By REBECCA MOWLING and DON GENTILE
Missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway was targeted by a porno ring in Aruba that wanted to use her in a sleazy sex movie, The National Enquirer can reveal.
The chilling new theory from inside the police investigation into the disappearance of the 18-year-old honor student came as her mother Beth Twitty left the island for the first time in two months for a brief respite at home in Alabama.
“Police are looking into a well-known porn recruiter living in Aruba whom they want to question,” said a source close to the investigation.
They believe Natalee was singled out by pornographers with the help of Dutch-born Joran van der Sloot, 17, who lured her away from her friends after slipping her the drug ecstasy. But the plan went tragically wrong — Natalee died in an accident or of an overdose and the film-makers had to dispose of her body.
Natalee vanished May 30 while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba with classmates from Alabama’s Mountain Brook High School.
She was last seen leaving the popular nightspot Carlos ‘n’ Charlie’s in Oranjestad and getting in a car with Joran and his friends Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and his brother Satish, 18.
One eyewitness said Natalee was heavily under the influence of drinks or drugs as she left the bar around 1 am. “She was totally wasted,” the witness said. “I watched her hanging out of a car window screaming ‘I love Aruba’ and flashing her breasts.”
Police are examining the possibility that Joran — the last person to see her alive — was acting as a recruiter for a local porn baron. They have received reports that the Dutch teen was linked to a porn video that ended up on the internet. Joran was possibly targeting Natalee days before she disappeared.
Although classmates said she met him at the Holiday Inn casino in the hours before he followed her to Carlos ‘n’ Charlie’s, we learned that Natalee was introduced to Joran on the beach a few days earlier.
“Natalee didn’t meet Joran for the first time the night she disappeared. People saw them hanging out on the beach together with a group of friends at the Holiday Inn,” said a source.
The source also claimed that Natalee and others enjoyed a “booze cruise” on which the high schoolers got so drunk that some were openly asking where they could buy illegal drugs.
Police are investigating whether Joran scouted boozy tourist cruises for drunken women to pass on to the porn ring. As we reported last week, investigators have discovered more than 19 discrepancies in the statements given by 6 ft 5 in Joran about the night Natalee disappeared.
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