Yeah it seems like touristy places in this part of the world have no interest in getting to the truth of crimes on tourists. I think they just want it to go away.This is one case that still bothers me. I searched for updates today. No body found yet. I do see a Nancy Grace article/story I’ll link from April.
Nancy Grace on troubled investigation of American woman missing in Belize: 'Is it Natalee Holloway all over again?'
"I've been studying the case very carefully," said Grace on Fox Nation's "Crime Stories." "And so far, I alone -- at thousands of miles distance -- have come up with three different stories that people have told about what happened to this Arizona mom, Alison MacKenzie."
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Morgan argued that it is common for investigators in this part of the world to bungle homicide investigations.
"This is one of the problems that we hear over and over and over again," he concluded. "I reflect back to Natalee Holloway... many times they fall greatly short relative to crime scene processing, the processing of forensic evidence... if you don't get to this point in the early stages of the investigation, the whole thing is blown."

Natalee Holloway, Lost girls of Panama and so many others...