I'm going to tell you what happened that night. Bama girl was party heavy...fairly lit up...when Dutch-boy-wonder bumps into her. The two Aruba locals....having transporation...carry Bama girl and Dutch-boy-wonder out to the beach and leave them. Bama girl and Dutch-boy-wonder have a grand time on the beach...although she is mostly drunk (and likely high by this point too)...and then she wants to walk into the water. Except Bama girl doesn't come back out of the water. Dutch-boy-wonder is sitting there on the beach...waiting...and waiting. And she never comes back out. Dutch-boy-wonder gets scared...calls dad...who comes out. Bama girl never reappears. Dad tells the boy to just shut up and everything will work out...no body...no charges. They cook up a few details and ensure that the Aruba locals tell their story. The only issue that they miss is the video camera at the hotel. As for Bama girl...a naive girl...drunk and likely high for first time in her life (at her mother portrays her as the lass of innocence).
I can say all of this because I grew up in Bama and know how stupid people really can be. If Dutch-boy-wonder keeps his mouth shut, and the father doesn't say anything...it'll be practically impossible to get a murder conviction...especially without a body. Dutch courts don't convict without facts, and in this case...there are only a handful of things you can be absolutely sure of.
What about the submarine with the white-slave trading space alien sharks?
Was thinking of something like that too. Maybe she wanted to go out on the boat. The guys took her out then the boys went into the cabin to fix more potent drinks or something and while they were in there she fell off the railing of the boat and drowned or something. So when they came back she was just gone. They being young and dumb go home and say nothing cause they're scared. But what now? If you know the law or how things go down there will they just sit in jail and rot or what?
What kind of mom would say anything else, irrespective of the truth?
It's all about the body. If N had drowned, floundering in the surf, something would have washed up on shore. Some bits and pieces. But there's been nothing, and the currents supposedly send everything shoreward at the western side of the island. (It's not likely a shark swallowed her whole.) So if she choked to death on her own vomit, and Joran panicked, he could still have dragged her to the Marriot for help, or dialed 911 or whatever. But if he'd raped her and suffocated her accidentally in order to silence her screams, and then realized she wasn't breathing, he'd definitely panic. So would his father. It was one wrong after another, spiralling out of control. And if the LE think Papa had a hand in premeditated kidnapping and murder, they have some kind of evidence. Perhaps DJ is already talking about who paid him for that wee hours boat trip.
'Bama doesn't have as many stupid people as the state of MA, where I live.