Kathy Stewart, wtop.com
WASHINGTON – A Montgomery County man is free but he may never live down a vacation that apparently went terribly wrong.
Gary Giordano of Gaithersburg was set free Tuesday after being held four months in Aruba in August following the disappearance of Robyn Gardner, 35, of Frederick.
“Now the mystery continues, but again the analogy continues with Natalee Holloway,” says former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt.
In 2005 Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba. Gardner vanished in August while on vacation with Giordano in Aruba.
Van Zandt says investigators in the Holloway case searched nearby islands in the off chance that she had been kidnapped as part of a human trafficking incident.
Now, in the Gardner case, both the victim’s boyfriend and Giordano have talked about Gardner being a possible victim of human trafficking.
But Van Zandt dismisses that theory.
“The chances of either Natalee or Robyn Gardner being victim of human trafficking as opposed to some other terrible incident is probably pretty slim at this point,” he says.
Van Zandt says now that Giordano is out of jail he will remain a free man unless Aruban investigators come up with a body or eye witnesses.
He says like in the Holloway case — no body, no case.
“And I think that continues with Robyn Gardner at this point,” Van Zandt says.
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