From CBS news:

Cop's Theory: Natalee Wasn't Murdered

(CBS) Gerold Dompig, deputy chief of police in Aruba and the man leading the investigation into the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, tells 48 Hours correspondent Troy Roberts he feels strongly that Holloway was not murdered, but probably died from complications involving alcohol and, possibly, drugs as well.

Dompig makes his remarks in an exclusive interview this Saturday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

The chief investigator tells Roberts that he has credible witnesses who say the young woman had drugs in her possession. Dompig also says police have witnesses who claim Holloway was drinking "excessively" on the day she disappeared.

As reported in this column last week, the Stiver family embarked on a trip to the coast in their motor home only to end up missing for over two weeks.

The first new information since last week and as a commenter pointed out, the entire family has been found. All were well having gotten stranded on a snowy road but with plenty of supplies to keep them warm and well-fed.

But there's another intriguing tidbit about this odd journey. Seems Peter Stivers' mother and step-father were wanted in Arizona for drug charges. From what I've read about the charges, they're not benign, involving the discovery of bags of crack on their property. Mr. And Mrs. Higginbotham have suddenly disappeared from the public stage. Later articles have the couple vowing to clear their name and restore their reputation.

From the source of the quote below Peter also declared that he only sees his parents once every eight years or so and this seems odd. He also affirms his parents' "shady past". Yet they all went on this jaunt and under the circumstances should have renewed their acquaintance over the many days they were stranded.

It's been asserted that this "disappearance" was planned to keep authorities away from the Higginbothams, although I don't know how this would work because they had to return home someday.

From Dailytidings.com:

Currently, no one knows the whereabouts of Elbert Higginbotham and Rebecca Ann Bess (aka Becky Higginbotham), according to the family. The pair are wanted in Arizona on drug charges. Higginbotham last met with a Daily Tidings reporter at 2 p.m. Thursday.
"He went to the hospital to pick up his medicine," Ed Hill, grandfather of the children who were stranded for 17 days, said at the 3 p.m. press conference. Higginbotham was informed of the warrant earlier in the day.

Later, at their home, the Hills said they did not know where Higginbotham and Bess might have gone. "They may have checked into a hotel," said their daughter-in-law Marlo Hill-Stivers, who was stranded in an RV with them. "We haven't heard from them all day."

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