Aruban prosecutors to question more people in case of missing Alabama teen

ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Aruban prosecutors said Friday they have new witnesses and leads into the disappearance of a U.S. teen who vanished on a school trip to the Dutch Caribbean island more than five months ago.

Natalee Holloway, then 18, was last seen early on May 30 leaving a bar with Dutch national Joran van der Sloot and Surinamese brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. They were arrested on June 9 but released after a court ruled there was not enough evidence to hold them.

The Aruban prosecutors office said it was conducting new interviews of witnesses in the disappearance.

The report of new interviews came after the missing teen's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, visited Aruba this week and alleged that three law-enforcement officials did not take the investigation seriously in the crucial early stages. She demanded the three be removed from the case.