New Details in Aruba Disappearance

Aug. 5, 2005 — -- Natalee Holloway's mother says she's spoken to a young woman who may have information relevant to the investigation into her missing daughter.

The young woman says she spoke to Joran van der Sloot the night Holloway disappeared, according Beth Holloway Twitty, Natalee's mother. Van der Sloot has admitted to being alone with Holloway the night she vanished but says he did not harm her. No one has been charged.

Holloway failed to show up for her flight home from a high school graduation trip with 124 classmates from Mountain Brook, Ala.

Twitty said she spoke to the young woman and her mother, who wish to remain nameless.

According to Twitty, the young woman -- on a family vacation to Aruba -- was at "Carlos 'N' Charlie's" the evening Holloway met van der Sloot, at the same nightclub.

The young woman claims van der Sloot had been "hitting on" her earlier in the evening, and reportedly has a photograph showing van der Sloot posing with one of Holloway's traveling companions.

"He approaches these three tourists and it's just interesting how he just instantly begins to try to relate with them," Twitty said. "And then he proceeds to lean across the bar and tell the bartender, 'I need four shots of 151' … these girls had no idea. It makes me wonder, 'Is this the shot he was buying my daughter right before closing time?'"

Twitty said van der Sloot told the witness his friends Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, also briefly detained in the investigation, were his poker buddies.

"I wish Natalee would have been able to see that those three were tightly connected," Twitty said. "She didn't have that privilege. All she thought was she was getting into an Aruban cab. She didn't have a chance. She didn't stand a chance."

Twitty maintains her belief that the Kalpoe brothers played a key role in Natalee's disappearance, although van der Sloot is the only suspect still in custody.

Van der Sloot has allegedly changed his story 10 times, and the lead investigator in the case says he is "convinced" the teen was involved in Natalee's disappearance.