We get leads from interviewing witnesses. We get leads at the newspaper from the hotline. WOOD: Rita, you know what? I‘ve interviewed so many people in this case. Was it from family? Was it from other witnesses? Where did you get those leads from to sort of pinpoint you to you this area? Because certainly, first you get the leads, you know, more than coincidence if something‘s sort of found there that looks like Joran‘s.
And Art, I want to ask you about those leads. That guy is out there digging, and that‘s what the Aruban authorities need to be doing right now.ĬOSBY: You bet. They need to utilize guys like Art that‘s on the ground there in Aruba to solve this case. And then once you get to that conclusion, that‘s where you start the snowball rolling.Īnd Art will tell you I‘m exactly right. So what you do, Aruban authorities, is you take somebody like Art and his sources, you talk to those sources and you find out how did they come to that conclusion. He said that his sources led him to a certain area of that island. And I‘ll tell our viewers real quick, from a homicide perspective, what he said. First of all, I hope that the authorities are working with Art because just from listening to Art, he said some very critical things there. That‘s an excellent question because what‘s going to happen here is this. But if there‘s something tied to Natalee Holloway on it, maybe it‘s hairs, maybe some fibers? I‘m not so sure how much evidence they‘re going to find or information they‘re going to get off this belt.ĬOSBY: If it turns out it is the belt, Rod, what could that show? I mean, again, Joran did essentially reportedly place himself near the scene. And I‘ll tell you, time is really running against them, Rita, because as long as it takes to solve a case like this, your evidence is willowing away, as we can clearly see with this belt. I mean, they haven‘t found anything in this case. It‘s over almost three months, if not longer than three months.Īnd I think it‘s absolutely ridiculous that they have not gotten something, even if it‘s in terms of a confession, evidence, something. But just as Art indicated earlier, the Aruban authorities need to get excited right now about any new evidence that they find. I‘m not sure how big of a break this is going to be. DETECTIVE: Well, you know, Rita, it‘s going to be a certain element of the case.
Rod Wheeler, this could be a big break in the case right? I mean, let‘s hope it‘s something important.ĬOSBY: Absolutely. It could be very significant or it could be meaningless. If, of course, they swab the belt and they find a connection to Natalee through DNA, that would mean this is the break everybody has been waiting for. And as he correctly pointed out, computer image enhancement might be helpful. What they need to do, as Art Wood said, is try to determine if this is Van Der Sloot‘s belt. What they need to do is examine the belt visually and using special light sources, looking for trace evidence, perhaps hair fibers, blood, fingerprints, and perhaps DNA. They really need some physical evidence in this case-so many ups and downs. LAWRENCE KOBILINSKI, FORENSICS ANALYST: Well, this could be a very significant piece of evidence. What clues could be in the belt that can maybe be a key piece of this puzzle? I‘m going to leave it to the authorities to do forensic work, maybe computer enhancement, and see if they can identify that belt.Īrt, please stay with us because I want to bring into the conversation right now forensics analyst Larry Kobilinski and also former D.C. So this morning, I checked our research photograph file at the “Diario,” and I believe that that‘s a pretty good match. But I remembered that photograph, the photograph that was on Joran‘s Web site, the site where he was shown doing sadistic things to his friends, the same Web site that showed him drunk, and so forth.Īnd I thought, Man, that belt looks like the same belt. I didn‘t turn it over to authorities last night because I wasn‘t sure of the significance. Last night, just prior to dark, I went out there.
I had specific information to a possible site where she might have been buried. We have leads that make us believe that these three boys, along with accomplices, buried this girl at the lighthouse. WOOD: Well, Rita, all my leads-I‘ve been working here for-for seven weeks, and the leads that I‘ve developed have led me to believe that this girl died on the beach that night. When did you find the belt, and where, Art? And if we can show again the picture that you just took of the belt, and then side by side, that picture there, they look pretty similar, these two belts.
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