Does the name Van der Straaten mean anything to you?...He is a VIP in this case and rumor has it that he has been lurking on FR. Furthermore, it has been suggested (you know how suggestable this thread is) that he has been posting here.
"....Van der Straaten mean anything to you?..."
Damn that O'Reilly......he just had Tim Miller on, and Tim had just begun to talk about Straaten and the Prime Ministers political differences and Straateb wrt the "investigation.....and O'Reilly cut him off when it was plain as day that Tim was going to say plenty more about the subject at hand!
"Does the name Van der Straaten mean anything to you?..."
Not at all and don't really care who he is.
I got a good picture of Joran, and you could say into his mind too at this link http://meetme.hotornot.com/r/?emid=GMOLKLR and all I can say he's not an amicable character by the looks. Rather kind of sleazy and despicable.
I know I should not be saying this based just on a picture and words, but if he did kill Natalee, I hope he gets what's coming to him. I wonder if they have the death penalty in Aruba.
Anyway, I always thought that this case is not just about who killed Natalee. It is also about how libertine parents let their children roam free in a foreign land w/o their supervision. I know they had chaperons, although not enough in my opinion.
The lesson to be learned here is to always keep your eyes on your children. Know where they are and with whom at all times. Personally I would not have sent my daughter alone (ie, w/o parental supervision) to Aruba. I'm aware that some of the chaperons were the parents of the girls themselves. But those parents were most likely keeping an eye on their own children, not someone else's children. Moreover, it's irrelevant that these children were under adult escort in Aruba if once in Aruba they were allowed to go to parties late into the wee hours of the morning.
I had wished this issue had been discussed on these threads too, but I haven't seen it. At least not in the threads I've reviewed.
So, while it's important that whoever hurt Natalee must pay for his deeds, it's equally important that parents be warned that lustful characters are lurking at every opportunity to get to our children.