GA Tech Lineman Recalls Annual MB Trip

AP News - from Tampa Bay Online.

While the AP isn't absolutely clear, I believe McManus likely took the Aruba trip one-year prior to Natalee Holloway.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Nate McManus took the same graduation trip as Natalee Holloway. Now, as McManus prepares for his first season as a starter on Georgia Tech's offensive line, he tries to keep up with news about the missing Alabama teen, clinging to hope that she might be found alive in Aruba. "I was at home when I heard the news," McManus recalled. "Everybody was like, 'Oh, she missed the plane.

She must have fallen asleep somewhere.' Then a day became two days. Then it became weeks." Holloway was a year behind McManus at Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Ala. She was on the dance team that performed at football games and, while the two weren't especially close, they did share many of the same friends.

Comments

[josh]

Sort of a non-story, but it is interesting anyway.

[anchor]

What does Nate have to say about his experiences in Aruba?
What does he have to say about other female grads on the same trip with him?
Were they approached? Drugged? Coerced in any way?
ARGGHHH!! Dan, give us more!! :)
Just curious.

[maria]

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Father of Dutch suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teenager says his son will be released
By MICHAEL NORTON
Associated Press Writer
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) ­ A judge on Thursday ordered the release of a Dutch teenager who has been jailed for nearly three months in the disappearance of an Alabama honors student and said he would be freed this weekend, the youth's father said.
Paul van der Sloot said the judge ruled there was no reason to hold his son, Joran, any longer on suspicion of murder but the youth remained a suspect in the sexual assault of Natalee Holloway.
"The judge ruled that he must remain at the disposal of police for interrogation and follow certain rules," Paul van der Sloot, who was told of the decision by the family's attorney.
Government officials couldn't immediately confirm the report.
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