The mother of missing American teenager Natalee Holloway said she is sure daughter is dead after watching hidden camera footage of a Dutch student allegedly acknowledging involvement, according to an interview published Saturday.
"I can let her go now and begin mourning," Beth Twitty said in an interview late Friday with the best-selling Dutch daily De Telegraaf. "The 1 percent of hope I had that she was still alive is gone."
Twice-arrested suspect Joran van der Sloot was interviewed by the respected Dutch television show "Pauw & Witteman" following reports that crime reporter Peter R. De Vries had captured him making statements about his role in Holloways disappearance.
Joran van der Sloot on Friday denied that he had anything to do with Holloway's disappearance in Aruba, saying he lied when he told someone privately he was involved.
"It is true I told someone. Everybody will see it Sunday," Van der Sloot said, referring to De Vries' planned television show in which he will claim to have solved the mystery of Holloway's May 2005 disappearance with the help of an undercover investigation.
It was not known whether Twitty had heard of Van der Sloot's denial before she spoke with the Dutch newspaper. Twitty, who is in the Netherlands at De Vries' invitation, was not available to speak Saturday, said Peter Schouten, a spokesman for the crime reporter's show.
Van der Sloot spoke to the late night current affairs show by telephone. His voice was recognizable from an earlier appearance on the show, which has closely followed the Holloway case.
Van der Sloot's statement Friday came hours after Aruban prosecutors announced they were reopening their investigation into Holloway's disappearance after seeing De Vries' material.
Source: Xinhua
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