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I had almost begun to dismiss my suspicions of Joran van der Sloot in particular.Sure, I thought, he was probably a cad and a lothario — but he wouldn’t be all that different from a lot of jock-y high school guys the world over if he was.
Being a dog and a player didn’t make Joran a killer.
Other figures who were for a time ubiquitous in mainstream coverage of the Holloway disappearance went from sympathetic to irritating, in my view.
I grew tired and bored with Fox News’s coverage in particular.
My sympathy for Natalee’s mother, Beth Twitty, was often at war with being annoyed whenever I saw her on TV, again.
To this day, Greta van Susteren is still my favorite Fox talking head, but I stopped watching her show for fear of another Holloway segment that would actually contain absolutely no new info whatsoever.
The fates of some Americans who became associated with the case in particular almost hinted at some kind of curse over the whole thing.
Joe Mammana, the Philadelphia entrepreneur who inserted himself into the story by offering a reward for information leading to Natalee’s recovery, went from a kind of folk hero to felon.
Jamie Skeeters, a retired police commander who partnered with Dr.
Phil McGraw to explore the mystery of Natalee’s disappearance, passed away in late January.
Natalee’s mom, Beth, and her husband, Jug Twitty, filed for divorce.
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