AMSTERDAM – Justitie op Aruba is er na twee bekentenissen van overtuigd dat Joran schuld heeft aan de verdwijning van Natalee Holloway. Maar een oplossing is verder weg dan ooit.

Hoofdofficier van justitie, mr. Peter Blanken, zegt: “Hij weet waar Natalee is gebleven, dat staat voor mij wel vast. En dat hij haar als laatste levend zag, acht ik zelfs onomstotelijk. Het kleinste steunbewijs zou al genoeg zijn.” Blanken beaamt dat de nieuwe bekentenis van Van der Sloot als puzzelstuk in de tijdlijn van de verdwijning past, zoals oud-politiechef Gerald Dompig deze week aanvoerde. Het gaat daarbij om het ‘vermiste uur’.

“Zijn beschrijving van de gebeurtenissen beslaat precies de periode tussen het moment dat de camera’s Natalee voor het laatst signaleren totdat Joran ’s nachts om drie uur op internet actief wordt.”

Volgens hem is daarom afgelopen maanden alles gedaan om de details te checken. “En dan blijkt toch dat hij zaken achterhoudt of wellicht toch weer iets verdraait. Zo kan Natalee inderdaad van een balkon zijn gevallen, maar dan was dit niet op dat adres.” “We hebben dat huis nauwkeurig bekeken. Die reling is zo smal dat, als ze daar zou hebben gedanst, ze een koorddanseres had moeten zijn. Ook is de reling te hoog, met weinig ruimte tot het dak. Het was dus niet dit balkon. Dan rest op dat punt voorlopig niets.” Ook stelt hij dat de auto van de familie van de vermeende medeplichtige A. onlangs uitgebreid op sporen is onderzocht.

“Het autoverhaal kan waar zijn, maar dan was het niet deze auto. We vonden geen bloed. Zelfs een miniem dna-spoor van Natalee zou genoeg zijn om hem voor de rechter te brengen.” “We hebben dus Joran zelf nodig om zo’n spoor aan te wijzen, en die weigert dat. Ik hoop dat hij ooit de moed vindt. Zelfs een integrale bekentenis bij de politie volstaat niet, omdat er zonder steunbewijs geen zaak is.” Blanken stelt dat vooral in de VS veel onbegrip heerst over het Europese rechtssysteem: “Bij een Amerikaanse jury zijn twee bekentenissen voldoende voor een veroordeling.”

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AMSTERDAM – The OM in Aruba is convinced that after two confessions Joran is to blame for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. But a solution is further away than ever.

The Chief Prosecutor, Mr. Peter Blanken, says: “He knows where Natalee is, that’s an established fact for me. And that he was the last one to see her alive, there’s no doubt whatsoever about that as far as I’m concerned. The smallest piece of supportive evidence would be enough.” Blanken agrees that the new confession of Van der Sloot is a fit in the puzzle piece concerning the timeline of the disappearance, as former Police Chief Gerald Dompig week claimed this week. This is the “missing hour”.

“His description of the events covers the period between the time the cameras signal Natalee for the last time until Joran is active on the internet at 3 in the night exactly.”

According to him that’s the reason why these last few months everything has been done to check the details. “And then it does turn out he’s still witholding things or twists things. It is possible that Natalee fell off the balcony, but then it wouldn’t be at that address. We’ve thoroughly checked that house. The railing is so narrow that, if she would have danced, she should have been a rope walker. The railing is too high as well, with little space to the roof. So it wasn’t this balcony. You’re left with nothing concerning this point.” He also claims that the car of the family of the alleged accomplice A. has recently been thoroughly investigated.

“The car story can be true, but then it wasn’t this car. We didn’t find any blood. Even a tiny trace of Natalees’ DNA would be enough to bring him to justice. So we need Joran himself to supply us with such a lead, en he refuses to do so. I hope he’ll ever find the courage.” Even a full confession to the police isn’t enough, because without supporting evidence there is no case.” Blanken says that there is a lot of miscomprehension concerning the European legal system in the US especially. “With an American jury two confessions are enough for a conviction.”

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AMSTERDAM (BNO NEWS) — Dutch suspect Joran van der Sloot has confessed to disposing the body of missing American student Natalee Holloway while on the Caribbean island of Aruba, a Dutch newspaper reported on Tuesday. He made the statements in front of an RTL television camera.

The statements by van der Sloot follow a similar confession more than two years ago during an undercover operation by Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, which prosecutors said did not constitute new legal evidence.

Natalee Holloway went missing on May 30, 2005 during a high school graduation trip to Aruba. The case received international media attention, but her body was never found.

The prosecutor’s office, which reportedly confirmed Monday’s report, did not immediately respond to inquiries left by BNO News as its officers were closed.

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I promised you on Sunday, I would post the documents, specifically the polygraph test that Tim Miller and John Silvetti arranged to have performed, and statements from J. Emanuel Geerman. He lives near the beach in Aruba, and claims he saw Joran Van Der Sloot AND his father, Paul, together the night Natalee Holloway disappeared – near where she is believed to have disappeared…..I find his story credible – what do YOU think?

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Steph Watts
Date / Time: 2/14/2010 8:00 PM
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WITH THE DEATH OF PAUL VAN DER SLOOT, THE FATHER OF MURDER SUSPECT JORAN VAN DER SLOOT, THE SPOTLIGHT SHINES ONCE AGAIN ON THE UNSOLVED MURDER CASE OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY. DID MR. VAN DER SLOOT TAKE THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO NATALEE TO HIS GRAVE?? WILL JORAN APPEAR OUT OF HIDING TO HONOR HIS DEAD FATHER? I WAS THE LAST JOURNALIST TO SEE JORAN VAN DER SLOOT. I SPENT 2 WEEKS WITH HIM IN THAILAND. FOR THE FIRST TIME, I WILL REVEAL EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED THERE. WHY DID JORAN VAN DER SLOOT SUDDENLY WANT TO “CONFESS” TO WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT? I WILL TELL YOU WHAT HE TOLD ME, WHAT HE SAID ABOUT HIS PARENTS AND WHY HE’S IN THAILAND. ALSO I WILL DISCUSS THE PHONE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN JORAN VAN DER SLOOT AND HIS FATHER WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT TO NATALEE HOLLOWAY – ARE THEY REAL?? WHAT MOTIVATED HIM TO COME FORWARD WITH A NEW VERSION OF WHAT HAPPENED TO NATALEE THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED? YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THIS.

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08-02-2008 snippets of Joran’s statement because of the Patrick van der Eem – Peter R. de Vries / Range Rover footage.

10:17
Joran alone in the room…playing with his hat.

10:49
Joran: I don’t want to talk about the Holloway case.
Detective: This is a hearing of you. Your status: suspect. Aruba has decided to re-open the investigation based on the current facts.

10:22
Detective: You came to the policestation voluntarily because, so we understood from the media – from the lips of your lawyer – that you want to make a statement.
Joran: That is correct. Let me start by saying I’ve got a huge imagination…and I’m staying with my previous statements given to the police – thus not the one at Peter R. de Vries – …that I’m keeping to those. That is what happened. And that what is talked about there (meaning the Peter R. de Vries tapes)…I’ve fantasized it all.

10:25
Joran: I wanted him to think I’m a smart guy…and that I would know what to do in a difficult situation.
Detective: Impress him?
Joran: Yes.
Detective: So it was more like presenting your CV: this is what you get.
Joran: Well, in the 8 months with me he’s insinuated things towards me a few times…I just knew: that is what he wants to hear…a story like that. I’ve had plenty of time to come up with something. I’m familiar with the case myself so I’ve also been thinking: what could possibly have happened. This is a scenario I choose to tell him but it’s not based on the truth.

10:40
Joran: I wanted, because of his stories he didn’t know,….I figured…okay…I’m going to tell him that I got away with something like that.
Detective: And you use the disappearance of Natalee for that?
Joran: And I used the disappearance of Natalee for that.

10:25
Detective: Tell, from your experience, the essential points…from the whole story…from all the conversations you had with Patrick what were deliberate lies..
Joran: Yes…that’s all I supposedly have done.
Dolph Richardson: Tangible.
Detective: Very tangible. According to me there are things that went the way they went.
Joran is silent for a bit and says then: Yeah…everything you…I’m referring to my previous statements to the police. Everything I told there is based on the truth.

10:48
Detective: Only, in the file as it is, there are facts and circumstances you can or can’t easily validate. You don’t do that.
Silence for a bit.
The simple fact: if we assume the given: Joran at the beach with Natalee. The simple fact: Joran leaves the beach & goes home. How?
Joran: I’ve also given a previous statement about that as well.
Detective: Yeah…which version is it?
Joran (annoyed & arrogant): You’re not listening very well.
Detective: I am listening.
Joran: I’m staying with my last version….
Dolph Richardson: And what was that?
Joran is silent for a short time…says then: Yeah, I’m saying I’m staying with that statement…you have to go back to that statement.
Detective: No, I’ve just said not any of that ’seek the difference’.
Joran: I’m telling you: I’m staying with my last given statements. And I don’t want to discuss the Holloway case.

10:43
Dolph Richardson (annoyed): I’m done with it!
Joran: Okay.
Dolph Richardson: So tell the truth. We start again…tell the truth! I didn’t come here to listen to this bullshit story, sorry.
Joran: Okay, then we’re done.
Dolph Richardson: No, tell the truth.
Joran: Then I’m exercising my right to be silent…then we’re done here. Piece of cake. Okay…then I’m leaving now.

11:49
Detective: Come with your truth.
Joran: I’ve given that already.
Detective: Then I’m asking you…what is your truth?
Joran (annoyed & arrogant): If I have to say it a 100 times, I will say it a 100 times: I’m referring to my previous statements.
Detective: Holiday Inn…your truth. It’s in the file.
Joran: Yes, that’s in the file.
Detective: Without a doubt it is certain that it was a big bullshit story. That is your truth. Then you’re still talking bullshit, Joran.
Joran: Well, that is my truth.

11:54
Detective: And may I – based on the de Vries tapes & the file – perhaps ask a question about your shoes? Clear that up…what happened to your focking shoes?
Joran: I’d rather not…I’d rather talk about something that is founded on proof.
? (don’t know who’s saying this): For example the shoes.
Dolph Richardson: What can you proof?
Joran: If I don’t know where they are how can I give proof?
Detective: Tell us where to look.
Joran: I don’t know…I left them at the beach so I don’t know. And I don’t want to discuss that. (emphasizing this)

11:01
Detective: We have found Daury. So that’s correct.
Joran: But he doesn’t know anything. Daury is someone I gotten to know on Aruba…I told you.
Detective: Yes, but we’ve found Daury. We’ve talked to Daury.
Joran: That’s just the name I came up with for some reason.

12:17
Detective: How do you prove based on the Peter R. de Vries tapes that Natalee didn’t die or pass out in your arms?
Joran: I’m saying that that isn’t true. You will just have to believe me on my big brown eyes.
Detective: No, that’s not possible anymore.
Joran: Yeah…but how do you want me to say it otherwise?
Detective: That is over and done with….can’t happen anymore.
Joran (annoyed): You know damn well I can’t prove that. What you’re coming up with are things…
Detective: No…so you can’t prove that.
Joran: No.

12:20
starts in the middle of a sentence…
Detective: ….that you, also in this conversation, and that is an indisputable fact…let me express myself carefully…aren’t telling the truth.
At this moment Joran looks away…not meeting the detective’s / Dolph Richardson’s eyes.
Joran makes a move to stand up…
Dolph Richardson: Sit…he’s going to prove it. He’s not bluffing. That’s the difference between my co-worker and you. You’re (pointing at Joran) are bluffing and he’s (pointing at the detective) not.
Joran (annoyed): Okay…as far as I’m concerned we’re done here.
Detective: No, but he can really…he’s not bluffing.
Joran: Well, prove it.
Joran is still moving as if in doubt to go or not.
Dolph Richardson: Well listen…sit..
Joran: Come…show your so called proof. You don’t have that. I know you don’t. So what are you saying that ‘you’ll prove’ while I know that won’t be the case?
Detective: I’m fine with it.
Joran: Yes.
Detective: I am (emphasizing this) going to prove that you haven’t told the complete truth in today’s story.
Dolph Richardson: We are going to prove that.
Detective: And I don’t feel any need whatsoever to share this with you at the moment.
Joran: And I don’t feel any need whatsoever to hear it.
Dolph Richardson: Good.
Detective: Then we agree on that.
Joran: Yeah. Yeah…then we’re done right? Easy.
Detective: We’re really done.

Vanavond is al weer de laatste uitzending van het seizoen voor Peter R. de Vries Misdaadverslaggever. In deze laatste aflevering komt Peter sinds lange tijd weer terug op de zaak Joran van der Sloot. De zaak die Peter R. de Vries o.a. een Emmy heeft opgeleverd krijg vanavond dus weer aandacht. Wat is er met hem gebeurd nadat hij voor het oog van de verborgen camera’s een uitvoerige bekentenis aflegde over Natalee Holloway? Velen denken dat hij de dans ontsprongen is, maar niets is minder waar. Vanavond toont Peter R. de Vries in de laatste uitzending van dit seizoen unieke beelden van het politieverhoor met Joran van de Sloot.

Naast Joran van der Sloot besteed Peter R. de Vries vanavond ook aandacht aan een notoire pedofiel, die onder een duister alias zijn gang kan blijven gaan als chauffeur van invalide kinderen. Ondanks diverse veroordelingen wegens ontucht, weet hij iedereen om de tuin te leiden en werkt hij doodleuk opnieuw met kleine kinderen. Peter R. de Vries confronteert hem vanavond met zijn verleden.

Kortom weer een spraakmakende laatste aflevering vanavond om 21.30u bij SBS 6.

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Unique Images of Police Questioning Joran van der Sloot Peter R. Tonight on de Vries

Tonight is already the last broadcast of the season for Peter R. de Vries Crime Reporter. In this last episode, Peter has long been the case back to Joran van der Sloot. The case that Peter R. de Vries including an Emmy has brought you so again tonight attention. What happened to him after the eye of the hidden cameras a detailed confession about Natalee Holloway? Many think he is a lucky escape, but nothing is further from the truth. Tonight shows Peter R. de Vries in the final season of this show unique images of the police interview with Joran van de Sloot.

Joran van der Sloot spent alongside Peter R. de Vries tonight attention to a notorious pedophile, under an alias dark hallway can continue as driver of disabled children. Despite several convictions for fornication, he knows everyone the runaround and he coolly re working with small children. Peter R. de Vries confronts him tonight with his past.

In short another controversial final episode tonight at 21:30 on SBS 6.