I haven’t heard of this in a long time; have any new developments come about? have any suspects emerged? FOX needs to do an update on this.
Here’s the latest that CNN has, from a couple of weeks ago.
Here’s the latest, as of May 12th.
Her status is still officially missing, but I think I have to agree with the Aruban authorities when I say it’s looking more like a murder investigation now. 
I didn’t find an updated thread, so I decided to bump this one instead of starting a new one.
It’s started again. We’re supposed to have the answer in a few days.
Nope, that’s not a story from a couple of months ago, that’s today. I haven’t been following the case closely, but I would like to see it resolved, if only so Natalee’s parents can have their questions answered and be able to move on with their lives.
There was an ad for a special 90-minute Dateline (or some network news show) about the case. The caption was “Solved?”
I think the program will air on Monday, but I wasn’t paying close attention.
I want it solved so all these American assholes can apologize (which they won’t) to the good people and police of Aruba for slamming them and encouraging boycotts because they didn’t rush a case on someone with no proof- they took their time, hoping, you know, actual real prosecutable evidence surfaced, and now maybe it did. “Everyone knows who did it” is not going to win a guilty verdict in any country without evidence. You’re not “not doing your jog” because a case has no proof of anyone’s guilt. Would they have preferred Aruba prosecuted someone on circumstantial evidence and they get off, or wait till they find something definitive? Chandra Levy’s death is unsolved, where were the calls to boycott DC?
The case is re-opened because of the investigation of a Dutch TV-personality, Peter R. De Vries. He is quite famous in the Netherlands for his success in solving cold cases, where the police didn’t succeed. He does that partly because he is not under the same legal restrictions as the police, partly because he and his team spend a lot of effort, and lastly because in cold cases in general there is a big chance of new facts emerging. Like suspect A has since then come into a lot of money, suspect B has gotten it on with the widow, suspect C has been telling drunk stories in his favourite bar, etcetera.
However, Peter R. De Vries is also kind of infamous for solving only part of a crime, and then making a big hubba out of it. For instance, in this case he might have managed no more then prove that Joran van de Sloot (the guy last seen with Nathalie) was lying about factoid X. That still doesn’t tell us what actually happened that night.
I will be wathcing his show on Dutch TV this Sunday, though.
Here is the Google search of crime blogs covering this. Guess you don’t read many crime blogs? I recommend Steve Huff’s blogs (by whatever name he is currently using) Crimerant, and In Cold Blog for a start.
Here, here. The Aruban people are some of the friendliest we have ever met, not to mention some of the best educated (find me some kids in US public schools who learn 4 languages during their education… I’ll wait). I love Aruba and can’t wait to get back there (we usually go every year).
But to the recent “story” and “investigation”- that linked article sounds like total bullshit to me.
And having been all over that island, I doubt like hell they will ever find that girl. Jimmy Hoffa could be there…
According to the dude who got van der Sloot to blab, van der Sloot was having sex with Holloway when she had a “seizure” and stopped moving. He called a friend, and the friend put her on a boat and dumped her body in the sea.
What’s especially chilling is that van der Sloot wasn’t positive she was dead when they disposed of her.
Is it possible to obtain a murder conviction, without a body?