I heard Greta mention yesterday that it's possible somebody else took N from that beach after J left her, but I had the impression Greta mentioned this because it was certainly something Joran's defense team would say, not because she thought that's what actually happened. Remember, Greta questioned the VDS's and saw PVDS under pressure, and she's no dope.
The slave trade scenario is terrifying. Implausible to most of us because it's like falling off the side of a UFO, but the slave/prostitution trade is a thriving industry down there. Lots of money to be made, and that's evidently what happened to that other young woman who was kidnapped off the cruise ship a few years ago. Evil. Reminds me of the pedophile rings in Thailand and those places that got hit by that tsunami. They seem so bizarre and unlikely, but predator pedophiles plan actual vacations there for that specific purpose.
That's exactly the way it seems to me -- like a crazy UFO story. But we know it happens.
The young woman who disappeared from the cruise ship -- was she petite? Someone said the slavers prefer them that way.
There was a pretty, petite young woman from New Jersey who disappeared from the Sandals resort in Jamaica a few years back. It was eerily like Natalee's case except she was older, late twenties I think. And she had long, brown hair. Her parents had to fight the Jamaican authorities too to get any American investigators in there. The parents also thought there were many employees at the resort who knew what had happened to their daughter, but no one would talk.
Finally they were able to get bloodhounds there to trace the girl's scent, but IIRC it led to a shore area and stopped. She was never found and no one was ever charged.