I find it interesting that Natalee was doing all the same things that her mother vilified the van der Sloots for allowing their son to do, i.e. gambling, staying out until all hours of the night or all night, drinking. From what I've heard, nobody even knew Natalee was missing until she didn't show up for her flight. Wasn't anyone aware that she didn't come back to her hotel that night?
Natalee murdered her companion? News to me.
I find it interesting that the witnesses have all said she was being responsible in her drinking, yet you come here spouting rumors.
Natalie is 18. He is not. She can legally drink and gamble. He cannot. He lied she did not.
From what I know, no one did a bed check that night. This should have been the chaperones' duty, I think.
Most of the kids went back to the hotel, but not to bed. They stayed outside by the pool, or went visiting from room to room. It would be easy to fail to miss one of 140, unless the chaperones had assigned a special place to meet and check in with them the night before departure.
IMHO, The chaperones messed up bigtime. A responsible chaperone would have seen to it that the kids had all checked in with him/her, that their bags were packed, that they had their passports in order, etc. With 7 chaperones, each would have to check only 20 students.
I think the chaperones were out all night partying themselves, acting like a bunch of teenagers. Some Boomers don't want to grow up.