[Bas]

Just finished watching a two hour special by Holland's most famous undercover crime journalist who got a friend of the main suspect to bug his car with cams and mics...I'll post a link as soon as the story breaks in the international media

[BigTex]

Cool. I've been wondering when (U.S. time) this show would be airing.

Did you come away convinced that Joran (sp?) killed her?

[Bas]

here's a link

[Bas]

well, the scoop is that she was drunk and maybe on coke and was ready to have sex but looked kinda white...and on the beach started vibrating on him and died/became unconscious but he thought she was dead, called a friend who dumped her at sea with his boat, so she may have drowned in an unconscious state.

[Plantagenet]

Was Sloot the slayer?

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'W')as Sloot the slayer?

[FreakOil]

This article leaves out some very crucial information, like who the hell is Natalee Holloway?

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreakOil', 'T')his article leaves out some very crucial information, like who the hell is Natalee Holloway?

[Bas]

ah, the Minnesota Startribune be the first:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')HE HAGUE, Netherlands - Hidden camera footage broadcast on television in the Netherlands on Sunday showed Dutch student Joran van der Sloot saying he was with Natalee Holloway when she died on a beach in Aruba, and that he asked a friend to dispose of her body at sea.

"She suddenly didn't do anything anymore," Van der Sloot said of the 18-year-old Holloway, in a conversation with a man he believed to be his friend.

Last week, however, Van der Sloot said he was lying when he made those comments during what he thought was a private conversation with a friend and denied that he had anything to do with Holloway's 2005 disappearance.

The exchange, in Dutch, was recorded in a Range Rover that had been rigged with three hidden cameras by Peter R. de Vries, a Dutch television crime reporter who claims the footage solves the mystery surrounding Holloway's disappearance. It was shown on Dutch television.

Van der Sloot said he panicked and tried but failed to revive Holloway before calling a friend with a boat to dispose of the body.

"The ocean is big," he said.

Holloway vanished in May 2005 just before she was due to fly home to Alabama, at the end of her high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island. No trace of her has been found.

Chief prosecutor Hans Mos and others in his Aruban office did not return calls or e-mails about the Dutch crime reporter's information.

But last week, prosecutors announced they were reopening their investigation into Holloway's disappearance after seeing De Vries' material. The prosecutors made no reference to the possibility of an arrest, and Van der Sloot has said he does not expect to be arrested again.

Van der Sloot was interviewed last week by the respected Dutch television show "Pauw & Witteman" following reports that De Vries had captured him making statements about the case.

"It is true I told someone. Everybody will see it Sunday," Van der Sloot said, referring to De Vries' planned television show.

The Dutch student's father, Paul Van der Sloot, declined to comment when reached in Aruba by The Associated Press before the tape aired.

[Bas]

well, you heard it here first