372:. His contradictory accounts, some presented days and others presented years later, are used to present different reenactments of Holloway's final hours before she went missing. According to the TV movie, Joran drugged Natalee's tequila at the "Carlos'n Charlie's" bar, which killed her when she went into some sort of cardiac arrest as they kissed on a beach. He and a anonymous friend then dumped her body in the ocean from a motorboat, but the film presents the theory that Natalee was still alive when she was dumped.
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