In all due respect, something doesn't feel right about that.
Raging hormones are just a distant memory for Paulus and, on a island where prostitution is legal, why would a lawyer (a risk-averse, analytical, detail-oriented nerd) get involved in a high-risk, legally-dangerous, potential career-ending, potentially marriage-ending, purely sensual adventure with his own son (yuck). Behaviorally and practically, the odds are greatly against it. Not only is Paulus not a player, he is a Nervous Nelly. He would wet his pants just thinking about the dangers of date rape.
In another vein, Paulus's comment "no body, no crime" is what a grifter would call a "tell". It unwittingly reveals what Paulus is trying to hide. It is a quirk, a lawyer's slip, that let's us know how strong is Paulus's hand.
Taken at face value (and not embellishing it at all), he is saying that the body is not hidden or buried or even tossed in the ocean. He is telling his son and the other two jerks to keep their mouths shut, because without a body, there is no crime. He didn't say "keep quiet and let's hope they don't find the body" He said essentially "there is no body to be found." Given that lawyers by training use precise language, for him to say there is no body, he is saying either he has fist-hand knowledge (or very strong second-hand knowledge from someone he trusts) that the body was completely incinerated...or that she is still alive.
But, of course, I might be completely off base here.
awww man, and here I thought I always agreed with ya *LOL*
I still think the majority on this list are thinking like 'normal non - criminal, non-deviant' folks. I don't think that's how Paulus thinks. I am on the side that believes Paulus absolutely participated in whatever event happened that night---I think he's told Mrs. head in the sand enough that she believes Natalee is still alive--I just don't think he's been honest about where exactly and the conditions she's alive.
Am I understanding that Rape is not a crime at all in Aruba/Netherlands? Then maybe it wouldn't be career crushing except that it became international news???
"why would a lawyer (a risk-averse, analytical, detail-oriented nerd) get involved in a high-risk, legally-dangerous, potential career-ending, potentially marriage-ending, purely sensual adventure with his own son (yuck). Behaviorally and practically, the odds are greatly against it. Not only is Paulus not a player, he is a Nervous Nelly. He would wet his pants just thinking about the dangers of date rape."
You just answered your own question. It was like asking why people gamble. Sorry, didn't mean to be BORING... ;o)
***He said essentially "there is no body to be found." Given that lawyers by training use precise language, for him to say there is no body, he is saying either he has fist-hand knowledge (or very strong second-hand knowledge from someone he trusts) that the body was completely incinerated...or that she is still alive.***
I bet they fed her to the sharks on the side of the island where everybody feeds the sharks......
meeting up and paying a used up prostitute is not nearly the fun of attacking a young blond girl ...what a thrill to get away with it with momma and the kids away......
I prefer, anyway, to continue thinking the very worse of Big Daddy.....rapist or not, he is an enabler which might very well be worse.....