Time to Revisit the 3 suspects Police Report Transcription; They may have some Explaining to do

As we revisit the translated police report of the conversation that was secretly recorded by the ALE some rather interesting post scripts play out. In reading these transcripts, they hardly exonerate Joran Van der Sloot as a suspect as his attorney Joe Tacopina has stated. Also, it is peculiar and convenient that Joe Tacopina would accuse someone else of leaking these documents to the media. Tacopina has gone on record as stating Jossy Mansur leaked the information. Which brings a question to mind, why would he care? If these documents, as he claims, benefit his client one would think that Tacopina would be thrilled with Jossy, not vindictive. That, however, is hardly the case.

Let’s review some of the more telling and interesting comments made by the three suspects. They hardly show anyone of them to be presented in a clear light and innocent. If anything, they provide more questions and suspicion on the three.

There have been many rumors to the fact that Paulus Van der Sloot helped the Kalpoe’s get an attorney and met with them and discussed the case in the infancy of this investigation. We know hear from Joran Van der Sloot’s own mouth that this was the case. Paulus did indeed help the Kalpoe’s attain council. One wondered what other information he provided to all three suspects with regards to how to conduct themselves in jail while being interrogated.

So would this mean that the conversation that Deepak Kalpoe had with Mickey John in jail is true as well seeing that Deepak stated that the story of the Holiday Inn was made up by the VDS family? Seems that there was much conversation between the three suspects prior to their arrest. Deepak did also speak to Abraham Jones and explained that the HI story was a lie. So what else that Deepak referenced was true as well.

J says to D: My friend, the only thing my father wanted to do was to help you. J says to D: My father only wanted to help you. My father even arranged a lawyer for you. J says to D: And this is how you pay him back. J says to D (angry): I have to give you both a klap/wanta [punch in the face?]

Do not forget what Mickey John said to Greta Van Susteren in a June 29, 2005 interview following his release from jail.

VAN SUSTEREN: The father, too?

JOHN: All of them. They made up…

VAN SUSTEREN: Did he specifically say — Deepak specifically say to you the father was part of that?

JOHN: Deepak told me that he and the family sit down and they made up the story.

VAN SUSTEREN: So family and not father?

JOHN: Well, I don’t know who the family consists of. But I know the father was involved, according to him. They made up the story, and they say that they didn’t drop the girl off, because they said they would give the police something to (INAUDIBLE) when somebody is missing in Aruba, they would find them a few days later by a crack house or with some beach bum or something.

In this heated exchange between Joran Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers a rather eye opening comment is made by Joran, “J says to the brothers: Same as they control me, they control you too.” Just who is Joran referring to as “controls” him and the Kalpoes? The three had stated that they lied about dropping Natalee at the Holiday Inn; however, what would possess the three to continue to lie while they were in jail? As Satish states, “With lies there is no proof.”

PROOF OF WHAT SHOULD BE THE QUESTION. Proof of what actually happened to Natalee Holloway? The fact that the three continue to perpetrate lies, even while in jail is telling. The need to lie in order for there to be “no proof” and just who is Joran referencing as to “who controls them”?

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Teen Travel Examined in the Wake of the Natalee Holloway Disappearance. Aruba has become the face of (un)safe Travel

“You have to be quite careful taking kids anywhere … in this world.” We want to make sure we’re able to keep kids safe if we’re bringing them anywhere.”

In the wake of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, many are questioning the safe travel of teenagers. The above quote one would think would be attributed to Beth Twitty, in one of her many speeches she gives warning teens and college students of the dangers they face traveling home and abroad. However, it is not. It was said by Elinor Freedman, principal of Wakefield High School.

“As an educator, I don’t recommend parents sending their sons and daughters on these (non-school) trips,” said Elinor Freedman, principal of Wakefield High School. “Especially now, in light of things like Natalee Holloway.“

Bill Chetwynd, president of the School Committee also went on to say:

“Personally, he wouldn’t recommend trips without parental or school supervision.” “The last thing I would ever want to happen is some kids in Wakefield disappear when they went on a trip – or any kids. Especially in a foreign country.”

Like it or not, Aruba has become the face of the safety issues that face teens and college students in America. It is no small accomplishment or a badge of honor to actually be referenced in the same sentence as 9-11 when it comes to altering the way one travels.

Across the country, student travel was re-examined after the events of 9/11. It has been further scrutinized since the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who went missing almost a year ago during a post-graduation trip to Aruba – a trip that wasn’t sanctioned by the school, although more than 100 teens participated.

Do those in Aruba, the travel, hotel and tourism associations and the government officials really not understand the impact of how they have handled the Natalee Holloway investigation? It was one thing for a tourist to go missing in Aruba, it was quite a different event to see how the investigation was botched, intentionally or not. It was still quite another story to watch and listen to those in charge insult and blame the victim and her family. Aruba … WAKE UP! You are being mentioned in the same breathe as 9-11 and not by any Holloway or Twitty family member.

As in the case of 9-11, Americans took for granted their safety and assumed such a terrorist attack could never happen in the United States. Such acts of terror only existed in the Middle East or in Europe. Although not on the same scale, Americans took the same safety assumptions for granted as well when they went on vacations.

However, why wouldn’t American tourists drop their guard when they went on vacation and were told that Aruba was safe? For too many years we just looked the other way, not because a Caribbean island vacation spot may have been safe, but because nothing had ever happened. Or we should say, nothing had been reported to have happened. The law of averages had not caught up yet. Still today we are told that it is a safe island, Carlos N’ Charlies is a safe tourist spot even as drugs are sold outside on the streets and that the beaches are safe as we learn that there were preditors on the beaches that police cared to do nothing about.

What obligation does Aruba have to tell potential tourists the truth? What is the real drinking and gambling ages? Better yet, what is really enforced so that a parent can actually make a proper decision on letting their children go? What really is the crime rate? It can’t be zero.

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11 Months After Natalee Holloway disappears and Now Arubans fear negative impact of Holloway case

“We’re concerned about the negative publicity,” said Myrna Jansen-Feliciano of the Aruba Tourist Authority.

Takes its toll on Aruba, huh? Ever wonder why the story of Natalee Holloway has never gone away Aruba? Ever wonder why after all this time that so many people care about Natalee Holloway and her family? In America our children are our greatest national treasure. Parents are not supposed to bury their children. Worse yet, never know what harm came to them so they never get closure. It is exactly this mentality that this case is about how Aruba feels is exactly the reason why many are so upset and not traveling to your island. The interest in this case is not going away. It takes very little to ramp up the public’s interest in Natalee Holloway as people have adopted Natalee Holloway as their very own.

In most news coverage, and certainly here in the Buzz, 11 months like that usually translates to a nosedive in public interest.

But this case is not like most. And though searches for Natalee Holloway have wavered since her story first gained national attention, it doesn’t take much to boost her back into our top overall movers.
(Yahoo Buzz)

It isn’t about you Aruba. We have been stating this from the very beginning of this case. It’s about Natalee Holloway and how the investigation has been mishandled and how a family of a missing person has been mistreated. You do not insult a family of a missing person. You do not try and “shut her up“. You do not blame a victim who is most likely dead for her disappearance. For some reason Aruban officials, some in Aruba and in the US think that the Natalee Holloway case is different from other missing person cases. Since when do police officials or prosecutors blame the victim or the family for the cause of a disappearance when they were no where near the the location where an individual went missing? If the powers that be in Aruba ever comprehended the idea of compassion and that it is inappropriate to string a family along on an 11 month roller coaster ride, maybe today things might be different.

Now Aruba worries about the negative impact of the Natalee Holloway case? 11 months after the Alabama teen disappearance? One thinks that maybe they should have been concerned when the two black security guards were falsely arrested, the three prime suspects were allowed to go ten days without being arrested, the Van der Sloot property not 100% searched or the day that all three suspects were released from jail. All this time goes by and now this is a concern for Aruba, although it is too bad that they do not seem to think its a concern that Natalee Holloway vanished.

With the case still unsolved, islanders now fear that Aruba, which gets 70 percent of its gross domestic product from tourism, will be permanently scarred by the mystery.

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The Empire Strikes Back II; Tacopina Responds in Court Filing to Civil Law Suit

Yesterday Attorney Joe Tacopina representing Joran and Paulus Van der Sloot in the civil law suit filed in New York by the parents of Natalee Holloway filed his response to the Court.

Joe Tacopina’s 119 page filing can be seen here.

One thing is rather curious in that Joe Tacopina spends 119 pages stating why New York is not an appropriate jurisdiction for a civil law suit and that it provides a hardship on his clients, yet he has threatened to file civil suits against others. What’s the difference? Wouldn’t that be a hardship to his clients as well?

Defense Lawyer Replies In Favor Of Moving Holloway Trial From N.Y.

Nancy Grace Discusses the Natalee Holloway investigation with Dave Holloway and call ins

NANCY GRACE, April 24, 2006
(Guests: DAVE HOLLOWAY, JOSSY MANSUR, ERIC MARRAPODI, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER, CLARK GOLDBAND, NANCY GRACE INTERNET REPORTER, RAHUL MANCHANDA, JOHN BURRIS, DON CLARK, FORMER HEAD OF FBI HOUSTON BUREAU, GARY CASIMIR, DEFENSE ATTORNEY.

Nancy Grace discusses the release of GVC, A.B. who was detained for 6 hours then released and takes telephone calls as well. The following is an interesting bit of information regarding who A.B. might be from Jossy Mansur:

GRACE: Back to Jossy Mansur, the director and editor of “Diario Magazine.” Jossy you`re there on the scene. What possible connection was there between A.B., the last catch and release and the investigation of Natalee Holloway?

MANSUR: You know, I can`t imagine what kind of connection it could have. I know that this person that they`ve arrested and questioned for six hours has a Web site in which he appears, in which you`ll find pictures of Joran and many other girls. Maybe there is some kind of a connection that the police want to know or the prosecution as to what degree does he know these people and what would he know about the Holloway case itself?

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