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One of the boards had a hot bed topic about how your particular area of the country would have handled the case differently. I so wanted to respond but have not been activated.
I think the biggest difference if one lives in the States would have been in the treatment of Joran being under 18 at the time. Since there was no evidence of any fowl play I just cannot see that he would have spent any time in jail. He also would have had his parents by his side immediately none if this his dad being a judge stuff and his dad would have cautioned him with the aid of an attorney as to how much to say and maybe even got the truth of where she was dropped off right away. But I just do not see that there would have been a search of their homes or too much different. The U.S. is pretty protective of rights and unless some evidence showed up right away new that we never saw I think the case might have been pretty quiet. I also do not see the family of Natalee manipulating the police like the seemed to in Aruba.
 Pappy Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:11 AM
I live in a rather large city so I dare say many things would have been different. Based on what seemed to be going against the security guards I can see them being brought in, especially if that found articles of the teens in their efffects.
Joran was under the age of 18, so I can see a big difference there as he would have had an attorney with him and also his parents. Could be that the parents along might have gotten Joran to fess up right then and there might not have been any Holiday Inn story at all.
If there was no more than that, would there even been a search of the VDS residence? I doubt it unless they had some reason to suspect she was actually there. With such thin or or no evidence they might not have even searched his apartment.
The Kalpoes also would have had a lawyer and maybe they would not have told the Holiday Inn story.
Would there have been a midnight raid on the VDS home? I certainly do not see that happening where I am from and that in itself might have changed the course of this whole case.
Our area is very quick to react to missing children even before the 48 hour minimum but based on this story I am not sure that they would have reacted any sooner than the 48 hours. All interesting and hard to say. But Aruba is a tiny island and maybe ill prepared for a story that became the biggest missing person case in the history of recent times.
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