NATALEE HOLLOWAY CASE: ETHICAL AND OTHER ISSUES
Undercover operation and huge TV circus ethical?
Crime reporter Peter R. de Vries paid the 34-year old business man who befriended and secretly recorded Joran van der Sloot some US$ 35,000. Bounty hunters are a well-known phenomenon, also on TV, as are rewards offered by police or private persons. We have all seen episodes of ‘America’s Most Wanted’. I guess it is common knowledge these days that one can serve both the law and one’s own wallet simultaneously.
The business man gained Joran’s trust, also by smoking marijuana with him (click here). So the question arises, exaclty how stoned …
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NATALEE HOLLOWAY: CASE SOLVED?
Not yet, not yet at all
Dutch television aired a videotape last Sunday (3 February 2008), in which Joran van der Sloot says he was with Natalee Holloway on an Aruban beach when she apparently died and that a friend of his with a boat disposed of Holloway’s body (further details here on CNN and here). According to crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, the case is now solved. But is it really? To be honest: not yet, not yet at all.
From a legal point of view, there are at least …
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