When Joran van der Sloot recalled the night Natalee Holloway disappeared, he used a telling phrase: “The plan was to go to my house.” Those few words may reveal far more than he intended. In this third part of our series, we explore what lies beneath his language.

Discover 7 common signals of deception in language (plus a bonus). Recognizing these patterns not only makes you a sharper listener but also helps you better see what people are really saying — and what they are trying to hide.

As the four of them drove off together, someone from her group noticed Natalee in the car and shouted to her from a bus stop: “Get out of that car! Now! What are you doing? Are you crazy?” According to Joran, Natalee was hanging out the window and shouted back to the friend: “Whoohaa! I love Aruba. I want to stay with him (Joran).”

On her last night, Natalee meets 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot, who lives on Aruba with his family. Along with Deepak and Satish, the brothers he drives around with, he leaves Carlos ’n Charlie’s with Natalee. What follows is a tangle of truth and lies.

This is the podcast made by On Point Performance Consultancy, on the Natalee Holloway case. A forensic reconstruction on what presumably happend to Natalee Holloway on the 30th of May, 2005. We analyze the words of the main suspect and admitted killer, Joran Van der Sloot, and determine when he’s deceptive and when he’s truthful. Using our statement analysis skillset, we put together the pieces of the puzzle and create a hypothesis of what probably happened to Natalee.