Natalee's body found... (false report)

[kcvl]

Per Fox News...

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Roger that, and a great detective who was the victim of Simpson's (Team Hate). NSNR

[bigsigh]

Natalee who?

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Spelling, (Psychopath)NSNR

[Fawn]

I bet that they slipped her the date rape drug, which might explain her leaving with them if she was "out of it"...then perhaps she OD'ed on it, slipped and fell or they just simply gave her too much. That would explain the "something bad happened to her" AND why she left

It sounded to me like she got very drunk. She was making out with them in the back seat. I thought a date rape drug knocks you completely out? She sounded loose in my opinion. She's still a teenager and making out with a stranger in a strange country? I'm sorry she's dead...but living a loose life is dangerous.

[SoVaDPJ]

"If they were 20 or 21, that is one thing, but they were 17 and 18....you have to admit there is a big difference in how you think between those ages."

You'd think so, but there's not all that much when you're talking about young women and getting involved with men. They've said that she was spending a bit of time with this guy, they're on a romantic island, she's all grown up, he's from a good family...

Girls seem to zoom ahead in smarts until they're late teens, then seem to get kind of dumb til they're 24, 25. I'm thinking about a lot of my friends here, and college or not, smart or not, regarding men, most of us were bricks for that entire span. I think it's about experience more than it is age--and that it doesn't matter whether she was in Aruba or Birmingham for that one. Inexperienced women will fall for anything a man says.

Not that young men fare much better, from what I've seen.

[hershey]

Sooner or later, Aruba will realize the only way out is the truth, no matter how ugly. They'll weigh the importance of three 'boys' against the island's economy, and guess who will come up short. Probably their lawyers are telling them to clam up, but if the blood is shown to be Natalee's, they'll all remember she complained of a hangnail.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Roger that! NSNR

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Yes, I can.NSNR

[No Surrender No Retreat]

I never trusted them from the onset, releasing three prime suspects who were last seen with the victim. NSNR

[No Surrender No Retreat]

I think many need to realize, "Show Me A Better Country." Only the liberals, muslims,(terrorists) illegals and malcontents(criminals) will disagree. NSNR

[No Blue States]

It must be hard to let go, my day will come too. After having raised them from blind infants to adulthood I wonder what my wife and I will do when they leave. We better enjoy it while it lasts.

Last night I reminded her of the danger the world presents and told her of this story and the many more than never make headlines. She seeemed to understand the ways to avoid being the target.

Right before she asked "can I go now"..lol

[No Blue States]

Its so true that the older we get the smarter our parents seem. I did mention for her to always keep an eye on her drink, because someone can slip a drug in there.

I just hope someone is raising their boys to treat girls nicely and that they meet them when the time comes.

[No Blue States]

If they had her body and there was any blood left, why would they have to send samples of the blood found in van der Sloot's car to the US for a match with Natalee's mother's blood? Why not just use Natalee's blood?

Good point, it seems to imply they do not have her body.

[Skip Ripley]

No...if dosed correctly GHB will put a person into a stupor, the kind of stupor that would make it very difficult to fend of the advances of a single person, let alone three. It's a colorless, odorless liquid that could just as easily be slipped into a coke as an alcoholic beverage.

It's also a homemade drug, so the potency is tough to gauge. The dose that knocked a person out last week might kill them this week.

in short, you're making a lot of judgemnt's about this young woman's character that you have neither the facts nor insight to make. Why don't you back off on the character assasination until you know a little more about the subject?

[SoVaDPJ]

It may be that Aruba doesn't have the type of laboratories that can handle evidence like we can here. There are a couple of ways to analyze DNA, it's time consuming and very expensive, and I bet that with 97,000 people, they don't have the same resources.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Fawn, there is a drug on the market being used in "painless dentistry" that keeps you alert but you don't remember anything later - Pharmboy, do you know the name of this drug? My sister was given this during a procedure at the hospital.

We were saying it could be a very dangerous drug if used in place of the current "rape drug" -

[SandRat]

Must be, we're conservatives and here.

[reformedliberal]

The life on the resorts as a tourist is great. You don't even know what you are seeing, as far as the casinos or dives go, if someone doesn't point it out.

We heard all of what I posted & more during the nineties from residents of all three islands, several of the business people, and the Chief of Police of Bonaire. One or two expats, as they were about to move on to another island or another resort or another company would pass on their stories.

We love it, as well. But we wouldn't live there, now. If you are really thinking of living there, go down regularly and often at all seasons, really get to know real working people, have dinner with them, do business with them, keep in touch after you leave. Rent a real house, shop in the stores. The islands are small and people know each other well and also know folks from the other two islands. Make it clear that you don't have a lot of money (even if you do) and that you will be working once you are down there. Hang with the help. Spend some time inland. Go to church. Go to the public BBQs on the public beaches.

As tourists, we are their business. But, as realists, they must accommodate the money launderers, the drug runners and they know who is involved in geopolitical aspects of business, like oil. We had half-finished hotels that were not international chains pointed out to us as examples of money laundering, as another example. These places are never completed and eventually, the government is stuck with them.

By the mid nineties, even on sleepy little Bonaire, locals who were jewelers, for example, had put bars on the windows of their homes and kept a club handy in each room against thieves. (guns are illegal) For example: the cops knew who was bringing drugs in from the other islands using underage teenaged girls as mules. The girls got a romantic night out and a great dinner in an expensive restaurants. The perp would sit in another section of the plane to keep an eye on her. Dutch law forbade the cops from hassling the kid. She would sail through customs and the guy running her, who was clean, would, as well. Nothing could be done. And despite the groans, moans and protestations of frustrations, I will add that we had no assurances that the local LEO was totally aboveboard.

We were warned on our resort that there had been robberies, a couple of rapes and one rape that ended in murder. Not a word of this was available to the tourists, but security had increased. Their job was to chase off the local guys who would show up to flirt with the young female tourists and to keep an eye on the condos/rooms against thieves. Every morning, at the morning dive, the divemasters would be laughing and joking about who they had gone out with the night before and how far they had gotten. Many of these single women, mostly American, were down there for the sex as well as for the water and they were fair game. Our friends would sometimes take the naive ones aside and at the least, try to warn them off some of the guys who were considered bad news.

Of course, not everyone is involved in these things. But everyone knew who was.

[MikefromOhio]

good God I hope I dont have girls....

[No Blue States]

I think you are right. And the results from here would be more trustworthy anyway.