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Quoting AirCop (Reply 6): I would suppose the prosecutor will still have to prove the "confession" with evidence. |
Quoting EA CO AS (Reply 7): Put another way - if I confess to a reporter my part in the JFK assassination, does that automatically mean I did it? |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 14): Why is this even news? How many people have died since Holloway disappeared, yet they're ancient history. |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 14): Why is this even news? |
Quoting Petertenthije (Reply 17): The program has been sold to a US TV station as well, can't remember which one. |
Quoting AirPortugal310 (Reply 15): Because of money. Holloways parents have some (from what I understand) and it keeps resurfacing... |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 21): poor parenting decision and let your daughter go to a country that has a horrible homicide department and you will never find her remains or get justice. It's very sad but please let it go. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 10): Pull the plug already this is getting pathetic. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 21): It's very sad but please let it go. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 21): her stupid parents let her go to a foreign country by herself |
Quoting ATCtower (Reply 23): You are just arrogant as hell. |
Quoting ATCtower (Reply 23): someday your children will come to you and say they want to go on vacation with their friends from school. They will tell you there are numerous adult chaperones going with, and you likely will not spend endless days searching homicide rate statistics, death rates, and legal abilities |
Quoting ATCtower (Reply 23): Furthermore, if your child was missing for 2years, I dont think you would be quite as quick to say "let it go". |
Quoting Kmh1956 (Reply 24): Tell her parents that |
Quoting Kmh1956 (Reply 24): First of all, she wasn't by herself. She was with a school group, with chaperones |
Quoting Kmh1956 (Reply 24): Second of all, when kids get to be a certain age, you have to be able to trust them to make good decisions for themselves. |
Quoting Kmh1956 (Reply 24): I'm going to assume that you don't have any kids, because I can say for certain that if anything like this ever happened to my daughter, I would move heaven and earth to find out what happened and who was responsible for it.....I wouldn't be 'pulling the plug' or 'letting it go.' |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 25): I wouldn't let a daughter of mine go to a foreign country without me |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 21): Look Aruba is to blame here. I don't think it's hard to figure that after her stupid parents let her go to a foreign country by herself and let her stay out all hours partying she got piss drunk and by all accounts probably had alcohol poisoning and somehow became unconscious. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 21): Mr. and Mrs. Holloway you have my sympathy but you made a poor parenting decision and let your daughter go to a country that has a horrible homicide department and you will never find her remains or get justice. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 25): Why because If I had an 18 year old daughter and I would never let her go on vacation without me or my wife? |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 25): Are you serious? At 18, do you feel an attractive girl with no supervision and access to a casino and alcohol is going to make good decisions? |
Quoting Speedbird747BA (Reply 27): Oh my God dont let Greta Van Susteren know.... Seems like she did that story ages after it was dead everywhere else.... |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 28): Last time I checked someone who is 18 is an adult and their vacations aren't a matter of their parents "letting them" go. |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 28): Again, you can't stop someone who is an adult from doing something. And speaking of the "horrible" homicide department in Aruba, how many murders go unsolved in the US every year? Since you live in the US I'm assuming you let your daughter be in the US, despite an imperfect "homicide department". |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 28): Again, someone who's 18 can serve in the military and die for their country. No one can stop them from going on a trip. Natalee Holloway was an adult who made a decision to go. And she made a decision to hang out with these guys when she was on her trip. |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 28): No, but the law says otherwise. And for the record, millions (billions?) of 18-year olds all over the world have access to alcohol and many are unsupervised. Somehow they turn out ok. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 29): I am not even going to answer this, you are actually going to compare Aruba's LO to ours? They screwed the dog badly, very badly. Unsolved murders in the US have nothing to do with this case. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 29): So when you hit 18 you were and adult and new everything? The law is one thing, real life is another. I don't care what the law says no 18 year old girl fresh out of HS is an adult. If she was she wouldn't have been stumbling around drunk and getting into cars with strangers. |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 30): Actually, to your point, they do. You basically said Aruba is a messed up country with terrible police because one death went unsolved. Yet, there are probably hundreds of unsolved deaths in the US every year and somehow that's ok. Doesn't make any sense to me. |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 30): You basically said Aruba is a messed up country with terrible police because one death went unsolved. |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 30): Yet, there are probably hundreds of unsolved deaths in the US every year and somehow that's ok. Doesn't make any sense to me. |
Quoting PH-BFA (Thread starter): Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries has solved the Holloway case according to different media. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 29): I don't care what the law says no 18 year old girl fresh out of HS is an adult. If she was she wouldn't have been stumbling around drunk and getting into cars with strangers. |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 30): No, but in the eyes of the law, 18 year olds are adults and carry all the rights, responsibilities, and privileges thereof. |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 29): I don't care what the law says no 18 year old girl fresh out of HS is an adult. |
Quoting NWA742 (Reply 31): Saying that US Law Enforcement Agencies are less effective because there are more unsolved murders here than Aruba is stupid because you haven't factored in that the US is much larger, more diverse, and has a much greater population than Aruba. |
Quoting Analog (Reply 33): Wait; adults don't do that? Damn! All those people wasting their time at bars. |
Quoting Analog (Reply 33): Tell that to prosecutors charging her with something other than an underage alcohol offence. In the prosecutor's eyes an 18-year old is an adult and has been for many years. |
Quoting Kmh1956 (Reply 34): You haven't hung around too many colleges, have you? |
Quoting LTBEWR (Reply 35): One group of problems I have always had with this case is the lack of responsibility of Natalee, her friends, the so called 'chaparones' |
Quoting RwSEA (Reply 14): but it's ridiculous that it's still getting the amount of attention that it is. |
Quoting ConcordeBoy (Reply 38): This case not only has every ingredient of the classic "Missing White Woman Syndrome" (e.g., pretty, young, White, female, girl-next-door-looking, and had money).... but also has many of the same factors on the male/perpetrator side of the equation as well (i.e., he could basically the boy-from-down-the-street for White suburbia, also has looks, plus a politically-connected family, and money as well). |
Quoting ConcordeBoy (Reply 38): This case not only has every ingredient of the classic "Missing White Woman Syndrome" (e.g., pretty, young, White, female, girl-next-door-looking, and had money).... but also has many of the same factors on the male/perpetrator side of the equation as well (i.e., he could basically the boy-from-down-the-street for White suburbia, also has looks, plus a politically-connected family, and money as well). That's why this story has this manner of staying power: only one such saga overshadows it, and that was Laci Peterson-- perhaps the quintessential example of MWWS; perhaps because she was pregnant, who knows? Some might add OJ to that, for its incredible staying power in media affairs-- though, Nicole Brown didn't go missing (RIP). |
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 40): Ok, you need to rip that tin foil hat off it's overheating! The reason you are still hearing about this case is vengeance. People like Nancy Grace and her like are crusaders who want people to pay for these crimes, and well they should. |
Quoting AirCop (Reply 42): And when was the last time, that Grace and her co-horts spend weeks on weeks covering a story about a missing black female? |