When the 18-year-old rebuffed him, van der Sloot, then 17, smashed a cinder block over Natalee’s head so that her face “collapsed in,” he said earlier this month, providing horrifying ...

Residents Kick Up Dust Over Cinder-Block Plant. ... "On a good day, with the wind blowing, you get it all in your mouth, face, house, cars, everywhere," resident Janet Sears said.