Thanks for your work on it......I can't remember who it was that called Beth when they were near memphis on the trip home from Arkansas......was it the chaperone that stayed behind in aruba, or did someone else make that call? I think she intended to meet the nus with the kids at the drop-off point after their bus-trip from the airport (was it atlanta airport?)
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IIRC, she was going to pick up a few of the girls at the airport, and for that, she had plenty of time. However, now being informed (as she was driving) by the chaperone in Aruba before any of them had gotten on the plane (I THINK they were all gathered and waiting in the hotel lobby and Natalee was very late and not in the hotel at all), she must have known she would be going to Aruba and started speeding and dialling 911.
The question is, did any of them have additional info about Natalee at that time, info that Beth has been told NOT to give to the public now so as to not compromise the case?
When was Beth aware of the voice mail back at her home (where she had not yet arrived, but Jug must have been there)? When did that boy with the garbled message on his cell realize that? How much info did Natalee's friends start giving when Natalee did not show up? My guess, thinking back to high school days, is pretty much everything they knew -- they were no doubt FREAKED that Natalee wouldn't make the PLANE HOME so they probably spilled their guts about who they last saw her with.
I don't know how much of that info the chaperone would even pass to Beth at that time.
Frankly, a mother might worry "the worst," but would other adults or even other kids? Wouldn't a lot of folks assume she was simply drunk and oversleeping at her "lover's" home?