yes, it can be programmed, but from what i've read those calls do not relate to natalee's personal cell and that a male voice was heard in the background that implied the caller was using the male voice's phone to make a call...and a call to both beth and the cousin makes this an astoundingly important fact...as for how could she do this if, for example, she was at the VDS home, my response is these guys are not professional criminals even if they think they are...and if drugs or booze were in heavy use as has been implied in reports, well, if sober folks can make errors in crime, drunken folks will make more...anyway, nothing about it happening seems incredulous...the one kidnapped girl out west was taken to a truckstop restaurant--isn't that fairly amazing as a mistake by the kidnapper?
these calls were made to natalee's family BEFORE any missing news had ever been reported, coming at 3am, so this can't be a prank...what if the boys had dropped here at the house as a treat and then went and parked and waited while dad had his time? the most important fact, if we follow the logic, is that it means she was alive at 3am, and was being kept out by people she didn't know at all (as the voice message said)...only the howling monkey knows for sure the location...but a trace on all phones can pinpoint the truthful place of where the caller was