ORANJESTAD, Aruba — One of three top suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway wrote during an Internet chat session that the teenager was dead, Aruba’s chief prosecutor said Thursday.
Prosecutor Hans Mos refused to identify the person who wrote the message but said its discovery had contributed to the decision to rearrest Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe last month.
The men were subsequently released after they refused to speak to authorities about newly uncovered evidence. The Aruba Public Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday it will not charge the three.
Ronald Wix, an attorney for the Kalpoe brothers, denied that prosecutors had new evidence. “All they did was recycle old evidence and claim it was new evidence,” Wix said.
Holloway vanished at age 18 on May 30, 2005, during an Aruba vacation with her Alabama high school graduating class. Her body has never been found.
