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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if it could turn out that Natalee Holloway, the Alabama girl who disappeared while on a graduation trip to Aruba in 2005 is still alive? Joran van der Sloot, the man believed to have killed Natalee Holloway, recently claimed in an interview with FOX’s Greta van Susteren that he sold Natalee Holloway to a Venezuelan man for $10000. He has since called van Susteren and told her he made up the story, but FOX is still pushing the issue calling for an investigation into van der Sloot’s latest claims.

They [FOX] insist that it’s only the right thing to do, investigating Joran van der Sloot’s claims just in case there is a small chance that Natalee Holloway might be alive and being held captive somewhere in Venezuela; but what are the chances of there being any truth in this latest story being told by Joran van der Sloot? Could Natalee Holloway possibly be alive?

Joran van der Sloot could be heard in a tape played on the Greta van Susteren show saying he wants to come forward and end this because at least if the girl can be found it would prove he didn’t hurt anybody; but if it was so important to him to prove he didn’t hurt anybody why didn’t he tell this story about selling Natalee to a Venezuelan man years ago? Why would he have preferred to risk the possibility of being charged with murder?

Quite frankly what FOX is doing seems more cruel and self-serving than anything else. To risk raising the hopes of Natalee Holloway’s family knowing fully well that this is just another van der Sloot stunt, to put ratings above ethics is deplorable, and unless they have very good reason to believe there’s a strong possibility Natalee Holloway was indeed sold and is possibly alive in Venezuela, they really shouln’t have opened this particular can of worms.