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One of three young suspects arrested Thursday in the investigation into the disappearance of an Alabama teenager has confessed to her killing, a senior police official said late Friday.

Jordan Van der Sloot the son of a very powerful man in Aruba is pictured here choking another unidentified young man. To Him this was fun. Jordan has a past of being arrested for anger and was under an anger management program before he met Natalee.

After his car was searched a second time blood was found in the back seat. Samples have been sent to the FBI in America and Holland to see if it was Natalee's. One of the young men now admit that something very bad happened and it got out of hand.

Was this date rape? Was this an accident that got out of hand? Was this murder? Is there a cover up? Those are the questions the world wants to know the answers to.

Mom: Aruba 'boys know what happened'
Alabama woman says security guards should be released

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) -- The mother of a missing Alabama teenager said Sunday that she believes three young men who were with her daughter the day of her disappearance know what happened to her.

Beth Holloway Twitty, 44, said Aruban authorities should pressure the young men to reveal what they know.

She also said she thought that two former hotel security guards detained in connection with the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway were innocent and should be released.

"All three of those boys know what happened to her," the teen's mother said during a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press in her hotel room at the Holiday Inn, the same hotel where Natalee Holloway was staying before she disappeared on May 30. "They all know what they did with her that night."

Holloway Twitty declined to say what she thought the boys had done or whether she thought her daughter was still alive.

The three young men -- the son of a Dutch justice ministry official and two Surinamese brothers -- have told police they brought Natalee Holloway to a lighthouse beside the island's Arisha Beach, but didn't get out of the car.

The brothers, Satish Kalpoe, 18, and Deepak Kalpoe, 21, also told police that Natalee and the Dutch boy had been kissing in the back seat of the car.

They said they dropped her off at her hotel about 2 a.m. and last saw her being approached by a man in a security guard uniform before they drove off, a lawyer for the brothers has said.

The three young men were detained on Thursday. Two former hotel security guards who worked at a hotel not far from the Holiday Inn have been detained since June 5.

Holloway Twitty said she met the three young men within 12 hours of Natalee's disappearance and she said it surprised her that it took authorities more than a week to detain them.

Authorities have said they are pursuing all leads, while Prime Minister Nelson Oduber has said that "no one stands above the law" on the island.

Natalee Holloway vanished hours before she was expected at the airport following a five-day trip to the Dutch Caribbean island with 124 classmates and seven chaperones celebrating their graduation from Mountain Brook High School, near Birmingham, Alabama. Her U.S. passport and packed bags were found in her hotel room.

Defense lawyers for the former security guards said there wasn't enough evidence to continue holding them.

"This is turning into a game, an illogical investigation," said Noraina Pietersz, the attorney representing Antonius "Mickey" John, 30. John and Abraham Jones, 28, had been detained a week as of Sunday, and have denied any connection to Holloway. "The prosecution is pretending it has information that we don't have."

Attorney General Caren Janssen said Sunday that wasn't the case but declined to give details. "We are still in the middle of an investigation," she said.

A confession reported by a police chief and its subsequent retraction by the attorney general fueled rumors of the young woman's demise. The family has said no corpse has been found, and islanders and tourists attended church services Sunday to pray for the teen.

Valerie Stanton, a 35-year-old computer technician visiting from Washington, D.C., prayed Sunday at the Alto Vista chapel outside the capital.

"This could happen in any city, and it's unfortunate a dark cloud is now over the island, because people here are so nice," she said.

At the Santa Ana Catholic church in the town of Noord, also outside the capital, the Rev. Rudy Lampe told about 300 parishioners to "pray to give the family an oasis of peace."

"Today we stand with the family of Natalee," Lampe said. "This is the first time something like this has happened on our island so we are all in shock."

A couple of pictures of Holloway were posted at the entrance to the church.

Back home in Mountain Brook, Alabama, residents also attended services to pray for Natalee and scribbled notes of support and concern on a special dedication wall.

CNN 6/12/05

The son of the judge killed her and their trying to pin it on the black guys.

Joran Van der Sloot

Well, the wealthy class in this world will always have the power. It's a shame, but they make the standards by which the rest of us must live our lives.....while they do as they wish.

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CNN) -- Steve Croes, a disc jockey who was arrested in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, will be released Monday because of a lack of evidence against him, his attorney, Eleni Lotterhoman, said Sunday following a court hearing.

There was no word yet on how the judge may have ruled in the detention of the other four suspects.

Croes, 26, worked on a party boat on the island.

Sunday's hearing was postponed from Saturday because the judge being flown in from the nearby island of Curacao was delayed, said David Kock, defense attorney for 18-year-old Satish Kalpoe, one of the suspects.

Holloway, also 18, has been missing since early May 30.

The other suspects include Kalpoe's 21-year-old brother, Deepak Kalpoe; their 17-year-old friend, Joran Van Der Sloot; and his father, Paul Van Der Sloot, 53.

Kock said Sunday he feels the investigation is moving in the right direction, as police have scrutinized cell phone records and Internet traffic as part of the probe.

Those records, Kock said, show Joran Van Der Sloot called Deepak Kalpoe about 2:40 a.m. on the morning Holloway disappeared. In that call, according to Deepak Kalpoe's statements, Joran Van Der Sloot told him he had left Holloway on the beach and was walking home. About 40 minutes later, Kock said -- about the time it would take him to walk home -- Joran Van Der Sloot text-messaged Deepak Kalpoe to tell him he had arrived.

"I just think this goes to show that the story that Deepak and Satish are telling ... is substantiated by facts," Kock said.

Antonio Carlo, defense attorney for Joran Van Der Sloot, said Sunday prosecutors have asked the judge to extend his client's detention for eight more days. The judge has not yet ruled on that request, he said.

His client, he said, was in good spirits, but was "shocked and disturbed" by his father's arrest.

None of the suspects has been formally charged, and it was unclear when charges might be filed. Defense attorneys for the four younger defendants have said they are innocent; Paul Van Der Sloot's attorneys have not yet commented.

Also Sunday, a Texas-based search team was combing land and surrounding ocean for Holloway. Plans included using side-scan sonar on a dive boat, said Texas EquuSearch spokesman Joe Huston. The entire 27-member team, including eight divers and four dogs, arrived Saturday night.

The dogs, said Huston, will work most of the day -- skipping the middle of the day when their sense of smell is less acute.

He said the group would like more volunteers and hoped residents would donate drinking water and some meals.

The team searched a wetlands area Saturday, and also the northern tip of the island near a lighthouse, combing the beaches with the dog. After borrowing a boat, the team installed side-scanning sonar equipment and conducted a water search.

Paul Van Der Sloot, who is relatively new to the bench, was arrested Thursday, while the other four have been in custody longer. He has been denied access to his son since the teen was arrested. A judge is to be flown in from Curacao to avoid the appearance of impropriety and would consider continued detentions for the five in separate hearings.

Police Commissioner Jan Van Der Straten on Friday refused to say if Paul Van Der Sloot was being cooperative. His wife, Anita, dropped some towels and other items off at the jail Saturday, but was not allowed to see her husband.

Prosecution spokeswoman Mariaine Croes said charges -- if any -- will not be filed until the investigation is complete and evidence is reviewed by prosecutors.

Under Aruban law, authorities can arrest a suspect based on reasonable suspicion, unlike in the United States, where police must have probable cause. Prosecutors can ask judges to approve three eight-day extensions of detention, followed by two longer extensions. Croes has said suspects may be held up to 116 days -- and in rare cases, even longer -- before charges are filed, to allow evidence-gathering to continue. Defense attorneys for the original four have said their clients maintain their innocence.

Holloway, from the Birmingham, Alabama, suburb of Mountain Brook, was last seen about 1:30 a.m. May 30 as she left a nightclub with Joran Van Der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers. She was on a trip to Aruba with about 100 classmates and a few parent-chaperones to celebrate her high school graduation.

Nice top mom.