Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Confessions to Bring Closure?


Recently, a video has surfaced of Joran van der Sloot, the long-time lead suspect in the Natalee Holloway case , admitting to a "friend" that he had been with Holloway at the time of her death and covered it up by having a friend discard her body in the ocean. These recent developments, detailed by NBC in this article, have not yet resulted in the arrest of van der Sloot, but Holloway's mother has made a public statement concerning the closure she has found in being able to finally mourn. In what I consider a poor last-ditch attempt to maintain his innocence, however, van der Sloot is now claiming that the hidden camera video , partly shown in the below clip, merely shows him spouting off lies to his companion.

This closure for Holloway's family has been a long time coming and in my opinion, if van der Sloot hopes for any type of redemption in this incident he should let them have it. He is obviously a coward for withholding such information for so long and his entire approach to the incident in the video is completely uncaring. The only emotion he does show, in fact, is self pity, asking at one point why things like this have to happen to him.

Another matter I am concerned over is why exactly van der Sloot decided to discard Holloway's body. He claims that she died of alcohol poisoning, but if so then why would he have not just called the authorities as soon as possible? He admitted in the video that at the time his friend took her away, he wasn't even positive that she was dead. I can't help but feel that either there is even more to the story than exposed on the videos, such as abuse or rape in her intoxicated state, or that van der Sloot is truly just a terrible person.

I hope that this case can be resolved soon, instead of the courts prolonging what has already been a very difficult and trying ordeal.
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