story? >> it's a good question, howard. in truth, journalistically, you can dismiss a lot of these tabloid stories. there's such keen audience interest and there's something about crime, especially homicide investigations, that lends themselves to american curiosity. you have two sides. you have a narrative arc that goes up and down. consequences. you have the worst of fates. death. and they do very well. people are interested in them. and i think that what i rely on in telling those stories is that generally, there is something to tease out of this otherwise tantalizing narrative. who did what? the mystery. that is worth review. and i see the story with van der sloot as a window into a criminal investigation. >> you say this audience interest. it was completely created by television. no one had ever heard of natalee holloway. she disappears in aruba. and it becomes this parade of what i call missing white women. usually young, usually pretty.