suspects are security guards

who worked at a hotel not far from the Holiday Inn

where the straight-A high school student was staying.

[Zumbado] Joran told police that there was these two security guards,

and that, you know, they were there when he dropped her off.

[Joran] We dropped her off at the hotel.

Security guards took her inside at that point.

Has your son ever been in trouble with the law before?

Never. Never before.

[reporter] Their defense attorneys insist

they had nothing to do with Natalee's disappearance.

[Beth] When the two security guards were arrested,

I didn't really understand what was happening.

And then the police finally got the security footage

from the Holiday Inn hotel lobby.

Joran told the police

that he dropped Natalee off at the Holiday Inn hotel.

We wanna see that happen.

But when we looked at the footage, nothing.

Natalee never came back to the hotel.

Joran had told this elaborate lie.

[reporter] In Aruba, two former security guards were released last night.

Now there's video that proves that the people arrested were not involved.

[reporter] One of the two men wants to hear the Aruban government say it's sorry.

I need a personal apology from the Aruban government

and the Justice Department.

Personal apology.

[Dompig] Everybody looking from the outside

was only focused on Joran.

But the investigation has a certain tactic,

that you first eliminate the noise.

The security guard was noise.

But to exclude them, we have to investigate.

The video footage showed that Joran didn't drop her off.

We needed to find that stuff, which you can use to corner the suspect.

And we hoped that he would start to break down.

[Beth] The Aruban police knew that Joran had lied.

I thought my job was done,

and now it's up to the police to go get Joran and arrest him,

and find out what happened to Natalee.

[woman] The bottom line is there are only three people

who know what happened, at best,

and that's the Kalpoe brothers and Joran.

But, as the days passed by, the arrest just didn't happen.

I still do not have my daughter,

and I still do not feel like I am any further along

in finding my daughter than I was when my flight landed here.

We needed a fresh approach.

And it was focused like laser on the police.

We're not the only ones frustrated with this investigation.

This crime does not need to be unsolved.

There is absolutely no reason for it to be.

I'll ask every question, I'll stop at nothing,

and I will continue to.

I felt like the media were being equally as shut out or frustrated as I was.

So I kinda felt like we were in the trenches together.

I noticed that the more hits I would do, I'd get a little bit more attraction.

The goal was to keep the heat on Aruba every step of the way.

She started nonstop doing live shots.

To the missing case in Aruba, Beth Holloway Twitty…

[reporter] Beth Holloway…

[Beth] I mean, I might do seven hits in the morning and seven hits at night.

Natalee's mother is consumed by the search for her daughter.

[Beth] Get up at 4:00, start on these balcony hits.

They would be all frantic.

The mic and camera people would say, "You've got ten seconds 'til it's live."

I would sit and shoot, sit and shoot, sit and shoot.

They know where, they know when, they know how, and they know why.

I need answers, and I need them now.

That's when I met Greta Van Susteren.

In the first days after the disappearance of Natalee,

many of the people searching for the missing teen

were optimistic that the case would come to a quick conclusion.

[Beth] Early on, Greta dropped everything in New York.

She wanted to go do more on the ground investigative work.

[Greta Van Susteren] Carlos'n Charlie's, it's empty.

Beth got her first glimpse of Joran van der Sloot

back at the Holiday Inn's Excelsior Casino.

Who did you see in the surveillance tape?

We saw Joran van der Sloot sitting at the Texas Hold'em tables.

It was more than just giving an interview,

we were having action now behind it, we were trying to get answers.

All I can do is just keep hoping and keep looking and keep… keep looking.

'Cause she's… she's here, and, uh, obviously I'm not going anywhere.

Hello? Anyone home?

This police station's empty. Hello?

[Zumbado] Big names started coming in.

Greta was there, they had all their big guns.

That was ratings.

Everybody was tuned into, "Where is Natalee?"

[Geerman] Beth made sure

that her daughter's name kept… coming up in the media.

And she kept the pressure on.

[man] Did pressure from the family compromise this investigation?

Well, I think so.

It at least distracted the investigators' efforts.

I call it the devil's soup.

It's… it's very difficult to stay focused

if you are moved by what's happening outside.

But I didn't have the chance to pull away from the noise

because I was appointed by the government

to be like a spokesperson for the CNN and all these guys.

And I thought, "This is the last thing I want."

We are working diligently and, uh, checking their stories.

How do you keep your cool, though? I mean, you seem patient.

You know, I have my moments where I'm just… I'm just so angry,

and I'm just ready to lash out.

[Geerman] The American reporters needed a story.

If that meant creating a controversy,

I think that they were very successful in that.

[eerie music playing]

[Dompig] I have to be at the operating table.

I cannot speak to the press, to the family in the waiting room

while the patient is lying on the operating table.

I have to operate.

But I'm human.

So at some point, you want to get all these press people off your back.

[reporter 1] We've got breaking news to report in the case of Natalee Holloway.

[reporter 2] Police arrested three suspects

in the hunt for Natalee Holloway.

[reporter 3] 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot,

21-year-old Deepak Kalpoe,

and his brother, 18-year-old Satish Kalpoe.

It's about damn time.

[woman] When they were detained this morning,

their houses were also raided

and some articles have been impounded.

[reporter 4] Confiscated property, including a car and a computer.

[reporter 5] A judge determined there was enough suspicion to hold the men

as the investigation unfolds.

There was this incredible high when they got arrested.

Everybody was like, "Finally, we're gonna get the truth."

"We're gonna get to find out what happened to Natalee."

It's over.

Now we're going to get the answer.

But, in hindsight, it was…

[sighs] It was the beginning of the story.

[intriguing music playing]

Sometime this weekend or tomorrow, we should hear from a local judge

as to whether the three suspects arrested last week can be kept in custody.

I was getting daily briefings from the Aruban police.

It would be like, "We've got the boys."

"We're gonna have more information in the morning."

It was just like Groundhog Day.

That's when Greta made a pledge

that she was going to help me find the answers as to what happened.

And she said, "Beth, if you ever get one thread,

hang onto it and it will weave everything you need."

And I told her that, in my opinion, Paulus van der Sloot, Joran's father,

he had knowledge of what happened to Natalee,

and he was defending his son.

Greta was like, "Let's go."

[tense music playing]

[Van Susteren] This is the home of Joran van der Sloot, his family.

[Beth] My gut says he's it.

Anybody home?

Hello?

Is anybody home?

They've got something here.

They have to have something.

[music ends]

[suspenseful music playing]

[music ends]