Holloway case: full confession on television

[CHIMO]

Source: RNW

De Vries took his viewers to Aruba where, on 30 May 2005, US teenager Natalee Holloway was celebrating the final night of her high school graduation trip to the island. She met a 17-year-old Dutch student, Joran van der Sloot, in the casino of her hotel. He and his friends drove her to a beach late at night. The friends said goodbye, Joran van der Sloot spent some time with her. Natalee Holloway vanished, never seen again.

That, in a nutshell, was the official story, one that Dutch viewers, and certainly the Justice authorities on Aruba, were familiar with. But Peter R. de Vries had managed to obtain a full confession from the main suspect. He had a Range Rover rigged with several hidden cameras and instructed the driver, a Caribbean-born entrepreneur who had befriended Van der Sloot six months before, to ask the student some pointed questions.

"Didn't tick anymore"
The video footage shows Joran van der Sloot smoking hashish and telling his friend on several occasions the details of what happened on that fateful night on Aruba two and a half years ago. He describes how he had sex with the young American woman, that all of a sudden "she started shaking and didn't tick anymore", how he phoned an friend who owned a boat, who then came over to the beach to help him to dispose of the body at sea.

Again, most Dutch viewers had already heard that part too. It was leaked to the press on Friday and Joran van der Sloot was quick to respond. Speaking by telephone on a late-evening talk show on Friday, Van der Sloot said he was retrospectively kicking himself for having said all this: "It's so dumb, so dumb. It's really dumb. I said something; something I shouldn't have said." However, he also added that "It is also easy to prove that what I said is not true," although he appeared not to know how this could be done.



Read more: http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/080203-holloway-confession-TV

[ursi]

1. oh great, a distraction for major news in this country now ...

[emilyg]

6. There is news beyond election.

[DrDan]

7. a distraction from the Super Bowl?

[complain jane]

2. That kid is a POS.

"I told my friend 'I have a problem'. I moved her to a mangrove-bush... I was shaking that bitch, nearly cried - why did this shit happen to me?"

And his father's a judge? Jesus. Remember in the beginning when they first held this kid, supposedly his father kept telling him that without a body they have no case? Makes me sick that he's been out enjoying his life so far. And may continue to, since they say that he can't be prosecuted without a body anyway.

If you ask me the kid's a self-absorbed pompous dork anyway:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joranvandersloot/page2/

[Bobbieo]

3. Another beautiful young woman who made bad choices. I'm

certain her body will never be found.

[Bluebear]

10. And this kind of senior high school "trip" has to end.

Let the kids go to Washington DC or something, not Carlos 'n Charlies.

[WinkyDink]

18. Exactly. And where were the chaperones??

As a h.s. teacher, I took student groups to England/Europe (scheduled tours). I cannot conceive of not being sued at the very least for a tragedy of this kind under my watch.

[BadgerLaw2010]

23. Drunk, most likely.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I wonder if the father was involved in hiding the body.

[BB1]

5. We don't think so.

On the other hand, Joran has lied about so many things now, it wouldn't surprise me either.

The only counter-argument I ever heard was that Papa Van der Sloot was busy uncovering an American drug kartel. To silence him, they (the drugdealers) went through his son. I guess that's off the track now, as well.

Ratings were huge in Holland too, probably THE most watched show of the year on all channels (that is, all 10 of them;))

[Quantess]

8. Don't you think they could just dump her body in the ocean

and the sharks would remove all the evidence.

[yardwork]

9. Who is this "friend" with the boat who took care of everything?

It sounds like it could be his father.

[jberryhill]

14. POS he may be...

...but prosecuted for what, other than interfering with the investigation and failing to report a death.

Alcohol poisoning is not uncommon, and I'm trying to find in any of this some sort of "confession" that he killed her.

That doesn't make him any less of a POS, but I'm trying to figure out where there is a homicide here.

[jberryhill]

16. One can be prosecuted without a body....

...however, one can't be convicted if not shown to have killed someone.

Even from what he said, he's not going to win any humanitarian awards, but it sounds like she died from alcohol poisoning.

I don't see where his statement amounts to a "confession" that he killed anyone.

[atre]

20. If it was alcohol poisoning, he would've reported the body. He most likely slipped her a date rape

drug, or something even stronger, which killed her.

This kid's dad is a judge. If this were a simple case of a girl dying of alcohol, that would've been his story ALL ALONG. He never would have disposed of the body. He never would have lied about his contact with her.

[jberryhill]

21. People panic

He does say there was something stronger involved - cocaine.

What any particular person is going to do in that situation doesn't depend on father's occupation. So what if his father is a judge. The Bush twins' father is president, and they still engaged in illegal behavior involving alcohol.

In his candid retelling of the story which is being called a "confession", did he mention this drug?

Thousands of teens die each year from alcohol poisoning. They go on these trips to places where they can drink and they binge. A good number of them then drop dead.

You don't suppose that the drinking and cocaine, which he DOES mention, had anything to do with her having a seizure?

Thinking that he's going to call the police and say, "I was drinking, doing coke, and having sex with this girl I don't know and she died" might just not have seemed like the convenient thing for him to do. And, please, don't accuse me of defending this guy, but behaving irresponsibly does not mean murder in every instance.

Kids run off to Cancun every spring break and drop dead from alcohol. IMHO the other kids that were on this trip are being as tight-lipped about what went on as Van Der Snot is.

[BadgerLaw2010]

22. Should "disappear" and wake up in the lobby of an Alabama police station, imo.

Sack of garbage.

[Quantess]

11. This thread started in LBN

and it got moved to GD-P! :rofl:

[raccoon]

12. Seems like something the corporate media would do! nt

[rocktivity]

13. He was under the influence of hashish?

Who knew it could elicit confessions? And to think that Bush wasted all that time on waterboarding.

:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Stoners cannot tell a lie.

[RB TexLa]

17. This is from two f'n years ago and they are covering it?

This has to be a joke.

[AlCzervik]

19. here's what i don't get-why is the media letting any of this out at all, shouldn't all

of this just be given to the police and the lawyers?