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Article: Aruba prosecutor: Secret Van der Sloot interview admissible
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- February 5, 2008
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ORANJESTAD, Aruba - A hidden-camera interview with a Dutch
student saying missing teenager Natalee Holloway was dead and that
he had a friend dump her body at sea is admissible in court, the
chief Aruban prosecutor said Monday.
The courts in Aruba likely will accept the tape as evidence
because it was recorded by a private citizen without any influence
by authorities, Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos told reporters.
"I take it very seriously," Mos said of the video.
The tape, which was first broadcast Sunday on Dutch television,
has appeared to spur the investigation: Mos said authorities in the
Netherlands searched two homes Monday where Van der Sloot has lived
while attending college there.
The ...