Police Eye Drugs, Alcohol in Hollaway Case

[Sequoia]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Mar 23, 2006 (AP)— Aruban police are reportedly looking into the possibility that the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway could be linked to alcohol or drugs, according to a report Thursday by CBS.

Witnesses have come forward who say the then 18-year-old Holloway had drugs in her possession and was drinking heavily on May 30, the day she disappeared, Gerald Dompig, deputy chief of police for Aruba, told CBS television's "48 Hours Mystery" program, which released a partial transcript of the interview on Thursday.

"We feel strongly that she probably went into shock or something happened to her system with all the alcohol maybe on top of that, other drugs, which either she took or they gave her and that she … just collapsed," he said in the interview, scheduled for broadcast on Saturday.

A cover-up may have ensued after the death, he said. Dompig specified that witnesses did not see Holloway taking drugs, only that she had them in her possession.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1762183

All this time, this is what I thought. She was raised in a strict home, sheltered, boys and booze are sinful, etc. She just went overboard and the boys panicked is what I think.