I do think since Joran is sticking to this story, it would be prudent to check out the witnesses who saw a girl taken from the beach that early morning.
Playing Devil's advocate, it's possible that Joran was too embarrassed at first to admit he left her on the Beach. Natalee could have rebuffed his advances, and he stomped off in frustration leaving her behind, as if to say "to hell with you, girl"..
I realize it's not a popular thing to even suggest, but we do need to explore all avenues, IMHO.
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But that would have been the easiest lie. Instead they named the security guards. Nope, him leaving her on the beach, does not wash.
I think the GHGB overdose is high on my list of possibilities. Girls die all the time from that, and especially someone like NH who may not have been used to having anything more than a couple of beers in her system from what everybody says, and they may not be lying.
Aruba, jamaica, ooo I wanna rape'ya
witha rufee colada... blah blah blah blah blah blah
By PETER PRENGAMAN, AP ORANJESTAD, Aruba (June 28) - Natalee Holloway's mother said Tuesday she was devastated by the release of an Aruba judicial official in the case of her missing daughter because she was convinced he was hiding information.
Aruban police released Paul van der Sloot on Sunday after a judge ruled there was insufficient cause to continue holding him. He was arrested Thursday in the disappearance of the 18-year-old Alabama honors student, reportedly last seen on a beach during the early hours of May 30.
''That was a huge blow to us,'' Beth Holloway Twitty told ABC's ''Good Morning America.'' ''We were devastated.''
Van der Sloot's 17-year-old son, Joran, is one of three young men still in custody.
Meanwhile, Anita van der Sloot, the wife of Paul and mother of Joran, told The Associated Press that the only reason investigators were focusing on her family was because they had ''lost control'' of their case.
''This is an absurdity,'' Anita van der Sloot told the AP. ''What is behind all this? Why are investigators not on other tracks? Is there nothing else there?''
Holloway Twitty said she was convinced Paul van der Sloot knew something after she and others tracked him down soon after Natalee Holloway disappeared while celebrating her graduation from high school in Mountain Brook, Ala.
''I have never sat across from an individual in a well-ventilated room and seen a man sweat so profusely and only increasing in intensity as the 90 minutes (of interviewing) went on,'' she told ''Good Morning America.''
''And to where it would drip on the table and his wife would have to get up and get a kitchen towel and wipe him and wipe the table ... I have never seen anything like that.''
She told CNN's ''American Morning'' that she believes Paul van der Sloot ''knows the answers.''
''I want him to tell the truth,'' she said. ''He knows exactly what happened. He knows what, where, when, who, why and how.''
Anita van der Sloot said she was surprised by Holloway Twitty's comments.
''I can't understand these things,'' she told the AP. ''For her, Joran is guilty and that's it. What can I say to a woman who is desperate to find her daughter?''
She also said authorities were focusing on her son and husband because they, too, were desperate.
''Investigators have lost control (of the case) and don't know what to do anymore,'' she told the AP.
Holloway Twitty told ABC she sleeps every night in her daughter's night shirt in the room where she was staying at the Holiday Inn.
''I have a light on that I have had on since May 30,'' she said. ''And I'm not turning it off until I can get Natalee.''
With hopes fading that fruitless searches may produce a body, volunteers from Texas EquuSearch started a fourth day of work on the Dutch Caribbean island.
On Sunday, the judge also ordered police to free a party boat disc jockey held for nearly a week. His connection to the case was unclear, though the boat on which he worked - the Tattoo - docked near the Holiday Inn.
The other two people detained in the case are brothers Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Satish Kalpoe, 18. No one has been charged in the case.
AP-NY-06-28-05 1154EDT
I can't get this "left her alone on the beach" out of my mind. Shepard Smith even said that, when he was in college, it was commonplace for guys to leave girls who'd had too much to drink. Am I naive or is this, in fact, commonplace? [shudder]
It's interesting to look at this case from all points of view. Since so few facts are known, I try not to zero in on any particular theory.
On Fox and Friends this morning I think it was Brian who asked Beth to give us a new clue to rejuvenate the media. She didn't respond, but I'm hopeful she'll start to reveal what she knows. Otherwise this will quickly reach a dead end, IMHO.
I never heard about this. Who saw, and what did they see?