Ha! That is a good idea for a novel or movie. Alfred Hitchcock did it with Saboteur and North By Northwest. What’s kinda funny, I’m watching this TV show right now about Natalee Hollaway, and what really strikes me is how her mother is probably not too different than Joran’s parents. The Hollaway family is very well-to-do, and the parents appear to have a laissez faire attitude towards their daughter. I have a feeling Natalee was spoiled, as well, and probably had a feeling that nothing bad would happen to her either.
There is no way in heck I would have let my daughter, just out of high school, go to a foreign country with a pack of other teens. I think there were some adult chaperones, but obviously they didn’t chaperone very well.