Suspects in Natalee Holloway case to be released from jail

ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Two brothers re-arrested last week as suspects in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway will be released from jail, a prosecutor said Friday.

The two brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, will be released by Saturday, prosecutor Dop Kruimel said. "We have three days to launch an appeal, but we have to think about it,” Kruimel said.

The prosecutor corrected a statement made earlier by Vinda de Sousa, an attorney for Dave Holloway, Natalee’s father, who said they had already been released due to lack of evidence.

Their release will mark the third time that the brothers have been arrested and later released in the case. Both have denied having any role in her disappearance.

They and a third suspect who remains in jail, Joran van der Sloot, were the last known people to see Holloway alive before she vanished on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to return home to Alabama with fellow high school classmates celebrating their graduation.

She was 18 at the time.

The three suspects were re-arrested on Nov. 21 on suspicion of involvement in Holloway’s death. Authorities said they had "new incriminating evidence, but defense attorneys had complained that the new material amounted to little more than misunderstandings in the suspects’ recorded conversations.

Van der Sloot’s mother said Friday that she was happy for the Kalpoe brothers but did not whether the rulings mean anything for her son’s case.

"I’m happy that something is happening,” she said.