[cajungirl]

Odd, my gut tells me that scenario is wrong unless Sloot was freelancing, making his own deal with somebody. Acting like a gangster to make some money.

Human Traffickers would not pick an American teenager on vacation in Aruba, they just are too smart for that. They pick runaways, street kids, poor kids. Criminal cartels like this don't involve people who will make a fuss.

Sloot may have done a dumb thing. But I still think he started something with her and it went wrong, either others got her or whatever. I am piecing it together.

Seems to me the entire criminal big time stuff is background, the context in which this occurred. Sort of like a mugger mugging someone in a Mafia neighborhood and suddenly all hell breaks loose from the Mafia and from LE who are "bought off" or just trying to do their job.

[Swanks]

At the end of the day the island of Aruba will WISH their problem was a 17 yr old murder victim. What with drug cartel, decapitations, mafia stories swirling around in Nat'l news, Gov't officials will long for the good old days of missing persons stories.

Have you considered Bande Ache as an alternative vacation spot this year.....safer tha Aruba,

[spectre]

Yes, we are on the same wave length. Besides, everyone knows that where there are Casino's there is organized crime. They have bigger fish than Natalee to catch..

The more we detour toward thinking that Natalee has been abducted and sent off the island, the less we stay focused on the three young men who were the last to see her.

I still feel they are responsible for her disappearance, that she is dead and we will never find her remains.

The American gov't could go to extremes and issue a Tourist traval advisory warning against going to Aruba, until they get to the bottom of this.

They should allow our FBI to give these men a polygraph EVEN if it isn't admissible in their court. At least we'd know if they were telling the truth or not..

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[RedWhiteBlue]

Odd, my gut tells me that scenario is wrong unless Sloot was freelancing, making his own deal with somebody. Acting like a gangster to make some money.

When VDS frequented the casinos, did he gamble? Perhaps he got into debt, way over his head, with unsavory types. Turning over a fresh, young, blond woman may have been a payoff for those debts.

[blub]

Seems to me the entire criminal big time stuff is background, the context in which this occurred. Sort of like a mugger mugging someone in a Mafia neighborhood and suddenly all hell breaks loose from the Mafia and from LE who are "bought off" or just trying to do their job.

If this is the real story -- that the 3 boys did this on their own -- can you imagine how pissed off the organized crime people are right about now? Ha! Gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling just thinking about how mad they must be about being in the spotlight like this.