Here are 5 of the creepiest facts from the case: Natalee Holloway Senior Portrait ( Wikipedia) 1. MALLIE: Our friends said later that they had told the Aruban police stationed around the hotel, "Our friend didn't come home!" June 3, 2010: Van der Sloot is arrested in Chile. She was also an National Honors student, and was planning to attend University of Alabama after high school. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. And Ill never, never not believe that, Beth Holloways Natalees mom, told ABC. VIDEO: Natalee Holloway's father talks about a shocking discovery in her disappearance. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, Mallie Tucker, left, and Claire Fierman at the Alabama lake where they spent lazy, happy days with Natalee. United States lawyer and television presenter Greta Van Susteren announced on Twitter that she found "a KEY piece of evidence" regarding the American girl's fate. Within five days, she had disappeared. I would go to Tuscaloosa, where Claire was, every weekend. A forensic scientist on Thursday confirmed the statement last week by Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, that bone fragments Holloway discovered on the island where the Alabama teen vanished on. Natalee Holloway: A Complete Timeline of Her Disappearance in Aruba and Unsolved Case, Joran van der Sloot, 2012; Photo: STR/AFP via Getty Images, The front page of the "New York Daily News," June 3, 2010; Photo: NY Daily News via Getty Images, Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Once his sentence is complete there, he faces extradition to the U.S. READ NEXT: Man Accused of Murdering His Wife With an Ax. To the outrage of the public, van der Sloot was allowed to have conjugal visits with a woman he met at Miguel Castro while she was visiting another inmate. That was the last time Natalees friends said they saw her. Natalee was declared legally dead in 2012, though her remains have never been found. Holloway's body was never found, and seven years after she vanished, she was declared dead by an Alabama state judge. CLAIRE: She was a kind person, but not overly sweet. This would all change of course when she . Kolowski said there's no way to determine the gender of the apparent victim with mitochondrial DNA. During an investigation by police in an area indicated by Mr. Holloway, we found remains, but they were found to be from animals, Kardol said. But now her family is saying a private investigation has yielded stunning results. After receiving money from the Holloways, the lawyer says that Joran claimed he threw Natalee to the ground and her head hit a rock. Now, Beth says that the beach gives her a sense of calmness and comfort. "Every morning I go give her a kiss on the cheek, trace my hands down the rosary beads and across and just say a prayer," Beth said. Sporting a short, dyed-red hairdo, van der Sloot is found in a taxi near the coastal city of Vina Del Mar, Chile. Holloway and Ward discovered the information through an informant named Gabriel who was roommates with John Ludwick, Van der Sloots best friend. The 18-year-old disappeared 16 years ago on this day while celebrating her high school graduation in Aruba--and the search has continued. Here is a mother in crisis, and if nobody will let her in the housewell, something is really suspicious! 16 years later, if you ask people interested in the case, then they'll tell you that they believe Joran van der Sloot was the one who killed Holloway.Currently, he's serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for the murder of Stephany Flores, who was killed five years to the day that Holloway disappeared. CLAIRE: The Aruba Holiday Inn was nice; the beach was beautiful. "Dave [Holloway] got a phone call from an individual who said that he had a roommate that started talking about Joran van der Sloot, and said that they were running around together in 2010," Ward explained to ABC News. According to Kolowski and Oxygen, if the remains match Beths mitochondrial DNA, the Holloways will be able to finally lay their daughter to rest. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Van der Sloot is apprehended in the Netherlands, where he attends school, while the Kalpoes are held in Aruba after the emergence of what is described as "new incriminating evidence." Natalee Holloway's potential killer. Was her body ever found? However, he is serving a 28-year prison sentence in the murder of Stephany Flores, who was found dead in 2010 in his hotel room. Van der Sloot, 22, is the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, who was visiting the Caribbean tourist island of Aruba when she went missing. Beth deals with the pain of her daughter's disappearance, but she will never fully heal from it. An Alabama judge has signed a declaration of death for missing teen Natalee Holloway, last seen almost seven years ago vacationing in Aruba. (162) 6.3 2017 TV-PG. It just added up. Kolowski told the website that at least one of the bone fragments discovered is from a single individual.". Just after 10 p.m. on their final night there, the teen was seen on a hotel casino surveillance tape. In 2008, Van Der Sloot was caught on tape saying Natalee had died from a seizure on the beach with him and he threw her body into the ocean shortly afterwards. March 29, 2010: Van der Sloot seeks a financial arrangement. MALLIE: In June 2008 I was accepted at Safe Harbor, a substance abuse facility in Orange County, California. "Like me." While staying at a resort with more than 100 classmates and seven chaperones, the 18-year-old left the compound after a night out and was never seen again. Distractify is a registered trademark. All rights reserved. Natalee Holloway disappeared in 2005 during a high school graduation trip to Aruba. I found a college near Safe Harbor and enrolled in a two-year course to become a certified drug and alcohol counselor. MALLIE: We did that three nights in a row, moving from house to house, waiting for news. If you've lost a friend, think of her every single day. I hold on to these dumb little images: the blond hair on her arms. I couldn't use it for that, but I could use it for relief: Joran was in jail, and it looks like he will stay there. *The Kalpoe brothers were released on July 4, but not van der Sloot. Human remains discovered in Aruba, where Natalee Holloway vanished 12 years ago, are those of a female of Eastern European descent, tests showed. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. On May 30, 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway disappeared on the island of Aruba. She talked to one of the boys who'd been on the trip and learned that he'd seen Natalee with van der Sloot on the last night. CLAIRE: Everyone going on the trip got on two planesabout 100 seniors and four teachers as chaperonesleaving for Aruba on Thursday. The Abrams Report. Human bone fragments found in Aruba that were suspected to be those of Natalee Holloway do not belong to the dead American teenager. He identified the site as the location where Natalee Holloways remains were buried, although he knew that information was false. MALLIE: Natalee and I worked on weekends at my mom's organic food store, Harvest Glen. CLAIRE: I had this horrible anxiety. To learn more or to volunteer, go to crimemuseum.org/NHRC.]. We didn't cry until two weeks had passed. Body of Natalee Holloway found? Beth first went to Aruba just a day after it was reported that her daughter was missing. Dave Holloway has said he did not feel the Aruban authorities handled it well. The indictment stems from the federal investigation that followed van der Sloot's attempt to acquire $250,000 from Holloway's mother. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Numbness was what I was after. In a recent interview on "Nightline," her father Dave Holloway told co-anchor Juju Chang that he was "shocked out of his chair" to hear that human remains had been found in Aruba. If the DNA test results from the discovered remains prove to be that of Natalee, Dave Holloway said, "It will be the end of a long, long journey but we're not there yet.". All rights reserved. Natalee was a resident of Mountain Brook, Alabama who was seen alive on or about May 30, 2005 in the company of van der Sloot on the day of her disappearance. MALLIE: I know I will see her again some-day. 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Would love your thoughts, please comment. And they just returned last week they are human remains, Holloway said. It was your average beach bar; everybody mixed together, American kids and Arubans. (Contributed) When I met a guy, I'd be scared stless. She was obsessed with The Wizard of Oz. Kolowski told Oxygen that a reference sample from Natalee Holloways mother, Beth, has been collected. And she was smart. Van Der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were re-arrested in 2007. Dave Holloway, with the help of private investigator T.J. Ward, uncovered the remains in an unspecified location on the Dutch territory after an 18-month investigation, the men announced Wednesday . A missing poster for Natalee Holloway, a high school graduate of Mountain Brook, Alabama who disappeared while on a graduation trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005, is seen on Palm Beach where tourists sunbathe in Aruba, June 10, 2005. On May 30, 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway went missing while on a senior trip to Aruba with classmates. Take her picture outlike I have finally done with Natalee's. CLAIRE: Mallie went to the University of Montavallo, in the middle of the state, and I went to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosawhere Natalee was supposed to go with me. Nearly 17 years after Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba, the mystery of what happened to her may be solved. *Sheila Weller is a senior contributing editor at *Glamour. But guilt that she wasn't coming back; guilt for giving up hope. He later recanted but remains jailed in Peru, awaiting trial. Holloways mother has never stopped in her quest to get answers from van der Sloot about what really happened to her daughter. I knew she was dead," he replied . Some people thought that if Beth hadn't given Van Der Sloot money, Stephany might not have died. Van der Sloot had fled to Chile, and authorities believed he intended to escape back to Aruba, but he was arrested and returned to Lima, where he was charged with first-degree murder and robbery. She knows her daughter would want her loved ones to move forward in life and not harp on the botched investigation. CLAIRE: We lit a bonfire and then we burned the letters. My mom employed autistic adults at Harvest Glen, and Natalee was their favorite coworker. CLAIRE: All of Natalee's friends got together to watch the video on TV. Natalee Ann Holloway still has her own page on the FBI's website, though not in the "Kidnappings/Missing Persons" sectionunlike Kristin Smart, who for now remains catalogued that way since. Natalee Holloway was declared legally dead in 2012, seven years after her disappearance. But, oddly, I didn't connect it to Natalee. I said, "She doesn't even have a hair rubber band or clean underwear!" Natalee and I went snorkeling together. <p>Fourteen years later, Natalee Hollway's mother, Beth Holloway, still remembers the first time she stood face to face in Aruba with Jordan van der Sloot, the man she believes is responsible for . MALLIE: I used wine to hide my feelings from myself. CLAIRE: The anxiety and guilt lifted. It was so bizarre: No one said anything. [Posted 4:33 a.m.] An Alabama judge will consider a request Thursday to have Natalee Holloway, the teen who went missing in Aruba in 2005, declared dead. Though authorities never put the pieces together to find the missing Alabama teen, Joran van der Sloot remains a prime suspect. I thought, Two weeks is so long. Joran van der Sloot, the suspect in the disappearance of American tourist Natalee Holloway in Aruba, is today behind bars, but it's not for Natalee's case. I think she was waiting for the perfect boyfriend: a cowboy, a Southern gentleman. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. NATALEE HOLLOWAYS FINAL HOURS: NEW CLUES SURFACE IN TEENS DISAPPEARANCE, Joran van der Sloot is currently serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for killing a business student. Then I left, and Natalee went to Carlos'n Charlie's with some of the others. It will be agonizing if Dave and Beth are told this is their daughter, but after 12 years of searching for answers it will be a huge deal for them - it might finally bring them closure,' the source continued. She was particular. She and her younger. I thought I was going to find Natalee with her hair all cut off and dyed black or something. He claimed that his now deceased father had buried her in a home foundation. She had more Wizard of Oz stuff in her room than you'd ever seen! Van der Sloot was sentenced to 28 years in prison and ordered to pay $75,000 to the Flores family in reparations for her death. We just turned off the TV, and we stood up to leave and said, "See you tomorrow.". Van der Sloot is currently in a Peruvian prison serving a 28-year sentence for killing business student Stephany Flores just five years after Natalee vanished. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. "Fourteen years later, Aruba has become a lot less significant to me," she said to 20 / 20. June 1, 2005: The first local search team is organized. January 13, 2012: Van der Sloot is sentenced to 28 years in prison. All Rights Reserved. March 1-3, 2006: Van der Sloot gives his side of the story to Fox News. She was in love with Lynyrd Skynyrd. On May 26, 2005, Natalee Holloway and 124 fellow graduates arrived in Aruba. Kolowski said the DNA that was found is mitochondrial, which only comes from the mother, and takes longer to test than nuclear DNA. In a lengthy interview with Greta Van Susteren that airs over the course of three nights, van der Sloot recounts the details of his time with Holloway, from drinking with her at the bar to leaving her behind on the beach, addressing some of the unusual elements of his story such as why his shoes went missing that night. Beth Holloway, mother of Natalee Holloway, teamed up with Texas EquuSearch on Saturday, according to a Facebook post by the non-profit . July 17, 2005: Hair strands raise hopes for a breakthrough. Van der Sloot admits he left the bar with Holloway and the Kalpoe brothers and drove to a lighthouse, before dropping her off at the Holiday Inn. At the end of mine, I wrote, "I'm sorry, but I have to let you go." Her body has never been found. We did an 18-month undercover investigation with an informant who was friends with an individual who had personal knowledge from Joran van der Sloot, Dave Holloway told NBC's "Today" show last week. 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