But what? Stealing a pretty underage teenager from a tour group doesn't make any sense. You steal a girl a little older who's looking for an adventure and doesn't have 30 people who aren't going to scour the place looking for her. Somebody screwed up. You also don't deal with a bunch of teenagers if you're going to steal a teenager. None of it makes sense.
Now that does not mean that one of the three fellows who were with Natalee didn't have some "debt" to pay and might have tried to pass her off to someone and that situation went "bad."
But along the lines of some other thoughts on here it seems to me that the answers really lie with Joran and his father and the two brothers. And, as I have been surmising, Joran's step-brother, Lorenzo, who papa VDS fathered years ago while in a previous relationship. I just feel he is somehow involved. I posted my thoughts about Lorenzo earlier (post #89), and even though he has dropped off the "radar" I think there is something there and he is being watched.