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Joran is pretty much a scumbag who lost all credibility. No one has any sympathy for him. Most suspect he actually drugged Natalee and was therefore afraid to call for help when she passed out in his arms. Instead he chose to save his own ass by having a friend dump her in the ocean, not knowing if she was even alive or not. On top of cold and heartless, he's selfish as well.

Natalee... what's there to say? Nobody knew her. If Joran's story checks out exactly as he told it, she wasn't a very smart girl, but hey, she was on vacation and having some fun. Either way, nobody deserves what happened to her. That goes without saying.

Patrick is not receiving a lot of attention. Some people wonder how he garnered all his experience in the criminal world, how he could speak 'street language' if he was just a simple business man. They think the reason he contacted Peter de Vries instead of the police is because his past isn't all that clean. But I guess that doesn't really matter.

Peter de Vries has received a lot of criticism. Plenty of people praise what he did, but some wonder how much of that was genuine emotional involvement in the case and how much of that was ratings and media attention. Also, the week leading up to the broadcast of his show, he kept claiming he had solved the case, when in truth, the case is nowhere near solved. A confession like that is not admissible in court. It still has to be linked to the evidence at hand. Also, the way it looks now, Joran will receive 6 months in prison, but he has done those already in priliminary arrest, so he'll remain a free man. Unless it can be proven that is was murder instead of disposing of a body after an accident occurred.