First part of Joran van der Sloot on Robert Jensen show

Introductory remarks

Joran van der Sloot. And his side of the story… And I wonder… In the bookstore… Is it in the Fiction or Non Fiction section?! That’s what we’re trying to find out tonight. We’re just going to have a chat. … I’ll give you something to drink… I will not get you drunk. That’s not particularly good for my image…

Jensen: Just a thing… You went that night to… What is it… Carlos and Charlie?
Joran: That’s a club at Aruba. A discotheque over there. That’s the name…
Jensen: That’s a well known club?
Joran: Yes that’s very well known… For tourists… Very well known.
Jensen: Because I know some people that have been there. And they told me it was a… And that was before this all played… They really said: this was really a whores-joint.
Joran: Yes. It is a… Well whores-joint… I don’t know that but there are people dancing. And there are all kinds of these special drinks. And there are shows…
Jensen: And these special drinks are those things that… Let’s say… That you put a drink on your bellybutton and then you can lick it off. And I don’t know what? …
Joran: Yes something like that. And drinks that are a meter high. That you can drink from.
Jensen: And girls that shoot ping pong-balls from places… (LOL) … Yes, that’s possible… I think… Yes, am I right or not?
Joran: Yes, yes…
Jensen: These type of very erotic shows?
Joran: Yes, yes.
Jensen: So, that kind of atmosphere. And many Americans come there who are on spring break and these kind of things.
Joran: Yes, yes.
Jensen: And I know… Americans on spring breaks… they go through the roof…
Joran: Yes that’s right.
Jensen: Am I right?
Joran: Well I think it is… The drinking age over there (in the US) is 21…
Jensen: That’s it yes.
Joran: And on Aruba… You can… when you’re 18… you can drink legally. So: everyone over there… who comes there…
Jensen: … goes through the roof…
Joran: … can get their hands on alcohol.
Jensen: Of course! They go through the roof. And uh… You sometimes were there, weren’t you? Well let’s… for a minute… guy to guy… A perfect spot, when you live there, to every now and then flirt-and-score somewhat with a tourist who likes that as well. And does that ones.
Joran: Yes it was like that. We went there every other week or sometimes even every week… Every weekend.
Jensen: … So… with the hand-held-vacuum-cleaner (translator: don’t know what that's called in the US) check what is there to be sucked up… (LOL)
Joran: Yeah… I…
Jensen: … (LOL) … No, I just think that’s the way these joints are… Isn’t it… So… Like… You regularly… Well. … So in the end you had gotten in contact with Natalee… And there you met her again…
Joran: Yes (Nods his head.)
Jensen: And she was… Well… She as well was that kind of girl… that went through the roof that night, am I right?
Joran: Well the time I was with her in total was only some three hours…
Jensen: Well, you don’t stand there with a mineral water…
Joran: No, no… She was dancing on the podium. And she called me to come dance with her. So I…
Jensen: And, and… you didn’t think she was that attractive… right?
Joran: No I had met her and her friend in the casino and… In the Excelsior casino at Aruba and uh, in fact I was talking to a friend of her… And when I arrived there (C&C’s) it was like: “You must go with Natalee… You must go to her…
Jensen: Her friends said that?
Joran: Yes, yes…
Jensen: They tried to direct you to her…
Joran: Yes.
Jensen: And then you did that?
Joran: Yes, then I went there
Jensen: But you do that… You do that on your initiative? I mean… You do that every week with the hand-held-vacuum-cleaner…
Joran: Yes… that’s right…
Jensen: You choose yourself who you want to suck up?
Joran: Yes that’s right but sometimes it even gets easier when… yes…
Jensen: She was… she was very easy that night, let’s say… That night?
Joran: Well I of course find it very difficult to speak bad of her… But that moment I thought that yes… Well just… That’s an easy girl…
Jensen: And your intention was… With her we’re going to… let’s say… We’re going to get busy with her… We’re going to bed with her… and the next day we… Hoppa… Were going to school again…. That idea?
Joran: (Nods) Yes.
Jensen: You were 17 years old then, were you not?
Joran: Yes I was 17 then.
Jensen: But what a life you have on Aruba haven’t you?
Joran: Yes, I think it’s every boys dream to grow up on an island. Cause you have everything. You can always be outside… Always to the beach… Yes, it’s just beautiful there.
Jensen: And you have always been a player let’s say, with the ladies? You come across that way to me a bit.
Joran: Well, it’s different there.