The Disappearance of: Natalee Holloway

My headline comment for this would be ... true crime fans only. I am one such person and knew a bit about this case and so was interested enough to watch. One thing to make clear is that this is not an in-depth coverage of the case from start to finish, it comes in at a point in the relatively recent past when a lead appears and it follows the pursuing of that lead. It starts off slowly but gathers pace and the alleged perpetrator involved is a disturbingly compelling character who appears throughout. Without knowing the outcome, it becomes gripping. If you happen to know up to date details of the case then I suppose it's like knowing the ending to a film. Nonetheless, the commitment of the father to discover the truth about his daughter, having long established she must be dead, is both painful and admirable to watch. Watching a man going through hell, being given hope but always with the possibility that hope evaporates to nothing, is at times excruciating. I'm so sorry for him. All good-natured true crime fans will be entertained at this, whilst thanking God they are only spectators.

I wish I had the hours back that I spent watching some bozo calling himself an investigator (dude didn't even check to see if his GPS device was charged!!) and an 'informant' handling a (achem) former heroin addict trapse back and forth to Aruba with Natalee's bereaved father.

John the junkie takes them up a hill, looking at cactus and then says that no, she was farther back, and no she buried in a pet cemetery, and on and on.

Then he magically produced a sandwich bag with 4 bone fragments weighing less than 3 grams and turns in in to Aruba law enforcement who say they have had them anthropologically tested, they are not human.

They give Mr. Holloway the bones and he has them tested in a lab. The bored audience gets to wait the two months just to find out that they are human but not Natalee. The end.

The investigator lead was so awful that I can't believe he could pass a basic investigation test.

His associates acted improperly on a few occasions, specifically in meeting with the informant to give him the near dead GPS unit.

There's no addendum at the end. The viewer is left with an anger towards the Aruba police and scratching their heads as to what the purpose of 6 episodes was actually for? So all parties could go to Aruba 4 times? Including the junkie, who is never charged with anything despite his possession of human remains. WTH!?

I hope I saved you some time.

This isn't a spoiler because the information is public and available on the internet.