Three young men detained in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager have been charged with murder since their arrest more than three weeks ago, Aruba’s chief prosecutor told The Associated Press on Friday.

The charges were not announced at the time to protect the feelings of the family of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, said Attorney General Karin Janssen.

“At the time, we didn’t want to upset the (Holloway) family talking about murder while they searched,” Janssen said.

Janssen, who has said several times in the past three weeks that no one was charged in the case, said they also kept the information quiet in order not to compromise their investigation. Authorities have said they have no physical evidence suggesting Holloway is dead.

They didn’t want to “upset” the family by talking about murder while they searched?

From what I have heard they haven’t talked to the family about much, let alone murder.

Update: [20:45] I guess this was a false alarm? Just another operation of misinformation from the island of Aruba. You can read details at Scared Monkeys.

1. I think that Natalee was just I think that Natalee was just a normal alabama girl who was kidnapped raped and killed by those two creeps that are always on tv. if you ask me i think that it’s wrong. Very wrong and i’m very mad about it:cry:I don’t understand why Aruba can’t do better than what they are doing now .

   Comment by Chirstilyn on Dec 3rd, 2006 @ 02:06

   
   

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