Prosecutor: New evidence in Holloway case

ORANJESTAD, Aruba, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- A prosecutor in Aruba says he has new evidence tying a young man to the disappearance and presumed death of U.S. student Natalee Holloway.

Holloway vanished while on the island with other members of the senior class at Mountain Book High School in Alabama in May 2005. Joran van der Sloot, a scion of a prominent Dutch family in Aruba, has been arrested twice and released twice.

Hans Mos, the prosecutor heading the investigation, told CNN a witness has come forward who saw an older man and a young one in a jeep near a pond on the night Holloway disappeared. The witness said he had seen the young man about 10 minutes earlier, wet and wearing only one shoe, running along the road away from the pond.

The older man was presumably Joran's father, Paulus van der Sloot, at the time a judge in training.

Mos added that a former girlfriend has said Joran van der Sloot made suspicious comments to her: "Who knows? You may be on the beach with someone who knows how to get rid of a corpse."

Mos described his frustrations to CNN.

"We simply did not yet have the corroborating evidence to take this to trial and win a conviction," Mos said. "If we had a body even to determine cause of death, then we could piece something together."