Natalie Holloway died of a cocaine drug overdose-Fox News

[JTD]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290093,00.html

Very possible and quite frankly I find the witchunt and the destruction of Joran Van Der Sloot's et al lives very disgusting.

Also I find the media's endless obsession wih missing young blondes such as Holloway disgusting as well. What about people of other races that go missing that the media ignores? What about the other stories that go uncovered when the media goes into 24/7 wall to wall mode to cover these stories?

Teens like this die from activities like this all the time. Even here in my hometon, a straight A student who had everything going for him, scholarships, friends, etc, went to a concert, overdosed on a drug and became severely mentally disabled.

Just because Natalie Holloway appeared to live the perfect life does not mean that she was.

Sorry. LOL. I'll get off my soapbox now but I find stories like this and Lacie Peterson to be LOCAL news stories of LOCAL interest only and they should not become national obsessions like Holloway did before Katrina.

Like Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown said, his show "Newsnight" did extensive coverage of the deaths of 250,000 people in the Asian Tsunami. Fox in it's 10 p.m. timeslot covered Natalie Holloway wall to wall. Which is a more important story? Sad commentary on culture that Holloway gathered more ratings.

And if she had been an 18-year old Hispanic/Black/Asian girl, does anyone believe that the coverage would have been nearly as extensive?

Attention on these kinds of stories also COSTS LIVES!!! In 2001, the media obsessed over Chandra Levy, another blonde, 24/7 while Al Qaeda planned terrorism on an unprecedented scale and America slept. If the media had covered the warning lights "blinking red" in the summer of 2001 as extensively as Chandra Levy maybe an alert citizen could have helped unravel the plot before innocents had to die.

The mad mob mentality that had Joran Van Der Sloot a convicted murderer is also very disturbing. Our society should always presume innocence.

All right, now I'll stop ranting but this kind of celebrity culture exemplified by Natalie Holloway Paris Hilton just recently and Chandra Levy and Lacy Peterson is very disturbing!

*End soapbox*

[DaylilyDawn]

Is there room on your soapbox for me? I agree with you on the coverage of celebrities. I wish I could erase it from my tv but I can't.

[Tstormwatcher]

It's amazing and stupid to put something like this in print when her body was never found. I agree with you 100% Jason.

[JTD]

Thanks guys...Yeah I wouldn't have a problem with legal shows covering it. Natalie Holloway is their forte...but the Holloway story was 24/7 across many shows and people interested in other things couldn't get away from it.

[Ptarmigan]

It's unfortunate that Natalee died. I remember the 24/7 coverage. AAARRGGGHHHH!!!! They did with Laci Peterson and Chandra Levy, which was before 9/11. They beat it like a dead horse. Chandra wasn't a blonde though.

[Terrell]

Totally agree with the OP on this. Especially the rush to convict Joran Vandersloot, and the Kalpoe brothers, with no evidence. Of course the press will never apologize for what they said about the young men.

[Opal storm]

And this is why I never watch the news.

[Category 5]

Why does this remind me of the Duke Lacrosse case?

[Terrell]

Why does this remind me of the Duke Lacrosse case?

Because so far it's similiar, males accused of doing horrible things to female, that turn out not to be true, media rush to convict even though there is slim to no evidence.

[Cookiely]

How can they know she died of a drug overdose without a body?

[Category 5]

Why does this remind me of the Duke Lacrosse case?

Because so far it's similiar, males accused of doing horrible things to female, that turn out not to be true, media rush to convict even though there is slim to no evidence.

Yep, and the worst part of it is that all that time in a young mans life was wasted for nothing, while now he's always be associated with this whole mess. You can't compensate for that.

[JenBayles]

How can they know she died of a drug overdose without a body?

Thank yeeeeewwww!!! And reporting it to be true based on some shadowy, unnamed source? What a crock...

[Ptarmigan]

Why does this remind me of the Duke Lacrosse case?

Their life is ruined in the end and that's really bad.

[Cookiely]

How can they know she died of a drug overdose without a body?

Thank yeeeeewwww!!! And reporting it to be true based on some shadowy, unnamed source? What a crock...

Just my opinion on what happened.
They drugged Natalie, assaulted her and she died at which point the suspects with the help of someone who had a boat took her out and dumped her body. We will never know for sure what happened without the body.

[DaylilyDawn]

While I was down on Big Pine Key, I watched a show about this subject . The program was on Court TV , it is called Paradise Lost:The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Here is the link for the show on Court TV.
http://www.courttv.com/onair/shows/haun ... index.html One of the investigators has said that someone is covering up what happened.

[alicia-w]

neither chandra levy or lacie peterson were blonde.... getting these stories out is important to motivate women to get out of abusive or potentially dangerous relationships....