Natalee Holloway's disappearance resulted in a media sensation in the United States.
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38 Facts About Natalee Holloway
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Natalee Holloway was scheduled to fly home from the Caribbean island on May 30,2005, but she failed to appear for her flight.
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Natalee Holloway was in a car with local residents Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.
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Natalee Holloway's parents criticized Aruban police for the lack of progress in the investigation and interrogation of the three men who were last seen with their daughter.
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The Aruban prosecutor's office reopened the case on February 1,2008, after receiving video footage of Van der Sloot, under the influence of marijuana, saying that Natalee Holloway died on the morning of her disappearance, and that a friend had disposed of her body.
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Natalee Holloway was the first of two children born to Dave and Elizabeth "Beth" Natalee Holloway in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Natalee Holloway's parents divorced in 1993, and she and her younger brother Matthew were raised by their mother.
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Natalee Holloway graduated with honors in May 2005 from Mountain Brook High School, located in a wealthy suburb of Birmingham.
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Natalee Holloway was a member of the National Honor Society and the school dance squad and participated in other extracurricular activities.
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Natalee Holloway was scheduled to attend the University of Alabama on a full scholarship, where she planned to pursue a pre-med track.
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At the time of his daughter's disappearance, Dave Natalee Holloway was an insurance agent for State Farm in Meridian, Mississippi, while Beth Twitty was employed by the Mountain Brook School System.
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Natalee Holloway left in a car with 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot— a Dutch honors student who was living in Aruba and attending the International School of Aruba— and his two Surinamese friends, brothers 21-year-old Deepak Kalpoe and 18-year-old Satish Kalpoe.
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Natalee Holloway was scheduled to fly home later that day, but she did not appear for her return flight.
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Natalee Holloway's packed luggage and her passport were found in her Holiday Inn room.
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Immediately following Natalee Holloway's missed flight, her mother and stepfather flew with friends to Aruba by private jet.
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Natalee Holloway stated that as he and Kalpoe were driving away, Holloway was approached by a dark man in a black shirt similar to those worn by security guards.
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Natalee Holloway subsequently stayed at the presidential suite of the nearby Wyndham Hotel.
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Reports indicated that Natalee Holloway did not appear on any nighttime surveillance camera footage of the hotel lobby; however, Twitty has made varying statements as to whether the cameras were operational that night.
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Police Commissioner Jan van der Straaten — the initial head of the investigation until his 2005 retirement — said that Natalee Holloway did not have to go through the lobby to return to her room.
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Dompig stated that close observation of the three men began three days after Natalee Holloway was reported missing, and the investigation included surveillance, telephone wiretaps, and even monitoring of their e-mail.
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Dompig indicated that pressure from Natalee Holloway's family caused the police to prematurely stop their surveillance and detain the three suspects.
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All three indicated that Van der Sloot and Natalee Holloway were dropped off at the Marriott Hotel beach near the fishermen's huts.
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Natalee Holloway stated that Holloway wanted them to stay on the beach, but that he had to go to school in the morning.
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Natalee Holloway admits to and apologizes for his initial untruths, but maintains his innocence.
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Natalee Holloway said investigators could be seen examining a laptop at the house.
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Natalee Holloway said that he called a friend, who told Van der Sloot to go home and who disposed of the body.
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On March 20,2009, Dave Natalee Holloway transported a search dog to Aruba to search a small reservoir in the northern part of the island.
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Authorities stated that the information that he provided in return was false because the house in which he said Natalee Holloway's body was located had not yet been built at the time of her disappearance.
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Natalee Holloway was found dead three days later in a hotel room registered in Van der Sloot's name.
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Police chief Cesar Guardia related that Van der Sloot told Peruvian police that he knew where Natalee Holloway's body was and offered to help Aruban authorities find it.
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In June 2011, Dave Holloway filed a petition with the Alabama courts to have his daughter declared legally dead.
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In 2016, Dave Holloway hired a private investigator, T J Ward, to once more go through all evidence and information related to the disappearance of his daughter.
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In February 2018, Elizabeth Natalee Holloway sued the producers, alleging this and other claims are fictional and harmfully lurid, and that she was misled into providing a DNA sample for comparison without being made aware of plans for a show.
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Natalee Holloway contended that Van der Sloot had dumped Holloway's body, possibly alive, into the Caribbean ocean.
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Natalee Holloway's parents alleged that Van der Sloot was receiving "special legal favors".
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Natalee Holloway's parents responded by filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the Kalpoes in the same venue.
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Natalee Holloway's family took the opposite approach and criticized the lessening of coverage of her disappearance due to a shift in news priority when Hurricane Katrina struck on August 23,2005.
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Beth Twitty and Dave Natalee Holloway alleged that Aruba took advantage of the extensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina to release the suspects; however, the deadline for judicial review of Van der Sloot's detention was set long before Katrina.
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