I no longer live in the Netherlands, but still read and watch the dutch media and speak to folks overseas. It is a big media circus over there as well, but it is pretty clear that most everyone there believes he is guilty too. The tapes were aired on tv there yesterday, and he confessed multiple times that he dumped her body in the ocean after "she stopped moving" following them making out on the beach...he did not confess to actually killing her on the tapes. By the way, the crime reporter (Peter R. de Vries) who set the whole thing up is a pretty controversial person himself.