Aruba Judge questioned in girl's dissapearance

An interesting twist in the Natalee Holloway case...the father of one of the suspects is a Judge-in-training in Aruba and was questioned over the weekend.

Aruban police on Sunday questioned the father of a Dutch teenager held in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, hoping the island justice official may know something to help solve the mystery of what happened to her, an official said.

Paul van der Sloot, a judge-in-training on the island, was questioned for two hours Sunday afternoon after five hours Saturday night, said Police Superintendent Jan van der Straaten.

Joran van der Sloot, 17, one of the people last seen with Natalee Holloway the night she disappeared. Three other men have been detained, but no one has been charged.

Van der Straaten said the father was asked to come back Sunday because officials were not able to finish the interrogation on Saturday, but declined to give more details.

"He was questioned as a witness, no more or no less," van der Straaten told The Associated Press.

There are 3 others being held in this case, which has dragged on since May 30th. Under Dutch law they can be held for 116 days before being charged.

The boys being held claim that they were with Natalee but that they dropped her off at her hotel and last saw her with the security guard. Maybe I do not know about this case enough, but I have that spider sense tingling...and it says that the guard actually may know more than the Aruban police think.

While I am sick of the media following every missing girl report that seems to hit the wires I think that the fact that the father of one suspect is an Aruban judge that is now being questioned leads to fascination. It will also be worth following the due dilligence of the police to help determine how helpful we should be to the Dutch in similar matters in the future.