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Top Defense Lawyers Weigh In on Holloway
Case
Attorneys Consider Suspicion that
Missing Teen Used Alcohol or Drugs
By SYLVIE ROTTMAN
Aruban police claim they have a witnesses
saying Natalee was drinking heavily and had
drugs on her the night she went missing.
This was told by Gerald Dompig, Aruba's
deputy chief of police, to CBS television's
on the 48 Hours Mystery program.
ABC News asked top criminal defense lawyers
what they thought
Roy Black-Criminal defense lawyer,
Florida
Black: ...Usually, the only time someone
covers up a death is when there is
criminal conduct
involved, because they're afraid of the
police discovering their part in it.
...Generally, when there's an accident,
people just leave the body where it is.
Why would anybody throw it at sea or
anywhere else?
Black: It's very hard to lose a human
body. When somebody dies, it's almost
always discovered, because it's very
hard to lose or dispose of a human body.
With decomposition, there is a very
pungent smell, and it's very easy to find
a dead body. ...
Gerry Schargel
Criminal defense attorney, New York
Schargel: ... Drugs are not talismans in
whose presence all the other evidence
in the case goes away and disappears.
... But if someone dies accidentally of
drugs
and alcohol, it's likely someone would
have sought medical attention.
And the fact that her body would have
disappeared on a small island smacks
more of murder than drugs and alcohol.

Chris Tritico
Represented Timothy McVeigh
...There's one of two possibilities. It
could be that because of the drugs,
she died an accidental death. ...
but it is not the final piece of evidence
by which the police should close this
investigation. ...
The fact that her body has never been
found leans more toward a homicide
than an accidental death.
But because we don't have all the
pieces of this puzzle, we really don't
have an answer.

Accident huh? Like hell!