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   NATALIE MORALES, anchor: Five years after Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba , Joran van der Sloot is again the chief suspect in the murder of a young girl, this time from Peru . And van der Sloot is reportedly now on the run. Courtney Hazlett is a correspondent for msnbc.com. Courtney , good morning. Good to have you here.

   COURTNEY HAZLETT reporting: Good morning.

   MORALES: So once again, Joran van der Sloot now the prime suspect. He was arrested twice during the Natalee Holloway story and was released.

   HAZLETT: Correct.

   MORALES: And then now again his name has come up. Give me some of the facts and the backgrounds that we -- the background around the case.

   HAZLETT: What we know is this, is that her body was found yesterday in Peru . It looked like she was stabbed very violently, wrapped in a blanket, and it occurred on Monday, which would be the five-year anniversary of the death, or I'm sorry, the disappearance of Natalee Holloway . Joran van der Sloot 's attorney said, `Listen, this is a guy who just has people pointing fingers at him. He's not been convicted of anything. Why are you doing this now?'

   MORALES: Mm-hmm.

   HAZLETT: Well, because his name was registered to the hotel room where this body was found. They're caught on videotape exiting the hotel together. This time at least there appears to be forensic evidence. There's a body. There wasn't a body with Natalee Holloway .

   MORALES: Right.

   HAZLETT: So it should be cleared up, one would think, pretty decisively in the short term.

   MORALES: Once they can find him because now he is reportedly as well on the run. So obviously that makes you look even that more guilty.

   HAZLETT: It certainly does. If he's innocent he has a really bad habit of ending up with women who end up dying right after they've been in his company.

   MORALES: Right.

   HAZLETT: I think in pop culture terms, the reason this is resonating so much is in so many cases, it's everyone's worst nightmare as a parent that your child could go missing when you think they're safe.

   MORALES: Mm-hmm.

   HAZLETT: As a -- as a woman that you think that you're getting to know somebody and then suddenly everything goes wrong, it's not the person you thought it was. And then furthermore in pop culture terms, a lot of people are saying maybe this is sort of an O.J. Simpson sort of...

   MORALES: Mm-hmm.

   HAZLETT: ...situation where you get away with it one time, and then something else happens and then you're finally caught.

   MORALES: That leads you to -- right back to that same person. I mean, let's talk also, you know, speaking of, you know, a lot of the stories that we've been -- in the news these last couple of days, and more on the death of Gary Coleman .

   HAZLETT: Mm-hmm.

   MORALES: And now we're hearing for the first time the 911 tapes from...

   HAZLETT: Correct.

   MORALES: ...the woman who was his wife. Let's take a listen to a portion of that first.

   Ms. SHANNON PRICE: And there's like blood all over and I can't do anything.

   Unidentified Dispatcher: Where is he at now?

   Ms. PRICE: On the floor in the kitchen, and he's just sitting there. He's sitting up now. But he's like not -- I mean his head's all bloody in the back. Gary , don't move.

   Dispatcher: That wound has stopped bleeding.

   Ms. PRICE: Don't move. Stay there, OK? You have to put this on your head.

   Mr. GARY COLEMAN: What's wrong ?

   Ms. PRICE: Keep pressure on this, OK? Hold this.

   Mr. COLEMAN: What's wrong ?

   Ms. PRICE: He's bloody, like all freaking over. Don't move.

   Dispatcher: OK.

   Ms. PRICE: I don't even know why you're standing. Here.

   Dispatcher: Tell him he needs to sit down.

   Ms. PRICE: You need to sit down. Sit down. Gary , sit down!

   Mr. COLEMAN: What's wrong ?

   Ms. PRICE: Look at the flood. Sit down!

   MORALES: That's a hard phone call to listen to. Are you surprised at the behavior that we're hearing from Shannon Price ?

   HAZLETT: It's a fascinating 911 call. Usually when we hear these calls you don't want to listen because there's so much terror involved and grief. This just doesn't really sound like the call made by somebody who loves somebody who's hurt.

   MORALES: Mm-hmm.

   HAZLETT: The -- really, there's so many strange circumstances surrounding this. Nothing about Gary Coleman 's life was normal from the beginning.

   MORALES: Well, their relationship in general. Yeah.

   HAZLETT: I mean this is a person who was thrust into child stardom and from the word "go" his life was never normal again. Their relationship specifically was one where they went to divorce court , they were divorced, papers indicate that. They were revealed yesterday. The attorney for Gary Coleman said, `Listen, I don't know if they ever remarried but I think that's something that she -- or he would have shared with me.' I think there are...

   MORALES: Hm. So then that brings up questions about whether or not she's acting in his best interest when she's there directing the 911 call and then at the hospital as well.

   HAZLETT: Right, which leads to the hospital as well where...

   MORALES: Exactly.

   HAZLETT: ...she was the one to make the ultimate call that he be taken off of life support after he slipped out of consciousness. So I think there are a lot of questions that remain here.

   MORALES: Mm-hmm.

   HAZLETT: The family of Gary Coleman definitely wants answers. It will be interesting to see how cooperative she is.

   MORALES: All right. And then real quickly, Charlie Sheen , reportedly set to plead no contest to a misdemeanor charge stemming from that domestic dispute on Christmas Day with his wife. Will he be heading to jail? I mean, he's reportedly going to be sentenced to 30 days .

   HAZLETT: All indications are on Monday he will appear in court in Colorado , that there is a plea deal in place. The judge hasn't signed off on it which is why no one from the Sheen camp can make any official comment right now about it. But all indications are he'll go and report to jail as well on Monday.

   MORALES: Mm-hmm.

   HAZLETT: This will be a 30-day sentence that really in the end will only end up being about 15 to 17 days once you factor in good behavior and that sort of thing. Good timing.

   MORALES: Not likely though to affect his, you know, you're getting to...

   HAZLETT: Right.

   MORALES: ...the timing of the taping of...

   HAZLETT: Really good timing.

   MORALES: ..." Two and a Half Men ."

   HAZLETT: Because " Two and a Half Men " these series go back to work usually in late July, early August. His original court date wasn't until July 21st , so he's heading this off at the pass. And really again, it's going to be an instance where his image is not hurt at all in the end, I think.

   MORALES: Still the highest paid actor in television, right?

   HAZLETT: Highest paid actor on television.

   MORALES: Per episode.

   HAZLETT: Number one show. This is a guy with domestic violence claims against him and he's on a family show. And this does not affect his career whatsoever. He is Teflon in this industry.

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