YOU BE THE JUDGE!

A. THE PROSECUTION CHARGES: JORAN VAN DER SLOOT LACKS SELF CONTROL.


B. JORAN PLEADS: NOT GUILTY!

1. Joran: "Totally Fiction"

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - ON THE RECORD W/ GRETA - 03/06/06
VAN SUSTEREN: … Never been an anger issue?
VAN DER SLOOT: No. Never. No.
VAN SUSTEREN: That's just all made up?
VAN DER SLOOT: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: Totally — totally fiction?
VAN DER SLOOT: Totally made up.
VAN SUSTEREN: OK.
VAN DER SLOOT: Totally fiction.

2. Joran: "Nothing Further from the Truth"

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - DE ZAAK NATALEE HOLLOWAY - CHAPTER 6 - GAMBLING
Page 4/5 - At the time I was under the guidance/treatment of a psychiatrist. According to statements in the media I had to go there because I supposedly had a violent temper problem, that I was beating up my mother and my brothers, but nothing could be further from the truth.


C. THE EVIDENCE

1. Joran cannot be challenged.

ASSOCIATED PRESS - 01/13/08
At the end of the Pauw & Witteman program, Van der Sloot and De Vries had a testy exchange in which Van der Sloot questioned whether De Vries would "be man enough" to apologize if evidence exonerating him came to light. The live show ended with guests shaking each others' hands. Van der Sloot stood up, then abruptly grabbed a glass of wine and leaned across the table to toss the contents directly in De Vries' eyes at a moment when the reporter was looking down. That segment was broadcast Saturday night by a different news program, Nova. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyW8zoNU5I
Credit: Hotshot - Scared Monkeys

2. Joran demands attention.

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - SUSPECT STATEMENT - 08/08/2005
The suspect was asked to take off his shoes. The suspect looked for support from his lawyer, they did not look at him however and he starts to write. He once again made an urgent request, with a slap on table.

3. Joran must not be annoyed.

SANDER GOTTENBOS - WITNESS STATEMENT - 06/16/05
On your question if I was with Joran in the carnivals season when there was an incident, I will explain to you the following: Yes I was with him on that day. On that day there was a parade in Oranjestad. We stood on the bridge at the Wilhelmina Park. That moment a druggie came to us. Joran had given him . The druggie had thrown it on the ground and started annoying us. Joran had called the police force that stood near. The police force had removed the druggie. After a while the druggie returned and started annoying us. He had grabbed Satish at its hand and wanted with him fight. At that moment Joran grabbed him and threw him off the bridge into the water.

4. Joran is a disturbed/sick individual.

DEEPAK KALPOE - SUSPECT STATEMENT - 06/16/05
If you want to find out what happened to the girl and where she is, you have to be with Joran van der SLOOT Joran van der SLOOT is a disturbed/sick person, he has admitted that he is in the care of a psychologist and that he hits his brother. If the police wants more information about Natalee, then you have to be with Joran. He was the last person with the girl, that I can guarantee.

5. Joran is an admitted thief and liar.

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - DE ZAAK NATALEE HOLLOWAY - CHAPTER 6 - GAMBLING
Page 4/5 - I was undergoing treatment at the psychiatrist, once every five weeks I had to go there, because I had stolen money from my mother and father and had lied about that. I used to lie about a lot of things in those days and I talked to the psychiatrist about that too.

6. Anita van der Sloot: "Problems with Joran are ongoing."

DEEPAK KALPOE - DE ZAAK NATALEE HOLLOWAY - CHAPTER 9 - THE LIES
Page 120/121 - On that same day we went to Joran's home after he called us and told us he was ready at the police. We went to his house around 9 PM. There we found Joran's mother and father in the room. Joran's mother said: “Hello guys come in, I have to rap on your fingers because you are having problems again. With that she meant that a week prior we had a fight at Carlos and Charlies. I had an argument with a guy and the police had come. Joran's mother said: “The last half year Joran is having problems all the time, a few months ago he pushed a guy through a window of the cinema. When that happened i did not know Joran yet. His mother also said that Joran is always in the casinos and that they as parents had not raised him like that. "And now you are in trouble again.

7. Joran is aggressive and destructive.

DEEPAK KALPOE - SUSPECT STATEMENT - 06/08/2005
I can give you a list of the problems that Joran has. He himself has said he had stolen money from his mother. He also says that if his brothers go into his room he beats them. Joran has completely beaten up a guy at Bahia, because according to him the guy had told something about him to the headmaster that was not true. Joran has destroyed more car front windows then any drug dealer on the island. Sometimes when we are out he says: Lets go! If we ask him what is going on he says he has smashed in a front window of a car.

8. Joran is a vandal, thief, troublemaker and defies the law.

DEEPAK KALPOE - DE ZAAK NATALEE HOLLOWAY - CHAPTER 9 - THE LIES
Page 135 - He also has admitted that he has stolen property from tourists several times. He goes to the casino's since he was 16. Everywhere where he sees a fire alarm he has to put it on. He has performed a lot of vandalism in several hotels

9. Joran obstructs justice.

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - DE ZAAK NATALEE HOLLOWAY - CHAPTER 15 - INSPECTORS FROM THE NETHERLANDS - 08/11/05
Page 225 - Joran is woken at 7:00am for a drug test. He says, "Cell mates quickly provide me with a little bag of urine from someone who had never blowed before. In front of the guard i need to pull the little bag out of my zipper and deposit the content into a small container. I'm very nervous, but i manage to do it. Results are negative. Only two people in the youth department of KIA received severe detention for the use of marihuana, the rest all tested negatively since they used the urine of the boy who had never blowed“

10. I do not realize my own strength!

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - DE ZAAK NATALEE HOLLOWAY - CHAPTER 15 - INSPECTORS FROM THE NETHERLANDS - 08/28/05
Page 233 - Joran is confronted with a statement by inmate Jose, saying that he and Joran had been in a fight. Joran says it was not a fight, only that he had 'hooked back strongly' on Jose during a soccer match, causing him to fall to the ground.

11. Joran's thoughts turn to violence.

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - LEAKED POLICE VAN RECORDING
Deepak: That scholarship of yours. Byeeeeeeee. You can forget it.
Joran: Yeah, by who? By you, retard. You know well that you did bad, otherwise you wouldn't lie.
Brothers: aaiaaieaaieeaiee!
Joran: I should have killed you, retard. Shut your trap.

12. So There!

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - LEAKED POLICE VAN RECORDING
Joran: And also the two guards (the two security guards who were detained the first time?_ guaranteed me that they will kill you when you get out of prison.

13. Joran steals, destroys and lashes out.

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT - SUSPECT STATEMENT - 06/10/05
Before the girl went missing I was also under treatment of a psychologist. This was because I had taken 50 euro's from my dad and also took money from my mother and I used my brothers mobile phone without asking for permission and after that I had broken the chip from his mobile phone. I also once fought with my brother in Miami ...

14. Joran is forced to take Yoga classes. Why?

ANITA VAN DER SLOOT - ON THE RECORD W/ GRETA - 06/23/05
ANITA VAN DER SLOOT: ... And he's just, like, Well, Mom, it's not so bad in here, but if I'm not here, and I'm thinking about you all the time and I'm praying and I'm meditating, because that's something that he went to yoga classes for a while. Of course, he was 16 then, so for him, it was, like, Why do I have to go to yoga?

15. Joran is not a gracious loser.

TITO LACLE - SM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 08/12/05
He is known to be very aggressive at times.. Joran that is. At one time he would play domino at a golf course and suddenly start kicking cactus around..

16. Joran's angry nature goes way back.

FREDDY MADURO - PRISON WARDEN - COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - 08/25/05
KOSINSKI (voice-over): … The prison director, Fred Maduro, used to work with Van Der Sloot’s father and knew Joran as a boy. (on camera): Is it strange to see him in this environment? MADURO: Yes, strange in a way, in another way, not, because of his temperament. When he doesn’t get his way, he gets very angry. I know that before, that already he was a very angry person.
KOSINSKI: And did you see some of his temper here in prison?
MADURO: In beginning, yes, with the policemen. But then, afterwards, the policemen really rough him up.
KOSINSKI: And he says Van Der Sloot got into a fight with another inmate.
MADURO: and he kicked a guy, and then he kept kicking in the same place. So, Joran’s pretty big. So, but the guy is small, but smaller than he is. But the guy (INAUDIBLE) hit him in the eye.

17. Joran's parents: "We have no control".

BETH TWITTY - VANITY FAIR ARTICLE - 01/02/06
In the first half-hour, Beth listened as Joran's parents lavished praise on their son, though they eventually admitted they had been having trouble with him. According to Beth, the van der Sloots acknowledged that Joran had been seeing a psychiatrist. "Anita told me that," Beth says. "She was saying they were beginning to have trouble with Joran [for a] defiant attitude. The father acknowledged they could not control him. He would sneak out, go gambling, in the pre-dawn hours. They had no control over him."

18. FBI Profile: Joran controls his family.

GEROLD DOMPIG - VANITY FAIR ARTICLE - 01/02/06
Moreover, Dompig says, this summer F.B.I. profilers completed a detailed psychological evaluation. "He struck us, and the F.B.I., as a guy who can make you believe he's God's gift to mothers-in-law," Dompig says. "But if you look at his actions, he's anything but. The F.B.I. profiled him as a person who never has been corrected by his parents. He's the boss of what happens in that house. He's the boss in the family. He is allowed to do anything.… If a person like that is in a position where a person says, 'No,' well, that person may change completely. Maybe he blew a fuse when she wouldn't have sex with him, and something happened."

19. Joran's mother is not exempt from his temper.

FREDDY MADURO - PRISON WARDEN - SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY - 08/25/06
MADURO: When he doesn‘t get his way, he gets—he gets very angry, and he even slap his mother—no, not really hit her, but used a lot of bad language.

20. FBI Profile: Joran has a sociopathic personality.

KATIE COURIC/BRYAN BURROUGH - GOOD MORNING AMERICAN - 12/07/05
COURIC: So does Dompig think that these three individuals ... these three mena are guilty of the crime? Did he go that far because obviously it is one thing to have that belief and another thing to have sufficient evidence to prove it in a court of law.
BURROUGH: Not only are they the only suspects, but an FBI profile has led to a conclusion on Dompigs part and the FBI that the young man who is at the center of the case, Mr van der Sloot, has a sociopathic personality that would make him a prime suspect. So clearly they believe that's where the answers lie. It is just a question of finding evidence to back it up.

21. Proclivity: predisposition, tendency, proneness

BETH TWITTY/DAVE HOLLOWAY - NEW YORK LAWSUIT - 02/26/06 http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/hway/hwayvds21606cmp5.html
February 16, 2006 Summons and Complaint Elizabeth Ann Twitty and Dave Edward Holloway vs. Joran van der Sloot and Paulus van der Sloot. 14 Joran’s proclivities, at a young age, were known to both of his parents, Paulus Van der Sloot and wife, Anita. 15. As recently as May 2005, Joran was receiving psychological counselling for his problems.

22. Joran's way or else!

CLINT VAN ZANDT - FORMER FBI INTESTIGATION - THE ABRAMS REPORT - 08/25/05
CLINT VAN ZANDT, FORMER FBI INVESTIGATOR: Yes, I mean, Dan, the tape of Joran sitting there in boxer shorts, throw it away. Who cares? You know it‘s one more person in prison. What counts is what you just pointed out. Here is someone who comments on someone who has a significant anger management problem. When he doesn‘t get his way, he loses his temper. He gives his mother grief. He curses at her. He‘s had fights inside the jail. He‘s had arguments and fights with police officers. I mean, you know, does this make him guilty of anything? No, but it suggested this is someone who doesn‘t handle his anger well. He doesn‘t handle rejection well. He wants his way and if he doesn‘t get it, he perhaps goes physical.

23. Physical violence is Joran's first reaction to a contentious situation.

ANITA VAN DER SLOOT - ON THE RECORD W/ GRETA - 06/23/05
VAN DER SLOOT: ... He knew that things were wrong, but — and the girl was missing. But he repeated, She will appear somewhere. And if she does, I'll kick her butt in front of her mom because she brought all of us in trouble. That's what he repeated several times.


D. THE CLOSING STATEMENT - PROSECUTION


"Your Honor, we believe the evidence speaks for itself. Given the history of Joran's past uncontrolled behavior, one needs only to imagine what might have happened to Natalee on the night she said no to Joran."

E. THE VERDICT


You be the Judge!

Natalee and her family deserve justice - and we will not let up until they have it!
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