Selected Essays by Sam Redman

An essay by Sam Redman

What follows, while interspersed with factual information, has speculative conclusions, based on conjecture and surmised circumstances. Skeeters may indeed be one of the primary culprits in the now famous recording deception, however his role may have been only a small part of a much wider and more detailed plot to manufacture evidence.

About the tape, what we know now is that irrespective of who caused this tape travesty, it was clearly an attempt to frame Deepak. It is apparent is that there is only one version of the tape that has any interest and that is the one with Deepak shaking his head in denial. As Arlene Shipper (the brilliant Aruban attorney, who comments on the case from time to time) pointed out, this body language denial is the crux of the matter. I think we can conclude that any other version, which appears elsewhere, is a lie and those tapes have no use in this case, except concerning the broader sinister plot of deception. This tape incident is merely another bizarre circumstance which leads one to believe that there was an apparent conspiracy to falsify evidence.

Consider the very strange peculiarity that the turning over of this tape, the altered (manipulated) version, which Dr. Phil promised to release, was to be tied with the elections in Aruba. Now, of course, that we know that the 2 hour version in Dr. Phil's possession was phony (and not just his 8 second snippet), we have an emphatic reason to wonder. Why was there a connection between turning this over and the election results?

First, consider this: Beth has been making accusations based on documents and confessions, which the police say they don't have. In fact, when Jug and Beth were at the police station and they told the police officer quotes from Jug's "confession documents," the policeman said, "No, Joran didn't say that." Jug, in the TV interview, told how clever he was (in his mind) to keep it a secret, that he had acquired his knowledge

from "confession" documents in his possession. Why didn't Jug turn those over (he could have kept his original in a safe) to the police? We can now conclude that Jug and Beth evidently planned to get information to the new authorities, which they assumed would be installed after the election.

Where did Beth and Jug get their "confession" documents? They came from Jossy Mansur, the primary advocate for a change in power in Aruba. One of the "confessions" was released (translated and published) and Eduardo Mansur, Jossy's son, told how they had come to possess it. It was left in an special mailbox outside of the newspaper which they own, a newspaper, which was the primary voice trying to overthrow the party in power

It seems apparent that Beth and Jug got involved in the politics in a foreign country, because she (and Jug) had decided early on that Joran and the Kalpoes were guilty and in the absence of evidence, a frame-up would serve justice (what they believed would be justice) just fine. They knew that they needed a change in power to people who would process their bogus information without questioning its authenticity.

Evidently, the operating theory was that after the election, cronies of Jossy would be running the police department and the prosecution (although the prosecutors are appointed by the Dutch, perhaps those appointments could be influenced by a new power structure) and they would then accept the falsified "evidence" and be able to prosecute Joran and the Kalpoes. In a court of law, corroboration is needed often to prove intent or culpability. Two pieces of evidence are generally needed to show that the one was not a fluke, a coincidence, something which could be interpreted wrongly. So, I think they were attempting to get two incriminating pieces for use by a new corrupt administration for presentation in a trial. Plus, after the election, lots more such, "evidence" would probably appear.

But, the cruel irony for them is that now we have two pieces of inculpating evidence (the same two they would have used) that Beth and Jug were part of a well planned scheme with Jossy (and subsequently involving Skeeters) to manufacture evidence and to frame Joran and the Kalpoes and most likely Paulus as well.

 
Consider these:

a). The bogus Joran "confession"documents, where, purportedly, Joran describes raping and killing Natalee at his apartment. Documents, which curiously, have been kept secret from any authorities. These are all documents provided by Jossy, we can assume, based on Eduardo's admission concerning the provenance of the highly tauted first "confession" (saying Deepak "did it") These documents were not shared with the police, evidently waiting until after the election.

b) The bogus Deepak "confession" Skeeters interview, which was not turned over to the police, but aired curiously on an internationally broadcast TV show with the announcement that it would be turned over to the police, after the election.

I am convinced that Beth and Jug are sincere in their belief regarding the guilt of the three guys. However, I believe that they made a decision to use any means necessary to get them charged and convicted. The method they chose to accomplish this? It was using multiple fabricated confessions (Joran and then Deepak), as well as making unrelenting, unfounded accusations in the media. I think they purposely decided that even violating the divine principle not to "bear false witness" was excusable, because it would serve the greater good of bringing the guilty to justice.