Robyn Gardner's Boyfriend Calls Murder Suspect Gary Giordano's Detainment 'Bitter Sweet'
Sept. 2 2011, Published 4:00 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
The detainment of murder suspect Gary Giordano for a further 60 days doesn't bring Robyn Gardner back to her anxious boyfriend in Maryland but he’s hoping it’s just the first step, Breaking Celebrity News can exclusively report.
"It was good news but it’s still bitter sweet," Richard Forester, who has been in a relationship with the missing woman for over two years, told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview. "It gives us time to figure out what is going on but it doesn't bring her back to us."
Forester hopes that the extra time in an Aruban jail will encourage Giordano, who is the lone suspect in Robyn's disappearance and was the last person to see her alive on August 2, to tell the police what really happened to her.
"I imagine that sitting in a non air-conditioned prison will make him talk, but who knows what is going on in his head," Forester said.
Giordano, 50, has been in an Aruban jail since August 5, three days after he claims that 35-year-old Robyn was swept away while snorkeling, but he has yet to be charged with a crime.
Although Gardner’s body has not been found, authorities in Aruba have said they presume she is dead.
Instead of going to the Caribbean resort to hunt for his girlfriend, Forester said he thinks he is more useful staying home in the U.S. "I would probably get in the way and may be even damage evidence," he worries. "I would be looking for clues and not be on vacation."
Desperate for any break in the case now that it's been a whole month since she vanished, Richard, 41, approves of how the Aruban authorities are handling the search for aspiring model Robyn but thinks they could do more.
"I would love to see more searches, manpower and dogs – preferably scent dogs from the FBI because it is possible she is still alive," he explained. "It's not a very big island, and the search doesn't have to end in Aruba. I would also like for there to be more American involvement.”
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in Natalee Holloway's disappearance