It’s not been a focus for Peaktalk at all, but given the Dutch angle I always kept one eye on the Natalee Holloway case. If you’re interested and your knowledge base is as slim as mine, then I would recommend the Bryan Burrough piece in Vanity Fair as a good primer. In it Burrough makes it clear that the Aruban police force wasn’t the most effective one to solve this crime, a situation exacerbated by the Twitty-Holloway family whose demeanor made them probably equally unsuited to find a body and above all, enough evidence to nail the likely suspect.

Well, an arrest has been made outside the circle of the initial suspects in this case. This is an amazing development if you take into account the time and effort that have gone into this investigation in combination with the size of the island of Aruba. As it was to Natalee’s mother, Beth Twitty:

VAN SUSTEREN: Beth, you scoured that island all last summer and into the fall. Ever come upon his name before or hear anything about him?

TWITTY: No. You know, there's no part of him that we have, you know, heard about or discussed or anything. So you know, it's just a totally new person that, you know, has shown up. So just don't know.

The blog of record for this affair is Riehl World Review which has been all over this case from the beginning.