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Originally Posted by Alumiyum
But again, the issue should (well, ok IMO) be made separate from Natalee and her family, as she was a victim, and they (again IMO, since I do not know them) have just done what they could to keep her from being forgotten. And, of course, she is by no means the only example of a media obsession when a pretty young white girl goes missing. (Elizabeth Smart, Jon Benet Ramsay, Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, Lori Hacking, etc. come to mind). ETA: I think it has a lot to do with "damsel in distress"...especially for the two who were abducted/murdered in childhood and Laci Peterson as she was pregnant...we want to protect them and get caught up in the stories, because they seem helpless or innocent.
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I don't think anyone is faulting her family for continuing the search. The point is that the
media is focusing on her because she was a pretty young white girl.
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Just a point, but that's not a general consensus for the residents of Birmingham. Also, she was 5'4" and 110 pounds, while Joran is well over 6 feet, 6'3" IIRC and obviously was much heavier and stronger than she. There's no way she ever came close to "whooping his ass". IMO, the story he told on hidden camera about her seizing and him throwing her in the ocean with the help of a friend (even though he wasn't SURE she was dead) is the closest to the truth.
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I'm sure this was just an example. The point is that we don't know what happened.