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AMSTERDAM, 08/11/08 - Crime reporter Peter R. De Vries has again caught Joran van der Sloot, in many eyes the murderer of American teenager Natalee Holloway, in an undercover operation trap. De Vries now claims to have collected evidence that the young Dutchman is involved in women-trafficking in Thailand. This Sunday (9 November), De Vries will show in his TV programme, he claims, that Van der Sloot offers women for sale in the Thai capital Bangkok for the Dutch prostitution market. On hidden camera he explains how he supplies girls for 10,000 euros each, who work for 300 dollars a...

Planes, Trains, Armored Trucks, and Afghanistan Instead of “planes, trains, and automobiles,” my trip from western Nineveh to Mosul, to Erbil, to Vienna, to Stuttgart, to Atlanta, to El Paso, and then to Florida was much more interesting. It included helicopters, armored pickup trucks, trains, buses, cars and numerous jets. And the “fun” has just begun. After Florida there will be Washington, D.C., and then back to the war. As always, I beg forgiveness for the great difficulty I have responding to emails. In addition to all the travel there is also the endless homework. A big challenge has been...

Police have again questioned Joran van der Sloot - the man caught on hidden cameras apparently confessing to being involved in the disappearance of US teenager Natalee Holloway. The public prosecutor in Aruba revealed that Dutch police in the city of Rotterdam carried out the questioning. A spokesman for the prosecutor revealed that Van der Sloot said the statements he made whilst secretly being filmed were made under the influence of marihuana and that they were not true. In a TV crime programme broadcast to a record seven million Dutch viewers last weekend, Van der Sloot was shown at great...

In this True Crime post we’ve got more on the fine Joran Van Der Sloot including more indications that Joran’s fine father helped dispose of Natalee’s body and some eyebrow-raising clues that the Aruban cops may have heard a true confession very early on in this case. So why wasn’t Joran arrested then? Also, the female whose body parts were found strewn along a PA highway identified. Some Saudi info with shocking details of an arrest of a Saudi female for a “crime” that boggles the mind. Finally, a story about a nude martial arts guy that will make you...

It’s time for True Crime and some breaking big cases. But let’s talk about Natalee Holloway and the Dutch Keystone Kops’ saga continues. Now they have Joran, a fine, fine boy who mother and father are so proud of their boy, confessing to murdering Natalee on video. Is this another dead end? It’s getting old with these people. I say Americans should avoid Aruba like the plague. We have updates on Your Black Muslim Bakery, a very strange hanging, a fine family who caged a little boy in a dog crate. But wait, that same boy tried to poison his...

"On the beach...she wasn't ticking anymore. So I went to a phone booth and called this friend. [...] He went into the sea and dumped her." -Suspect Joran van der Sloot He had billed it as "the most interesting and revealing crime show" of his career and it was sold to US networks before it was broadcast on Dutch television. In a gripping two-hour whodunit, crime reporter Peter R. de Vries reconstructed in detail what happened on that fateful night on a sandy Caribbean beach in mid-2005. De Vries took his viewers to Aruba where, on 30 May 2005, US...

"I know what happened to that girl," van der Sloot says in a secretly recorded conversation, according to a partial transcript of the Dutch TV show by crime reporter Peter R. de Vries. "We're on the beach over there," he says in the recordings. "Suddenly, she wasn't moving any more." "I've never discussed it with anyone. ... It isn't easy, either, not even now," van der Sloot says at another point. He adds that he was pressing for financial compensation from the Aruban government for his ordeal as a suspect in the case. ABC News has obtained exclusive U.S. rights...

I am currently watching the tv-program about the Holloway case. Earlier was disclosed an undercover operation was used to make the suspect Joran van der Sloot confess about the dissapearance of Natalee Holloway. At the moment this came out: -an undercover operative was used. A businessman befriened Joran and became one of his best friends, giving him soft-drugs and promasing Joran a deal to be a partner in a weed-plantage -after the last arrest he and Joran were driving a car that was fitted with listening devices and the undercover guy gained Joran's trust by not asking anything about the...

Heading down the homestretch towards Christmas 2007, we wind down with a True Crime story about a woman arrested for cursing at her toilet. Also, what’s the story with this beautiful news babe punching a cop? We’ve got pictures. Finally, info on that Baltimore bus beating. We’ve got pics on this too only the victim ain’t so beautiful once these hate-crimers got done with her.

True Crime continued over the Thanksgiving holidays and the Drew Peterson case gets more interesting. First, he resigns from the police department, next, a fellow reveals a flirtatious relationship with Stacy. Finally, what’s with the blue barrel? Oh, and the Natalee Holloway investigation pics up steam. This Blog has been following case since May of 2005. We’ve compiled past links and have some thoughts on the current turn of events. Plus Muslims sentence rape victims to lashes and jail, one fine Muslim impregnates his daughter. We’ve got info on yet another needless cop taser incident, a deputy shoots a pet...

HEADLINE: Dutch police arrest Joran van der Sloot on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, prosecutor tells AP

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) -- An Aruban attorney for Natalee Holloway's father said Monday that her client was happy to see Dutch police renew investigation into his daughter's disappearance, but the family has not been told why they searched the home of a one-time suspect. About 20 investigators from the Netherlands dug up earth outside the house Friday and Saturday, reviving a case that had seemed to grow cold since the American teenager vanished during a school trip to the Dutch Caribbean island nearly two years ago. ``Of course they are happy that new or extended investigations are taking place,'' said...

Officials Dig In Yard Of One-Time Suspect Joran Van Der SlootDutch police searched the yard of a one-time suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, the Aruban prosecutors' office said. Using thin metal rods and shovels, police and forensic investigators on Friday churned up the earth outside the home of Joran van der Sloot, the last person known to have seen Holloway alive before she vanished nearly two years ago during a school vacation on the Dutch Caribbean island. "The investigation has never stopped and the Dutch authorities are completely reviewing the case for new indications," Vivian van...

A Duke University professor resigned from her committee assignments, saying she was upset by the administration's decision to invite two lacrosse players accused of sexual assault back to campus. "The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship," Karla Holloway, an English professor and former dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, wrote to Duke's black faculty caucus. "Despite our judgments about the prosecutor's own lack of principled conduct, it is not ours to become the...

A convicted felon-turned-philanthropist who has offered up reward money in several high-profile cases, including the Alabama teen missing in Aruba, was arrested on a gun charge, authorities said Thursday. Federal agents discovered a handgun in a nightstand Wednesday while they were searching Joseph Mammana's home in the Philadelphia suburb of Yardley for evidence of possible mail and wire fraud, according to an arrest warrant. As a felon it is illegal for Mammana to possess a gun. He has a lengthy criminal record that includes convictions for aggravated assault, larceny and narcotics violations. Records showed that the gun, which was loaded,...

Oranjestad, Aruba— Aruban deputy police chief Gerold Dompig announced earlier in the day that four arrests had been made in a twenty-four year old unsolved case of public jaywalking. Detainees Clyde Simmons, Edgar Honeywell, Randolf Myers, and Grover Williams III, all of Orlando, Florida, smirked for the cameras prior to leaving the police precinct after all had posted the thirty-five dollar bond. Bond was expected to be set higher for Honeywell, 97, the alleged ringleader of the foursome who recklessly endangered the lives of a senior citizen group en route to an orthopedic shoe convention hosted at the island's Grand...

It's time for True Crime and we learn of new and strange crimes and re-visit some older ones. We've got an update on Natalee Halloway and that Fresno rape of an 11-year old, and more on the Phoenix shooter. An email came to me about another crime posted and it's interesting. A brother is charged with killing his younger brother and the details surrounding this strangeness could not be made up. Time to address those crimes by our own soldiers in Iraq and hey, soldiers can be criminals too. Plus some detail about other military crimes documented before to disappear...

Dutch police have arrested a new suspect in last year's disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, the Netherlands' national broadcaster reported Sunday. NOS said police in Utrecht had arrested the suspect, but it was unclear where and when. The new suspect was said to be of Aruban nationality and an acquaintance of Joran van der Sloot, another suspect in the case. Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was 18 when she disappeared in May 2005 during a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island with classmates. She was last seen leaving a bar with three young men on May...

According to what Holloway's friends have told authorities, the blond-haired, blue-eyed van Cromvoirt was seen with their classmate after she left van der Sloot - the pals say they saw them in the Holiday Inn casino together. But when the casino's video surveillance tapes were turned over to police, investigators could find no sign of Holloway and van Cromvoirt, the source noted. Van Cromvoirt's father is the security expert in charge of video surveillance at the hotel. Aruban authorities are also scrutinizing a surveillance tape taken earlier on May 30 that shows Holloway arguing with a light-haired young man in...

ORANJESTAD, Aruba — Authorities have made an arrest in the case of a young Alabama woman who disappeared while vacationing in Aruba, an Aruban official said Saturday. Mariaine Croes, a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office, said Aruban authorities were not prepared to disclose why the person was arrested. Croes also would not say how the arrest was linked to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway nearly a year ago, on the final night of her high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island. Croes would only say that the person who was arrested is 19 and has the initials...