Portrait of a Monster by Lisa Pulitzer & Cole Thompson

Author:Lisa Pulitzer & Cole Thompson [Pulitzer, Lisa & Thompson, Cole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-07-05T05:00:00+00:00

Unbeknownst to Joran, the area around the Fisherman’s Hut had been searched earlier in the day. The police had drained a four- to six-foot-deep mangrove swamp located behind the Fisherman’s Hut on Malmok Beach. Using fire engine pumps powered by a generator on a flatbed truck, they siphoned water from the pond. FBI agents and a search-and-rescue team from the Miami-Dade Police Department helped in the operation. Detective Alan Lowy and his cadaver canine, Bugg, performed a search of the Fisherman’s Hut area, which was followed by a foot search by Aruban police detectives and uniformed officers.

The scene was too much for Beth Twitty, who had arrived in a police cruiser. This kind of search was a recovery, not a rescue. She had wanted to be there, but police needed to hold her elbows to keep her from collapsing on the sand.

The search turned up no sign of Natalee.

On June 14, Joran sat down with detectives Dennis Jacobs and Luigi Croes at police headquarters in Oranjestad to detail his latest story. The interview began at 10:00 A.M. Joran admitted that he had lied about dropping Natalee at the Holiday Inn, claiming he was scared of his father’s reaction to learning that he had left a girl asleep on the beach. He was also worried about the reaction of his girlfriend, whom he didn’t want to know about the rendezvous.

“One thing my father definitely told me was to tell the truth. My father was right. I should have done that,” he lied.

Now he was saying that Deepak and Satish had dropped him and Natalee at the beach next to the Marriott just before 2:00 A.M. He described their hour and a half together, beginning with Natalee and him strolling the beach hand in hand.

“While we were walking, I noticed there was sand in my shoes. So I took off my shoes and socks, tucked my socks into my shoes, and held them in my hand as we walked down the beach. Natalee and I stood for a time at the water’s edge and kissed. She told me that she liked Aruba.”

Joran said the two talked for a bit and then walked in the direction of the Holiday Inn. “On the way there Natalee told me that she didn’t want to go back to the hotel, she wanted to walk in the other direction.

“We sat down on the beach in front of the Marriott, close to the water. There, I placed my shoes on the sand and we started French kissing and talking. At some point, Natalee told me she wanted to keep walking down the beach. We stayed about five minutes in front of the Marriott, then we stood up and walked hand in hand in the direction of the Fisherman’s Hut. We French kissed each other but that wasn’t easy because we were walking.”

Joran said Natalee still wanted to see the sharks on the north coast, but he told her it was too far and he wasn’t walking there with her.

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