gardner. she vanished earlier this month while snorkeling with her travel companion, gary giordano. he is the main suspect in the case and is behind bars. now an aruban judge is set to decide if there is enough evidence to continue to hold him or maybe set him free. phil keating is live following this story. he's joining us now from miami. phil. >> reporter: gary giordano the prime suspect i robyn gardner's disappearance is having a detention hearing at a resource center. after this ruling, her parents who live outside of the orlando area are planning to release a public statement. the 35-year-old woman, robyn gardner disappeared four weeks ago tonight, allegedly, according to her companion, gary giordano while snorkeling out in the ocean. however, aruba police and prosecutors do not buy that story at all, saying for one the ocean current was minimal that evening, and two if she truly had drowned the searches by air and boat would have discovered her body. the solicitor general telling me basically his alibi just simply does not add up. her aruban companion gary giordano who she met onlin

shoreline where jerry giordano and robin gardner were walking. he told police he identified them, saw the woman, the blond with the tattoos and her companion and said they never snorkeling but they walked on the beach, got back into his car and drove off. police don't believe the drowning story, either. they thoroughly searched weaforts around aruba and never found a body that they say would have surfaced had robin gardner truly dr [ male announcer ] it's a fact: your nutritional needs can go up when you're on the road to recovery. proper nutrition can help you get back on your feet. three out of four doctors recommend the ensure brand for extra nutrition. ensure clinical strength has revigor and thirteen grams of protein to protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. and immune balance to help support your immune system. ensure clinical strength... helping you to bounce back. ensure! nutrition in charge! when they go in that store, that may serve as a deterrent, jon. jon: i hope we figure out a way to get a handle on this problem. thanks for joining us. keep us updated. >> thank you, j

here, jenna. the missing woman, robyn gardner was traveling with a friend, gary giordano, and it was recently reported he took out an insurance policy on her for $1.5 million. now the associated press says he sought to claim the money two days after reportering her missing. aruba authorities have disclosed he has explicit photos of robyn in his camera. the solicitor general says that camera was confiscated as part of the investigation. robyn gardner, who is 35, had a boyfriend back home in maryland but she and giordano stayed in a room together in aruba. giordano is 50-year-old, twice divorced father of three sons. he traveled to aruba with gardner on july 31st. two days later he said the she disappeared while the two were snorkeling. authorities found discrepancies in his story. back to the insurance policy ap quote as person with knowledge of the policy. gy or giordano, purchased it $1.5 million. american express policy. accidental death. it covered length of short trip. giordano called while the search for gardner was still going on saying he wanted to begin redeeming that policy.

? >> reporter: 50-year-old gary giordano was the companion on this trip, fox news has confirmed with a rube yan officials. he did take out an insurance poly see before the trip. abc is calling it an accidental death insurance policy worth $1.5 million. we are learning a lot more about gee's past in maryland. he has a long history with run ins with the law. numerous cases of stalking and domestic violence in addition to charges from exgirlfriends that he secretly videotaped sexual encounters of them and posted pornographic images of those encounters on the internet. rick: what about the woman, robyn gardner and the search for her, what is the latest. >> reporter: 15 days ago now, dutch authorities are saying that she is presumed to be dead. there will be a major push later this week by a rube yan police as well as possibly the military and f.b.i. will also be involved with blood hounds. they will focus the search on the southern part of the island where the couple was last seen together at a dive shop. they will push hard to try and find any signs of her body. as for giordano he remains in polic

the defense of gary giordano, but a 16-day extense of the time he will have to remain behind bars as a suspect in the involvement of the disappearance of robin gardner. police put a blue and white-striped towel over his head as he walked out of the courthouse yesterday to head right back to jail. he's not too many miles from the beach where he and robin gardner went there together for what was said to be a little getaway that her boyfriend in maryland really did not know about. but the evidence that police have that we know about, and a lot of it is still secret, it's not as wide open as far as public information shared with the public goes here in the united states, but the rental car, they have that in custody of the couple. they're also compiling videotapes from surveillance cameras from all of the casinos, restaurants, bars on the island trying to put a timeline together, when and where the couple was together and when they were not together anymore. and we do know that at least one restaurant has found them on one of their videotapes. and they did check a phosphate mine near baby

man traveling with that woman, robyn gardner, the guy, gary giordano, is a suspect in her disappearance. giordano's lawyer says his client denies emphatically any wrongdoing and being unjustly held he says. phil keating live in miami. i hope you can explain it better than i just tried to do. >> reporter: thanks, jon. natalie holloway, most specifically the teenager's legacy tied to this case. two american attractive blondes on vacation of island nation of aruba and both under suspicious circumstances go missing while out on the beach. this time 35-year-old robyn gardner of frederick, maryland. she has not been seen since last tuesday when she failed to return back to the states on time. that is what the natalie holloway resource center got involved which was established in natalie's name and honor to help with missing persons cases. down in aruba, unbeknownst to the gardner family here in florida and maryland, investigators were already involved as robyn gardner was reported missing by the man with whom she went on vacation with. a man she met on match.com. gary giordano f