Natalee Holloway Goes Hollywood

h/t P

Or New York, at least. Loosely-based, as they say.

In a two-hour movie featuring both sets of the series' detectives for the first time -- a visiting Iowa teen disappears during her New York City school trip, prompting a massive media frenzy that engulfs Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio), Eames (Kathryn Erbe), Logan (Chris Noth) and Barek (Annabella Sciorra) when their prime suspect Ethan, guest star Matt O'Leary, is a powerful judge's son. The case widens when it appears the accused's philandering father Harold, guest star Colm Meaney, is a co-conspirator who acted to protect his son -- and might be a murder suspect himself -- but he is not afraid to punch back hard against the investigators. Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance and Fred Dalton Thompson ("Law & Order") also star.

Law and Order: Criminal Intent

Comments

[complex brian]

wow thats really pathetic. think it was coincidental? har har har.

[R. Decker]

how pathetic

[!]

Its just a matter of time that there will be a movie about Natalee and a book. Hope Beth and Dave make out quite well. When it happens down the road they deserve every dime that they get.
They will have to endure the loss of Natalle for the rest of their lives because of a "group" OF SELFISH COWARDS not to mention the the disgusting investigation and coverup the ALE did in this case from the start. Its a damn shame people are walking free while Beth and Dave and family and friends are still wanting to know what happened to their daughter !

[New Creature]

Whatever.

I won't be watching.

[Key West]

Natalee Drown.

[TheAlamo]

I still think she was sold, and is confined somewhere in South America.

[truthbetold]

how disgusting...wonder if beth was paid for this? I would not doubt it ....just pathetic and anyone who says "good for beth" for earning money from her daughter is pathetic as well.......if sharon rocha was in book deals in the middle of her daughters search you would have called that tacky or said she didn't care for her daughter but beth does it and it is ok

[truthbetold]

I still think she was sold, and is confined somewhere in South America.

Posted by: TheAlamo | Nov 1, 2005 6:29:23 PM

sold by who? beth or jug?

[arbeej]

Oh Lord. As if CSI wasn't enough.

[Jan]

Sounds like this has already gone Hollywood" Dompig says Beth arrived in Aruba today with a film crew???

[RdWarrior]

Dompig is an idiot and a liar.

Beth has every right to have whoever she wants on the trip. No one complains when the VDS's have media around them...when they spread their lying swill

Dompig looked like an idiot on Dan Abrams today. He could give straight answers to questions

Unfortunately Dave has no sack and continues to be puppetized by the Arubans. Beth's approach is the only one that will work now

Dompig wants to interview the MB kids....he wants to check the Skeeters tapes (the FBI already did and OKd them)....but Dompig doesnt want to search the VDS property?

This guy is full of crap

Great that they are making an episode out of the case. Maybe VDS will get bold and sue L & O....then we can grill him on what they did to Natalee

[Jan]

I have seen the VDS family anything but trying to attain media attention - what fantasy world are you from? They never wanted any media - and were constantly accused of running from the media - then they grant an interview in Dutch and wow that was wrong? As for Joran, I would think if the whole world was accusing me of something I had not done - I would at least once want to stand up and speak out.
Beth and her little film crew is just another attempt to get the limelight and spew her lies and accusations. It is not like she is doing what Dave did and actually search. she never searched all she did was powder her nose and get ready for Take 1 take 2 take 3 - she must be up to about take 1000 in front of the camera. so when she finally meets with Dompig - what lies will she spew then?

[Aunt Em]

I can see all that compassion for a grieving mother just OOZING from you Jan.

[Jan]

If I actually had ever seen a grieving mother then I would have compassion - all I have ever seen from Beth is a vendetta, accusations, and a totally out of control penchant for the spotlight. Not so with the grieving DAVE!

[nursemind]

I can see all that compassion for a grieving mother just OOZING from you Jan.

Posted by: Aunt Em | Nov 1, 2005 7:31:34

Grieving mother?? It's hard to see that through all the anger, hatred and revenge she spews forth.

[Jody]

Beth went back to Aruba with that film crew because she knew that Dompig wouldn't agree to sit down with her while being filmed. Can you imagine what she would do with that tape to edit it to her advantage? I think after the Skeeter tape, Dompig is way too smart for that.

But because of this, Beth will go on TV tonight making Dompig out to be the bad guy. He woudn't meet with her. He is being uncooperative.

Give me a break. I can't stand that witch. She is a manipulator from the word go. I would love to see her behind bars. The first thing that needs to be asked of the MB kids is if Beth and Marcia told them to shut up. We know they did, and that should be enough to charge Beth and Marcia with obstruction of justice and interfering with an investigation.

I hope her time is coming and she goes down...right in front of the TV cameras that she loves so much. She is a bitch!!!!

Keep up the good work Dompig. Stay at it and tell the world what she is doing.

[Colorado]

Does anyone know if Beth is paying for the camera crew?

[Jan]

wow Jody - about time some people truly started to speak out as to what Beth is really like - hah I really wish I could see a filming of her and ole Dompig - now that would be news!

[festicles]

Unfortunately Dave has no sack and continues to be puppetized by the Arubans. Beth's approach is the only one that will work now

Dompig wants to interview the MB kids....he wants to check the Skeeters tapes (the FBI already did and OKd them)....but Dompig doesnt want to search the VDS property?

This guy is full of crap

Great that they are making an episode out of the case. Maybe VDS will get bold and sue L & O....then we can grill him on what they did to Natalee

Posted by: RdWarrior | Nov 1, 2005 6:59:30 PM

Beth's "approach" is probably the single factor that has most hampered this investigation. From the beginning she ruined evidence, screwed up the investigation, polarized the situation, etc. While ninnies everywhere praised the fact that "without Beth the investigation would have gone nowhere" the investigation went nowhere - precisely because of the way Beth and the MB crew acted like crazed bulls in a china shop. If only they had conducted themselves like Dave we might actually know by now what really happened.

[westcoaster]

Love law & Order CI..especially Vincent D'Onofrio.

[scubajap]

Well, if Chris Noth is in it, it can't be all bad.

He's my kind of BIG, yum, yum!

[scubajap]

Sounds like this has already gone Hollywood" Dompig says Beth arrived in Aruba today with a film crew???

Posted by: Jan | Nov 1, 2005 6:43:51 PM
absolutely true. Fox news.

[annie]

Would love to see what the lynch mob will be saying if Natalee turns up alive and well and has just 'done a bunk', like thousands and thousands of people do every year! Bet it is not 'sorry' to Joran and Co. Beth just can't seem to get it into her head that there is, as yet, NO EVIDENCE AT ALL that Natalee is a victim of anything. She may even have just gone off for a swim that night after Joran left her and got swept away! Of course, Beth will then blame Joran anyway 'cause he took Natalee to the beach! She ought to listen to her daughter go on about how she loves the beach on the tape that Greta keeps playing (now without sound), and check out the words of the song Natalee was so in love with! If that was my child focusing on words like 'will you remember me when I am gone', it would freak me out! Also, why is Beth so defensive about the MB kids being questioned? Making a statement is not the same as being questioned!!! She seems to think their statements are sufficient. How can they be? They may have seen or heard something without even realizing it. What has Natalee's mother got to hide? It certainly seems like there is something that she does not want asked? She is just not making sense in the obsession she has with 'knowing' what happened, while there are many other things that could explain Natalee's disappearance. When the other girl Amy disappeared, her mother did not give up just like that and insist she was dead, and there have since been people come forward with good accounts that she is still alive, albeit kept against her will. Why is Beth not getting people to check this out as well? As it is, most people who have heard of this case must be thinking it is not worth looking for Natalee elsewhere because they have been convinced by Beth that she is dead! So far there is absolutely no evidence that Natalee is a 'victim' of anything, let alone rape and murder, though we should keep our minds open to all possibilities. It is hard to get an understanding of Beth's fixation on the one scenario, but hey, who knows she may be right! BUT SHE MAY ALSO BE VERY WRONG, and that means such a lot of time has been lost for Natalee, and Natalee will gradually be slipping further and further away in people's minds as even being still alive, when she may be very much alive somewhere and hoping we will keep on looking for her!!!!

[Jan]

Beth's "approach" is probably the single factor that has most hampered this investigation. From the beginning she ruined evidence, screwed up the investigation, polarized the situation, etc. While ninnies everywhere praised the fact that "without Beth the investigation would have gone nowhere" the investigation went nowhere - precisely because of the way Beth and the MB crew acted like crazed bulls in a china shop. If only they had conducted themselves like Dave we might actually know by now what really happened.

Posted by: festicles

Nothing is more true - when Beth and Jughead decided to take matters into their own hands and storm the VDS bastille with the Alabama posse - it all went downhill from there. Anybody associated with last seeing Natalee closed up and that was that - and coupled with that the Twitts at home lawyered up and completely shut up - Beth will continue to go down this insane road and in the end all she will have is lots of screan time, no daughter, but maybe a new career.

[Aunt Em]

Wow, you folks are hateful vultures. I would hate to think how you would react if your child went missing.

Just sit back and do nothing? Whatever Beth has done that you may find irritating does not excuse you for saying these things about her, she lost her child, you dont know how you would react.

I love how on one hand y'all are saying Beth is a big mouth who has hampered the investigation but call Dave a no "sack".

Absolutely facinating how small hateful minds think. Its like watching paint dry.

[Jody]

No one is saying she should have sat back and did nothing. However, I have never seen a mother of a missing child act the way she has. She lies about everything. This isn't about Natalee. It is about Beth getting her way.

You call us hateful, what about Beth trying to frame three young men where there is no evidence whatsoever that they did anything to Natalee? What about her being so damn greedy that she won't give Dave money to help with his expenses while in Aruba? What about her refusal to give the searchers money for what they need to search for Natalee? Has she already spent all the money in the fund on new vehicles? That money is supposed to go toward searching for Natalee, but Dompig said tonight that the searchers are asking where they can go to be paid.

You don't see anything wrong with her hoarding the money for herself? She doesn't give a damn about Natalee. She cares about getting rich and famous.

Beth Twitty should be scorned for her behavior, not applauded.

[ProudAmerican]

Wow cant believe these comments.. L&O ALWAYS takes stories from the headlines and does this.....

I can agree with Scubajap, on Noth.. My kinda Big too !!!!!!!!!!! LOVE HIM

[Aunt Em]

First of all, she didnt try to frame them, she thinks they had something to do with her daughters disappearance and I cant say as I blame her.

And where did you get all this hoarding money crap from?

[Aunt Em]

& I have to agree with proudamerican. You all act as if you havent seen a L&O before, ALL of the shows are loosely based on real cases.

[Jan]

Well maybe the word should not be hoarding - but there have numerous reports that funds for many searchers, rooms, people that have gone to help in many ways have not been able to get these funds - so what are they for?

And it has done no good to be so positive that J2K did anything - far better to wait until LE had the opportunity to check everything out without the compromising by the Twitts!

[tiredofbashers]

She ought to listen to her daughter go on about how she loves the beach on the tape that Greta keeps playing (now without sound), and check out the words of the song Natalee was so in love with! If that was my child focusing on words like 'will you remember me when I am gone', it would freak me out!
That's ridiculous! Free Bird has been a favorite in the South for many, many years and still is, not to mention that a lot of the teenage girls started liking the song after Birmingham's Bo Bice sang the song on American Idol and at the concert he performed at in Birmingham during the final weeks of AI. Also, the song is about a guy that can't stay with his girl because he wants to be as free as a bird so you are reading WAY too much into the verse she wrote in her yearbo

Also, why is Beth so defensive about the MB kids being questioned? Making a statement is not the same as being questioned!!! She seems to think their statements are sufficient. How can they be? They may have seen or heard something without even realizing it. What has Natalee's mother got to hide? It certainly seems like there is something that she does not want asked? She is just not making sense in the obsession she has with 'knowing' what happened, while there are many other things that could explain Natalee's disappearance. When the other girl Amy disappeared, her mother did not give up just like that and insist she was dead, and there have since been people come forward with good accounts that she is still alive, albeit kept against her will. Why is Beth not getting people to check this out as well? As it is, most people who have heard of this case must be thinking it is not worth looking for Natalee elsewhere because they have been convinced by Beth that she is dead!
Beth has always said that until there was a body or God let her know her daughter was dead that she would always believe Natalee was still alive. Let's not forget that she was awaken in the middle of the night by the FBI telling her that one of the boys had confessed and that he would be leading them to Natalee's body but naturally Beth is getting blamed for that too. ALE also told Beth that they have considered this a murder investigation since June 11th so now I guess Beth is wrong for believing ALE. The truth is in some people's eye's she can do nothing right!
It's a crying shame that so many people have to get their kicks by attacking a grieving mother and yes she is a grieving mother and if you can't see that you must be blind. I can also understand why after 5 months and still no answers why she would be angry...she has every right to be and if that was YOUR child missing you would be mad as hell too..I know I would. ALE screwed up this investigation from the very beginning...maybe it was due to inexperience and maybe it was a coverup..that's something that none of us know for sure. If Joran and friends were really innocent maybe they should have tried telling the truth in the beginning instead of lie after lie. If what Joran had done that night was so innocent he would not have felt the need to lie repeatedly but for some reason he did and so did he friends!

So far there is absolutely no evidence that Natalee is a 'victim' of anything, let alone rape and murder, though we should keep our minds open to all possibilities.

Maybe that comes from Joran saying I did rape her...no I didn't, Deepak raped her, killed her and then buried her. Deepak says they all had sex with her. Maybe if just one of them had it in them to tell the truth this would have been settled long ago and if they were innocent they would have had the opportunity to have cleared their name but it was more important to keep telling more lies.

It is hard to get an understanding of Beth's fixation on the one scenario, but hey, who knows she may be right! BUT SHE MAY ALSO BE VERY WRONG, and that means such a lot of time has been lost for Natalee, and Natalee will gradually be slipping further and further away in people's minds as even being still alive, when she may be very much alive somewhere and hoping we will keep on looking for her!!!!

Natalee may gradually be slipping from the minds of strangers but I guarantee that is not the case with Beth and Dave. They will not give up no matter how much certain people would like for them to.

Posted by: annie | Nov 1, 2005 8:13:17 PM

[in-disbelief]

How come we only hear about Beths "supposed" millions that aren't being accounted for, her husband is a fraud and that Natalee is is autistic , etc, ONLY on blogs, the internet, or rumors??? How come none of this is on the news?

[findnat]

How come we only hear about Beths "supposed" millions that aren't being accounted for, her husband is a fraud and that Natalee is is autistic , etc, ONLY on blogs, the internet, or rumors??? How come none of this is on the news?

It is bunch of garbage that a few of the posters spew on and on and on...Beth can probably sue them for slander...

[in-disbelief]

It is bunch of garbage that a few of the posters spew on and on and on...Beth can probably sue them for slander...

Posted by: findnat | Nov 1, 2005 10:23:38 PM

you know, I wish the HELL she would.....what a disgrace

[Jan]

Ratings, money, ratings, money - it is not good PR to truly question any of these things - it is only good tv to follow Bethie in a positive way and down on Aruba! If and when the tied would ever turn and really find out Beth and Jug were in the wrong - well watch the TV ratings go in the other direction!!

[Botched]

Ignorance is cureable, but stupidity is a lifestyle.

You people must surely come from the garbage dump.

God bless Beth, now and always. You go girl. Do what you have to do.

[Jon]

Beth's "approach" is probably the single factor that has most hampered this investigation. From the beginning she ruined evidence, screwed up the investigation, polarized the situation, etc. While ninnies everywhere praised the fact that "without Beth the investigation would have gone nowhere" the investigation went nowhere - precisely because of the way Beth and the MB crew acted like crazed bulls in a china shop. If only they had conducted themselves like Dave we might actually know by now what really happened.

Posted by: festicles

If it had not been for Beth going down ro Aruba and doing ALE's work for them by tracking down Joran herself, by the time ALE finally got around to it, the HI security tapes would have been erased, and to this day the trio would still be claiming they dropped Nat off at her hotel with the black security guard.

[frenchymom]

It is easy to pass judgement when you are not the one being judged......

I am amazed at how many people want to pass judgment on Beth, Dave, Jug, Aruba, VDS, etc when, unfortunately, we know very few FACTS. Lots of innuendo and "he said" "she said", but no REAL FACTS other than the fact that Natalee did exist, was in Aruba and did not make it home.

We are a sad group (myself included) when we watch television and read blogs to make judgements on other people's lives.

I agree wit we haven't seen the best side of Aruba, Beth, Jug and the VDS and Kalpoe brothers during all of this mess, but on my more lucid days I can't help but wonder if we are part of the problem or part of the solution..

[annie]

Hey 'tiredofbashers' must be really galling when anybody questions Beth's version of events. Sorry, I just dont go along with a lynch mob mentality like so many people like you do. THE REAL TRUTH IS that there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE that these boys have raped and murdered Natalee. That is why they have not been charged with anything! Check it out! Where did INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY go. God forbid that you are ever in the same position, accused of something, because you may just get the lynch mob mentality coming at you, and you will be hoping there are people who think like me around! Why, if Beth is willing to say that her daughter may still be alive is she still going around saying that she is sure she was raped and murdered by the so called 'suspects'. You can't have it both ways. If Natalee turns up alive and well, I hope you will have the good grace to come on and apologise. Of course, you wont, you will slink away like the rest. In the meantime some innocent person may have been killed by somebody who gets heated up to fever pitch to go and do something crazy, in the belief that these boys actually did it. I just thank God that not everybody is like you and there are people around who are fair minded, and willing to wait to see whether or not it is proved that Natalee is even dead, let alone by a criminal act. After all the obvious seems never to occur to you, like that she had been drinking and was next to the sea, and could just have gone for a swim and got washed away. It happens all the time!!!, but of course, that would not be criminally dramatic enough, and there would be nobody to hang it on!

[arbeej]

Has NH chat been disabled? Couldn't post, and now can't find a link to it.

[arbeej]

Posted by: frenchymom | Nov 2, 2005 12:16:29 AM

Excellent, thoughtful post. Very sobering. I agree entirely.

[letsbefair]

Has NH chat been disabled? Couldn't post, and now can't find a link to it.

Posted by: arbeej | Nov 2, 2005 1:20:46 AM

Yes, it does not seem to be working.

[arbeej]

Hmmm, Dan threatened to take it down if things didn't improve... Maybe he did.

[letsbefair]

I wonder if the Twittys are getting any money from this movie deal? It sounds like their story. That pilot from "behind enemy lines" sued the producers, because the story followed so closely what actually happened. He wasn't being given any royalties from the movie.

[ProudAmerican]

have we been banned? did he pull the plug?

[woebegone]

have we been banned? did he pull the plug?

Posted by: ProudAmerican | Nov 2, 2005 1:39:01 AM

I believe the Natalee forum is history. It's no longer listed on the side bar.

[ProudAmerican]

Posted by: woebegone | Nov 2, 2005 1:42:36 AM
Its there but comes up blank

[woebegone]

hmmmm I dont see it. I see the Aruban open questions, and the Aruban research, but not the natalee board.

[ProudAmerican]

On mine, it reads Natalee Holloway chat
That would list all the threads...

[woebegone]

ahhh ok, I see that one, but as you said, it comes up blank.