ARUBA KILLED NATALEE HOLLOWAY...By allowing Joran Van de Sloot, his father and friends to get away with Murder.The O’Reilly FACTOR: February 15, 2008 (full transcript below)
Bill O’Reilly: As you many know, the villain Joran van der Sloot, who we believe was directly involved in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway almost 2 years ago, was caught on an undercover tape saying the woman died in his presence and the body was thrown into the ocean.
Now, some believe the Aruban authorities have been covering up for van der Sloot. Joining us now from our New York studio, Geraldo Rivera. Do you believe that?
Geraldo: If don’t know if there’s cover up per se, but there certainly is no desire it seems to have this case aggressively pursued. You have, there’s rage, let me start that way Bill, there is real rage in Aruba, I’ve been on the phone with them all day today about the Appellate Court’s decision to support to lower Court Judge saying you can’t arrest him.
The reason the rage is so virulent is that they’re using as their rationale, that Joran van der Sloot, having told so many different stories, is now un-trustworthy when he confesses like he’s doing on the tape that’s being shown right now.
In other words, at first he says he and and the Kalpoe brothers drive her back to the Holiday Inn where they see a black, adult security guard making the moves toward her. Then he says the Kalpoe brothers did it, you know this guy has changed his story so often that the Judge now says he’s unreliable and you can’t trust his confession.
Bill O’Reilly: There’s no question the guy’s a pathological liar and a sociopath. You have to know that if you follow the case, but here’s the deal. I’ve watched this tape now, four or five times, the undercover tape by the Dutch journalist; there’s no way this guy’s making this stuff up; there’s no way this van der Sloot is making this stuff up.
Geraldo: That is why the local authorities, not the local authorities but certainly the local press and the people in the tourist business, because remember Aruba’s tourist trade is down between 12% and 18% since Natalee Holloway disappeared in 2005 so it’s having a real world impact on the Aruban people. Their rage is at the timidity of the judiciary, but the trouble is they have a tradition that once they arrest someone and release them, that the bar for evidence gets higher and higher.
Bill O’Reilly: Here’s what they could do and should do, just go in with it in front of a jury, let the jury have it and then if he walks, he walks. Let the folks decide and here’s the other wrinkle; this guy’s father is a big shot, this guy’s father has juice on that island, this guy van der Sloot was treated from the jump Geraldo, you know that.
Geraldo: Clearly, I
believe that the father is the person that he called. Paulus van der Sloot is the person he called but let’s dissect what Joran tells Patrick.
If indeed the death of Natalee Holloway was an “accident” then the person you would call would be your dad, the Judge. It is natural if the death was an accident and not a murder that you’d call your dad and then he tells the cops later that Deepak and Satish did it. Deepak and Satish tell him in the back seat of the car and it’s on tape that ‘if they find that girl, you’re going to get 15 years’
Why didn’t they call the authorities if it was an accidental death and how could he sleep like a baby unless he knew that her body had been disposed of. To think that he would trust a casual friend with the disposal of dead Natalee Holloway and then go walk home and then sleep like a baby, defies human emotion, it is unconscionable.
Bill O’Reilly: You know me, I don’t speculate okay, but I’ll tell you right now why he didn’t call the authorities or the EMS if the woman had a seizure and died, because he raped her, because they slipped some date rate drug inside and any kind of an autopsy would have seen the date rape drug, this guy had history of doing this kind of stuff, we know he prowled the casinos.
You’ve been down there Geraldo, you know what goes on there. They target the tourists, they take the tipsy girls and they do this and any kind of an autopsy, any kind of a medical examination would have shown what these guys did to Natalee Holloway
Geraldo: And he is a big kid, he’s over 6 feet, he outweighs her 2 to 1. There’s no doubt in my mind not only did he drug her but he also roughed her up, maybe even to the point where he murdered her.
Bill O’Reilly: Okay, now.
Geraldo: But, we need some corroborating evidence because a confession without corroboration is a problem.
Bill O’Reilly: I say charge him and put him on trial and I’m not going to Aruba until they do. I hope everyone around the world watching me says no Aruba until the man gets in and gets on trial. Now, if the jury acquits him, OJ Simpson whatever, fine. Charge him, let the jury decide or no more Aruba and every decent person should feel the way that we do.
