Natalee Holloway: Is no jurisdiction safe from Twitty lawsuits; Parents declare Natalee Dead

By: Steve Yuhas

When we last left the Twitty family we were in New York where Beth Twitty helped created a media star out of a process server who was able to boast to the world that he served Joran van der Sloot and his father with a frivolous lawsuit.  It accused the two of kidnapping Natalee Holloway and a litany of other charges, but didn’t make the leap to murder.  Sometime between that lawsuit and one filed recently in California something changed and Natalee has been declared dead by her family.

The latter case accuses Deepak and Satish Kalpoe of wrongful death and is asking that a California court to find the brothers responsible.

That lawsuit piggybacks one filed by the Kalpoe brothers against pseudo-therapist psycho-babbling man hating talk show host Phil McGraw claiming that he manipulated an interview that made the two look guilty.  McGraw has been Beth Twitty’s lapdog for over a year so it is no surprise that if you look at the accusations it really looks like the man who wants to be Oprah did exactly what the brothers claim.

It is interesting that no lawsuits have been filed anywhere that Beth Twitty, Natalee Holloway or the rest of her kin-folk have any connection.  Why are they not suing anyone in Alabama?  I’d start with the chaperones; they are in Alabama and were in Aruba when Natalee disappeared and at least one told a different story from some people on the same trip, but they’re not in court. 

The only thing happening in Alabama is collecting money for the Natalee Holloway Trust, coordinating Beth’s speaking tour and book and movie deals.  Surely if the Kalpoe brothers can be sued in California for a death in Aruba, the chaperones can be sued in Alabama for negligence.

When the Kalpoe suit was filed Beth Twitty put out a statement saying, "All we want is justice for our daughter…there is no doubt in my mind that Deepak and Satish played a role in my daughter's death and should be held accountable. It's unconscionable that they have not been punished so far."

Not been punished?  They’ve been branded as killers by every television and radio host south of the Mason Dixon Line; whenever there is a slow news day their pictures are plastered on every show that the always reliable Beth Twitty can appear on.  The Twitty and Holloway family has made accusations of murder and deceit against both the Kalpoe brothers and the van der Sloots; they’ve slandered the justice system in Aruba as well as the police and went to the island to harass the people they think killed their daughter.  The Kalpoe brothers have been beleaguered by back water psychotherapists, a television critic that drove a woman to suicide and Twitty herself at their place of work (cameras following of course). 

Not one serious question has ever been posed to a member of Natalee Holloway’s family yet all of the people being sued have been arrested at least once and held without charges for months at a time.

The Kalpoe’s and van der Sloots have been more than punished.  So too have the people of Aruba when placating southern governors called for a boycott of Aruba.  Now an entire group of brainwashed knee jerk Twitty followers exist who wait to insert themselves into the story because they want to be part of it.  I can’t tell you how many emails I get from a “close friend” or “relative” of the Twitty - Holloway clan.  I know the south is interesting for population growth, but no family can be that incestuous.  Nobody likes a dead girl, but these people are brainwashed into believing anything the Twitty media instrument puts out.  They’re like the folks who stand outside a house where a child is missing and bring teddy bears; it does nothing to bring the kid home, but by gosh they feel good for doing it. 

Justice for Natalee Holloway is not going to come in the form of a civil suit in any state; especially one in which they have no connection.  I think O.J. Simpson is a pretty good barometer of a civil suit for wrongful death not bringing justice to anyone: ask the Brown or Goldman families if they have justice yet.

Natalee was an adult sent on vacation by a family who knows she is not coming home.  She was obviously the victim of a crime, but her parents will not accept the fact that they sent an ill equipped young woman on a vacation and she was not prepared to deal with it.  When you visit a foreign country you take risks and it is risky to get in a car with a man or men you don’t know.  If you take everything Beth Twitty said as true Natalee was a naïve young woman.  Still, she was packed up for a plane ride to a place where the first question out of a kid’s mouth is “what is the drinking age?” 

Any suggestion that her parents are partially to blame for sending their daughter to Aruba with friends that simply waved her off when she left a bar with a man she didn’t know or with chaperones who say their job was to get the kids to the hospital if they were bitten by a shark, but not to make sure they were not raped or murdered, is met with utter contempt by their family and their knee jerk supporters.

Beth says she is suing for answers – huh?  The Kalpoe brothers are not going to give any more information to the attorneys for Beth Twitty than they gave to prosecutors in Aruba and they have no assets to speak of so this is about keeping Natalee on the front page of slow news cycles and nothing more.  They admit that Natalee is dead so there is nothing to be gained; what possible good will come from filing a lawsuit against people with no assets in a state with no connection to the alleged crime?

Lawsuits being filed all over the country is a nice touch and makes for good talk show fodder, but is futile.  Beth Twitty has come to the conclusion that her daughter is dead, now she has to accept that her case is cold and may never be solved.  There is no body, there is no evidence of a crime, there are contradictions by the chaperones and the students that were traveling with Natalee when she disappeared and more than a year and a half has created a situation where civil suits in all 50 states will not change any of the facts or make anything better.

One would think that someone coordinating the speaking tour for Beth Twitty (imagine that woman telling kids of the dangers of travel – talk about day late and dollar short) would tell her that she looks foolish accusing van der Sloot of kidnapping one day and the Kalpoe brothers of murder the next.  She is making a mockery of the judicial system by suing in every jurisdiction except where the incident allegedly happened and not suing people, like the chaperones, who were actually there and entrusted with the care of her daughter.

If there were evidence against anyone in the death or disappearance of Natalee Holloway it would have been found by now and it hasn’t.  The dysfunctional Alabamans can continue this ridiculous circus of lawsuits and accusations, but it will not get them anything more than they already have: a tragically dead daughter and that is what their focus should be on.  Even if the Kalpoe brothers are found responsible by a California court for Natalee Holloway’s death – what will that do for the Twitty or Holloway family?

This whole mess is the result of a mother out of control, a father with a book deal and the failure of the authorities in Aruba to solve the case.  They want to, but if the evidence is not there nothing can be done and no matter how much Greta or Nancy cries about it nothing will change that one fundamental fact.

It is good, though, that the Twitty-Holloway families have finally acknowledged that their daughter is dead.  They should consider her lost at sea, hold a funeral, mark a gravesite and stop the ridiculous and laughable behavior that takes place whenever one of the cable shows don’t have a Duke rape case debacle to report on.  Live shots from Aruba were nice; it is a great place to visit, but the case is as solved as it is ever going to be and the only thing left to learn is lessons on what not to do as a parent sending your kid on a vacation that they are not mature enough to take and making sure that the chaperones are more than coaches from the high school or people better suited to supervision themselves.

Steve Yuhas is a radio talk show host on NewsRadio 600 KOGO in southern California and may be reached at steve@steveyuhas.com or www.steveyuhas.com