In May of 2005, Natalee Holloway was a straight-A student at Alabama’s Mountain Brook High School & she was excited to be going on her senior trip to Aruba. Natalee had her sights set on becoming a doctor & in the fall, she planned to attend the University of Alabama on a full scholarship. Natalee was born on October 21, 1986 in Memphis, TN; not long after, her brother Matt was born. In 1993, when she was 6, her parents divorced. Her mom remarried George “Jug” Twitty in 2000 & they moved to Alabama. At the time, Natalee was starting junior high & she easily made new friends since she was so friendly & outgoing. Natalee was a member of student government & a counselor at a peer group called the Natural Helpers & her mom said that if she set a goal, she accomplished it.
Initially, Natalee’s dad, Dave Holloway, was not on board with her going on the trip, telling her flat-out that if he had anything to do with it, she was not going. Being a persistent teenager, Natalee didn’t give up & Dave eventually relented. Both Dave & Beth agreed that their daughter was exceptionally responsible & hard working & deserved to have fun with her friends before they went their separate ways. Beth Twitty, Natalee’s mom, felt comfortable since Mountain Brook students had gone to Aruba the two previous years, her own stepson going in 2003. Beth felt good about the trip but worried about a nightspot in the area called Carlos ‘n Charlie’s. In 2003 when her step son was on his trip & visiting Carlos ‘n Charlie’s, there were locals there who tried to coax some young females into leaving with them & the situation didn’t sit well with him.
On Thursday, May 26, 2005, Beth dropped Natalee off at a friend’s house at 4 am to go on the trip & promised she would pick her up at the airport the following Monday night, May 30; as Natalie entered the house & the door closed behind her, Beth could have never imagined that it would be the last time she would ever see her daughter. The group, which consisted of 124 students & seven adult chaperones, arrived in Aruba & checked in to the Holiday Inn near the northern end of the island. The typical agenda was to stay on the beach all day, come in to take a nap & get ready to go to dinner & head to one of the local bars after. On the last night of the trip, May 29, Natalee & some of her friends headed down to the Excelsior Casino inside their hotel. They began talking with a 17-year-old named Joran van der Sloot who was born in the Netherlands in 1987 & three years later, he & his family moved to Aruba. Despite being only 17, Joran told the group that he was 19. Natalee’s friend Loraine Watson remembers being introduced to him; she described him as an average high school guy while noticing how tall he was, standing at about 6’4”. Lorraine saw him near the blackjack table & doesn’t recall if he was talking with Natalee at that point. Joran claims that he didn’t really take notice of Natalee during this time & was mainly talking with a girl named Kathleen.
The group told Joran they’d be going to Carlos ‘n Charlies later that night & invited him to join them. The bar closed at 1 am & the last song played was Sweet Home Alabama in honor of the group’s home state. As they all headed out, it was chaotic in front of the bar, everyone trying to track down a cab or shuttle back to the hotel. Some of the school’s group later said that they saw Natalee leaving the bar with Joran & two of his friends in a Honda Civic.
The next morning, Monday, May 30 2005, it was time for the group to head to the airport for their flights home. Claire Fierman had been friends with Natalee since junior high & remembers getting ready to board her flight. Her friend grabbed her & told her that no one had seen Natalee at the airport & they speculated that she’d overslept. At the time, they weren’t worried, they only feared that Natalee’s mom would be upset with her daughter for missing her flight.
Meanwhile, Beth had spent the weekend at the beach in Hot Springs, Arkansas, relaxing with two other moms that had kids on the trip. That Monday, they all headed back home, ready to get back to reality & the responsibilities that came with raising a teenager. A little after 11 am, Beth got a phone call from Jody Bearman, one of the seven adult chaperones that had gone on the trip. Jody explained that Natalee had not met the group in the lobby of the Holiday Inn to head to the airport & no one had seen her since the night before. Beth immediately feared the worst, knowing that something terrible must have happened to her daughter, believing that she had either been murdered or kidnapped. Beth drove about 110 miles per hour down the interstate, trying to get home as quickly as she could. She was eventually pulled over & the state trooper got her in touch with the FBI after learning her situation.
Instead of panicking, Beth became “extremely focused” & immediately called 911, telling the dispatcher that her daughter had been kidnapped in Aruba. She called her husband, Natalee’s stepfather, Jug & by the time she reached Burmingham, a family friend had arranged a private jet to take her to Aruba. By 5 pm, Beth & Jug, who was the general manager of a Birmingham metals-industry facility, and two of Jug’s long-time friends, were on board, landing at 10 pm at Aruba’s Queen Beatrix International Airport.
Beth felt that Natalee was a typical teenager & according to her, her daughter didn’t drink, never had a boyfriend & was emphatic that she’d never had sex. She indicated that Aruba would have been an environment her daughter had little experience with. Despite Natalee’s intelligence, she could be considered naive.
Natalee’s friend Lorraine remembers feeling horrified as their plane took off for home, knowing that Natalee was not onboard when she should have been. Meanwhile, Dave Holloway got the horrific news of his daughter’s disappearance & he also headed to Aruba. As the group arrived, they made their way to the island’s northwest corner where the many resorts are sprawled along the beach. Aruba’s main business is tourism & 72% of visitors are from America. It’s very developed with familiar places like McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell & Hooters. The family started their search at the Holiday Inn & met with a teacher & senior-trip escort named Paul Lilly who waited with the only American official he could find, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent. They had absolutely no news of Natalee’s whereabouts & evidence indicated that she hadn’t returned to the hotel the night she went missing. Her luggage & passport sat waiting in her room, where she had left it for her return flight home.
Beth took a hotel employee aside & described Joran, having been told that he had been with the group the night that Natalee went missing. The employee knew exactly who Beth was talking about & said, “He tends to prey on young females.” From there, they headed to Carlos ‘n Charlie’s & began asking questions. After showing the staff a picture of Natalee, no one recognized her. The family was joined by Charles Croes, a wealthy Aruban who owned a cell phone rental company; he told the family that Natalee had made a call to an American number that turned out to be an accidental call to a friend. The group split up & one group headed to the beach, showing Natalee’s photo to anyone they encountered. Beth & Jug went to the casino & met up with the manager who offered to show them surveillance video. Beth memorized the image of Joran in the footage; short hair with a pimply face. Croes drove north to the lighthouse where teenagers gathered; they knew Joran & two volunteered to take him to his home.
When Joran & his friend, 21-year-old Deepak Kalpoe came back to the house, Joran initially denied any knowledge of Natalee, insisting he didn’t know who she was until they told him that an eyewitness saw them in a car together. The family was told by the Aruban police that Natalee couldn’t be considered a missing person until she was missing for 48 hours.
When Joran finally started talking, he said that he had met Natalee at the Holiday Inn’s casino Sunday afternoon & in the early evening, the group had asked him to join them at Carlos ‘n Charlie’s later in the night. He declined, saying it would be dead on a Sunday. A little before 11 pm, he headed home with his father who had picked him up at McDonald’s. Joran said that once he got home, he had second thoughts, called his friend Deepak who drove over with his younger brother, 18-year-old Satish, to get him. Joran said that he snuck out of his house that night & when he met up with Natalee at Carlos ‘n Charlie’s, “She came on to me huge, dancing suggestively, like a slut. I did a belly shot on her at the bar.” He said that Natalee eventually asked him to take her home so they left, getting into Deepak’s silver Honda, Deepak & his brother Satish sitting in front, Natalee & Joran in the back. According to Joran, Natalee was very drunk & claimed that he & Natalee engaged in sexual activity in the backseat. He said they took her to the front door of the Holiday Inn around 2 am; when she got out of the car, stumbled & hit her head; Joran said two security guards helped her up & those were the two men they left Natalee with. Joran claimed that this was the last time he’d seen Natalee. On Thursday, four days after Natalee went missing, the family was able to view the security footage from the Holiday Inn lobby & Natalee was never seen returning to the hotel on the night she went missing so it was clear that Joran’s story was not true.
Charles Croes spoke with Joran, asking if he was telling him the whole truth of what happened that night. He then told them that they hadn’t gone directly to the Holiday Inn; he said that Natalee wanted to drive around, “The girl was crazy. She was just crazy.” She told him she wanted to have sex & claimed that she performed oral sex on him in the backseat of the car. From there, they went to the lighthouse but they didn’t get out of the car because Deepak was worried that Natalee would vomit in his car. Lighthouse security indicated that no car drove up that night indicating that this story was also false.
In a later interview with Fox’s “On the Record” from March 1, 2006, Joran spoke with lawyer & news anchor, Greta Van Susteren about what happened the night Natalee went missing. He said he’d gone over to the Excelsior Casino for a free poker tournament & after, sat at a table to play blackjack & hadn’t even paid attention to Natalee. When he got to Carlos ‘n Charlie’s it was Natalee that pursued him. In this version of events, Joran said that Natalee was drinking but not drunk & said that he left the bar with her & Satish at 1 am, Deepak was waiting in the car. The plan was for Deepak to drop he & Natalee off at his house. He said that Natalee told him she was from Alabama & that she planned to go to school to become a doctor. As they walked hand in hand toward the car, it was his assumption that they would likely have sex when they got back to his house though their conversation was not at all sexual in nature. He indicated that they had their hands on each other’s legs during the car ride & began to kiss. When they arrived at the house, Natalee changed her mind & said she wanted to go to the beach to see the sharks & Joran said he laughed & told her there were no sharks to see. They left his house, never getting out of the car & going inside. As they drove, music played, Deepak & Satish in the front seat, Natalee & Joran in the back. Joran said that she came up with a strange story that her mom was Hitler’s sister or Hitler’s sister’s daughter & that she was sorry for him, believing that he was German. He told her he was Dutch & asked her if she was joking & she said no, that she was serious.
Joran said that Natalee made a remark, asking Joran if Deepak & Satish were his slaves since they were driving him around, saying that, “In Alabama, we consider black people slaves.” He said they drove past her hotel because she wanted to go to the beach, a five minute drive from his house & stopped at the beach by the Marriott. He said that he told Deepak he would call him later to pick him up & he got out of the car with Natalee & walked to the beach. He said they walked past other couples since that beach is busy, even at night. He assumed that Deepak & Satish were going home & he again intended to have sex with Natalee that night. He said he took his shoes off & they walked up to the ocean; he said she wanted to walk in the opposite direction of her hotel, toward the lighthouse. As they walked they held hands, kissed & talked, just having a good time. .He said she seemed like she had something to drink but she was fine & she knew what she was doing.
Joran said they didn’t have sex because he realized he didn’t have a condom with him & it was very important to him that he use protection during sex. He said they talked about this & she understood & agreed. According to Joran, they did have some sort of sexual contact that night. Afterwards, he told Natalee that he had to go home since he was getting up early for school. She asked him to stay with her to look at the stars & hang out since she was leaving the next morning. He said no & called Deepak to pick him up but it was Satish who arrived 15 minutes later in Deepak’s car, saying that Deepak was at home, on his computer. He said they left Natalee on the beach, not even taking the time to say goodbye to her. He said he realized that it was wrong that he left her but he wanted to get home. He left his shoes on the beach where the pair started their walk & Satish took him home, arriving a little before 3:30 am. He said his first story involved Deepak driving him home because they agreed to keep Satish out of involvement as much as possible. He logged onto his computer & messaged Deepak, letting him know he was home.
He said he had no idea that something had happened to Natalee until the following night when he was gambling at the Radisson hotel & left to go to a different casino when his dad called & told him there were people at their house looking for him in regards to their missing daughter. He just happened to be hanging out with Deepak again that night & as they drove back to Joran’s house, they decided to tell the story about dropping her off at the Holiday Inn. Deepak called Satish to tell him what was going on. Joran said he wasn’t thinking clearly & he was afraid that something bad had happened to Natalee & he didn’t want to be involved. When they took Natalee’s family to the Holiday Inn to walk them through what happened, they made their story up as they went, implicating two security guards at the hotel as being the last people they saw Natalee with. He said he felt bad that happened but at that point, he was only thinking about himself.
Deepak & Joran continued to hang out in the following days, agreeing to stick to their story, worried that if they told authorities the truth, they would be in trouble, Satish joining the conversations at times. According to Joran, as they went with this story, it was their belief that Natalee ended up meeting someone else that night & went with them & ran away, believing at the time that nothing bad had happened to her. Joran was asked if he ever asked Deepak if he went back to the beach & did something to Natalee but he said he didn’t. He said he’s gone out at least twenty times with American tourists & nothing bad had ever happened in the past.
They continued to search the island for the next two weeks, all leads being followed about sightings of a blond girl, though none proved to be helpful. Missing person posters were hung throughout the island & Jug went to the island’s Dutch military base to request the assistance of the Dutch Marines who joined the search, using helicopters & four–wheel-drive vehicles. The justice minister gave all Aruban government employees the day off to assist in the search but they found no sign of Natalee.
As police continued to speak with Joran & the Kalpoe brothers, at this point, he maintained that he dropped Natalee off at the Holiday Inn & again, it was mentioned that they saw two security guards. Despite review of hotel security footage showing that Natalee did not come back to the hotel, police detained two former hotel security guards who worked at a hotel closed for renovation that was near the Holiday Inn. Beth felt they were arresting the wrong men, believing that Joran & the Kalpoes were responsible. The arrest was made after the boys said that the security guards might know what happened to Natalee after she was dropped off. The security guards were eventually released. When Beth gave TV interviews she expressed that she felt the police were protecting the van der Sloots because they were a prominent family. However, Paulus was a minor official in the Aruban justice department, not yet a judge. Joran was a high school soccer star who planned to attend St Leo University near Tampa in the fall. Word of a cover-up began to spread.
Meanwhile, Dave Holloway also spoke with police & despite being the last three people seen with Natalee, the boy’s statements were taken, that they don’t have anything to do with her disappearance & they’ve been cleared. They explained that a lot of girls come to the island, miss their flights & show up days later. They said after they clear of the drugs they’ve been taking & finish partying, they come home; Dave said, “That is not my daughter.” As the days & weeks passed Dave Holloway had a gut feeling that his daughter was no longer alive but remained determined to find her body & bring it home.
Because America is where the majority of Aruba’s tourism stems from, the Aruban government was under great pressure to make an arrest. On June 9, 2005, Joran & the Kalpoe brothers were arrested, despite officials feeling that it was premature. They were unable to get a confession & at this point, Joran changed his story & said that Deepak & Satish dropped him & Natalee off at the beach next to the Marriott which is a half-mile from the Holiday Inn. He said that Natalee was so intoxicated that she was in and out of consciousness & he left her at the beach & walked home. The Kalpoes backed up this new story.
After three weeks in custody, the Kalpoe brothers were released on July 4, 2005, the judge finding insufficient evidence to justify further detention. Joran was ordered to be held without charges for another 60 days. The Twittys were outraged & devastated & hired a private investigator from Atlanta named TJ Ward & various tips were followed, multiple digs were conducted, infrared photography was used to help identify a grave though led to no findings of Natalee. The Twittys stayed in Aruba through the summer, the Wyndham’s owner giving them use of the Presidential Suite. They passed out prayer cards & photos of Natalee during the day & sat for interviews at night. During one day of passing cards, Beth was near Joran’s house & his parents, Anita & Paulus van der Sloot, ended up inviting her inside for a 90 minute visit.
They eventually admitted that they were having issues with their son & said he had been seeing a psychiatrist. They said his attitude was defiant, he continued to sneak out to go gambling & they had no control over him. Paulus maintained that he remembered almost nothing from the night that Natalee went missing, they noticed that Paulus was sweating profusely as he spoke & Beth fully believed that he knew what happened to her daughter.
On August 20, Beth met with the Aruban prime minister & on August 26, the Kalpoes were re-arrested with no explanation given. The police had gotten a statement from Joran that Natalee had passed out multiple times while he sexually fondled her & under Dutch law this could be viewed as sex without consent. Anyone who enabled the crime could be judged as an accessory; they felt that Satish Kalpoe was the one at risk for cracking. However, on August 31, Joran was released & the brothers were released the next day; there was no body, no evidence of murder or any other crime. Joran had been in jail for nearly three months & he never cracked. Meanwhile, the massive amount of media presence that supported the case suddenly came to a halt when Hurricane Katrina hit the US on August 29, 2005.
Joran left with his father to attend college in the Netherlands. The Twittys went back to Alabama until Beth returned to Aruba at Halloween for a new search using sonar to look for the body off the northern beaches; the search ended citing lack of cooperation from the Aruban authorities. Dr Phil sent a team of investigators to Aruba; in a taped interview a California lie-detector specialist seemed to get Deepak Kalpoe to admit to having had sex with Natalee. The tape is being examined by Dutch authorities though many are skeptical. Dr Phil also suggested that Americans boycott Aruba until the Arubans become more helpful in the search for Natalee.
Aruban detectives repeatedly interviewed witnesses to establish a reliable timeline though it’s unclear when Joran got home & how he got there. He says he walked while authorities feel this is unlikely. The shoes Joran wore that night have never been located which police find suspicious. There was also a break-in at a fisherman’s hut north of the Marriott on the night Natalee went missing & it’s reported that a machete & perhaps a lobster trap were taken. Investigators wondered if the lobster trap could have been used to dispose of Natalee’s body & weigh her down so she wouldn’t be discovered. Police don’t have a single witness that claims to have seen Joran that morning.
The FBI profiled Joran as someone who has never been corrected by his parents & the boss of what happens in his house, the boss of the family, someone who is allowed to do anything; it’s their belief that he could have done something if Natalee refused to have sex with him. Natalee’s body has never been located nor has any physical evidence & all authorities have are theories; it’s possible that the mystery might never be solved. Did Natalee die on the beach near the Marriott after she refused to have sex with Joran? Did he strangle or drown her? Did she die from alcohol poisoning or another drug? Some speculate Joran & Natalee could have gone offshore to a sandbar where currents shift west & drift away from the island, toward Panama. If her body was left there, it would likely be gone forever. It’s also said that 90% of people who drown on that side of the island, their bodies float up to the banks of Venezuela.
They brought in Louis Schaefer who is a self-made multi-millionaire who made his fortune in underwater exploration; he offered to help find Natalee, free of charge & planned to map the ocean floor off Aruba, using high end equipment to scan the bottom for Natalee’s remains. On Christmas Eve, pictures showed what looked like a trap, almost exactly where it was theorized to be. On December 29th, a remote operated vehicle was dropped into the water for a closer view & saw what looked like a skull. The next day, divers from the Aruban police force went down to where the trap was but they didn’t find Natalee’s remains.
At one point, Dave Holloway got a message from a man who called himself Marcos who claimed that drug runners were paid to take Natalee’s body & dump it at sea on the night she disappeared. They agreed & took her remains to Nicaragua & hid them on a remote strip of the Atlantic coast. Dave found the idea to be far-fetched; the man said he wanted no reward, saying he’d done some wrongs in his past & wanted to do something right. A meeting was arranged with a man named Tim Miller who was helping with the search; he headed to Nicaragua & Marcos showed up. The plan was for Marcos to take a GPS receiver to the location & leave it there for Miller & local officials to follow the location & begin to dig. The plans changed & Marcos said that he had the body & would bring it to their location in Managua. He said her body was wrapped in a blanket & had fallen apart; he said they placed her in two ice chests. Tim Miller believed what he was being told but didn’t contact Dave Holloway until he knew for sure. At this point, Marcos fell off the grid & they realized it had been a cruel hoax.
Another time there was a hidden camera sting in the Netherlands, arranged by a Dutch reporter named Peter de Vries who caught Joran van der Sloot on tape with a man named Patrick who had gained his trust. Van der Sloot said he was with Natalee on the beach when she began shaking & collapsed; he said he contacted a friend with a boat to get rid of her body but it was later confirmed that this friend was actually living in Holland at the time. This made Dave & Beth feel that what they’d believed was confirmed; Joran was with Natalee that night & had something to do with her disappearance & that her body had been dumped at sea.
In March of 2010, Joran emailed the Twitty’s lawyer, John Q Kelly & offered to reveal where Natalee’s body could be located if he was given $25k upfront with $225k to follow & he gave Kelly his bank account number for transfer of funds. Kelly didn’t think he would learn the truth from the meeting but decided he couldn’t lose because if the information ended up being true, Beth would get closure & if it was false, it would be extortion. Kelly went to Aruba on Easter Sunday & met with Joran; Beth didn’t know about the meeting. He met Joran without money & spoke with him in a hotel room for two hours, telling Kelly that Natalee’s body was nearby. When Joran discovered Kelly hadn’t brought money, he got extremely angry & agitated. When Kelly went back to the States, he contacted the FBI to set up a sting. After the meeting, Kelly told Beth what was happening; she was doubtful that Joran was telling the truth so she wanted to test to see if the bank account was real. She sent Joran $100 & told him that Kelly would bring $25k with him to a meeting they set up on May 10, 2010 in Aruba.
They signed a contract & Joran told Kelly that while he & Natalee were on the beach, he wanted to go home & she wanted to stay out. At one point, he picked her up & when she started to scream & he threw her down on the ground, accidentally striking her head on a rock, killing her. Joran took Kelly to a house & said that his father helped him dispose of the body in the home’s foundation. By this time, Joran’s dad had passed away, dropping dead while playing tennis on February 10, 2010 at age 57. They discovered the house was not built when Natalee disappeared & the information was false. Joran later sent Kelly an email from Peru a week later, confirming he’d lied.
After Joran took the $25k in exchange for information that proved to be false, he could have been arrested for wire fraud & extortion but authorities said that more work needed to be done to build the case & they didn’t have enough evidence. Joran was allowed to be free & he then traveled to Lima, Peru. On May 30, 2010, 5 years to the day that Natalee Holloway disappeared, Joran met a 21-year-old woman named Stephany Flores Ramirez at a hotel casino. She was the daughter of a prominent father who was a former race car driver & a politician. On June 2, 2010, Stephany was found murdered in a hotel room that was registered under Joran’s name & surveillance video clearly saw the pair enter the room together & saw only Joran leaving. When Stephany’s body was discovered, there was so much blood that investigators initially believed she had been stabbed. Joran fled to Chile; a toll booth operator recognized his face & called in a tip & he was arrested & sent back to Peru to face charges for Flores’ murder.
In his confession, he said he had picked her up earlier that night at a poker table & claims he had consumed 10 alcoholic drinks that night. Then went back to his hotel room & Joran said they were playing online poker when a message popped up on his computer that alluded to his involvement in Natalee’s disappearance. He claimed that Flores freaked out & lashed out at him, striking him on the head with her fist. He said, on impulse, he hit her on the top of her nose with his right elbow & then strangled her for a minute. He took his shirt off & put it on her face, pressing it hard until she died. After the murder, he left his hotel room & bought two cups of coffee & some cake, came back to the room & ate his breakfast over Flores’ body & then left with his laptop & cash & fled to Chile where he was arrested several days later. Before confessing, he initially claimed that an armed man broke into the hotel room.
On June 27, 2010 Joran was also indicted in the US for wire fraud & extortion where he’ll eventually be extradited.On January 11, 2012, Joran pleaded guilty to murdering Flores & on January 13, 2012, he was sentenced to 28 years in prison which is 2 years shy of the 30 year maximum & ordered to pay $74,500 to Flores’ family. He admitted to robbery in addition to murder, stealing more than $300 as well as credit cards & her van. On January 12, 2012 an Alabama court declared Natalee dead 6.5 years after she disappeared; this allowed her family to obtain a death certificate.
He was then sentenced to another 18 years in prison in Peru for drug smuggling; he’ll be in prison until 2045 because a prison term in Peru cannot exceed 35 years. On July 4, 2014 Joran married his pregnant girlfriend Leydi Figueroa who met him while visiting someone at the prison. The two exchanged vows inside his maximum security prison; his daughter was born on September 28, 2014. An article from May 17, 2023 indicates that Joran asked his wife for a divorce about a year prior for another relationship.
In the summer of 2017, Oxygen aired a six part series called The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway; it followed Dave Holloway around as he tried to solve the mystery of what happened to his daughter. The show resulted in a $35 million dollar lawsuit by Beth against Oxygen & the producers of the show after she had been asked for her DNA sample. She was told they had found human remains that could potentially belong to Natalee, having no idea that this had anything to do with the Oxygen series. She sued them for fraud, the findings ended up being from a pig’s skull.
Joran was extradited to the U.S. on Thursday, June 8, 2023 & taken to a jail in Birmingham, Alabama, not far from Natalee’s hometown. It was initially planned that he would remain in Peru until he served his sentence in its entirety though a temporary transfer was decided on in order for him to face trial because witnesses are elderly.
Natalee’s parents still hold out hope that they’ll find their daughter & feel confident that even if they don’t, they know they’ve done the best they could to find her. Beth knows that Natalee is with God & that he cared for her through whatever ordeal she dealt with the night she disappeared.
References:
- Vanity Fair: Missing White Female
- NBC News: The search for Natalee Holloway
- Fox News: Transcript: Joran van der Sloot Goes ‘On the Record’ Part 1
- Fox News: Transcript – Joran van der Sloot Goes ‘On the Record’ Part 2
- Today: Holloway attorney details van der Sloot sting
- Abc News: Joran van der Sloot’s Graphic Murder Confession
- CNN Van der Sloot sentenced to 28 years for Peru murder
- NL Times: Joran van der Sloot gets another 18 years in prison in Peru for drug smuggling
- NBC News: Natalee Holloway case timeline: Joran van der Sloot expected to be extradited
- New York Post: Natalee Holloway murder suspect Joran van der Sloot ditches wife for ‘prettier’ girlfriend
- UPI: Father of man in Aruba mystery dies
- GMA: Natalee Holloway’s disappearance remains unsolved nearly 15 years later: A timeline
- Biography: Natalee Holloway: A Complete Timeline of Her Disappearance in Aruba an Unsolved Case
- CNN: Plane carrying Joran van der Sloot, who is accused of extorting & defrauding Natalee Holloway’s mom, lands in US from Peru
