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I am getting tired of her, too. So far, there isn't the first bit of evidence that shows that a crime was committed.

Well it depends on your definition of evidence. Last night on FOX Mrs. Twitty revealed that the first day she was in Aruba, Mr. van der Sloot (the father) told her he picked up Joran at a McDonalds at 4:30 am the night Natalee disappeared. Up until now his public position has been that he picked up Joran at McDonalds at 11 p.m.

Then there is this business about coaching Joran that "if there is no body there is no crime." What would prompt a person to say such a thing absent awareness that something terrible had happened to Natalee?

I think it is possible that she was drugged and kidnapped, and then sold (and shipped out) into a white slavery/prostitution ring in another country. If this is the case, she would have been out of the Aruba even BEFORE anyone knew she was missing. I believe these human slavery rings get the kidnapped person addicted to heroin and then break them in to their new life as a sex slave.

In some ways, the horror of this possibility unnerves me more than the notion of a murder... and my heart goes out to the mother and family who are having to cope with every possible nightmare scenario since, day after day, there is no closure.

Forgive me for this, but if a mafia eforcer managed to kidnap the perp and then disappear with the perp with orders to get the the fate and location of Natalee, I think we'd have her whereabouts in less than 24 hours....

Barbaric as it may seems, there are ways to get the scoop on Natalee quickly... Without this barbarism from those sympathizing with the victims, those victims will, themselves, be victimized by the barbarism stemming from daily reliving this situation without any kind of closure.

Get the perp, then get the info, quickly and barbarically....if necessary.... Whatever it takes. Period. This is out of character for me, but this situation crosses the line and someone needs to get someone to talk and settle this once and for all....

Well it depends on your definition of evidence. Last night on FOX Mrs. Twitty revealed that the first day she was in Aruba, Mr. van der Sloot (the father) told her he picked up Joran at a McDonalds at 4:30 am the night Natalee disappeared. Up until now his public position has been that he picked up Joran at McDonalds at 11 p.m.

Indeed - testimony is evidence (any law school student can tell you that. Changing testimony (and I think there has been a bit of that amongst the men Van Der Sloot and the brothers.

That's evidence of chicanery in itself - not wholly determinative of anything, but it's certainly evidence that something is amiss. Since in this case that 'something' is a missing person, I'd say that's evidence of a crime.