"He told his son not to help people looking for their missing daughter." Are you SURE of that? That sounds to me like a lot of the "facts" bandied about here that turn out not to be facts at all.
It has been widely reported that Mr. vdS told his son to stop volunteering information to the Holloway-Twittys when they showed up unannounced at the vdS house in the wee hours of the morning, early on in this thing.
If that's what happened, I don't find it especially incriminating. (I addressed that in post 3659 and don't want to be repetitive.)
No, he told him to not say a word You make it sound so sweet. It isn't. Not when things are so incriminating. urin was the last to see her. And daddy didn't want him to help.
An innocent person would volunteer information to the distraught parents of a missing girl.
An innocent person would assist in the search for a girl he had spent time with and whose company he innocently enjoyed.
An innocent person would not concoct a tale about two black security guards.
The actions of the Van der Sloots, father and son, do indeed indicate a "consciousness of guilt" to any reasonable person.