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DOMPIG, GEROLD, Deputy Chief
BIG STORY on FOX with Megan Kendall (10/8 9PM)
MK: Dep Chief Gerold Dompig.
An FBI trained investigator who spent almost ten years in Holland working on major criminal cases. Welcome sir, and tell us. You’re involved in this investigation, what new leads are the police pursuing tonight?
GD: Well, Good Evening. We have been working on two …several tracks, you could say. One is rereading material we already have, and the second is working on the leads we haven’t been able to work on. In that respect, we also received new information, and new leads, and we are diligently working on those. And, I might say that, my people convinced me with that information that the case is far from dead.
MK: Can you share with us any of those new leads that appear to have some promise?
GD:
Well, let me explain that once these guys were set free, we feel that people will probably know something, feel compelled to come forward. So, these information, these tips and leads keep coming in. And…some of them are very, very interesting, and we feel that still our suspects, these same three boys, remain very interesting to us.
MK: And Deputy Chief, do you think. . . two part question. Do you think that Natalee Holloway is dead? And, do you think that one, or all three suspects, are responsible for it?
GD: Well, of course, you don’t know. But, we have to assume, and that’s what investigating is all about. You have to assume that some fault lay with, there was some fault lay, but we never stop looking for the live Natalee. We never stopped, although the those efforts were kind of like at a back burner, you could say. But, never stopped, though.
MK: Well, what about these 3 guys? You think you have your man in one, or all three of them?
GD: Yes, let me say this. Basic thumb-rule says that the first forty days of your investigation, you probably have talked to the perpetrators. And, we feel that we have talked to them.
MK: Right. Let me ask you about this tape. Allegedly, Deepak Kalpoe made statements admitting that all three of them had sex with Natalee. Assuming that police down there get their hands on that tape, sometime soon from Dr. Phil, and it confirms that he made that admission, coupled with admissions that the three or one of them had made in the past that Natalee was fading in and out of consciousness on that night, would that be enough for an arrest on a sex charge?
GD: Well, I cannot comment on that. I can say that we have done
everything possible to get our hands on the tape, the original tapes, because we really want to know if they are legitimate. If it isn’t something that is altered, ???? or whatever. And we have put in an official request to the prosecutor’s office, to the Dr. Phil Show; and, the response was that we could get the tapes, but only if the Prosecutor participated in a show where she was handed over the tapes on the air. And that’s, that’s…..of course, we don’t want to participate in the show.
MK: Wow, wow. Well, Deputy Chief, please us informed and thank very much for being here with the information.
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COMMENCIA, PAPITO--Police Spokesperson.
COMEMENCIA, EDWIN--Police Spokesperson.
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The hair will be sent to the Netherlands for DNA analysis, said police spokesman Edwin Comemencia. Aruba, a Dutch protectorate, doesn't have a lab to conduct the genetic testing.