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

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I'm also curious what he did with the cinderblock, which would've been covered in evidence.

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In the ocean?

Evidence gone in minutes.

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If it was a falling tide her blood any other evidence would've remained on the sand for at least 6 hours for the police and dogs to find.

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Nobody was treating this as a homicide investigation 6 hours after it happened. Her classmates were still in bed hungover and even when they went to the airport the next day everybody assumed she would just show up late after a drunken fling.

It took a while for wheels to start moving - several days of confusion and then her parents had to fly down and work with diplomats to twist arms to even begin the process of a half-assed criminal investigation.

The beaches in that area are very popular. That's where all of the resorts and hotels are. So you literally have thousands of people, kids, etc. trapsing through the crime scene without knowing it. No chance anyone is going to find a drag trail or blood splatter a week later.

The big issue is pushing her body off into the ocean and not having it wash up somewhere or float by a boat. I'm guessing they have detailed reports of the tide and currents that night in the evidence file and can corroborate whether this was plausable or not. But it's a small island and he didn't have a car so that's the most likely scenario.