O - Anything about this investigation trouble you?
Robert Strang - they don't have a lot of this kind of crime. Not a lot of homicide/kidnapping. Police trying to do their job.
O - each state has their own investigators. The Jessie case was botched. It feels like something is not there in ARuba - I can['t put my finger on it.
Robert - they had to let them out - no bodies, no crime - let them out to surveil. The dutch are going to get this right.
O - you can see the strain on the family. Last we talked the Arubans got mad @ me calling them a drug place
Robert - the proximity to Colombia - ships and airliners leaving every day. Hundreds of pounds of heroin & cocaine found there every year. Last thing they need is to have people look @ Aruba as a drug haven. Cases in the past, stats speak for themselves. Can't deny drugs pass through there.
Posted by Rose at June 20, 2005 08:09 PM
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Robert Strang - the idea is to get info on the case - no one is saying anything.
John - what about the "you're guilty so tell us" technique?
Robert - Good guy/bad guy technique - try to convince him to do the right thing.
John - Joran & the Kalpoes have all admitted they lied
Robert - minor lie - we're still not getting the details or a confession.
John - 17 y/o JVDS - self confident is getting hammered. His father knows the law - what's the interrogation of the father like?
Robert - they are pushing him. I think there are other things involved w/arresting the father. The hard drives, etc.
John - still no body - why would anyone confess?
Robert - that's the issue here - no body, no confession, no case.
Posted by Rose at June 24, 2005 08:59 PM
I just listened to Greta again. I think the phone call was made to Natalee's cell phone in Aruba. I'm assuming Beth got the message from Natalee's cell phone when she got there and picked up Natalee's phone. The person who contacted Charles Croes was in the states and was a mutual friend of Jug and Beth's. That is just my opinion not a fact.