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Anita van der Sloot: Changes Her Mind

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Joran Van der Sloot (L) is escorted by police officers on an airplane in Santiago June 4, 2010. Van der Sloot, who was arrested twice over the disappearance of a U.S. student in Aruba in 2005, has been expelled from Chile and will be handed out to Peruvian authorities where he is a prime suspect in a new murder probe, according to local media reports. REUTERS/Danny Alveal (CHILE - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)

ABC News is now reporting that Joran van der Sloot’s mom, Anita, gave an interview to the De Telegraaf and has apparently changed her stance on believing what Joran is capable of. ABC’s news article is titled,”Joran van der Sloot’s Mom Says He ‘Could Have Done Something’ to Peruvian Woman.'”

Read moreWhen I translate the Dutch paper into English with Google, it reads, “My son is sick in the head.” According to the article, Anita broke her long silence in an interview with the Associated Press, and said she can’t rule out that Joran “slain” Stephany Flores. Shortly before Stephany’s death, Anita said that she spoke to Joran and he sounded paranoid. “He felt monitored and reviewed”.

It is fascinating to read that Anita said that Joran believed he was responsible for his dad’s early death. Why would he ever feel that unless he put his dad under undue stress?!

ABC quoted Anita as saying about Natalee Holloway, “I believed Joran. Despite his many lies. I felt that he didn’t have anything to do with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005. He had left her on the beach. I still believe that.”

Anita goes on, “After he was arrested for Natalee’s disappearance, he was traumatized,” the paper quoted her as saying, “We made a big mistake then. We sent him to the Netherlands to study. He should have gone to a closed clinic, he needed psychological help even back then. He wasn’t getting any rest, he was being persecuted.”

She said, “He lied so much, that we became desperate. He said to me too, ‘Mom, I sometimes don’t know any more if something is a lie or the truth. Joran is sick in his head, but he didn’t want any help.”

The saddest thing I saw was in ABC’s article. They wrote on behalf of Anita, “And she said she thinks it is time to ‘let Joran go.'”

No matter what I child did, I get sad when a parent no longer stands beside their child. I am not saying that she should support what he has done, agree with it nor approve of it — that would be wrong. It’s okay to acknowledge the nightmare, but she can still love him, even in his sickness. There is no other love as special as a parent’s love, and if Anita pulls away from Joran, she is another cold heart, if you ask me.

You can read more on ABC’s website here, or you can translate De Telegraaf for yourself.

Thanks, Karon, for the update!

Paul van der Sloot: Dead at 57

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Two New Witnesses in Holloway Case

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CNN is reporting that two new witnesses have come forward in the Natalee Holloway case. It’s quite interesting because one of the witnesses says he saw Joran van der Sloot and his father Paulus van der Sloot near a pond at 4:00 a.m. on the night Natalee disappeared.

When I dissected Joran’s confession earlier this year, I had a strong suspicion that Joran’s “secret friend” could in fact be his dad. Read here.

A second witness, a former girlfriend of Joran van der Sloot, also told police he made suspicious-sounding comments while they were on the beach. The witness, publicly known only as Celes, told police van der Sloot said: “Who knows? You may now be on the beach with someone who is able to get rid of a corpse.”