The Associated Press is reporting today that:

“A statement issued by Aruban prosecutors said an island judge ruled the information Van der Sloot provided in the taped conversations was insufficient to reopen a judicial inquiry and also too feeble to merit another arrest and pretrial detention.“

I find this unbelievable, but not surprising. I knew if we didn’t see Joran arrested before the airing of the show in the Netherlands, something was up. Are the Dutch laws this liberal? Or is there some corruption in this case that is thicker than mud? I suspect it is the later, but that is purely a guess.

I’ve watched a promo piece of a show that will air here tonight in the U.S. on ABC showing Joran’s confession. You can watch it here (and read more here).

I find what I see in the promo piece vile. When I watch it, my stomach churns, I feel like I am going to get sick, and I want to turn away.

Read more I believe Joran here in respect to what happened when he was with Natalee–that she convulsed. He is animated, and expressive which is completely different than how he acted during his interview with Chris Cuomo back in February of 2006.

The way Joran emulates Natalee’s convulsing body to show what happened to Natalee is beyond eerie. People who lie don’t have a visual frame of reference as Joran does here so hence they typically don’t do this. It’s hair-raising!

Joran smirks when he says her body will never be found. He is smug about it. He talks about Natalee like she was an object, not a human being, and he shows he is proud of getting away with it for so long. It’s bone chilling.

The fact that Joran didn’t even consider calling for help is suggestive to me (pure speculation) that he probably was involved in this to a deeper extent than he is willing to admit to. You have to wonder if he gave Natalee a date rape drug, and that drug caused her to go into convulsions. One of the side effects of Rohypnol is convulsions, heart-arrest, etc.

Joran says, “I thought I’d have sex with her … but suddenly she started to tremble,” he said (source).

This disturbs me deeply, too. He didn’t say we were kissing and hugging, we were intimate, we were involved, we were about to engage in intercourse. No. It wasn’t a “we” thing that was going on here.

It was an “I thought I’d have sex with her” which is very suggestive this was not a two-way mutual decision.

Furthermore, if it were a two-way mutual relationship, I would suspect before Natalee started to convulse, she wouldn’t have been feeling good. She wouldn’t have felt like having sex.

I feel like I am going to throw up. I find the video very disturbing, and just thinking about it all gets my heart to race. I need to get away for a few minutes.

For the Beth Twitty, and Natalee’s father Dave, I am so sorry that you have been through so much. My heart goes out to you both. May justice prevail in this case somehow, someway. Soon.

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Disclaimer: Do know that I am depending on translation here, and if the translations are not correct, my opinions may change dramatically.

My original opinion on Joran Van der Sloot, February 24, 2006.

To see more on what I think of Joran Van der Sloot, click on the label below of his name.