ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — Aruban authorities are investigating new evidence in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway provided by a Dutch crime reporter, prosecutors said Thursday.
Information from reporter Peter R. de Vries may help resolve what happened to the American teenager, who vanished during a May 2005 school vacation to the Dutch Caribbean island, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The statement did not say specifically what the new evidence was.
"This information may help considerably in the solution of the mystery of Natalee's disappearance," the prosecutor's office said. It "may shed a new light on the mode" in which she died and the "method by which her body disappeared."
De Vries's Web site said the evidence was gathered through "an ingenious hidden camera tactic" and would be revealed in a Dutch television program Sunday. It said the reporter traveled to Aruba last week to inform authorities of his findings.
De Vries had a testy exchange earlier this month during a televised interview in the Netherlands with Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man who was a suspect in the case.
