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Jan. 31, 2006 The leading suspect in most people's minds concerning the disappearance of Natalee Holloway is Joran Van der Sloot. To supporters of this young man, it is a presposterous proposition. They claim he is a nice boy who would never harm anyone. They argue that he is being framed for a murder that cannot be proven, much less cannot even be established. The two sides of the argument are: Joran is guilty as sin and....Joran did nothing but take Natalee Holloway sightseeing with a good night kiss. There is no middle ground among the debators. One either loves Joran or hates him. On one hand, there is no proof that Joran did anything wrong beyond sneaking out of his house late on the night Natalee Holloway disappeared thus deceiving his father who believed he was sleeping soundly in the apartment next to the main house. On the other hand, there is proof that he was the last person to see Natalee alive. (Contrary to unsubstantiated reports that cannot be confirmed by legal authorities, Ms. Holloway was not seen by anyone after being with Joran) The proponents of this argument believe that is enough to convict him of foul play due to her disappearance. This has been effectively done before in a missing woman's case. That is why Scott Peterson is on death row today. The evidence that swung the jury in that case was finding the remains of Laci and Conner Peterson on the rocks of the San Francisco bay not far from where Scott said he was fishing the morning his wife disappeared. Without finding those bodies, Scott Peterson would be walking the streets today. There is no body of Natalee Holloway. That is precisely why Joran Van der Sloot is a free man. If a body can be produced, dead or alive, it would affect the status of young Van der Sloot. So, why are so many people suspicious of him then? Natalee Holloway got into a car outside of Carlos and Chalie's bar with three young men. Two of those boys were on the record for not having seen Natalee last. One of the young men, by all three boy's admission was with her last. His name was Joran Van der Sloot. Of the three boys, one had a brighter future than the other two. He was an honors student and was headed for a bright future at a university in Holland. He could not afford any obstacles to that wonderful life he had planned for himself. He, more than anyone else, had a motive to protect his reputation and credibility if he was going to be successful in life. He could not afford an accidentally dead or a murdered girl to stop him if he wanted that future. His name was Joran Van der Sloot. Of the three boys, one had an anger problem. He was known by his contemporaries as a high-powered, controlling individual who usually had his way with girls. He was fun and easy going except when he encountered resistance. Then he was not so nice. This is a documented fact according to the testimony of witnesses to the police. No one said no to this boy, not his father, not his mother, not his friends and not the girls he hung out with. His name was Joran Van der Sloot. Of the three boys, one of them told more lies than the other two combined, including the two main lies that Natalee was last seen with two security guards and that Deepak was the one who raped and killed her. The boy making those claims was Joran Van der Sloot. Of the three boys, only one had a father who understood the law and was well-thought of in the legal community as a potential judge in Aruba. Only one of the boys had a father who counted as one of his closest friends, the police chief, Van der Stratten, who led the investigation into Natalee's disappearance that night. The legally savvy father of the boy was also the one who made the famous statement (on the record) "No body, no case," to his son. It was designed to communicate a message that without any evidence of a body, the son of the father did not have to worry about being convicted of a crime that night. Who was this son who was worried that Natalee Holloway's body might turn up? How did he even know that her body turning up might implicate him? Who was the young man who needed reassurance?His name was Joran Van der Sloot. While in prison, one of the three boys demonstrated a willpower that interrogators later reported they had not seen in their years of experience. This willpower to remain silent and deny all the possiblities linking him to the possible murder of Natalee Holloway allowed him to walk out of the jail with the charges being dropped. The boy with the incredible willpower was Joran Van der Sloot. There was one boy who hung around Natalee during the week she was in Aruba. This same individual was seen getting into an argument with one of the boys from Mountain Brook. On the night she disappeared, this boy was observed flirting with her at the card table and telling her that maybe he would see her later in the evening. That same boy snuck out to Carlos and Charlei's where Natalee had told him she would be, found her there, and arranged to get her into his friend's car after hanging around her all week. It was not a coincidence that Natalee wound up with this boy on the last night of her week in Aruba. It was also the last night of her life. His name was Joran Van der Sloot. When Beth Twitty arrived in Aruba to search for her daughter, she found out the name of a boy who had been seen with her last. She went to his home and found out he was not there, but gambling at a local casino at three o'clock in the morning. For someone who later admitted he, "felt bad leaving Natalee alone on the beach," the boy was remarkably resilient the following night as he acted like nothing out of the ordinary had happened the night before. When Beth Twitty finally had the chance to talk to him about Natalee's whereabouts the boy snarled, "What do you want ME to do?" Following that comment in the months to come, that same boy never lifted a finger to help look for the missing teenager from Alabama. He never volunteered any information or sympathy concerning her disappearance which may have helped in the investigation. There was another young man who acted exactly like that over a missing person. His name was Scott Peterson. The boy who copied that same technique and did it with the same arrogance was Joran Van der Sloot. There is no proof of a murder because there is no body. There is no Natalee Holloway that currently exists physically on the face of the earth. Because of that, the supporters of this young man conclude with finality, "Natalee Holloway is not dead. She ran away. She faked her death because she hated her parents and wanted to be free from them!" But, there is far less credibility for that theory than there is for the one that a single young man who conveniently kept showing up wherever Natalee went and just as inconveniently tried to disappear when she went missing is the one responsible for her never been having seen again. Just because she is missing and undoubtedly will be forever, does not mean that this young man had nothing to do with a life that was extinguished before its promise could ever be realized. It just cannot be proven that he is innocent or guilty. Only he knows what he did that night and why Natalee Holloway is gone. He is not telling what he knows and, based on his actions up to now, will never tell the true story. He has his future back and in order to maintain it, he must leave his past behind. Forever. His name is Joran Van der Sloot. ------------ About the author: Pat Hurley has won three Emmy awards for writing, hosting and producing television shows. He resides in Southern California. 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