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Posted on 07/08/2005 10:16:50 AM PDT by TexKat
Mountain Brook High School graduate Natalee Holloway went missing May 30 during a senior trip to Aruba. AP photo
The very first comments from the authorities, saying they couldn't "go in like cowboys" alerted me. I knew, just knew, that it would come to this.
I think the islanders, the ordinary people, are terrified. I think the govt is owned by mobsters. Beneath that happy island, there is a lot to hide. I feel bad for the decent ones, those who helped search. But something is very very wrong.
I hope if this doesn't get better, that tourism dies. And I love the Netherland Antilles. We have taken at least 20trips to Bonaire over the years. I went to Aruba once and it felt creepy to me. But casinos creep me anyway. We stayed at the HI and I hated it. Bonaire is different.
That is an impressive article, and expresses our frustration with the likes of John Merryweather. The man has shown Aruba's lack of compassion and concern for the Holloway-Twitty families and Americans in general.
What rights does he have here? He doesn't have the right to be in this country. Whether he's been convicted or not, he's an undesirable. The State Dept. isn't going to give him a visa with all the baggage he's carrying. I'm sure BT will see to it, and we'll help.
I was wondering the very same thing. I don't recall Jug, Beth, Charlie Croes, the police, or any others from that group ever mentioning that Sloot's face was bruised.
With Beth repeating the story of Sloot, thumping his chest, it just seems that IF his face was bruised that she would have mentionind it. She would surely be looking for any signs of a confrontation that he might have had. Too many people had close enough contact to see his face that night with the headlights of vehicles.
I would also think that IF Beth had seen Sloot with a bruised face that Beth would have mentioned it to Greta and Greta would have tracked down some of those students. jmo
Words fail me......
Sounds like the real deal to me. IOW, this poster knows what he is talking about first hand.
Meant to ping you. See 224
Weren't they there at night? Talking outside? I don't remember exactly, but I know it was late. She had been missing 24 hours, when they talked to him, and it was 2 weeks later before he was arrested. Did anyone look at him without his shirt on, in that length of time? I doubt it.
I haven't had time to go to that site lately, and I'd never heard this before....interesting.
Thank you kindly.
I would imagine they left the car lights on so that they wouldn't all be standing around in the dark. Plu they had the SPOTLIGHT that they were shining into the Sloot home. So, I think they could see pretty darn well.
I know...denial of guile is vile.
"and fell asleep in cllass and was hard to wake up."
"I was wondering about that. If I was up all night, doing who knows what, I'd be dozing off in class the next day, for sure."
And supposedly he "aced his exams"! Wonder what the truth really is?
Shadows can be really tricky.. that is why you have handles on the lights in surgery, to position them right over where you are looking... a general spotlight would have many shadows.
You can have shadows in the daytime too. Even schools have them I hear.
I haven't been following this closely, but one thing that caught my attention early on was a government spokesman who was explaining the legal system on Aruba.
IIRC, his comment was that unlike the US, Arubans were very concerned about human rights and that is why they had the system they did. I knew at that moment we were in trouble because they were intent on just "making it go away."
Regarding EquuSearch, they will surely have to leave very soon. They have pretty much covered every inch of where they were allowed to look. I heard this morning that the "container" that was spotted 1/2 mile out turned out to be only a granite shelf.
I tend to disbelieve the bruise report,,it came from Aruba girl and I haven't seen it since.
But the dog story seems more believable. I just drug myself over to SM, I hate that place, and some were saying "Oh it was an accident" but Aruba girl the source of the story never said the nature of it.
You would think, with all the spotlight, that some of the classmates would have talked. Joran had a short fuse, surely there is some evidence of that.
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