Second guessing isn't really fair....but, I will anyway. lol
Vergie should have gone to the Bahamas when Dannilynn was born. Let Goat and drug woman throw a hissy and make a scene. So what? At least she could say she tried. Same when Daniel died. She should have gone there. And, superior me, thinks she should have attempted to stay in touch with Daniel all these years. I haven't heard if she did try....maybe she did.
I think her case would have been a lot stronger if she could prove that she did try to reach out to Vickie.
Not Aruba's Fate
By INDERIA SAUNDERS, Guardian Staff Reporter
Nearly two years ago, Mississippi teenager Natalee Holloway mysteriously went missing while on a class trip to the quaint Caribbean Island of Aruba.
Her disappearance drew curious eyes from all over the world to the small vacation country with just around 100,000 residents and riveted everyone to the television set. Aruban natives, American citizens and people from countries all over the globe wondered what happened to the beautiful 18-year-old with a bright future ahead of her on a seemingly harmless vacation.
"I think people are fascinated with what happens in Caribbean islands to Americans," Rita Cosby, one of MSNBC's top reporters who covered Holloway's disappearance from the very beginning. "People are fascinated with what happens in these beautiful islands when people come here whether it's to live or for vacation and something goes awry."
Almost two years later and over one thousand miles away, Cosby is on another highly publicized story in a country slightly bigger than Aruba in size and population. However, this case started out a few months before her arrival and involves the well known former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith.
Smith came to The Bahamas to have her second child in the Summer of 2006, however things took quite a tragic turn for the reality TV star when her 20-year-old son died in her Doctors Hospital room just three days after she gave birth to her daughter, Dannielynn Hope.
After news of such a tragedy occurring in The Bahamas circulated both locally and internationally, the small nation of islands was the center focus of much media attention, the likes of which the country has never experienced.
"I know the Bahamian people are ready for all the [international] media to leave," Kaylisa Moss, a Fox network producer said.
However, after Smith's ill-fated death while on a brief trip to Florida nearly three weeks ago the media scrutiny has only gotten more intense, and the country has had to play host to scores of international reporters, who have picked up the story and are now taking it to an unforeseen ending.
"The Bahamas, I think, could be the key area where all of this could be solved," Cosby said. "I talked to a lot of people. The little baby is here, Anna Nicole Smith lived here the last few months of her life and a lot of people are watching to see what the Bahamian court will do because they feel if there is any court that has the jurisdiction to order a DNA test to determine who the father is and therefore (the court has jurisdiction to decide) who should have custody."
Since then, many have worried if The Bahamas will now have a fate similar to that of Aruba, which noted a six percent decline in arrivals in the year 2006. And its has been speculated that the bigger Caribbean nation may follow on the same negative path in which the latter country has trodden.
"If you remember, Aruba took a terrible hit of the coverage surrounding that affair, " Attorney Brian Moree said last night at a public forum on the lessons learned from the Anna Nicole saga. "Aruba is what we call a civil law jurisdiction, which is very different to the common law and to the system in America and because it was so different, I'm not sure the American journalists ever really understood."
In adapting to the Bahamian legal system, members of the international press like Cosby and Moss said they doubt The Bahamas can ever be viewed in the same light as Aruba because at the very beginning some things set the two cases apart.
"I don't think that The Bahamas is going to be marked the way Aruba was marked because it seems as if with that story it was a native who had done something to Natalee Holloway, but here in The Bahamas it's completely different [in that] it's outsiders coming into The Bahamas and this is the place where they landed," Moss, who is also a Bahamian citizen, said.
But when it came to the laws and court proceedings of The Bahamas, as it pertains to a closed custody battle for Smith's baby, Cosby conceded that her coverage of the case was a little more difficult than it would have been in the U S.
"As a journalist [having a closed court and gag order] makes our job much more difficult. I was in Florida watching everything inside the courthouse and everything was so transparent [and] as a journalist that made everything interesting and lively to cover," Cosby said.
She added that she believed The Bahamas could never become like Aruba because, from what she has observed, "the Bahamian government is trying to be fair to all sides. I think they certainly don't want the appearance of anything questionable," Cosby said. " I think Bahamian officials have tried to be very transparent and fair to all sides, and I think in the end The Bahamas is still going to be a sort of shining light in the Caribbean."
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/national_local/310462355876827.php
By the end of the show, it was the intention of that Dr to facilitate a meeting of the minds between Anna and Virgie.
That interview is very important in my mind and there's not an ounce of "I'm after money". Anna was alive. There was none available to Virgie. She was REALLY worried about Anna.
I remember my mother in law. It was 3 days before her son Michael died. She suddenly became very worried and nervous about Michael despite the fact that he had been on a country tour for a while. She had a premonition. I think that's what happened with Virgie.