re: Joran van der Sloot smashed Natalee Holloway’s head, threw her in ocean for refusing sex

I'm not convinced that's the truth. I recall that the area of the fishermen's huts was searched pretty well immediately after she went missing.

If he smashed her head in as he claims, there would have been a lot of physical evidence at the scene that even Barney Fife could have uncovered - blood pools, blood spatter, hair, bone, skin, etc.

Also, he would have left a blood trail when he carried her to the ocean.

My gut says he killed her by himself, but he had to have help to dispose of her body.

I sincerely hope he has accepted Jesus in his heart, but I think he still deserves whatever punishment is meted out. The guy is a psychopath. He's killed two women that we know of. Any chance there were others before Natalee? Only he knows.