A question that's been haunting me: why this case? Why is her disappearance more important than that of thousands of others? I find the attention given to this disappearance disproportionately large if you compare it to the other cases.
yeah i wondered that too. and rick2206 - that point about her getting drunk, offering guys body shots, etc is what shocked me the most.
i didn't follow the story as much when it first hit the news, but this wasn't exactly a kidnapping or a potential-rape situation. this doesn't sound too pre-meditated.
she clearly didn't set her limits when it came to her alcohol intake that night. and i'm wondering - where the hell were her friends during all of this??
van der sloot's story about her wanting and consenting (albeit under the influence of alcohol) to go home with him is actually plausible because if her girlfriends were in fact at the bar with her, then they would've objected if they suspected foul play. women party in groups for a reason.
but, it seems that if there was no objection on her friends' part, it's probably because they knew she "was going to get some."
now, what exactly happened on that beach is still unclear, but if this van der sloot guy was being honest about her convulsing and not harming her outside of that, then this could very credibly be a case of severe alcohol poisoning - something that's not uncommon among college students across the country. the implication of that is this: he may not have been responsible for her immediate death.
the way he handled himself after she started convulsing, however, and the decisions he made were completely stupid and wrong. he may be hiding something else, but he also may have simply found himself in a state of panic, causing him to use very terrible, unforgivable judgment.
