Natalee Holloway Suspect Joran Van Der Sloot Sought in Peru Murder

[Benzgirl]

Can I ask a silly question, bu this is something that always bugged me? What were a bunch of kids doing in Aruba for a senior class trip?

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Can I ask a silly question, bu this is something that always bugged me? What were a bunch of kids doing in Aruba for a senior class trip?

Is the question about Aruba in particular or that they went out of the country for the trip?

[Ghostwriter]

One more dead body and he might just qualify as a serial killer.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

One more dead body and he might just qualify as a serial killer.

A jet setting serial killer, what does this guy do for a living?

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Can I ask a silly question, bu this is something that always bugged me? What were a bunch of kids doing in Aruba for a senior class trip?

I grew up in CA and some of my friend's schools went on senior trips to Tijuana, Cabo, Cancun (those aren't super far for So Cal peeps but out of the country). They weren't always official school-sanctioned senior trips. More like "everybody is going so we'll call it senior trip."

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AGDee

According to the yahoo article:

The killing occurred exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance in Aruba of Holloway.


That creeps me out more than anything... 5 years to the day?

I call it the Lord, some may call it karma, but there's something to that anniversary. It's not just bad dumb luck!

Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

Apparently he has tried to extort money for the location of the Holloway body.


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/03...odys-location/

Surely that could be used against him in time.

Forgive me for my thoughts, but I hope he's nailed this time. I hope he never gets out of a deep, dark prison cell - but if he is, I hope he has to have WOMAN KILLER tatooed on his face!

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Can I ask a silly question, bu this is something that always bugged me? What were a bunch of kids doing in Aruba for a senior class trip?

I went to Jamaica with 8 other girls for my senior spring break. Another group went to Cancun. It's very common for seniors to go out of the country so they can drink. I look back on mine and think "wow that was stupid". Her mistake was getting in a car with a local.

[Ghostwriter]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Forgive me for my thoughts, but I hope he's nailed this time. I hope he never gets out of a deep, dark prison cell - but if he is, I hope he has to have WOMAN KILLER tatooed on his face!

Since the death penalty is probably out of the question in Peru (don't know their laws but suspect there is not a death penalty), I hope he becomes someone's lifetime Peruvian bitch.

[Kevlar281]

Originally Posted by Ghostwriter

Since the death penalty is probably out of the question in Peru (don't know their laws but suspect there is not a death penalty), I hope he becomes someone's lifetime Peruvian bitch.

Peru does have the death penalty but it's very unlikely that he will receive a death sentence. Peruvian prison is no joke; it will pretty much be a death sentence for him. A long drawn out painful existence that will reach its inevitable conclusion. His only hope is intervention from the Netherlands Embassy to insure his protection and even that will be a reach considering he is a Westerner who will most likely be convicted of murdering a Peruvian woman.

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by Kevlar281

Peru does have the death penalty but it's very unlikely that he will receive a death sentence. Peruvian prison is no joke; it will pretty much be a death sentence for him. A long drawn out painful existence that will reach its inevitable conclusion. His only hope is intervention from the Netherlands Embassy to insure his protection and even that will be a reach considering he is a Westerner who will most likely be convicted of murdering a Peruvian woman.

If the Netherlands is smart they'll slip out the back door on this one. He's an embarassment and they shouldn't waste an ounce of diplomatic capital on this guy.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Can I ask a silly question, bu this is something that always bugged me? What were a bunch of kids doing in Aruba for a senior class trip?

It was a school tradition, apparently. They had been doing it for years. The school is in a pretty affluent suburb of Birmingham so it doesn't really surprise me.

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

It was a school tradition, apparently. They had been doing it for years. The school is in a pretty affluent suburb of Birmingham so it doesn't really surprise me.

It is NOT connected to the school...groups of students from graduating classes at MBHS went to places like Jamaica and though this trip had the most attendees so far, they were all set up in basically the same manner, but none of them ever had any affiliation with the school.

I'm so glad they've finally caught him, but it is so unfortunate that he was able to murder another girl. If Natalee's investigation had been done correctly, he wouldn't have killed this girl in Peru.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

It is NOT connected to the school...groups of students from graduating classes at MBHS went to places like Jamaica and though this trip had the most attendees so far, they were all set up in basically the same manner, but none of them ever had any affiliation with the school.

It can be a school tradition without being officially sanctioned by the school. This isn't something that the school would have wanted to take liability for anyway, it's a tradition among the students.

(Why do I feel like I'm having this conversation twice)

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

It can be a school tradition without being officially sanctioned by the school. This isn't something that the school would have wanted to take liability for anyway, it's a tradition among the students.

(Why do I feel like I'm having this conversation twice)

Well I disagree with the way it's worded, but it's been a plague on the school since day one. People still claim it is a school tradition when it's not...community tradition would be more accurate. The school caught a lot of flack for a long time for something it actually had nothing to do with. I can't remember how many years grads had been going to Jamaica but I think the class above us was the first to go to Aruba.

(MBHS will not even let "class" trips to foreign countries by Spanish and French classes arrange the trips through them...no idea if that's par for the course for public school systems but I know they've always been particularly careful of distancing themselves from any trips legally. Except athletic events I guess?)

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

Well I disagree with the way it's worded, but it's been a plague on the school since day one. People still claim it is a school tradition when it's not...community tradition would be more accurate. The school caught a lot of flack for a long time for something it actually had nothing to do with. I can't remember how many years grads had been going to Jamaica but I think the class above us was the first to go to Aruba.

(MBHS will not even let "class" trips to foreign countries by Spanish and French classes arrange the trips through them...no idea if that's par for the course for public school systems but I know they've always been particularly careful of distancing themselves from any trips legally. Except athletic events I guess?)

If it's students from the school going and not a group of grads from all over then I think it makes sense to call it a school tradition while acknowledging it's not an official trip.

I went to private school and we took trips that were sanctioned and through tour companies so, I don't know how it works elsewhere.