Gary V. Giordano will remain detained in Aruba. While the authorities continue to investigate his alleged involvement in the mysterious disappearance of Robyn Gardner travel partners, Giordano, 50, "will remain in custody for 16 more days," according to a statement released Monday by the Aruba Office of Public Prosecutor.
Giordano's lawyer, Michael Lopez, said the 16-day extension was granted because the judge felt, "there are too many open questions as of yet." On Sunday, nearly two weeks after Gardner, 35, went missing, Lopez pleaded for the release of his client, arguing that authorities don't have "hard proof" to believe he was responsible for Gardner's disappearance. "We continue to be pleased with the way have handled our daughter's case," Gardner's mother Andrea Colson said in a statement released shortly after news broke of Giordano's extended detainment. "We are still hoping to find out what has happened to our daughter, as we have not given up hope that she may still be alive."
Monday, August 15, 2011
Robyn Gardner will remain in custody detained in Aruba for 16 more days
With a striped shirt on his head, Giordano shuffling of the police station in the south of Aruba to a police van in the hope that was scheduled to be put into prison KIA to the southern tip of the island. This prison was the place Joran van der Sloot was held in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The sight of Baby Beach prison, where Gardner says Giordano disappeared.