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Time line of  events  May 30, 2005

1:00 am   Natalee, Joran, Deepak and Satish depart Carlos 'n Charlies.
Closing time on Sunday night was earlier than other nights. In Joran's interview with Greta he says they left at "probably one a.m."  Reference: Joran van der Sloot/Greta interview

1:00 am - 1:50  Deepak drives Natalee and Joran
Conflict: Deepak states that "They drove around, drove to the lighthouse", then to the Marriott beach.  Reference : David Kock/Greta interview . Joran states in all of his interviews that they did not go to the lighthouse, but drove by his house staying in the car, then drove to the Marriott beach. Ending time is calculated by figuring the drive time to Deepak's home from the beach, and deducting that time from Deepak's computer login time (discussed in the following entry).

Also, note the conflict described in the following entry, which describes circumstances which indicate the drive might have ended at 1:35 am and not 1:50.

1:50 am   Natalee and Joran dropped at beach.
Conflict: Calculated as ten minutes prior to Deepak's computer log in at 2:00 am.. This is from David Kock statement that this is the drive time from Marriott beach area.  However, Aruban observers have noted that the Kalpoes live in Hooiberg, which is towards the airport on the opposite side of Orangestad from Palm Beach and the area where Joran lives.  Joran's asserts that Deepak lives 20 minutes from him.  Joran also says that he lives 5 minutes from the beach. So, the drive to Deepak's home  from the beach would have been 25 minutes.  Using Deepak's log in time as the mark, this would have meant that Natalee and Joran were dropped off at 1:35 am and not 1:50 am.

Dropoff might have even been several minutes prior to 1:50 or 1:35 (whichever is accurate), since a few minutes probably lapsed between arriving home and actually logging in. 

1:59 am   Deepak and Satish arrive home.
The arrival home might have been even earlier, because the computer log in (2:00 am), most likely, would not have been done the instant they arrived home.

2:00 am   Deepak logs onto computer.
From the David Kock Greta interview, citing records presented in court.
2: 26 - 2:40 am  Joran cellphone call to Deepak
Conflict: We are assuming this call was not made to Deepak's cell phone. Only Joran's cellphone records are ever described in all discussions by David Kock and Joran or the Aruban police. 

"David Kock (Greta Vansusteren interview) :....there are the phone records of when, you know, when he called Deepak, as you know, around 2:40, and then afterwards a little bit after 3 o'clock." 

Plus, although not reliable, the so-called unsigned Deepak statement says Deepak's cellphone was not used that night, because no minutes were available. Even though that statement was authored  by police investigators , verifiable facts are not the kind of information to be falsified.    We then must also assume that Deepak has an internet connection separate from his home phone (maybe broadband), because Joran quotes Deepak as saying he was on the computer at the time, although new phone modems interrupt and pause for incoming calls.  Without seeing Deepak's or Joran's cellphone records, we can't verity which phone (home or cell) received the call.  It may not be an important distinction, since Deepak answered an IM from Joran (discussed in a subsequent entry) showing he was still home at a later time.

Further Conflict: Time might be 2:26 or 2:30 . Kock has given two different times: On Greta, Kock said 2:40, but on a later interview on Larry King, Kock said 2:30. This is consistent with what Tacopina said on a Court TV interview (2:26). 

3:00 am   Deepak logs off computer.
Conflict: This was in David Kock's August interview.  It is in conflict with Joran's computer records, which indicate that Deepak answered an IM (instant message) from Joran at 3:45.  According to Joran, ABC news verified these computer records. 

3: 00 am   Satish arrives in Deepak's car at Marriott beach areas
This was deduced from Joran's assertion that Satish arrived, 10-15 minutes after Joran's 2:45 am phone call  to Deepak. (Joran/Greta interview). Conflict: Deepak and Satish maintain that they stayed home and did not go out again and that Joran walked home.
3:05 am  Joran cellphone call to Deepak. ..
David Kock says this was a call at 3:00 or shortly thereafter. He quotes Deepak, that this was Joran was saying that he arrived at home.  According to Kock, Joran's cellphone triangulation data indicated that this call was made from the neighborhood, which could either be the Mariott beach area all the way to Joran's  home). David Kock quote, "...that is not an exact pinpoint indication, but the general area is the area here in north of palm beach of the hotels." 

Marginal Conflict:  Not a phone "call, " but a cellphone "text message". Kock in a subsequent interview says that there was a phone call from Joran to Deepak and a later "chat message."  This will correspond with Koch's earlier statement that there were two phone contacts, by assuming that the second one was a cellphone text message and not the computer IM, which is discussed as occurring later. Hence his discussion of triangulation would not be in conflict.  Joran also verifed in the Greta interview that the "I got home" message was a cellphone text message as he distinguished two messages, and described the second one saying, " No, that was on the computer afterwards."

Potential conflict: Some people have questioned the accuracy of cellphone triangulation from the area around the beach and Joran's home, but that wiouldn't disprove that the call wasn't made from his house, merely weaken it as a proof that it was made from there.

3:05 am   Joran arrives home
Conflict: In the Greta interview, Joran states that the driving time from his house to the beach is five minutes. This would make the arrival time, thirty minutes prior to Joran's computer log in time.  Joran in the Greta interview says:  "It was 3:35 I think or 3:25 and we had — I had ABC look at the pieces there. Well, they had the pieces too so that's one thing I can be sure of."  However, that "verified" time is his login time on the computer.  Later in the Greta interview, Joran says he had arrived earlier than computer login time and went to kitchen to get something to eat and drink, was going to go to sleep, then decided check if any friends were on line, if there was "anyone to talk to." According to David Kock statements presented to the courts showed that Deepak affirmed that Joran walked home.  A five minute drive would be an approximately 45 minute walk. If Joran started walking at 2:40 am, he could have then been home at about 3:30 am, coinciding with his computer login time with no thirty minute gap.

The thirty minutes gap is either an unaccounted for block of time or it was spent either in the walk from the beach to his home or with Joran doing things in the kitchen ( depending on which story is the truth)..

3:25 am  Joran on Computer  Text Messages (IM's)

Text messages:

3:25.04 am  Deepak to Joran         ben je der (are you there)
3:25.04 am Deepak to Joran         ?
3:25.38 am Deepak to Joran        anyways fijn te horen dat je thuis bent ik spreek je morgen ik ga slapen
                                                 anyways nice to hear you are home I will talk to you tomorrow I am going to bed
3:25.42 am Deepak to Joran        take care

7 minutes and 26 seconds later

3:33.08 am Joran to Deepak        hey swa (hey buddy)
3:35.32 am Joran to Deepak        topa/lopa pimp hheehehe

3:35 -  Joran IM's Deepak.  No answer.
Joran says he IM's (instant messaged) Deepak.  Deepak is showing as still on line.  Deepak doesn't answer. Joran assumes he is just away from the computer.  This is in the records verified by ABC news according to Joran. Conflicts with what David Kock says was Deepak's log off time. David Kock says 3:00 am was Deepak's log off time.

3:35 - 4:30 -  Joran still on computer

6:40 am   Joran on school bus.
Joran's interview with Greta and verified from several sources.