an honor student. he seemed to be a good kid, as you would say, raised by good family. what do we know really about him? we know that he had a very serious problem with his anger, with the rage that was within him once he lost control of himself. van der sloot s former attorney disputes that assertion saying joran didn t have a documented anger problem, insisting that van der sloot had a really good reputation. natalee spent the night partying with her friends here at this once popular night spot, carlos n charlie s. she was last seen around 1:00 in the morning getting into a car with joran van der sloot and two of his friends. she never returned to her hotel. coming up, an agonizing mystery in the caribbean and a mother s desperate pleas for help. natalee, you can reach me on
within 24 hours of arriving in aruba, natalee s parents learned natalee was last seen in the company of three young men. one of them, 17-year-old joran van der sloot. her parents found his address and sprung into action. we showed up at his house. first he looked at the picture and i said, don t say you don t know her because we have eyewitnesses who say you got in the car with her. he said, yeah, i know who she is. he walks over to us and starts talking. he says he danced with her at carlos n charlie s. after we talked a little bit and asked where she is, i don t know, i dropped her off. but it wouldn t be until 11 days after that visit that aruban authorities would detain joran and his two friends. 20-year-old deepak kalpo and his brother satish as suspects. i asked him, are you sure you guys didn t do anything? no, mamma, they don t even talk a word with her. me and my brother gave them a
editor of this aruban newspaper. none of them were telling the truth. all three of them know what happened to natalee, i m sure of that. joran knows because he was involved. and the kalpoe brothers know because he told them. i mean, they were buddies. van der sloot s former attorney says the editor s statement is given out of ignorance, not supported at all. the three young men are believed to be the last to see natalee, and natalee s parents are hopeful. after weeks of interrogation, the young men are free once again. sen tekds. jean casarez has followed van der sloot s case extensively for hln s in session. they need evidence. they re looking for forensic evidence because they want something to corroborate the
witness statements. and when we think about statements, we think about joran van der sloot. todd fuentes, headed up the international task force, early in the investigation. he and his friends are arrested and released several times by the arubans over the next couple of years and the dutch authorities intervene but then it s dropped because there s a lack of evidence that he did anything to her. then, in january 2008, joran tells someone natalee was dumped at sea. he later denies that story and tells a reporter he sold natalee to human traffickers for $10,000. at the time, he s 17 years old. is he in contact with sex slave traders, let s say, to be involved in that level of organized crime? we don t know.
over the years, joran van der sloot has changed his story many times about what happened to natalee holloway or where her body may be. for instance, he told a dutch television station he dumped her body in this swamp, but in the end, it turned out to be just more talk. van der sloot, a young man with a privileged background, continues to baffle investigators. joran felt throughout that he was kind of untouchable, that they weren t really going to get him. his father was coaching him how to respond and what to say. joran s father, paulis, who s a prominent lawyer on the fast track to becoming a judge, but just last year, he unexpectedly died of a heart attack, leaving joran on his own. his father appeared to be his adviser. many people believe his father went to his grave knowing exactly what happened to natalee holloway.