NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S MOM: 'MAKE YOUR KIDS SAFE'

BETH

NATALEE

THE DISTRAUGHT mom of missing Natalee Holloway urged parents to make sure their kids are safe, to avoid the heartache she had been through.
Beth Holloway who founded the International Safe Travels Organization after her daughter's presumed death, recalled the last phone call before Natalee packed for 2005 spring break in Aruba.
"I just told her I loved her," she said.
However she refused to comment on her daughter's supposed killer Joran Van Der Sloot, who's trial for the murder of young Peruvian Stephany Flores, 21, may again be delayed.

She told WMBF: "It was in June 2005 that I made the commitment early on to the authorities and officials handling Natalee's case that I would do everything I could in order to share the hard lessons we had learned to help others hopefully avoid experiencing the nightmare that we did.
"I just try to focus on the work that need to be done and the lives that need to be reached."
Holloway, who as well as writing the book "Loving Natalee" is now presenting a Cable TV show about other unsolved cases added that protecting children from those who would prey on their innocence was her prime aim.
She said: "Children learn things about the world around them and are empowered. That's what makes hope real. It is when you do something and that hope becomes real and it becomes tangible."

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COULD SAFE CRACK RICHARD CHARTRAND MURDER?

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A HUGE safe found hidden away in an old casino could help police finally crack the 1968 murder of former casino boss.
Richard Chartrand was blown up in his South Lake Tahoe, NV neighborhood by a sophisticated bomb but his killers were never caught.
It's current owner, attorney Mike Laub said last Thursday crews discovered a secret four foot safe behind the walls, completely sealed off. 
He told KSDK: "There is a pirate part of your personality that hopes to find diamonds and gold."
"I can't go anywhere without being stopped and asked what is inside the safe. I had no idea this would become such a distraction."

Twenty different locksmiths from around the county have called to try and unlock it but of the three who have seen it already, none have been able to crack it.
But it's hoped that inside, maybe crucial information about the Chartrand murder, more than 42-years ago.  
Laub said:  "After the murder it was a conclusion that was drawn in the law firm, Mr. Chartrands personal attorneys, that he had been hit by a New York mob gang or group."
If the safe contains new evidence, the cold case could be blown wide open.
He added: "Every opportunist in the country is trying to get at this."
Laub plans on opening the safe within the next few days, with investigators watching.

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