Exclusive: Aruba Witness Speaks to 'GMA'

Aug. 1, 2005 — -- A Texas-based volunteer group suspended its search of an Aruba landfill today, where a witness said he saw men dumping the body of a blond female two days after Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared.

Robert Cooke, spokesman for EquuSearch, the Dickinson, Texas-based volunteer group, told The Associated Press the search was postponed because they did not have the heavy equipment they needed. The group has combed a specific part of the landfill for the past three days, but had to return the bulldozer and tractor they had borrowed from local companies.

Aruban police searched the landfill after receiving a tip in the days following Holloway's disappearance, but found nothing. A police spokeman said the witness recently approached Holloway's family, who asked for another search.

The witness said he is too scared to be identified, but spoke for the first time exclusively to "GMA" through a friend, Raoul.

"He see the half the body," Raoul said. "And I told you the hair was muddy and the skin was like purple."'

Beth Holloway Twitty is in Birmingham, Ala., today after leaving the island on Friday for the first time since her daughter disappeared two months ago. However, a family spokesman said she plans to return soon to keep the search alive.

The Holloway family has offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the teen's safe return and a $100,000 reward for information that helps determine her whereabouts. It is not clear whether the latest witness has sought the reward.

Searchers have given up on a tip that Holloway's body may have been dumped in a pond, after draining the body of water over the weekend.

The leader of a volunteer search team wants to investigate chief suspect Joran Van der Sloot's home. He says he wants to look at the grounds and in a well said to be at the house.

"We just need a break," said the missing teenager's father, David Holloway. "And that's what's going to resolve this case, is a break."

David Holloway and the search teams say right now the dump is the last solid lead.