- Jezebel Comments

randomthoughts — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:49:20 EST

@ Reluctant Financier:

Law and Order etc on tv are not how it really works. Those prosecutors would all be disbarred; however, the attitude is fairly accurate. JK.

Most prosecutors and defense attorneys are just trying to do their jobs and do them well.

This defense attorney could very well just be a ginormous asshole. More likely, he is an otherwise competent guy who has the misfortune to have the one time he isn't doing his job well be so public. Because saying what he said is not getting the job done for his client.

I hope the commenter above is right and they are going to release the files in the hopes of getting some better evidence, but I think if someone was going to come forward, they would have by now so I am not holding out much hope.

My heart goes out to her family.

randomthoughts

haguenite — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:28:03 EST

@AmazonRedheadedUberVixen:
Vincent: You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup?
Jules: What?
Vincent: Mayonnaise.
Jules: Goddamn.
Vincent: I've seen 'em do it, man. They fucking drown 'em in that shit.

We get so much love in Hollywood flicks! But mayonnaise on fries really is the only way to go.

haguenite

KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:39:30 EST

@warmaiden: Agreed. It is creepy and unnerving to know that they are still out there and will go unpunished...sick.

KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins

AmazonRedheadedUberVixen — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:24:34 EST

@haguenite: There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures . . . and the Dutch.

JK, of course (I LOVE the Dutch!), but I couldn't resist invoking Nigel Powers.

AmazonRedheadedUberVixen

warmaiden — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:18:07 EST

The horrid thin is, you know those smug assholes did it. I hope her ghost hounds them, or that they 'accidentally' drown in their bathtubs. *stabby*

warmaiden

Nigromancer — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:48:40 EST

Honestly. clearly she made a bunch of inadvisable decisions but if you can't even bring the defendants to court, it's really time to stop publicizing things. Besides, does it take a genius to determine that she's dead? Everyone knows she's dead. Unless they said something along the line of "I killed her in the library with the candlestick," it's best to leave this alone.

Nigromancer

haguenite — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:39:59 EST

@DebbieDoesDamage: OMG! Then one of my friends is totally guilty of something... Yeah. Very common name in The Netherlands.

Word now is that the prosecutors are going to make all records public. They're saying they want to do it to see if anyone will recognize anything and come forward with more info (even though it is officially a cold case). I say they want to put the final nail in his coffin. I was in the States just after he'd first been arrested and released, so I understand that the media there have already tried him and found him guilty (way to go Ms Twitty), but personally I still stand behind the whole 'innocent until proven guilty'-thing. Because the Dutch do have that too.

haguenite

marie123 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:34:54 EST

@rachystyle: It happens...part of the reason Ted Bundy and Dahmer are so sordid (in part) is 'cuz they were sort of attractive...not like that ugly (sadistic sexual predator) hick John Wayne Gacy!

marie123

rachystyle — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:23:41 EST

Is it wrong that I think the accused Joran van der Sloot is a total hottie?

rachystyle

buckety — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:17:05 EST

ANDALUCíA: he said something like if he ever saw her he would tell her he hated her.

How do you close a case? Don't you keep it open hoping to someday get a lead or actually find a murderer?Does this mean if she was killed the killer/s won?

buckety

AmazonRedheadedUberVixen — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:05:31 EST

@lfw1031: Hey now! I'm a lawyer. Don't hate all of us. We're not all smug, callous assholes.

AmazonRedheadedUberVixen

katastic — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:05:16 EST

@bedazzle: That's not that funny.

katastic

DebbieDoesDamage — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:58:24 EST

Doesn't someone with the name "van der Sloot" pretty much HAVE to be guilty?

DebbieDoesDamage

lfw1031 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:53:09 EST

@meaghan2k: dude! ttyl.

lfw1031

Intern Kevin — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:50:53 EST

@AmazonRedheadedUberVixen: Really? For me its the other way around.. I usually wanna castrate the prosecutors. EVERY time I watch Law & Order, or CSI, or any of those shows, the prosecutors/investigators smugness always pisses me off. Now granted, they always end up being right (it's tv, or course they solve the case), but in reality we all know that that never happens.

Intern Kevin

lfw1031 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:49:12 EST

@AmazonRedheadedUberVixen: Unfortunately, he's right, but...what the fuck? How could you say this knowing that it would go on the public record?

Gah. I hate lawyers, too!

lfw1031

Andalucía — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:47:42 EST

Horrible, just horrible. I never forgot that interview with Joran in which he seemed pissed at Natalie as if she somehow caused this mess.

Andalucía

Jessica Hussein Lovejoy: BRB, getting Rahm'ed — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:47:05 EST

@Monstrosa: I'm going to guess FRY THEM! or some such.

Jessica Hussein Lovejoy: BRB, getting Rahm'ed

meaghan2k — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:46:41 EST

@lfw1031: idk, my bffl jill?

meaghan2k

AmazonRedheadedUberVixen — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:45:23 EST

The alleged text message is apparently what led to the 3 being re-arrested last month. They're free again, though, and the case is as "closed" as a murder case gets.

Sayeth the defense attorney: "Unless he finds a body in the bathroom of one of these kids, there's no way in hell they can arrest them anymore."

Callous much? Sometimes I want to punch defense attorneys in the neck for being so smug.

AmazonRedheadedUberVixen

lfw1031 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:44:13 EST

@meaghan2k: PS - can u cvr 4 me? Totes f'd up.

lfw1031

TriedandTrue — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:43:59 EST

This case was closed this week. Sad for the family having no closure.

TriedandTrue

Monstrosa — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:40:59 EST

Never mind what everyone else says. What does NANCY GRACE say?!

Monstrosa

marie123 — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:38:50 EST

That girl was probably shark food a long time ago.

Poor family--disproportionate representation of victim media coverage or not.

Somehow it is extra unnerving to lose a loved one in another state or country...

marie123

MissPeacock — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:37:39 EST

They did just close it. I live in B'ham and the front page of the newspaper yesterday had a huge story about the case officially being closed now.

MissPeacock

meaghan2k — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:36:14 EST

@meaghan2k: *Instant message

meaghan2k

meaghan2k — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:35:55 EST

I wonder what that away message said:

"ROTFL Ded chick in lake. 143 boozin'! OMGWTF"

meaghan2k

sanibelly — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:35:33 EST

@leMaldeTete: Ditto. Someone newsy somewhere said they'd closed it.

sanibelly

leMaldeTete — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:34:43 EST

I thought I just read a headline on CNN the other day about this officially being a cold case?

leMaldeTete

buyamerican — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:33:42 EST

leave natalie alone!!

buyamerican