Don't ask me, the best I could do was translate the book blurb using Babelfish - which has issues, obviously.
In May 2005 the eighteen-year-old American Natalee Holloway disappear on Aruba. Joran of the dutch tell the police force firstly that he has brought Natalee at night to its hotel - but in reality he has left behind her on the range. The mother of Natalee starts an enormous retrieve medium offensive what has happened with its for the; she accuses the arubaanse police force of corruption and incompetentie. Until now nor the FBI, nor the Dutch and arubaanse police force have found a track of Natalee. In this book Joran reveal everything concerning its life and its meeting with Natalee; he tells prison over the three months in a arubaanse and finally gives he its vision on its disappearance. He is still head hoofdverdachte.
Suspect Joran Van Der Sloot has written a book on his experience in and around the Natalee Holloway case.


http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article703329.ece/Onderzoek_bij_ouders_Holloway-verdachte
Last night twenty forensic specialists from the Netherlands executed a search warrant at the House of the Van der Sloots on Aruba
Posted by: Mike | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 05:05 AM
Maybe they were looking for WMDs? Oh wait, both Natalee and the WMDs are in Syria.
Posted by: BobInStamford | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 07:33 AM
Well, she isn't buried at the van der Sloot house. The search was finished yesterday, no body found, no questioning, no arrests. So, she may very well be in Syria.
Posted by: greenwing | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 07:52 AM
Some passaages from the book have been posted in English at this web address:
http://scrux.com/forum/admin/index.php?sid=c5bd29b91ffd28ca016e037d1c4b6bc0
Posted by: Jan | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 08:23 AM
What about teh HOOFTVERDACHTE? Isn't that the real question, here?
Posted by: Jauhara | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 09:10 AM
Hooftverdachte is Dutch for O.J. Simpson or green cheese. It depends on the context.
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Your hairy love is in Syria, along with Natalee and the WMDs, Bob.
Your SURGE has failed!
Posted by: templar knight | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 10:47 AM
Well, Fred,
I think it's OJ. "Hoofverdacte" is someone who runs away on his own hoofs in the night. That would be OJ.
Posted by: Phoenix | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 11:01 AM
Yes, Phoenix, and gets away with murder, in my opinion.
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 12:34 PM
I'm sure you got the gist of it, but for those wanting a more accurate translation than Babelfish is capable of, here it is. See, liberals are good for something....... ;-)
In May of 2005, 18-year old Natalee Holloway disappears on Aruba. Joran van der Sloot first tells the police that he brought Natalee to her hotel that night - but in reality he left her at the beach. Natalee's mother starts an enormous media offensive to find out what happened to her daughter; she accuses Aruban police of corruption and incompetence.
Until now, neither the FBI nor the Dutch and Aruban police have found any trace of Natalee. In this book Joran reveals everything about his life and his meeting with Natalee; he tells about the three months in an Aruban jail and in the end he gives his opinion about her disappearance. He is still the main suspect.
(I have no idea where Babelfish got that "Joran of the Dutch" from. Maybe mis-translating his surname, which could be translated as "of the ditch". I, not u, Babelfish!)
Posted by: Northerner | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 04:38 PM
It's almost time to take Joran off the suspect list. There is nothing! What is it, 9 more people arrested to be removed from the suspect list as their 2 year anniversary comes up.
The search is a publicity stunt ... and a free Aruban vacation for the searchers.
kc
Posted by: kaycee77025 | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 06:25 PM
I doubt the search is a publicity stunt done to help a self confessed PATHOLOGICAL LIAR make money of the death of Natalee Holloway. It seems very doubtful that after two years any forensic evidence other than a body would be found, too bad a full forensic search of the entire house and property wasn't done the first time around.
Posted by: nowinger | Monday, April 30, 2007 at 12:18 PM
It's almost time to take Joran off the suspect list. There is nothing! What is it, 9 more people arrested to be removed from the suspect list as their 2 year anniversary comes up.
The search is a publicity stunt ... and a free Aruban vacation for the searchers.
kc
Posted by: kaycee77025 | Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 06:25 PM
Joran will always be known as a self confessed pathological liar and SUSPECT for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Skye | Monday, April 30, 2007 at 06:03 PM
How funny that Joran's own lawyer is lamenting that a full search of the house was NEVER done until now! I remember how many people went to the mat on that one, claiming repeatedly the entire house had been searched and anyone who said otherwise was a liar, LOL.
I doubt they will find anything after this long, though.
Posted by: nowinger | Monday, April 30, 2007 at 06:17 PM
From day 1 Paulus Van der sloot - No body no case. Why refer to a missing teen as a BODY! Liars sent police off in direction of holiday inn security guards. Gave them time and now years have gone by. What do you think they will find. The truth is Joran PAPA and the Kalpoe bros will be held responsible in the end. I pray for their lives to be filled with the same pain they have caused Natalees Parents for not allowing them CLOSURE. as to jorans book he is SO desperate to be a star. Please Joran come to the states we would love to take you to the beach.
Posted by: lisa | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 08:26 PM
From day 1 Paulus Van der sloot - No body no case. Why refer to a missing teen as a BODY! Liars sent police off in direction of holiday inn security guards. Gave them time and now years have gone by. What do you think they will find. The truth is Joran PAPA and the Kalpoe bros will be held responsible in the end. I pray for their lives to be filled with the same pain they have caused Natalees Parents for not allowing them CLOSURE. as to jorans book he is SO desperate to be a star. Please Joran come to the states we would love to take you to the beach.
Posted by: lisa | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 08:26 PM
lisa, I'm surprised you'd put yourself on the same level as you think Joran is. Do you really want to murder someone who might be innocent? Do you really want to murder someone who might be guilty?
Posted by: kaycee77025 | Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 11:54 AM
I cannot believe they keep dragging this poor Joran boy into the media spotlight. It was proven this young man had no involvement in Natalee's disappearance, leave the guy alone. They held him in prison for 3 months, harrassed and forced him to move out of the country and are now bringing it back up as he is trying to get his life settled. Natalee is long gone, let's not end someone elses life.
Posted by: chuck dunleavy | Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 04:13 PM
I've never seen any proof that exonerated van der sloot from Natalee's disappearance. I've seen a self-confessed pathological liar continue to change his story as new evidence was uncovered to disprove his prior stories, who continues to change his story of what happened even today. Insufficient evidence is hardly proof of innocence. Many people will always believe van der sloot knows what happened to Natalee, I certainly do.
Posted by: nowinger | Friday, May 04, 2007 at 10:59 AM
Why would Joran lie about what happened that night?
Why not just tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may?
What responsibility does Joran have for keeping the story in the news?
Why write a book and seek publicity?
Why sell books?
Money?
Posted by: iwabwu | Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 11:14 PM
The funniest thing about Joran's book is that he admits so many of the things that his supporters have denied for the last two years. He admits he's a promiscuious, pathological liar with a history of violent behavior who has been referred for counseling more than once. He even admits he routinely told girls he was a tourist, just like the MB students said all along. He even admits he lied about getting a BJ from Natalee.
Posted by: nowinger | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 10:13 AM
The only thing I find interesting about Joran's book is that he admits everything that his fan club have accused Beth of lying about him and now he has made complete fools of his fans.
Posted by: Skye | Monday, May 14, 2007 at 06:12 PM
lisa, I'm surprised you'd put yourself on the same level as you think Joran is. Do you really want to murder someone who might be innocent? Do you really want to murder someone who might be guilty?
Posted by: kaycee77025 | Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 11:54 AM
Lisa said ....Please Joran come to the states we would love to take you to the beach.
Posted by: lisa | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 08:26 PM
Deep down Kaycee also believes Joran is responsible.
Posted by: Skye | Monday, May 14, 2007 at 06:15 PM
The only thing I find interesting about Joran's book is that he admits everything that his fan club have accused Beth of lying about him and now he has made complete fools of his fans.
His fans are still in denial though, they're obsessing about Natalee's drinking as they have been for 2 years, apparently being a social drinker at home and drinking heavily for 4 days makes Nat an 'alcoholic' but Joran's admitted massive partying, lying, whoring and drinking since he was 15 is 'normal' for a teenager.
Promiscuous.
Lying problem.
Calls himself a pathological liar.
Details past violent episodes.
Routintely snuck out of the house.
Lied about sexual contact with Natalee.
Has been/should be in therapy for above problems.
Said he was a tourist from Europe.
Admitted photoshopping a photo w/Natalee [CREEPY]
Natalee's friends said she WAS a virgin [so much for her being a slut I guess since surely the Joran fan club would believe something in Joran's book]
hard to imagine short of an OJ 'if I killed her' type of book how his book could have made him look any worse.
Posted by: nowingker | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 02:05 PM
The most interesting part of the book is the revelation that the Van der Sloot family is claiming some video's. One tape of the Holiday Inn lobby where a girl is seen with the same clothes as Natalee had during her last night with Joran, same posture. That is May 30 around 3 o’clock, when Joran an the Kalpoes were interneting at home. Her father told the police "it could be her". Her mother told the police: "it's not her, Natalee has no breasts and has a bigger nose". And a video tape of the Windham Hotel jewelry shop of May 31, where a "Natalee look-a-like" is seen with some dude. They will probably compare the last video with a statement of a Valero gas station employee who has stated she is sure she saw Natalee in her shop on May 31 with a dude. She is sure she can recognize this dude.
Posted by: henk | Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 11:52 AM
Righto.
There are tapes that ID Natalee at the Hotel and even in a jewelry store May 30th. This evidence has been ignored by the FBI, Aruban police and now the Dutch team.
Try to think clearly. That doesn't make sense.
What makes sense is that its NOT NATALEE on the videotapes. There were plenty of "Natalee" sightings all over Aruba,she was at the gas station, in the car w/the machette guy, at the bank....except she wasn't.
The Dutch and Aruban teams would have no reason to ignore evidence that Natalee was alive on May 31st. Joran van der Sloot has a significant reason to say this, because it would exonerate him.
Since he's a self identified pathological liar who admits in 2007 he still has a lying problem and lies when its convenient it isn't too hard to figure out who is more credible, Joran or the FBI/ALE/Dutch police.
Posted by: nowingker | Friday, May 18, 2007 at 10:26 AM
WEll said , nowingker.
Posted by: Skye | Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 12:25 AM
That’s the he crux of the mystery: a “self declared liar” at one side and a “reality-constructing posse” at the other side. Both do not know what happened to the girl that night. Aruban Law Enforcement, FBI and Dutch police already know Natalee went back to her Hotel, called her mom at 4. This is what they have informed the Alabama senator last year. What they want to know is did Joran pick her up at the Hotel (with her now missing- suitcase) or did she go with someone else?. That’s what the investigation is about right now, that’s why there were new house searching’s and inspections.
Not only FBI, ALE and Dutch police haven’t found evidence against vdS, Skeeters, John Q Kelly and who knows more have found their Waterloo in trying to frame him. Why? Because they’ re after the wrong person, liar or not.
Posted by: henk | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 09:48 PM
Henk,
Do you have a credible source that confirms that Natalee went back to her hotel and pick up a suitcase as a FACT? I do not think you do because it did not happen. It has already been stated by the suspect that he did not take her back to the hotel, that he lied about taking her back to the hotel and that she did not go back to the hotel.
Posted by: Skye | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 11:05 PM
FBI and Dutch police already know Natalee went back to her Hotel, called her mom at 4.
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I don't believe this for a minute. You suitcase isn't missing, this is more misinformation and lies that come from Joran's fan club. There was NEVER a missing suitcase and there is NO EVIDENCE that Natalee was back at the hotel, if there was then the police would long ago have cleared Joran and the Kalpoes.
Instead, they're re-searching their properties.
Your lack of logic is astounding. She went back to the hotel and no one saw her, she went back to her room and got her suitcase and no one saw her, then she left the hotel again and no one saw her.
NO ONE SAW her because she WAS NOT THERE. The video is not Natalee, and don't bother parsing a single phrase made by a nervous teenager on national TV as being an admission that Natalee was back at the hotel because it doesn't wash. If there was proof she was back at the hotel it would have been shouted from the rooftops by the police and Joran.
More lies from the liar fan club.
Posted by: nowingker | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 09:44 AM
Henk, your absolutely right. She is recorded at her Hotel. ALE will release the tape eventually. Walking to her hotel she probably stumbled over Jorans shoes as well. Very likely she snached them and did put them in her blue suitcase. I've seen the ALE reconstruction video as well, so the suitcase information is from ALE itself! Not likely a rumour or lie if ALE is calling out people to react and give information about this suitcase if its a hoax!. And probably at least 4 of the MB teens have seen her back in her hotel as well. Why else would they refuse to be interogated by FBI???
Posted by: uitjedak | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 07:27 PM
Right
And add to this the phrases of her mom: "I'm not interested to know who she was last seen with" / "I'm not interested in justice, I want revenge".
She created the mystery and directed all the attention to one (dead) lead!
Posted by: henk | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 09:24 PM
What reason would her classmates have to lie about seeing her? Oh I forgot, they were doing drugs/they killed her themselves. Check.
The guy who played Joran in the TV reenactment wasn't even white, what makes you think the suitcase was exactly like the suitcase she had? The police said from the beginning her luggaage and clothes were in her hotel room, do you REALLY think if her luggae was missing they would have overlooked it??? Again, its stupid. The MB students no matter how many drugs they bought in Aruba would have no reason to lie about Natalee suitcase or seeing Natalee. Seeing or not seeing Natalee doesn't get them in trouble, Natalee doing drugs or not doesn't get them in trouble.
Nobody refused to talk to the FBI, thats more Joran fan club propaganda. The kids talked to the FBI several times. In fact, it is FROM the MB students that we found out how much Natalee was drinking and how out of control she was acting. I wonder why they didn't lie about that? Maybe because they didn't lie about ANYTHING because they had nothing to hide. Hmmmm.
Posted by: nowingker | Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 10:15 AM
What reason would her classmates have to lie about seeing her?
To avoid lying, they did not gave an official statement at all!! It's not lying, it's not drugs, it's not avoiding having a "name". It is all about playing the game of her mom. And that is: try to get a confession out of the three suspects, so make them look as guilty as hell. Natalee back at the hotel does not fitt in that picture. So the MB-kids followed her instructions. What reason would they have to give inn their cellphones and camera's before leaving Aruba? They did! They gave it to her mom's sister!
Why would her mom write all over the place: "call me hootie, (...) I want to talk to you (...)", if she did not think she ran away? (most probably: Natalee called her and for calling her she had to get back to the hotel / on her trip with Joran she did not have a cell). Furthermore if you are so sure it is not Natalee on the Holiday Inn video, you are more sure than her own dad, who saw the tape!
Posted by: henk | Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 09:02 PM
1. YES, they did give statements, many of their statements are available on the Internet. Many of their statements are what gives us a picture of Natalee drinking to excess and acting out of character.
2. Your premise rests on the idea that Beth Twitty doesn't want to know what happened to her daughter. Patently ridiculous. There is no reason on this Earth why she would ignore information that placed Natalee back at her hotel. That is more illogical fantasy to excuse van der sloot.
3. Again, if Natalee called Beth that night, why haven't the ALE made that public? For what reason would they have ever put the 3 suspects in jail? Is Beth Twitty secretly running the Aruban police? The actions that were taken by the Aruban police prove your theory is asinine. They've repeatedly said she was not back at the hotel, ever. Jorans LAWYWER has said the video 'might be' Natalee, that's his job, lie for his client. He also said maybe Natalee used her key card when his own client's statements show it was impossible for her to use the keycard since she was still in the car with the 3 suspects.
4. The Arubans told Beth that Natalee was probably out on a bender, they didnt' take the case seriously for almost a week. What mother wouldn't rather believe her daughter was just acting out of character than that she was DEAD, never to be recovered even for a decent burial??? Natalee's family ignored evidence that Natalee was dead for the first few weeks, to go back and now use their hope that she was alive as evidence the knew all along she was alive is sickening and perverted. The woman walked all across the island giving out Natalee's picture and bracelets and I am supposed to believe she knew all alone Natalee ran away. Bullshit.
5. No matter what you want to do you can't get around the lies the 3 boys told and the story the concocted before being questioned by police.
Posted by: nowingker | Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:51 PM
you've stayed to long in an echopit
Posted by: henk | Friday, May 25, 2007 at 02:12 PM
That would be you , Henk and you did not answer my question.... what is your source about the suitcase?
Posted by: Skye | Friday, May 25, 2007 at 07:27 PM
WOW!! THis Blog is still going?? I thought Dan killed it when he came out with his own death by orgasm theory :(
I see plenty of trolls here still posting mis-information...Henk your a lost soul!!
Posted by: WADUP | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 03:11 AM
Two Important Facts Revealed on Dutch TV show Crimestoppers by Peter De Vries:
1) Joran's attorney, Antonio Carlo, had a private, off-the-record meeting with
prosecutor Karen Janssen. Carlo wanted to clear his conscience and told Janssen : "My client Joran VDS played a MAJOR ROLE in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway."
2) Joran (sicko), paid someone to photoshop a pic of he and Natalee together.
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Does everyone here know that Joran killed his own dog with a paintball gun?
That is a cruel thing to do and raises a huge flag.
He tried to blame it on someone else but was called on it.
I guess the Dutch team isn't buying Joran's beach story. Even ALE thinks Joran took Natalee TO HIS APARTMENT.
Joran's best buddy Freddy admitted in a police statement that Joran told him
the Holiday Inn lie on May 30, long before Natalee's family arrived and before
it was publicly known that Natalee was missing. In other words, Joran had special
knowledge.
Also, Joran told Freddy that "they all panicked when Natalee REMAINED PASSED OUT."
Posted by: JusticeforNatalee | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 03:18 PM
Hi JusticeforNatalee,
I heard about JVDS killing his dog and blaming another boy. I guess we'll have to wait it out until JVDS is a fullblown serial killer or something. Sick ba&^#@d.
I saw an ad on Court TV for a show coming next Weds night..Three psychics in Aruba to 'tell' us what happened to Natalee. Should be good!
Posted by: Pearly | Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 06:30 PM
Perly,
Here's another shocking revelation, surprisingly from Joran's book!
Jan van der Straaten, police commissioner and good buddies with Paulus,
told Joran that he could see to it that Joran would not go to jail but to a mental institution if
Joran just told the truth.
Hmmm, do you think maybe van der Straaten thought Joran was guilty?
Hey, Scared Monkeys and Blogs for Natalee still regularly cover the case.
Let's hope KLPD (Dutch police) bring justice.
Posted by: JusticeforNatalee | Friday, June 15, 2007 at 11:52 AM
typo: Pearly
sorry about the mistake in your name LOL
Posted by: JusticeforNatalee | Friday, June 15, 2007 at 11:54 AM
That show looks good.. it's Haunted Evidence on Wednesday the 20th of June on Court TV if anyone wanted to know.
Posted by: SuperWomanda | Friday, June 15, 2007 at 04:53 PM
Here is a good link for the Kalpoe v. McGraw case documents ~
http://homepage.mac.com/mcgraw.kalpoe.docs/Statements_timeline.html
No discussion. There are a lot of witness statements not released to the public. It also shows the dates people were first brought to the attention of investigators.
Posted by: iwabwu | Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 04:25 PM
The problem is so many people pretending they know what happened to Natalee.
Posted by: kaycee77025 | Monday, June 18, 2007 at 03:18 PM
Hi JusticeforNatalee:D
No worries about my name, I knew who you meant.
Just saw a commercial about the upcoming Haunted Evidence and the blond gal says, "she's here" and "I know what happened".
Now, it seems to me, this program has been taped already (hence the ads, lol) and still no sign of Natalee. So, the psychic either knows Natalee's in the water or that Natalee was cremated, or the psychic's a fraud.
I don't understand why these three on Haunted Evidence would stick their reputations on the line with such a big case. But then again, I've never understood why every psychic in the world hasn't descended on Aruba, or Boulder, or Brentwood, etc. just to satisfy their own curiosity.
Try to watch and I'll do the same. Thanks for the headsup about Scared Monkeys:D Pearly
Posted by: Pearly | Monday, June 18, 2007 at 06:57 PM
well, I watched and thought "nothing we haven't discussed". A few loose ends, too. For instance, the business about money changing hands, and the female psychic's comment in a promotion ad saying she believed her life was in danger, but then nothing about it on the show. Reenactments looked like Joran and Paulus and the Kalpoes.
The blond intimated Joran as perp, and the man came up with a face/composite that resembled Freddy.
Posted by: Pearly | Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 06:46 PM
DEAR ALL
i am begging you to go find another passtime... you are waisting your time.
i will be back to say I TOLD YOU so
very soon...!!!
as goodness prevails ;)
just ya'll wait and see!
Posted by: Melody | Sunday, July 01, 2007 at 03:07 AM
Melody you dont have a clue!! Your lying,drugging,murdering friends are going down!! You can bet on it!!
BTW:Your a lying tramp!! I hope charma comes back and bites you and your kid in the face!!
Posted by: PIMPSAREGOINGDOWN!! | Wednesday, July 04, 2007 at 04:50 AM
There is a recent published dutch article about the Holloway case.
http://witheet.com/buitenland/politie-aruba-bedreigd-door-fbi
Unfortunately I'm not able to translate it.
Posted by: Henry | Thursday, July 05, 2007 at 01:27 PM