[beyond the sea]

"They all know what they did with her that night."

I'm wondering if she was taken away into 'white sex slavery' or something weird like that.

[backhoe]

Just goes to show the value of searching, and how wrong early headlines can be-- I thought she had been found, dead... but here:

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

...the headline has been amended.

[sgtbono2002]

Kids who go on class trips should stay with their class and not go off with three boys for flirtations. My guess is she slipped away from the chaperones who didnt pay enough attention. This happens on a lot of class trips and now the chaperones have a guilt trip laid on them for the rest of their lives.

If the girl had behaved responsibly they wouldnt be looking for her now. I guess thats beside the point , but it still remains a factor in her dissappearance.

[nmh]

OF course the KNOW what happened to her BUT they are well to do kids and the "security guards" were supposed to take the blame. Unfortunately they just couldn't make it stick so back to square one. They don't want to punish the boys over a silly American so they'll have to come up with something else.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The mother is sadly right. I personally believe that Natalee ran into Aruba's version of Robert Chambers.

[handy]

FWIW - I doubt there is much the adults on the trip could do to prevent a motivated 17-18 year old from sneaking off. It was the last night there, so it's not like they could send her home early. I also have read that Natalee got in the car with only Joran, then the other two materialized. That's pretty plausible.

[SandyB]

Valerie Stanton, a 35-year-old computer technician visiting from Washington, D.C., prayed Sunday at the Alto Vista chapel outside the capital. "This could happen in any city and it's unfortunate a dark cloud is now over the island because people here are so nice," she said.

No. It could not!! necessarily happen in "any city". Alabama allows ccw for women 18 years old like Natalie. It would not have happened in an Alabama city if the woman was armed.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The mother of a missing Alabama teenager said Sunday that she believes three young men who were with her daughter the day of her disappearance know what happened to her. Beth Holloway Twitty said Aruban authorities should pressure the young men to reveal what they know about the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway.

Send 'em to Gitmo until they start talking.

[shhrubbery!]

< < Another pretty blond high school girl who got drunk and went off with strangers. Lauren Crossan

Guess I'll be the contrarian here. I don't think we can jump to conclusions about the three Aruba teens' involvement in anything fatal happening to Natalie Holloway.

Lauren Crossan did pretty much the same thing as Natalie -- she went off on a class trip, got drunk, and went off with male strangers (despite the presence of chaperones).

If Lauren's body hadn't been found immediately, no doubt the media would be jumping all over the two men she was last seen with -- who were determined by investigators to be innocent of causing her death.

[Malesherbes]

If you Google "Joran van der Sloot," the 17 year-old, a lot of interesting stuff comes up, including a Dutch site that says "The Americans want Joran dead." He aparently ran an internet site, now taken down, on which he posted pictures of young tourists he had seduced.

[hershey]

Aruban police should scare the daylights out of these three men, one by one, threaten them....but they've probably all got lawyers now and won't say a word. Natalee's stepfather said Joren was arrogant and cocky. No sign of remorse, of course. If he gets away with this, he'll do it again. Aruba should see the demise of their tourist dollars over this.

[Pepper777]

Did anyone else hear that the 2 security guards were released earlier tonight 6/13/05??

I think I heard something about it on Fox Radio News. But with the way we keep get false reports, I'm not sure if it's true or not.

If those 3 implicated 2 totally innocent people, they should be charged with that as well as whatever else they've done.