Legal Dialogs

Interrogator: I, Jan van der Straten, police chief with the Aruban Police Corps, state the following.
 
On Monday June 13th 2005, at approximately 13.00 hours I spoke informally with the suspect Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot at the police station in Oranjestad.

Interrogator: Joran can you tell me what happened after the girl had fallen asleep on the beach near Fisherman's Hut?

Joran: I called Deepak and he came with the Honda. I think he raped the girl and did something to her.

Interrogator: Where is the girl buried then?

Joran: I think that she was buried next to the wall of the Fisherman's Hut, for the rest I would not know either.

Interrogator: Joran, would you please answer the following question with only yes or no? Was the girl thrown into the sea?

Joran: No. I mean, I don't know.

Interrogator: During the conversation Joran showed differing emotions. Sometimes he cried, sometimes he was direct in his answers.
 
Joran also indicated that he was very sorry for his family and that he had the best contact with his father.

Interrogator: Why did you lie to your father about the Holiday Inn?

Joran: I disappointed my father with that.

Interrogator: Of this I reported on my oath as officer on June 17th 2005.

J. van der Straten

 
Second of two for June 13, 2005

Interrogators: We, Juan Enrique Boezem, Dennis Dominic Jacobs, Luigi Angelo Giovanni Croes and Ghrizan Anuar Tromp, respectively head officers, officer first class and officer with the Korps Politie Aruba, respectively attached to the Detective Unit District 2 and the Robbery Project Team, state the following:
 
On June 13th 2005, at approximately 19.50 hours, the suspect Joran A.P. van der Sloot stated that he probably and or presumably knows the place where fellow suspect Deepak Sharma Kalpoe had buried the body of the missing girl Natalee Ann Holloway under the sand and that he is willing to point out this spot to the justice department.
 
Based on his statement, we, the reporting officers on May 13th 2005, at approximately ? hours, following that drove with suspect Joran van der Sloot in order for him to show us the place.
 
On the directions of the suspect Joran van der Sloot, we, the reporting officers, drove to the beach due north of the Marriott Hotel. Close to the first fishing hut, north of the Marriott Hotel, the suspect stated that, at approximately 02.00 on May 30 2005, he had been laying there on the beach with the missing girl Natalee Ann Holloway. At the moment when we, the reporting officers were doing our place-determination walk, the suspect Joran van der Sloot, stated that when the girl Natalee Holloway had fallen asleep on the beach he had left the girl on the beach, near the first fishing hut on the north side of the Marriott Hotel.
 
The suspect Joran van der Sloot, subsequently walked with us, the reporting officers, to a place a little further away and he stated that he suspects the suspect Deepak Kalpoe buried the girl somewhere in that area.
 
According to the suspect Joran van der Sloot the suspect Deepak Kalpoe went back to the girl after he left her sleeping on the beach.
 
When the suspect Joran van der Sloot was asked what he thought happened between the girl Natalee Holloway and the suspect Deepak Kalpoe, he stated that he thought that the suspect Deepak Kalpoe had raped the girl and subsequently killed her.
 
Of this we, the reporting officers, on our oath as officers, have made this police statement, closed and signed on June 13th 2005.

The reporting officers.....
 
Boezem,Jacobs,Croes,and Tromp