gardner was last seen four weeks ago today with a 50-year-old man named gary giordano. he said she got carried out to sea while they were snorkeling. the police report said he asked three people on the beach for help that day. those witnesses reportedly said he was covered in sweat but was very calm and that he had a cut on his throat. martin savidge has been covered all the twists and turns of the story. he joins us from rusch. abc news is reporting this information about his throat having some sort of a cut on it. what exactly have they found out? >> reporter: well, this is the first i've heard of that and i've talked to a lot of witnesses. i've talked to a lot of people and i've read the police reports. i have to point out during the interrogation of gary giordano, authorities asked him do you have any wounds on you. and he said, well, he had a couple scratches on his legs and he showed it to them. regarding a cut on the neck, you can take a look for yourself. there is his mug shot that was released, it was taken a couple days after the alleged drowning. and if you look it a quite c

american robyn gardner is starting to cooperate slightly more with police. but gary giordano is still being described as belligerent and refusing to answer any questions that he has already answered. giordano took out $1.5 million travel insurance policies for both himself and robyn gardner, but authorities aren't saying who the beneficiary of her policy is. >>> wall street ends an awful week with another awful day. the dow jones tumbled losing 1.6% of its value. the nasdaq and s & p 500 reported steep declines as well, all due to fierce about the u.s. economy and europe's debt crisis >>> a court hearing today over a lawsuit filed by the trustee appointed to recover billions of dollars from bernard madoff's upon ponzi scheme. the trustee suing the -- new york mets. they argued they knew nothing about it. there's other headlines. now back to "presumed guilty, murder in west memphis". >>> i came from an extremely dirt-poor family. >> damien echols grew up here in marion, arkansas, a mile or two from west memphis. his best friend jason baldwin lived nearby, and so did a boy named j

policy he himself took out. gary giordano is his name. he's seen with gardner in this photo. the picture was released august 2nd. that's the day giordano told investigators that gardner disappeared while snorkeling with him. he's being held by police in aruba as a suspect in the case. martin savidge joins me from aruba. >> martin, we've reported that they each took out insurance policies before their trip. he definitely is the beneficiary of her policy? >> reporter: that's right, yes. this is the first time authorities have come out and admitted that information. it was about a week ago i got ahold of the statement that gary giordano told authorities. one thing they asked him about these insurance policies. he admitted they had the insurance policies, two $1.5 million each. they said who's the beneficiary? he said in my case the beneficiary is my mother. but what was left out of that statement was well then who's going to benefit say if robyn gardner turns up missing or dead. well, today the authorities said, you know what, it's gary giordano, which now you understand to the auth

last time anyone saw robyn gardner was here at aruba's baby beach. this man, gary vincent giordano says late on the day august 2nd they were snorkeling together when she simply vanished. >> he couldn't stand any more and he signed him to let's go back and when he reached shore, she was nowhere to be seen. >> reporter: giordano called 911, and a massive search was launched. helicopters, a plane, boats, and divers. but days later, still no sign of gardner. >> the body goes outside a reef, it goes deep immediately. it goes very deep. you can see it there. it goes under the water. the current will take it away. >> reporter: the island paradise is of course with no stranger to mysterious disappearances. more than six years ago natalee holloway came to aruba after graduating from high school but never came home. despite years of searching, her body has never been found and the specter of her disappearance still hangs over aruba. as for gardner, her friends are not convinced that it was a coincidence. richard forester is gardner's on again/off again boyfriend. >> she's somebody who is con

missing near baby beach. giordano told the police she vanished while snorkeling but is no longer cooperating with the investigation. >>> a florida judge ordered casey anthony to order one year of supervised probation. she has to turn to orlandy to start serving that probation no later than noon on august 26th. anthony was acquitted last month of murdering her daughter caylee who was convicted in 2010 on felony check fraud. >>> a second colorado county has filed attempted murder and assault charges after the sibling's fired an ak-47 at police during a high-speed car chase on wednesday. are also accused of bank robbery in georgia and attempted murder in florida. >>> and in ohio a driver accidentally yanked a gas pump off of its base yesterday. luckily fast-thinking attendants kept the place from blowing sky high. the customer later returned to apologize and remarkably the station owner wrote the whole thing off. saying it's just one of those things. that's latest and now back to anderson. >>> separated at birth from a cat? the feline, another animal wanna-be so absurd they blamed i

cnn exclusive. cnn has obtained a transcript of a police interview with gar giordano before his arrest. he's the maryland man being held in the disappearance of this woman, robyn gardner. they were vacationing together. they'd met online. according to the "washington post" she was last seen around 8:00 p.m. august 2nd in a restaurant with giordano. he told police he lost track of her while they were snorkeling in rough water. giordano told police he feared for his life when he signaled her to turn back and didn't look for her as he turned to shore. the police say the sea was calm at the time. in the interview police also grilled giordano about his finances and about travel insurance policies he bought for himself and gardner before their trip. tonight there are also new details about photographs found on a camera that authorities confiscated from the couple's hotel room. martin savidge joined me now from aruba. martin, what did we learn from the transcript? >> reporter: it's really pretty amazing. we obviously wanted to talk to gary giordano. we wanted to talk to his attorney to get th

last seen august 2nd. the man she was with, gary giordano, said they disappeared shortly after they were together. tonight abc is reporting that police started talking to giordano shortly after they began talking, looked at his watch and said, she might be dead now. local fishermen told abc that he seemed very drunk when he reported her missing. martin savidge joins us live. when you talked to the aruban authorities, what do they make of this guy giordano telling searchers she might be dead now? >> when i first asked them, he laughed. he thought the minutia of the phrases were getting crazy. that said, he said we don't really see that as being so incriminating. keep in mind, the search had been going on for a couple hours, it was dark, she hadn't been found. they had divers in the water. she was not an expert swimmer. so for gary giordano to look at his watch after, say, two hours, and say, she is probably dead now. they look at it as a fatalistic comment and not a damning statement. >> we know he told investigators they didn't purchase alcohol at the restaurant. sorries said he was

that man gary giordano had taken out insurance policy of robin gardner. a bloody handprint was found on a stone where the couple had been snorkeling. marty savidge joins me from aruba with the latest. marty, what details do you know about a bloody handprint on a stone where they were allegedly snorkeling? >> reporter: this is coming to us from a couple of different sources. when i talked to investigators directly about them finding blood evidence at the scene there, they said only that they couldn't confirm it. they couldn't deny it. they called it interesting which of course would be a lot more than interesting. it could be absolutely key to their investigation. sources we talked to close to that investigation say it was blood on the rocks or blood on stones and some said it was actually a bloody handprint. the reason this all works out is they need to know if it was human, is it robyn gardner's blood or someone unrelated. that's what they want to find out right away. if he's telling a story that she's lost at sea in a snorkeling accident, that's not bloody. that would be a signific

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

? >> 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

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

vacation with gary giordano. he's being held by aruban authorities, and investigators say his camera contains images of robin that are graphic and disturbing and, quote, beyond pornographic. those quotes given to nbc news. they did say robin, who is 35, did not appear to be in danger, and there was no indication of duress. gardner is now presumed dead having not been seen since august 2nd, and authorities have postponed their search for her remains until next week. they need more time to coordinate such a large-scale effort. they plan to search near the area where gardner was reported missing by jordan know who claims she vanished while snorkeling. they're also testing against evidence they may uncover. meanwhile, authorities are still investigating an insurance policy that he took out against gardner reese accidentally death. he bought the policy from american express reportedly shortly before the pair travel today the island in july. he reportedly called to cash in that policy two day after reporting her missing. gardner had a boyfriend back in maryland, but she met gary online las

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.