Duh, forgot to post the article. lol Here we go...
July 06, 2005, 05:15 PM
So What Really Happened to Natalee Holloway?
It has been 37 days of Keystone Cops style investigating in Aruba and still
no sign of Nalalee Holloway, dead or alive. We have been presented with many
obvious possibilities but here is one theory that appeared on Greta van
Susteren's excellent blog
http://www.gretawire.com. It is a relatively long
piece, but it just may be crazy enough to be the truth (minor editing by
yours truly):
Dear Greta,
"Referring to my earlier e-mails about the Natalee case I believe the
reconstructions at the beach yesterday, Sunday July 3, when the three
suspects were taken to the beach separately, supports what I have earlier
written about this case.
A central point in my theory regarding what happened to Natalee is that
Natalee was not driven to the beach at all the night of her disappearance.
Rather, she was taken somewhere else as part of a well prepared plan to
abduct her. At this other location she was possibly handed over to other
accomplices to the crime and taken off the island before she was even
reported missing.
If the investigators, too, are leaning towards this theory, the
"reconstruction" on Sunday July 3 makes sense. I assume the police want to
learn is if the three suspects stories match - in particular regarding their
testimonies about driving Natalee to the beach and leaving her and Joran
there.
What the police wants each of them to detail during this "reconstruction" is
exactly where their car entered the beach, exactly where they parked the
car, exactly in what direction, exactly which way the driver turned the car
around to return from the beach etc., etc.
If their stories do not match, the investigators can conclude - exactly as I
have done for a long time - that the three of them didn't drive Natalee to
the beach at all that night. The entire "beach story" is a hoax to draw the
investigators to a point of no significance.
In doing so, the three suspects' statements about (a) the security guards,
which they later retracted and (b)the contradictions regarding driving
Natalee to the beach, where Joran at first denied being alone with Natalee
on the beach, but later "admitted" the story about leaving, may all be part
of a very deliberate plan to make the investigators believe that the beach
plays an important role in Natalee's disappearance. This is because all
three suspects were, at first, apparently "hiding the truth" about the beach
and only reluctantly "admitting" that they took Natalee to the beach. All
the while, the crime took place at a totally different location!
I believe the purpose of the Sunday "reconstruction" was to establish so
many inconsistencies in the three suspects' explanations about the exact
locations and other details pertaining to their "beach story," that the
investigators can rule out the beach as the crime scene. Furthermore, in
doing so, the investigators or the prosecutor in the case, may use this new
information in order to gain the judge's ruling to allow the investigators
to continue to keep the three suspects incarcerated.
So much for explaining what did NOT happened to Natalee. Now to what MIGHT
have happened. While I can say with almost 100 percent certainty that this
crime did NOT take place on the beach, I can only "suggest" what MIGHT have
happened.
One such theory is that Joran was pressured into befriending Natalee, so
that he (with the assistance of his two accomplices) could abduct her and
hand her over to members of a foreign mafia, who would then arrange to take
her off the island for trafficking/prostitution.
I suggested that Joran, who was well known for his gambling, might have run
up such a huge gambling debt, in private high stakes "fixed" poker games,
for instance - that he was being seriously threatened and forced to assist
the mafia in abducting Natalee - as the only means of settling his debt.
I also suggested that Joran, known for his gambling, might have been
deliberately chosen by the mafia because his father is a prospective future
judge on the island. Setting up Joran, and forcing him to assist in
Natalee's abduction, would give the mafia an enormous "leverage" vis-à-vis
Joran's father - a future local judge - should the mafia ever need that in
the future.
One should not rule out the direct involvement of Joran's father. As is
known, he and Joran were gambling together earlier in the night when Natalee
disappeared. I find it a bit strange that a high profile man, like Joran's
father, goes gambling with his son at a local casino. However, this could be
a cover for a last opportunity for Joran and his father to go over the
details of Natalee's abduction - which was to take place later that night.
Now, as for the likelihood of the mafia holding such power on Aruba, that
they could actually plan and execute such a serious crime, let me explain
the following - which I actually did not know when I detailed this theory
for FOX News for the first time, about a week ago.
Initially, I pictured the local casino in Aruba as a crummy, smoke-filled
room with a wobbly roulette table and a poker table in a "back room." Since
then, I have learned that a leading online poker company, PartyPoker.com,
holds some of its major tournaments there.
As a former top professional poker player with many major tournament
victories in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and other places, I know personally both
the president of PartyPoker.com and most of the top professionals. I have
personally played with them hundreds of times.
Let me underline that there is absolutely no reason to believe that
PartyPoker.com is involved in Natalee's abduction. This company makes so
many BILLIONS of dollars a year on their completely honest and legal online
poker websites, that there is no way they would get involved in any criminal
activity - hence running the risk of spoiling such a profitable business.
What I am suggesting however - and which I accidentally witness in a TV
program shown here in Norway, where I now live, is that almost every one of
the world's top professional and amateur high stakes poker players was
present in Aruba during this major PartyPoker.com tournament. Watching the
program on TV here in Norway, I personally recognized dozens of them from
Las Vegas and other places I've played.
(Note from Ira: Rather than Partypoker.com, the letter writer may be
referring to the World Poker Tour which is televised on the Travel Channel
in the United States and around the world. One of the hosts of the World
Poker Tour, Mike Sexton is associated with the Partypoker.com website).
These are players who would not even blink if they won or lost several
hundred thousand dollars in a night. With this number of top players
gathered in Aruba literally hundreds of millions of dollars will change
hands over the poker tables in a couple of nights. And the really high
stakes games will be conducted in private homes or hotel rooms away from the
casino.
Such an amount of unregistered money, which may easily be whitewashed at a
local casino, is bound to attract tough international mafia members - just
like flies are drawn to an open garbage can. And the mafia knows how to draw
a passionate gambler into its web.
This is all I am going to say about this. I simply wanted to mention why my
theory in the Natalee abduction case is not such a wild idea as one might
first think. Natalee may even have been a "special order" for the private
pleasure of a foreign mafia boss - to be disposed of after a couple of
weeks. After all, Aruba is not far away from some of the world's most
notorious cocaine mafias - for whom murders are daily events.
For further details about my theory in the Natalee case, I suggest FOX News
consult my three former e-mails regarding the case. Feel free to contact me
if you want to discuss this in more detail."
Sincerely yours,
Sven Arntzen
Oslo, Norway
Posted by Ira Simmons, July 6, 2005 05:15 PM (Pacific)
http://blogs.chronwatch.com/archives/2005/07/so_what_really.asp