Frustrated Volunteer Searchers Leave Aruba

Dave Holloway, father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, and a team of volunteer searchers have left the island of Aruba in frustration because of a lack of cooperation and support from Aruban authorities.

Beth Twitty, Natalee's mother, said all of the volunteers who were in Aruba left because there was "nothing left for the searchers to do." Twitty told Greta Van Susteren that the searchers needed extra equipment to complete their search that was available from the FBI, but Aruban officials first had to request the FBI's assistance.

Twitty said the FBI equipment was available and ready to go, but repeated attempts to get Aruban officials to request the assistance went unheeded.

"There is no sense in them just sitting around the hotel room doing nothing," Twitty said. She said it was not easy coordinating the volunteer searchers, because they have to take time from their jobs and their families.

Twitty to Return to Aruba

Twitty said she had tried to call Deputy Police Chief Gerold Dompig, who is leading the investigation into the disappearance of Natalee, and he would not return her calls. She called his office and his cell phone, she said.

"All they had to do was make the call... and they would not and have not done it," Twitty said.

Beth Twitty plans to return to Aruba today and met with Dompig as soon as possible.

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