Ruben Trapenberg defends the Aruban government

Ruben Trapenberg, the Aruban government spokesman would defend the island's response with these words. "Our law enforcement officials get most of their training from the United States and Holland." He also defended the statement that Aruba did not have sufficient resources to undertake this investigation. Trapenberg also said that Aruba would welcome the help of the Texas EquuSearch Search and Recovery Team that the Holloway family had called upon to help in finding their daughter.

One day after Greta van Susteren and Beth Twitty visited with the van der Sloots, and later in the day of the interview that Paul and Anita did with Greta, Paul van der Sloot would again be brought in for further questioning. Some felt that perhaps things that had been said during the meeting with Beth perhaps had initiated this interrogation. As there still seemed to be in Beth's eyes or perhaps ears that Paul had said he picked up Joran at 4 A.M. not 11 P.M. at the McDonald's the night that Natalee went missing. Whether something of that nature was again said to the police after Beth's visit I am not sure. Paul would however go back in and answer more questions on the 23rd and shortly after he and his wife Anita would leave the San Nicolas prison where Joran is now being held, Paul was arrested.

One mother's anguish!

For me personally this picture of Anita says it all. She is devastated, first her son and now her husband. How can this be happening? I cried with her that day and every time I see this picture I cry again.

Anita van der Sloot said she and her husband received a call from neighbors saying police were waiting for them at their home in Noord, northwest of the capital, Oranjestad. She then called Police Superintendent Jan van der Straaten, who asked them to come to the police station. When they arrived, authorities "took my husband into custody as a suspect," Anita van der Sloot said, adding, "I don't know what to think."

Joran warned his mom about Dad's arrest