Also, with the exception of the first few hours after she landed on Aruba, the quality of Beth's investigative efforts has been dismal. For whatever reason, she has clearly never made anything approaching a systematic effort to contact and debrief all the MB students on the trip. Instead, it appears she has speaking mostly to just a small number of Natalee's close friends, and not even questioned them very thoroughly. Her seeming lack of curiosity about the details of what the students may have witnessed, has been remarkable.

The explanation may be that she is someone who operates largely on gut feelings, and hence is less concerned with the specifics of exactly who saw what, where and when, as with larger "truths". For example, since she already "knows" that Natalee was kidnapped from CnCs, she isn't as motivated to question witnesses, in order to piece together the precise sequence of events. She may even be subconsciously trying to avoid learning anything, that may challenge what she prefers to believe.

And finally, since the disappearance, Beth has consistently shown some very poorjudgement in who she trusts and associates herself with: It seems that nearly every one of her chosen allies has shown themselves to be incompetent, dishonest, or even criminal. The latest example, is her bizarre romance with John Ramsey.

Of course, Beth is after all just the victim's mother, not an attorney trained to be factually precise in her statements, or a professional investigator with the duty and the experience to be objective and analytical in her thinking. But for those who consider themselves among her supporters, and have concluded she is most likely correct about Joran's guilt, yet aren't willing to blindly accept everything she says without scrutiny, much of Beth's behavior can be extremely frustrating.