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Go back to the beginning and read! There is absolutely NOTHING to support the wild child syndrome you're pushing. Most of us here have followed this enough to acknowledge that.

Witnesses said she got in a cab. Depaks dark window tinted car, looked like another cab. Witnesses said she drank responsibly. She was taking some kind of medication, so I assume the witnesses are correct on that, too.

There is nothing -no witnesses to support your theory.

Go back to the beginning and read! There is absolutely NOTHING to support the wild child syndrome you're pushing. Most of us here have followed this enough to acknowledge that. Witnesses said she got in a cab. Depaks dark window tinted car, looked like another cab. Witnesses said she drank responsibly. She was taking some kind of medication, so I assume the witnesses are correct on that, too. There is nothing -no witnesses to support your theory.

I claimed no such syndrome, just poor judgment. That is pretty clear and even some statements do support that. Friends have said she drove off with her new friends yelling "Aruba, Aruba". She was hanging out at clubs and bars talking to strange unknown guys and may have left with them willingly. Maybe she was drugged, maybe not. There is no proof of that. Regardless, she was in a potentially harmful situation - young woman partying in a foreign land with no older, wiser or stronger friend beside her. Again, doesn't merit kidnapping or murder, just a word to the wise for the future.

Witnesses said she drank responsibly.

Here's a comment from "Country Moon", a classmate of Natalee's, who participates on SM. She/he appears to be very intelligent, according to his/her posts.
Country Moon Says:
June 29th, 2005 at 10:44 am
The chaperones that were there did all the head counts, did all of the checking rooms, and monitored everything that they possibly could. The ratio of us to them though was us winning by a mile. We were out to all hours of the night. We had this false sense that the island was totally safe. That is the impression that everyone who lives there gives you. They try to make you feel like its all about you and your time there. Night life there is so up beat and exciting.
We all were a few sheets to the wind at C&C’s, all of us who were there, and that is our faults and we live with that guilt now every day. No one in our group here saw her leave the bar, but had we not been intoxicated I know we all would have used much better judgement and said something.
We were dispersed all over the place in Aruba. The beach, the bar, the pool, the hotel……if a person was not with one group it was thought that “Oh they must be with another”. Another bad call on our part…
590 posted on 07/01/2005 10:01:15 AM PDT by toldyou