I think the case is rather a typical FBI operation: perp contacts victim in shake down attempt (in this case, one of the most twisted on record: blackmailing the parents of the girl you murdered!); victim contacts FBI, FBI sets up the sting with seed money. They would hardly advertise that it wasn't the Halloways money and blow the case ahead of time.
Many will vilify the FBI for not arresting him in ARuba - but ARuba had this guy time after time - and time after time, turned him loose again - amid rumors of ineptness and bribery. I suspicion the FBI wanted to get him to another country where he wouldn't be turned loose. No one could have foreseen he, while knowing he was under surveillance, would commit another murder. This one was not premeditated. He just came unglued and blew. At least, his reign of insanity is over, forever. He will NOT be set loose in Peru.
” He will NOT be set loose in Peru. “
He’s trying to set it up as a “crime of passion.” 6 to 20 in Peru.
Did he? did he just "come unglued" five years to the day that the Holloway murder was alleged to have happened?. It's more coincidence than I can handle. I think it may be more that Van der Sloot is a ritualistic sociopath. But that's My 2 cents.
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