Can I answer?
Cops know Joran lost a shoe - Joran has not been able to explain where he lost the shoe. Joran has never claimed to be near or that close to the Racquet Club the night Natalee came up missing. If they find shoe then Joran is once again caught in a lie and where they find the shoe they may find Natalee or something that belonged to her.
Also Joran told police he walked home that night. Surely he did not walk home barefooted or with just one shoe on. It a long a rough walk. ALE still does not know how Joran got home, but they don't believe he walked home.
I liked what somebody said about J tonight, think it was TJ Ward. Said J is a "soft boy".
He isn't tough enough to have walked that whole distance without a shoe, very sharp and rocky walk for his soft little feet.
Agree that they must find more than just a shoe of Joran's for it to be damning evidence. They'll have to find something of Natalee's in there, too.
Most likely her body was removed from this first hiding place when PVDS got involved and made the body disappear.
But several objects belonging to her may have been left in the mud. Clothing, jewelry, sandals, driver's license, bracelet.