Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Unconventional Interrogation?

I'm going to take a wild guess that Joran van der Sloot, the fellow accused of beating and then strangling to death a Peruvian woman in his hotel room last week, confessed to the murder after facing some creative and unconventional interrogation by police.

Just a guess, mind you.

Van der Sloot, as you might recall, is the suspect in the disappearance of Natalie Holloway in Aruba. In fact, he was arrested twice and actually confessed several times to various scenarios involving Holloway but was released when authorities in Aruba failed to turn up enough evidence to keep him in custody.

In the most recent case, he's accused of breaking his female companion's neck after discovering she had read details about the Aruba investigation on his laptop.

Wouldn't you just hate it if your current girlfriend found out most of the world had you figured as a murderer?

I'm sure I'll hear objections but I think this is exactly the sort of case that begs for unconventional interrogation of the suspect. It's a shame the Peruvian cops didn't clear up the Holloway matter with Mr. Van der Sloot while they had his attention.

It's unfortunate, too, that U.S. law doesn't allow creative interrogation of some suspects. Particularly those who have killed a wife, or two, and then laughed in the faces of the cops, the families of the victims and the public.

With Van der Sloot and the others I'm thinking of, we're talking psychopaths of course. Predators who not only have no feelings, but delight in ripping the hearts out of those who do. For them, the mere act of murder isn't enough. Their true delight comes from our horrified reactions. They revel in the anguish they cause.

One of them even attempted to recruit a new victim right in front of us. You remember that, don't you? He proposed marriage. She accepted. Then her family and friends convinced her that her sweet patootie was actually something feral-hungry with sharp teeth and claws.

These are the sort of individuals who should face a much more unusual police interrogation. One designed to elicit specific answers to specific questions and then the promise of a guilty plea.

The sort of interrogation that requires a mop and a bucket to clean up afterward.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You're just as disgusting as they are! This is a country of laws and under those laws were not allowed to torture people. Why do you think you have special priviledges?