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Greta should stay there all weekend. She is hot on the trail of the truth in this case. She is doing a helluva job with her investigative reporting.

I think Greta has found her true calling!

We didn't see all of Greta's interviews. There may have been some interesting things said by one or both of the VDS parents that Greta held back from us....telling only the police.

She may indeed be a Mark Fuhrman counterpart!

Leni

CNN is following Greta!

LOL

I was not going to post anymore because the posts had become so heated and I just hate to see such anger over something none of us can really know for sure. As I said before: I was one of the early "rush to judgement" people; but I have tried to pull back and get a more objective view. Both teens acted a bit irresponsably and whatever happened is very tragic for both, and has destroyed their lives (possibly caused the loss of Natalee's) and that of their families'. IMHO I think it was a terrible calammity of errors that took place as a result of unplanned and spontaneous actions that, I believe, were probably ignited by their youth, hormones, and maybe passion. Who hasn't felt those urges when a young teen tasting the first drops of freedom? Along these lines: Greta just touched on a very plausable scenerio.

Greta said: "... maybe Joran left Nat on the beach, maybe she had passed out. Dumb act..." But we also know that is possible. Shep Smith commented "Wouldn't be the first guy to have done that." I know that as in college kids would pass out and be left wherever they were. It drove me nuts!

Following that it could be that Joran walked home, told dad, who was angry that Joran snuck out and left girl on beach. Dad goes to get Nat...and she was gone!

Now the quandry: None of the three boys is responsible, really. Maybe they all figured she woke up and went back to the motel. But then they became frightened as to how they could be implicated since she it became known that she had disappeared and they saw her last. Could be all the current known players were in the wrong place at the wrong time. It could also be some real, hardened criminal saw her and took Natalee, or she wandered somewhere dangerous.

Police, of course, were not told anything by the boys or Daddy VDS that would incriminate them, out of their own fright. Or, that may have been their tactic at first because they figured she just walked back to the motel. Daddy VDS compounded his son's dumb mistake by not handling it properly. Maybe he, also, just hoped she would show up and truly thought she wandered back to her hotel? Those things often happen at these places, esp. among the young people. It would not have been unusual. Paulus VDS could then have been as surprised as everyone else was when he found out she was not with her group in the morning.

We still have no evidence of the truth.

I am praying and praying that no one who is innocent is implicated, and if there is a guilty person that he is found and gets the worst possible sentance in their justice system.

I am also praying that Natalee didn't just take a wrong turn, end up in the ocean and that "mistake" causes some others trouble none ever imagined, because how could any "proof" of that ever be offered?

If there is any moral to this story it is "Kids....listen to your parents!!! Don't go out with strangers and take risks in the middle of the night. Don't go hanging out in drinking/party places without someone else you know attached to your hip!!! Don't sneak out of the house at night to meet someone when you are supposed to be home. And don't drink to the point that you loose your ability to think and act as you normally would. Terrible things can happen that could change your life forever. And don't --- no matter what--- tell a lie, even if you are guilty or if you are innocent!!!

I bet these two teens - Natalee and Joran - would tell you that if they could!