Watching Joran van der Sloot's confession

entails getting absolutely saturated with advertising!!!!!

Oh hell. I'll watch this to the end now because I started, but next time I'll wait for the recap on TV or watch it online on Uitzending Gemist or watch the relevant clips on YouTube. Even better, read a transcript somewhere online.

I had forgotten how totally saturated with adverts the Dutch TV had become.
Yuck.

Oh, as for Natalee Holloway, to me it looks as if she died from alcohol poisoning (or went into a coma) and he panicked. Stupid. He should have called an ambulance.
Anyhow, his ass is toast. Pieter R de Vries will be the man of the hour in America as well as over here. His Oprah date has already been set. If at all possible, his head will grow even bigger. I hope someone somewhere will think about why the barriers were that high, that he did not feel safe in calling police or ambulance. It would have saved so much misery all round, had he come forward. Probably, nothing would have happened to him in that case. One thing is for sure, that is one self-absorbed, odious young man. What bothers me very much is that he did not even think of calling an ambulance when it just happened. And, that both these young men did not check for sure if she was dead. She could have been in an alcohol-induced coma. If she was, that would make this murder.

Closure for her parents, that's perhaps the best that comes out of this horrible spectacle.

Added Feb 9: Looks like he fabricated quite a bit of that story. Was some of it true? Could be. But he is an ice cold liar, that young man, he slipped in enough lies that would for sure show up as lies to cover his ass with this confession. The pay phone, he never could have used it because it's only for international calls and always was. Same thing with the name of his accomplice. Who was out of the country at the time of her disappearance, and that can be verified! Plus, the story of his shoes does not ring true. There was no reason for him to ditch them under the original story. He's one of those people who will lie automatically. I think part of his story was true. A good liar always tells just enough truth to not get caught out as a fabricator, by getting the facts mixed up. He's a stupendous liar. So I expect the core of his tale is more or less correct.
Unless she is found, I predict that he will never see a prison cell as a convict.
All one can wish for, is that his life will be punishment enough. This should follow him to his grave.