An interesting breaking news story this morning, about another even more high profile murder case...that of Natalie Holloway, and her "disappearance" in Aruba.
Interesting in that the huge break in solving the case revolves around a secret recording; no, not one made by police, but by a crack investigative reporting team.
Also interesting is the post-taping reaction of the caught-on-camera criminal, Joran van der Sloot: That what he said on tape was all a lie.
"That is what he wanted to hear, so I told him what he wanted to hear," Van der Sloot said, adding that he never fully trusted the man to whom he'd confessed.
"It is so stupid, it is so stupid, it is really stupid," Van der Sloot said, his voice cracking, the AP reported.
Gee, I wonder there are any, um...parallels...we can draw from any similar case over in this country? You know, criminal does crime, criminal gets caught confessing on tape, and then criminal says "Oh that beach tape, it was all a lie! Never fully trusted Grant and Sean, nosirree Bob! All a lie..."
Two criminal, two crimes, two recorded confessions...and despite both a cultural and oceanic rift between the two criminals, their reactions are exactly the same: "Oh that tape, I was just kidding!"
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Jim--
Gee. Suspects slip into and out of 3rd person (detached) to 1st person (active/reliving) of the harmful acts they commit.
Further, when caught in their moments of epiphany, they try to distance and disassociate themselves from the damaging statements they have made.
You have found an eery sameness in the circumstances of both sets of suspects' revelatory moments.
Joren is too cute to be guilty.
Rob and this overwhelming need to "be confessional" especially when you are somewhere private or where you expect privacy.
Frankly this is exactly what I thought happened even friends of Van Der Sloot made disparaging remarks about his character!
Of course the image presented by Holloways Snooty Bama parents is one of a Virginal High School girl,,
The reality she was just another Stupid American Teenager who liked to get Drunk,High, etc and picked the WRONG boy to romp on the Beach with.
Oh did she Ever pick the WRONG BOY!
"Did you try CPR on her?" asked van der Eem.
"Of course, I tried everything," van der Sloot said. "I tried to shake her. I was shaking the bitch. I was like, 'What is wrong with you man?' I almost wanted to cry. Why does this shit have to happen to me?"
Wow Standup Guy
And How about this
"That is what he wanted to hear, so I told him what he wanted to hear," Van der Sloot said, adding that he never fully trusted the man to whom he'd described his encounter with Natalee Holloway.
This is Rich exactly what Harlow will claim ;-)
And that PA Jury will buy this line UH just like the National TV audience will tonite?
And the description of how Van Der Sloot opened up AFTER the charges were dropped.
And with the case dropped, it turned out, van der Sloot seemed to open up more about Holloway.
"Will they ever find her, do you think?" van der Eem asked, in one conversation.
"No," van der Sloot said.So how soon do you think Van Der Sloot is indicted?
Just like Harlow and Joe in San Diego they had not been arrested by late April so they felt they were "safe" hence the Beach Confessions AND Apology!
Great post Jim I have only one regret here,,,
Nancy Grace is going to Crow about this for the NEXT 5 Years!
" I was right I said we should have just Shot that Turd!"
Oh Shit Jim I just read the Post Title
ROFLMAO!
Thanks great way to start the Week!
;-)
"Geoff Harvard said...
Joren is too cute to be guilty."
LOL!
Well he is! Why oh Why do the cute Sexy guys turn out to be "scumbags"
I mean in the movies you pick a murderer out of Central casting and he LOOKS like a SCUMBAG!
The revealing moment was on Dutch TV when Joran threw the Wine in the reporters face a little bit o unprovoked rage!
BTW I see the Dutch TV Show got an 88 share and ABC NEws has cleared an hour and a half Tonight for the special.
Here we go again the tabloids are going to be in Overdrive,,lets just hope Britany don't Slash her wrists with a butter knife I don't know if the Tabs can handle Two major story's in the same week!
I felt sad when they hung Billy Budd in the Melville novel, but strangely aroused when he got a boner on the gallows. Our professor, who had witnessed Army executions in the South Pacific in WWII, explained that the boner was from blood flowing by gravity to the lower part of the body.
Thus the term, "Well Hung."
geoff,
You crack me up. Boners and explanations for them while on the gallows. :))
Geoff--
Melville's "Billy Budd" is actually a novella, one of the earliest examples of realism in American literature. Incidentally, Billy is described in Brent Corriganesque terms of physique and stature.
For Albert this paraphrase: And all hands looked to the figure suspended from the mast with profound awe and sadness.
Isn't it cool when you can make a Melville reference and people get it?
And, to refocus, there is little to do on Aruba besides gamble and drink. So in whose mind is this an appropriate destination for post high school graduation eighteen year olds, unless you just want to give them permission to gamble, drink, and fuck Joren?
For the same airfare, you could get these kids to Florence and have the same fun while learning something.
Zero sympathy for the trashy parents.
"Why oh Why do the cute Sexy guys turn out to be "scumbags"
the same can be said about Sean Lockhart. ask him.
Wow, BB thinks Sen is cute and sexy. Who knew!
Jim since we are on revelatory statements, perhaps you can peg the author of this pithy statement regarding this case for us: "I know what I believe. I will continue to state what I believe--I believe what I believe is right."
Unrelated--
A wag commenting on the A&F affair reported Sunday in this very insightful and trendy post wrote that Virginia Beach PD enforce city codes and ordinances without regard to status and address: "God gets a parking ticket, 'No exceptions,' say police."
Jim, BB/Connor/Jonathan*living the greatlife/Trent was sexually intimate with Sean at one point, and that is the source of his bitterness, as I have pointed out before.
Joren is so cute, sweet, and hot. I wonder if Natalie got her head chopped off and 28 post-mortem stab wounds?
www.freejorenvandersloot.com
I hear Kentie has $5,000 lined up as a retainer for the defense team.
"jim said...
Wow, BB thinks Sen is cute and sexy. Who knew!"
knowing so much about him and his personality, it takes away the sexy aspect.
So BB, you and Sean are kinda close buds then eh?
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