UPDATED: 10:57 pm CDT June 27, 2005 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Natalee Holloway case's main suspect, Joran van der Sloot, was no stranger to the Mountain Brook group. He'd been hanging out with them all week, according to one of Holloway's friends, NBC 13 reported.
Jamie Justice said she got to know van der Sloot at the Black Jack table.
"The way he came off wasn't at all in a threatening way," Justice said. "He was really naive to everybody."
Justice and many of Holloway's friends thought van der Sloot was a fellow tourist.
"He didn't look like one of the locals and he didn't act like one of the locals," Justice said. "He acted more like he was just down there vacationing."
On May 30, Holloway and her friends headed to the beach and pool around 10:00 a.m. for a full day of sun. At 8:30 p.m., they had dinner in the hotel restaurant and then went to the hotel casino where Holloway met van der Sloot. At about 11 p.m., Holloway and her friends went to Carlos and Charlie's Bar where they once again ran into van der Sloot.
Justice said Holloway spent most the night with her friends, not van der Sloot. However, at about 1:30 a.m. Holloway and van der Sloot left the bar together.
Justice says although Holloway is a sweet person she isn't overly trusting.
Witness how clueless Jamie is, and fortunate she was not his intended prey ...