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Holloway: "Interview Full of Lies" Save Email Print
Meridian, Miss.
Posted: 5:32 PM Feb 23, 2006
Last Updated: 7:19 PM Feb 23, 2006
Reporter: Wade Phillips

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Natalee Holloway's father, Dave Holloway of Meridian, says Joran van der Sloot is lying. That's after watching parts of an exclusive ABC interview with the prime suspect in Natalee's disappearance in Aruba.

Van der Sloot admits he has lied in the past about the night he spent with Natalee Holloway, but he says he's telling the truth now. He says he left her, unharmed at the beach the night she disappeared and he went home.

"Do you buy anything he's saying?" asked this reporter.

"When somebody lies the first time and then they lie again and implicate two other people, you can't buy anything they say from here on out," said Holloway.

Holloway sat down with us to watch the interview with van der Sloot, and he says there are too many holes for him to be believed. Chief among them, he said, is how the Dutch teen says he left his shoes on the beach and how that isn't proof that he was panicked when he left.

"For someone to say he left his shoes on the beach and jumped in the car and left, something happened," said Holloway. "You don't run off and leave your shoes and then start making up a bunch of lies."

And that is what Holloway said he believes most of what van der Sloot is saying is.

"You think he lied from the beginning and he's still lying, just trying to find a story people will buy?" asked this reporter.

"I think so," Holloway said. "I think you get into this lying process and you lie until someone believes. There may be some truth in what he's saying, but certainly, there's a lot of lies."

Holloway says he hopes eventually, van der Sloot's lies will catch up to him and one day he will finally know what happened to his daughter on what was probably the last night of her life.

Natalee Holloway, who lived in Birmingham at the time, disappeared on May 30, 2005, the final night of her graduation trip to Aruba.

On June 9, 2005, Joran van der Sloot was arrested on suspicion of her murder. He was never formally charged. On Sept. 3, 2005, he was released from jail.

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