BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Aruba police returned home after a week of questioning friends who were with missing U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway on her graduation trip to the Caribbean island, where she disappeared eight months ago.
Aruba police were accompanied by two FBI investigators while they interviewed Holloway’s classmates from suburban Birmingham in Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, where they now attend college, FBI spokesman Ray Zicarelli said Tuesday.
Holloway was among 125 teenagers and seven chaperones who visited the Dutch protectorate after their graduation last year. She failed to show up for the return flight home on May 30, and the other students returned to Alabama before the investigation began.
Aruba’s deputy police chief, Gerold Dompig, has said some of the teens who went on the trip had given conflicting information in media interviews and on the Internet and needed to be questioned in person.
Dutch teenager Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers were held for weeks as suspects but have since been released.
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