Here are my observations as a Texan recently returned from a 13 year stint as an Aruban resident.
Ditto the Aruba is safer than most large american cities comments. Most violent crime exists among the scumbag sector of Aruban society.
Carlos and Charlies as a dining and dancing establishment?Yeah,right. Catatonic drunken teenage tourist girls are routinely carried away from such establishments. What goes on here stays here.
What kind of parents send their kids off to a place famous for such activity, and since when is it routine to send a squadron of F.B.I. agents overseas to hunt for a missing person?
Finally, if the worst occured, a body could easily be washed away without a trace by the prevailing strong winds and currents. Without a body it will be nearly impossible to get any convictions in the Aruban/Dutch court system.
Any centerfire rifle round at point blank range tends to make things explode. Is anyone else wondering how effective HST's head was as a silencer for his suicide 45?
During a long layover at Hartsfield, Oct. 2004, I witnessed the applause scene several times. I noticed that most of the uniforms were rather new looking. Hard to tell who was coming or going.