ABC Primetime/Natalee Holloway Case

[VanCitySportsGuy]

Primetime was good tonight. The main suspect Joran van der Sloot was interviewed.

He's the last person to see Natalee alive. I didn't know Natalee's mom went with a Fox News crew to try to ambush Joran's dad on tv. I think it's silly for her mom to tell everybody to boycott Aruba.

Just a tragic story all around.
If you're interested in the case watch the show.

[Heelfan71]

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I saw it..........I think it is rediculous that Natalies family is filing a civil suit against him saying he gave their daughter a date rape drug and had his way with her. I was suspicious of him but after the show I don't think he did anything.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

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I also think the civil suit is silly. The suit mentioned how there were other incidents of him using a date rape drug although there's no proof.

After he got busted for his hotel lie, I thought he was the one that most likely killed Natalle. After watching the program, I believe his side of the story. His missing shoes is fishy but I still believe he just left her on the beach and that was it.

Either way I'm sure his GF kicked him to the curb. And of course Primetime had to mention after he went home on that night, he logged onto the internet to look at porn.

[Herbsinator]

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I hate how Natalee's parents are trying to make it look like Natalee was doing nothing wrong. It's not like she was walking home from bible study and got abducted. She was out partying and getting drunk. I think the ultimate blame lies on the Natalee's parents. Who lets a teenager (she was 17 right?) go to Aruba unescorted?

[Acid]

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I hate how Natalee's parents are trying to make it look like Natalee was doing nothing wrong. It's not like she was walking home from bible study and got abducted. She was out partying and getting drunk. I think the ultimate blame lies on the Natalee's parents. Who lets a teenager (she was 17 right?) go to Aruba unescorted?

I'm pretty sure they were on an escorted trip from school (for graduation or something) but she either snuck out or wandered away from the chaperones or something.

[SportsorDeath]

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The parents aren't really to blame. How many kids go off to Mexico or wherever every single year for senior trips and what not? Are all those parents being careless as well? It's only an issue when something like this happens. One could say that the chaperones are to blame, although I really don't feel they are either, since they cannot sit and monitor all those kids every second.

Sadly, the only person that can realistically be blamed is Natalee herself, for going off on her own in a foreign land with people she didn't really know. Of course no one expects anything to happen, but it was her own poor judgement that got her killed. The fact that she was 17 has nothing to do with it. The same thing could have happened if she was 18, 21, or 40, theoretically. She may not have been an adult in the eyes of the law, but I know I didn't have to turn 18 to learn common sense.

[DueceDiggla]

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I hate how Natalee's parents are trying to make it look like Natalee was doing nothing wrong. It's not like she was walking home from bible study and got abducted. She was out partying and getting drunk. I think the ultimate blame lies on the Natalee's parents. Who lets a teenager (she was 17 right?) go to Aruba unescorted?

ALOT of kids go away on spring break during HS.

And what would you blame her parents with? The girls death?

[jake44np]

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I have worked and lived in Aruba off and on for the last 3 years. When I am there I live at the same hotel that Natalie stayed at and it was weird seeing the video from the casino, I have been in that casino a hundred times.
First off the Aruban/Dutch men hang out at these hotels and casinos looking for young drunk American and European girls. I still think he had something to do with her disappearance. I believe she died on her own and he had someone get rid of her body.
One thing that a lot of people dont know is tha she pulled this same sort of thing about a year earlier. The Aruban paper ran a story (many times) after her death about a trip she took to Puerto Rico. One of her relatives told this story to the local Aruban paper. Anyway she went "missing" for 4 days and they thought she had been killed then. Well the morning they where suppose to fly back home she showed up and told her friends she had grown tired of hanging out with the rest of the group she was with (it was a church group) amd that she had been partying with a group of Puerto Rican men.
How her parents ever let her go out of the country again is unreal!
I really blame Natalie for what happened her friends begged her to get out of the car with the 3 foreingers and to come with them, but she told them she wanted to go to there house! What young man is not going to try to take home a young good looking blonde? She should have know better then to leave with them.
On a side not a did stay next to Geraldo Rivera for about a week a year or so ago. I talked to him many times and he even asked to interview me when he found out I was living in Aruba and going to the same clubs and bars as Natalie went to. The interview never happened because I was at home the week that she was there.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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I have worked and lived in Aruba off and on for the last 3 years. When I am there I live at the same hotel that Natalie stayed at and it was weird seeing the video from the casino, I have been in that casino a hundred times.
First off the Aruban/Dutch men hang out at these hotels and casinos looking for young drunk American and European girls. I still think he had something to do with her disappearance. I believe she died on her own and he had someone get rid of her body.
One thing that a lot of people dont know is tha she pulled this same sort of thing about a year earlier. The Aruban paper ran a story (many times) after her death about a trip she took to Puerto Rico. One of her relatives told this story to the local Aruban paper. Anyway she went "missing" for 4 days and they thought she had been killed then. Well the morning they where suppose to fly back home she showed up and told her friends she had grown tired of hanging out with the rest of the group she was with (it was a church group) amd that she had been partying with a group of Puerto Rican men.
How her parents ever let her go out of the country again is unreal!
I really blame Natalie for what happened her friends begged her to get out of the car with the 3 foreingers and to come with them, but she told them she wanted to go to there house! What young man is not going to try to take home a young good looking blonde? She should have know better then to leave with them.
On a side not a did stay next to Geraldo Rivera for about a week a year or so ago. I talked to him many times and he even asked to interview me when he found out I was living in Aruba and going to the same clubs and bars as Natalie went to. The interview never happened because I was at home the week that she was there.

I saw the show last night and that was just eerie. How she could vanish without a trace with a whole island looking for nearly a year. I agree that the lawsuit is bogus and full of stuff that hasn't/can't be proven. It's always sad when stuff like this happens. Poor decision-making usually leads to negative consequences.
I'm less suspicious of him than his two friends. Even then, I find it hard to believe that they (or whoever is responsible) could have done a spotless clean-up job that left absolutely NO evidence behind.

[jmood88]

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Hidden camera footage broadcast on television in the Netherlands on Sunday showed Dutch student Joran van der Sloot saying he was with Natalee Holloway when she died on a beach in Aruba, and that he asked a friend to dispose of her body at sea.

"She suddenly didn't do anything anymore," Van der Sloot said of the 18-year-old Holloway, in a conversation with a man he believed to be his friend.

Last week, however, Van der Sloot said he was lying when he made those comments during what he thought was a private conversation with a friend and denied that he had anything to do with Holloway's 2005 disappearance.

The exchange, in Dutch, was recorded in a Range Rover that had been rigged with three hidden cameras by Peter R. de Vries, a Dutch television crime reporter who claims the footage solves the mystery surrounding Holloway's disappearance. It was shown on Dutch television.

Van der Sloot said he panicked and tried but failed to revive Holloway before calling a friend with a boat to dispose of the body.

"The ocean is big," he said.

Holloway vanished in May 2005 just before she was due to fly home to Alabama, at the end of her high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island. No trace of her has been found.

Chief prosecutor Hans Mos and others in his Aruban office did not return calls or e-mails about the Dutch crime reporter's information.

But last week, prosecutors announced they were reopening their investigation into Holloway's disappearance after seeing De Vries' material. The prosecutors made no reference to the possibility of an arrest, and Van der Sloot has said he does not expect to be arrested again.

Van der Sloot was interviewed last week by the respected Dutch television show "Pauw & Witteman" following reports that De Vries had captured him making statements about the case.

"It is true I told someone. Everybody will see it Sunday," Van der Sloot said, referring to De Vries' planned television show.

The Dutch student's father, Paul Van der Sloot, declined to comment when reached in Aruba by The Associated Press before the tape aired.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327970,00.html

[Brandon13]

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*******. He had all but gotten away with it too. He still might, but he's still a *******.

Here's the video

[mgoblue]

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ALOT of kids go away on spring break during HS.

And what would you blame her parents with? The girls death?

QFT....so many people go on spring break and get drunk beyond belief...nothing wrong with that

[Brandon13]

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I think it's silly for her mom to tell everybody to boycott Aruba.

I always thought the boycott Aruba thing was funny as hell. Should we boycott Alabama because of their unsolved murders?

[MassNole]

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*******. He had all but gotten away with it too. He still might, but he's still a *******.

Here's the video

Honestly I don't know that if I found myself in similar circumstances I wouldn't act the same way. Would anyone here really want to trust their fate to the Aruba court system as a foreigner?

[Brandon13]

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Honestly I don't know that if I found myself in similar circumstances I wouldn't act the same way. Would anyone here really want to trust their fate to the Aruba court system as a foreigner?

I don't know. If I honestly knew that I had nothing to do with her dying then I'm pretty sure I would've done the right thing. But it's hard to say when you're not put in that position.