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[Music] our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents if you feel at
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please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website Thursday May 26 2005 was an exciting day
for 124 of the 300 senior students from Mountain Brook high school having graduated two days earlier the
classmates left their hometown of Birmingham Alabama to spend five days holidaying in Aruba a tropical island in
the southern Caribbean Sea the senior class trip had become somewhat of a rite of passage for fresh graduates from
Mountain Brook higher providing one final bonding experience before they parted ways for college and other
endeavors Aruba was the ideal destination for the students to one want after a year of intense study located 18
miles north of Venezuela Aruba is a constituent country of the kingdom of the Netherlands and along with other
nearby islands like the Bonaire and curaçao it makes up part of the Dutch Caribbean as the island lies below the
Atlantic hurricane belt that boasts warm sunny weather all year round ensuring the students could make the
most of the golden sand beaches turquoise waters and a thriving nightlife not only was the destination easily
reached via a short flight from the United States but given that Americans accounted for 72% of visitors to the
island the students could also expect to all the comforts of home including familiar fast-food restaurants and
international hotel chains Aruba was also relatively easy to navigate spending just 20 miles long and 6 miles
wide with a population of approximately 100,000 inhabitants although most the Reubens spoke Adarsh
or Papiamento a creole language that blends Portuguese Spanish Dutch and several West African dialects many also
spoke English takeda through American visitors the 124 students and their seven chaperones
arrived at the Aruban capital of aronia start in the islands Northwest it was only a 15-minute drive from the airport
to Palm Beach to check in to the Holiday Inn Resort located directly on the oceanfront it was one of the many major
hotels that lined the palm-fringed Beach in addition to the more opulent Marriott
Radisson and a Wyndham the beach was studded with Sun lounges and tiki bars and also housed the small collection of
concrete fisherman hearts where locals could store their equipment downtown aronia start was just a ten
minute drive away providing easy access to the city's lively bars and nightclubs and was a
stop off port for visiting cruise ships the mountain Brook high trip was all inclusive meaning all food and alcohol
was already paid for unlike the United States where the legal drinking age was 21 the loosely enforced the minimum
drinking age in Aruba was 18 for many of the visiting students it was their first
experience with liquor and to that first time overseas the job of the chaperones
was merely to conduct a roll call once a day and to be available if any issues arose leaving the students free to enjoy
their time however they pleased [Music] [Music] eighteen-year-old Natalie Holloway had
been looking forward to the senior trip for months her divorced parents initially had conflicting views on
whether she should attend but they eventually agreed that she had earned it Natalie had always been responsible
trustworthy and dependable she was a dedicated student who graduated with honors in maths and Spanish and
participated in several extracurricular activities including the Bible Club and dance team she volunteered for several
charity organizations including Habitat for Humanity the Humane Society and the American Cancer Society her efforts had
earned her a full 8-year scholarship to the University of Alabama's School of Medicine where she intended to become a
doctor Natalie stepbrother had taken the senior trip to Aruba years prior and remembered
it fondly and two of her step cousins were also attending with the class of 2005 although this company her mother
Beth Twitty she warned her daughter to be extra cautious during her time on the island and to never let her guard down
Natalie was slim with long blonde hair and blue eyes and Beth felt she might be taken advantage of Natalie reassured her
mother that she was aware of the potential dangers and promised to be careful saying she would always be
surrounded by her large group of friends in Aruba Natalie was assigned to a grant
floor hotel room with three of her close friends Ruth Lee and Katherine the girls spent
the first days of their trip alternating their time between the hotel pool and the beach while taking advantage of the
free drinks Natalie had never been much of a drinker but she embraced her newfound freedom her drink of choice was
a combination of diet coke and two Bacardi 151 the Puerto Rican rum with an alcohol content of 75 person in the
evenings the Mountain Brook students typically went out for dinner and to then partied at the local bars and
nightclubs until the early hours of the morning on Saturday May 29 Natali joined
a group on a snorkelling venture to see the Antilla shipwreck the largest the shipwreck site in the Caribbean that
evening she went bar-hopping with her classmates and had a little too much to drink at five foot four and weighing 110
pounds Natalie's tolerance for alcohol wasn't as strong as some of the others and one of her friends had to walk her
back to the hotel the next day of Sunday May 30 was the final day of the trip Nathalie woke up early and had her first
the cocktail almost right away prompting one of her classmates to warn her to take it easy so she didn't have a repeat
of the night before she and her friends spent most of the day on the beach returning to their hotel room around
6:00 p.m. to get ready for their last night hour after dinner Natalie and her group went to the Excelsior casino
located on the second floor of the Holiday Inn they sat at the blackjack table where Natalie's friend Ruth struck
up a conversation with the young Caucasian man who introduced himself as Euron he was approximately 6 foot 4
inches tall with an athletic build and short sandy colored hair he spoke English with a Dutch accent and said he
was a 19 year old student on vacation from Holland Ruth had lost the sum of money gambling at the casino over the
past few days and asked your aunt to give her some pointers to help her win some back they played for a while with
Nathalie and the others watching on until Ruth was up 100 dollars and decided to quit while she was ahead
around 9:45 p.m. Euron joined at the Americans while they ordered drinks from the poolside bar he
had to leave five minutes later but the mountain brook girls told him to meet them later at Carlos and Charlie's
a franchised restaurant and bar chain aimed at young American partygoers by a day the venue served American and
Mexican Caribbean cuisine in a relaxed ambience but by night it became a popular hotspot for drinking and dancing
it had become a fast favorite with the Alabama students and a group of around 60 of them had arranged to meet there
for one last hoorah the Dutchman hesitated telling them the venue would likely be quiet given it was
a Sunday night but he eventually agreed to do his best to catch up with them later on just after 10:00 p.m. Natalie
and her roommates attempted to board a bus into a runya starts main hub but they had drinks with them and the driver
refused to let them on they called a taxi instead arriving in town ten minutes later where they headed into
Carlos and Charlie's to meet up with the rest of their classmates the Mountain Brook High students accounted for a
majority of Carlos and Charlie's clientele that night and crowded onto the dance floor at around midnight
Euron arrived this time accompanied by two friends he eventually started dancing with Natalie and the two drank
together at the bar Carlos and Charlie's closed at 1:00 a.m. to appease his American crowd the DJ ended the night
with the song Sweet Home Alabama by u.s. rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd Natalie was nowhere to be seen so her best friend
Ally walked to another popular bar nearby called chooser named assuming she might have gone there with some of their
other friends there were between 70 and 100 Mountain Brook students milling about on the streets but Lee couldn't
say Natalie among them she returned to the Holiday Inn and set up in the lobby until around 3:00 a.m.
before retiring to bed expecting Natalie to make her way back with the others at
8:00 a.m. on Monday May 30 Lee and Ruth woke up and realized that Natalie wasn't
in their hotel room her bed was still fully made and had obviously not been slept in many of the students had
swapped the rooms during the trip so the girls assumed she must have slept in another room they inquired with some of
their classmates but no one knew where natalie was the last time anyone had seen her was outside of Carlos and
Charlie's shortly after closing time Natalie had told several classmates that she was going for a ride with Euron and
his two friends and would meet them back at the Holiday Inn later on some others
had seen her get into a silver Honda Civic with the three men but as not all cabs were clearly marked in Aruba they
assumed that their car was a taxi at one point the Honda Civic had pulled up alongside a group of Natalie's friends
and she had a leaned out of the rear window and enthusiastically yelled out Aruba the chaperones had rounded up the
students from chooser named at around 2:00 a.m. but their role as supervisors didn't require them to keep tabs on each
individual a majority of the students had been drinking heavily by this point and no one was monitoring one another's
activity one student had been sitting outside by the Holiday Inn pool until around 5:00 a.m. and said she saw
several classmates return in the early morning hours but Natalie hadn't been among them her passport and belongings
were untouched in her hotel room as was her mobile phone which she had intentionally left behind as it didn't
get coverage on the island the students were scheduled to fly home to Alabama at 3 p.m. but as the hours
passed there was still no sign of Natalie when the time came to depart for the airport she still hadn't shown up
unsure of what to do one of the chaperones decided to stay behind until Natalie was located another was tasked
with calling Natalie's parents in Alabama to deliver the news that their daughter was missing her mother
Beth Twitty was returning from a weekend away when she received the call and immediately turned her car around and
drove to the Birmingham Airport she was pulled over for speeding along the way but when she explained to the reason why
she was driving so fast to the officer he gave her the number for one of his contacts in the FBI and to let her off
without a ticket while Natalie's family frantically put plans in place to travel to Aruba a
chaperone went to one of the four police stations on the island to report natalee's disappearance they informed
the officer on duty that she had last been seen driving away from Carlos and Charlie's around midnight in the company
of a Dutch tourist named Euron the Aruban police advised that they couldn't launch an official missing person
investigation unless Natalie was missing for 24 hours that reassured she was likely off having fun and would
resurface again soon it was common for young Americans visiting the island to extended their stay at the last minute
or to lose track of time so the police weren't overly concerned given the Dutch Caribbeans proximity to Venezuela
Aruba was often used to transport narcotics between South America and to the United States which meant the island
was no stranger to criminal activity an agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Agency who was stationed in
the nearby Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao was in Aruba for the weekend and heard about Natalee Holloway's
disappearance one of the chaperones he agreed to help with the search and to used his contacts
to notify the FBI on behalf of her family Beth Twitty was able to charter a private jet and arrived in Aruba at
10:00 p.m. along with her husband George jug Twitty a prominent Alabama businessman and
several of their friends pre-arranged escorts helped them to get through customs quickly and provided them with a
van and a driver the group checked in to the Holiday Inn where the mountain Brook
high chaperon told them that Natalie had a last been seen in the company of a Dutch tourist named at Euron Beth asked
the hotel's night manager if there were any guests checked in by that name and -
the manager immediately knew who she was talking about however Euron wasn't a guest at the hotel nor
was he a tourist he lived in a rubra having emigrated with his family from the Netherlands as
a child and was known to frequent the casinos and poker rooms on the island where he liked to gamble and hit on
foreign women Beth and jug went to the Excelsior casino and requested to see the surveillance footage taken from the
blackjack table where the girls and Euron had met once they spotted the Dutchman they took a note of his
physical characteristics and with the help of their escorts walked around Palm Beach offering money to anyone who knew
the young man a local teenager accepted $100 to give them your ons full name and
address he was your own van der slowed and he wasn't 19 like he had told the girls but a 17 year old high school
student Beth and her entourage went to the police station with this information but
the officers remained hesitant about checking out the lead they were used to young Americans partying too hard on the
island and were sure Natalie was likely sleeping off a hangover somewhere and taken drugs or had decided to extend her
holiday Beth insisted this wasn't possible saying her daughter wasn't a big drinker and would never touch
narcotics Natalie was also traveling with a limited amount of cash and had left her credit card in the United
States so she didn't have the funds to travel on woods the police suggest that she might have intentionally run away
and didn't want to be found a possibility that Beth strongly rejected at 2:00 a.m. the police reluctantly
agreed to accompany Beth and her crew to the van der Sloot residence to check whether natalie was there Euron lived in
a detached apartment at the rear of his family home his two younger brothers aged 10 and 14 resided in the main house
along with their schoolteacher mother Anita and their father Paulus Vander slowed a lawyer for the Aruban
government who was in training to become a judge palace was the only adult home at the
time as his wife was in Holland visiting relatives and Huron was out with friends
he insisted he hadn't seen a blond American girl on that property the called his son's mobile phone and
insisted he returned home immediately Euron arrived shortly after he was joined by his friend 21 year older
deepak calper a Surinamese national who had been with him at carlo's and charlie's the previous evening emotions
were running high for Beth and her group and too they became aggressive when confronting the two young men
Joran denied knowing natalie but eventually admitted that the two had been flirting at Carlos and Charlie's
the night prior and had the later kissed he said Natalie wanted to see sharks before she departed the following day so
he and his friends had driven her to the California lighthouse on aera she Beach
a popular snorkeling spot on the northwestern tip of the island at around 2:00 a.m. they dropped her off at the
Holiday Inn and hadn't seen her since deepak confirmed this story and he and Euron agreed to accompany the group to
the hotel to show them where they had dropped Natalie off Euron pointed to a spark outside the lobby and said that
when they arrived Natalie was so intoxicated that she fell over and hit her head while getting out of the car a
security guard dressed in black had come over to help her deepak backed up this version of
events adding that the security guard was carrying a walkie-talkie Beth was convinced the young men were lying
Natalie's friend Ali had waited in the hotel lobby until around 3:00 a.m. that night and didn't see Natalie during that
time additionally the hotel employees wore green pants with grey shirts and a nun
had reported seeing anyone drop off an intoxicated woman to the lobby in the early hours the police told Beth that a
detective would be sent out to visit her the following morning in that night she and judge stayed in
Natalie's hotel room leaving the lamp on in the hopes she would return beth later
stated that's what parents do you leave your light on and wait until your child comes home
the following morning of Tuesday May 31 Euron vendor slowed was taken to the police station to provide an official
statement he said that on the afternoon of Sunday May 29 he had been participating in a poker tournament with
his father at the Excelsior casino although your own was underage his father allowed him to play in the
tournaments that didn't require a financial buy-in Paulus had to leave the tournament early to take care of yearns
two younger brothers but agreed to return to pick urine up whenever he was ready to go after the tournament your
arm decided to stick around for a while longer he sat down to play a round of blackjack when an American girl asked
him for gaming advice she later invited him to join her friends that night he was hesitant at first because he had
exams at school the following day but eventually agreed knowing he could get away with a late night with his mother
out of town he left the casino to get something to wait from a nearby McDonald's and then
called his father to come and get him at home he called several friends to see if
anyone wanted to join him to meet up with the American girls several declined but Deepak Calpol agreed he later picked
a urine up in his silver Honda Civic along with his brother 18 year old Satish Kapoor the trio arrived at Carlos
and Charlie's at around 12:30 a.m. when Natalie immediately pulled your on over to the bar afterwards they drank what he
described as a yard of whiskey Cola together Euron said he didn't take drugs and
didn't think natalie did either when Carlos and Charlie's closed Natalie asked if she could go with Joran
and his friends they got into Deepak's Honda Civic and she requested that they drive past her friends so she could wave
it done you're on and Natalie then started making out in the backseat he told her they couldn't go back to his
place so she asked if they could go to the coast to see the Sharks your untold - Natalie there were no sharks but she
insisted deepak who drove towards the california lighthouse which was approximately 20 minutes away from a
rania start but Natalie changed her mind on the way and told them to take her back to the hotel instead the boys
claimed that Natalie was highly intoxicated and allegedly made several racist remarks including that her mother
was related to a Dolph Hitler they arrived at the Holiday Inn around 2:00 a.m. when Natalie drunkenly fell out of
the car and was helped up by the security guard who was dressed in black Deepak and Satish Coco provided
statements that back to Euron's version of events entirely Deepak said that when
Natalie entered his car he told her to get out she was drunk and he didn't want any trouble
but Natalie insisted on going for a ride to the lighthouse after she and Juran kissed for a while
Natalie fell asleep on the drive and they had to wake her up to ask her which hotel she was staying at when they
arrived at the Holiday Inn a dark-skinned man with a walkie-talkie approached - Natalie once she entered
the lobby after providing their statements you're on Deepak and Satish were all free to go the Aruban police distributed
missing person posters to the local media telling Natalie's family that many young people on the island took hard
drugs and - Natalie could be off partying with them although this seemed implausible joke Tweety and his friends
located a known drug houses in the area and went searching for Natalie dissatisfied with the hesitancy of local
police to launch an official investigation Natalie's family recruited American experts to assist in finding
her Beth distributed posters that appealed for Natalie directly using her daughter's nickname she wrote please
call me Judy I miss you and love you mum is here on a rubra and I really want to
talk to you please call me on my local cell to some locals this poster implied that Natalie had run away and didn't
want to be found it was quickly replaced with an attention-grabbing poster featuring two smiling images of Natalie
head aligned with the word kidnapped in bold red text on Wednesday June 1 Neda Lee's disappearance made the front page
of local newspaper Aruba today the papers editor Julia Renfro helped organize a search of the island and
encouraged locals to assist with a series of radio announcements also calling for volunteers
after some complications regarding flights Natalie's father Dave Holloway his wife Robin and other family members
arrived on the island to help they hired a car and headed straight to the closest police station
eventually visiting all four police stations on the island according to Dave's book Aruba the
tragic untold story of Natalie Holloway and corruption in paradise two of the four stations were unaware of
Natalie's disappearance when he told one detective who he was and why he was there
the detective allegedly responded by asking how much money Dave had he told the distressed father not to worry
because like so many other young visitors to Aruba Natalie was likely just swept up in a holiday romance Dave
ventis family went to Carlos and Charlie's and saw for themselves just how lakhs the security was with
teenagers drinking openly at the bar within a space of two hours they were accosted - multiple times by local drug
dealers the Holloway's asked around and were told there was a strict rule against the drug peddlers committing
crimes against foreigners as the island relied so heavily on tourism and they couldn't risk and negatively impacting
the industry in the meantime a Rueben police retrieved and viewed the surveillance footage from the Holiday
Inn Deepak Campos Honda Civic was not captured pulling up to the establishment at any time nor was Natalie seen
entering the lobby the footage confirmed your own Deepak and Satish were lying police had also noticed a few other
discrepancies in the trio statements in addition to them incorrectly describing the hotel staff as being dressed in
black all three had specified a slightly different location where they had supposedly dropped to Natalie off
a security guard at the California lighthouse where the boys allegedly took Natalie prior to the hotel was also
questioned he said that the night of Natalie's disappearance was extremely quiet throughout the night he had seen
less than 10 cars in the area none of which had been a grey Honda Civic Euron Deepak and Satish officially became
suspects in Natalie's disappearance but the police didn't feel there was enough evidence to warrant an arrest
instead they requested access to the trio's mobile phone records and sought permission to place listening devices on
their phones by Thursday June 2 the story was making headlines across the United States intensifying the pressure
for a Reuben law enforcement to arrest the suspects Natalie's family continued searching the island on foot and by car
with the help of locals and started handing out money in exchange for any information regarding her whereabouts
this prompted many unfounded leads with one local coming forward to claim that Natalie had been kidnapped by a couple
who operated a local drug house Dave Holloway launched the ground search of the area surrounding the California
light house which angered her Rubin officials the light house was a major tourist attraction and they felt that
Dave's actions would generate negative media attention and deter visitors the search went ahead regardless but the
efforts were hindered by the harsh landscape that consisted of cacti and jagged rock formations
Beth focused on conducting interviews with local and foreign media while also visiting schools a twenty thousand
dollar reward for information was announced by the Aruban government and tourism boards additional contributions
from Natalie's family and several Aruban businesses and individuals quickly boosted the reward to fifty thousand
dollars on Friday June 3 staff at the Aruba Today newspaper received the tip-off that a blonde American woman
matching Natalie's description had been witnessed at an ATM in a Rania start before taking off in a Kia sedan several
car loads of newspaper staff and volunteers drove around town searching for the vehicle the Kia was eventually
sighted and followed to a house not far from the Aruba today headquarters a member of the search party approached
the car and found two women and a man inside smoking cannabis with a baby in the back see the blonde woman was
American but had a slightly heavier build - Natalie Holloway the Kia drove off and the crew trailed it to another
house where the occupants remained in the car for 40 minutes the driver then got out and started swinging a baseball
bat the police were called and they took the driver and the blonde female passenger into custody
an officer announced over the police radio that she was 98 percent sure the woman was Natalie Holloway Beth then
jogged were summoned to the station but their hopes were immediately crushed when they realized that the woman was a
stranger according to the book the Holloway files secrets from the police archives by wim van der Pol and a
Vincent Verve a a reuben law enforcement were working diligently on the case though were barred from speaking to the
media about their efforts in any capacity this gave the impression that they were
doing little to find Natalie investigators view Doron Deepak and Satish as obvious suspects
but we're also trying to avoid focusing exclusively on them they remained open to all possibilities including that
Natalie may have accidentally drowned or had run away supporting this theory was
an entry in her high school yearbook in which Natalie had quoted the lyrics of a
Lynyrd Skynyrd song titled free bird that when if I leave here tomorrow would you still remember me for I must
be traveling on now because there's too many places I've got to see the police spoke to locals who said
there were several vagrants referred to as quote beach bums who frequented the Palm Beach area surrounding the Holiday
Inn some were known to sleep on the hotel's Sun Loungers overnight police questioned a known
beach bum and thief named Marlin solare who said he had been on the beach near the Holiday Inn on the night of
natalee's disappearance he had crossed paths with a dark-skinned security guard he knew only as Marty who worked at the
neighboring Allegro Hotel Marty had been wearing black clothing and carrying a walkie-talkie as described by Euron
Deepak and Satish Mullen solare said he watched Marty walk into the Holiday Inn and approached a group of American women
who were gathered by the pool a friend of Marty's soon joined them and started chatting with a blond Caucasian
woman Mullen knew this man only as marker another darks been to security guard from the allegro hotel Marlins
statement was backed by a Holiday Inn employee who had also seen two security guards from the Allegro hotel milling
about the pool area on the night of Sunday May 29 he told police that one of the security
guards often frequented their establishment to hit on female tourists another staff member told police that he
had seen a dark-skinned man wearing black talking to a blonde woman who resembled a Natalie Holloway the two had
embraced and then walked towards the entrance to the Excelsior casino a Holiday Inn security guard said that in
the early morning hours he had heard a dogs barking on the beach and when he went down to investigate he saw two
dark-skinned men dressed in black the Allegro hotel security guards who Malin solare knew was Marty and maka were
identified as Abraham Jones whose nickname was Marga and antonius Mickey John police checked their work records
and confirmed that neither of the men had been working on the night of May 29 in the early morning hours of Sunday
June 5 Abraham and Antonius were placed under arrest and questioned in relation to Marlin sellers assertions Antonius
top police that he had gone to the Holiday Inn alone the blonde woman he was witnessed speaking to wasn't Natalie
but an American woman from Boston named Joan the two had met the previous year and had organized to meet at the hotel
pool that night Antonius had to work early the following morning so he left the Holiday Inn at
around 11:30 p.m. he denied ever meeting Natalie Holloway and said he would never
do anything to harm a tourist as he had lived on Aruba for a decade and understood how important that tourism
industry was to the island he suggested that Marlin sell air maybe trying to implicate him and should be
the one viewed with suspicion Abraham Jones denied going to the Holiday Inn at all on the night of May
29 but admitted that Antonius John frequented the hotel to flirt with tourists the pair's work uniform
consisted of a pair of navy pants with a white t-shirt and dark-colored windbreakers of their choice
Antonius said there were two other docks being two security guards working at the
Allegro Hotel on the night of natalee's disappearance who wore dark clothing and
carried walkie-talkies these security guards were questioned and told police they had run into Marlin solare and
another white man on the beach on the night in question and had worn to the Holiday Inn security guards of their
presence as a constituent of the Netherlands Aruba operates under Dutch law which specifies that suspects can be
held in custody for up to 116 days while the investigation continues during this
time a judge must grant permission for the suspects to remain in custody at certain intervals although the police
interviews hadn't generated anything incriminating against Abraham Jones or Antonius John a judge ruled there was
sufficient evidence to hold both men in custody while the police continued pursuing other leads
Monday June 6 marked one week since Natalie had disappeared 4000 officials and 700 volunteers from both Aruba and
the United States were now involved in the search they were assisted by a helicopter sniffer dogs police divers
and Dutch Marines who used their f16 aircraft to scan the island with infrared cameras a blood-soaked mattress
was found in a shack on the beach but testing of the blood revealed it to be canine back in Birmingham Alabama a
sermon was held at a Jewish temple where several of Natalie's friends were members rabbi Jonathan Miller told his
congregation we have learned that when things become the darkest that is when we are called upon to envision the light
we have learned that when everything has gone wrong that is when we have to believe that things can be made right
again that is the message of hope we must never abandon hope we must never let darkness extinguish the light the
Holloway and Tweedy families organized the public prayer service while Beth continued to take advantage of every
opportunity to keep the story in the news media crews from 22 countries had descended on the island while the FBI
launched a hotline for anyone who had any information relating to the case Nelson odor bear the prime minister of
Aruba met with Natalie's family and reassured them he would do everything in his power to help find their daughter
although local law enforcement resisted handing the case over to the FBI they were unprepared and ill-equipped for an
investigation of this size the Aruban Police Chief later stated we wanted to investigate all the possibilities with
an open mind yet a growing portion of the public viewed Huron vendor slowed and the kaupo
brothers as the obvious suspects at one point nataly's missing person posters were
edited to read kidnapped by your own vendor slowed this led to the van der Sloot family receiving an onslaught of
negative media attention and the posters were changed to read missing instead of
kidnapped behind the scenes the Aruban police were honing in on your arm deeper concerti sh investigators checked the
trio's phone and Internet records and confirmed there had been ongoing communication between your own and
Deepak throughout Monday May 30 the day after Nataly disappeared they were also suspicious of the fact
the two had met up that evening despite being out late the night before Euron had attended school and went to
the Aruba racquet club in the afternoon before going gambling at the Windham casino with a friend he into D PAC spoke
on the phone on three separate occasions throughout the night around 6:00 11:00 and 11:30 deepak then drove to meet your
own at the Radisson Hotel around midnight Satish had been unable to join them as
he had overslept that day and missed school completely angering his parents witnesses said Huron and Deepak seemed
agitated and were both drinking they were at the casino when they received the 2:00 a.m. phone call from Euron's
father palace who explained that Natalee Holloway's family had arrived at their house with the police investigators
theorized the whether the purpose of urine and Deepak's meeting that night was so they could get their story
straight or perhaps destroy evidence early on the morning of Thursday June 9 your own Deepak and Satish were taken in
for questioning under suspicion of murder or manslaughter and unlawful detention prior to being taken into
custody urines father told the young men that if there was no body weapon or other
physical evidence investigators would be unable to hold a case against them Deepak maintained his original lie about
dropping Natali at the Holiday Inn adding that a customer at the internet cafe where he worked at witnessed this
incident and could confirm his story his brother Satish refused to provide a second statement and instead chose to
remain silent Euron also stopped by his original statement but added several new details
including that Nathalie allegedly asked him if Deepak and Satish were his slaves
your unstated quote to her black people are slaves Euron was transferred to a different
police station while the kaupo brothers were detained in the same Center as allegro hotel security guard
Antonius John who was also being held in relation to Natalie's disappearance Deepak allegedly told Antonius that the
trio had lied about dropping Natalie at her hotel and that the brothers had really dropped her at the beach with
Euron Antonius immediately relayed this information to the prison guards who took it with a grain of salt urine was
questioned multiple times over the course of the day during which the police encouraged him to talk by
threatening the possibility of a life in prison they also reiterated that the calpro
brothers would likely remain loyal to one another which could have a dire consequences for your on the Aruban
justice system forbade the offering of plea deals meaning investigators couldn't offer any of the suspects
immunity or a less severe criminal charge in exchange for information one detective resorted to lying to your on
saying that the brothers had made incriminating statements against him it was enough to scare you around into
requesting a lawyer and admitting that he hadn't been truthful on Friday June 10
Euron made another official statement this time telling detectives that he had not been with Deepak and Satish when
they dropped to Natalie at the Holiday Inn he said the brothers had dropped him home first at around 1:40 a.m. prior to
his departure he in turn utterly exchanged email addresses and shared one last kiss at 3:00 a.m. he called Deepak
on his mobile phone who told him they had dropped an utterly off at her hotel the following night when they received a
word that Natalie's family were looking for her Deepak told you our honor would be best if he said he was with him and
his brother when they dropped to Natalie at the hotel he also suggested they added the false detail about her falling
over and hitting her head Joran told investigators that Deepak typically kept his car in a warehouse at
the airport and that if anything had happened to Natalie that was likely the brothers had taken her there
Satish chose to break his silence and provide a second statement in which he revealed that it was his job to wash his
brother's car weekly which was kept at a warehouse in the airport the last time he had washed it was on May 29 before
Natalee entered the vehicle when asked if he would make incriminating statements against his brother
Satish responded I would do everything for my brother even if it costs me my freedom investigators told the kaupo
brothers that Euron had provided a new statement incriminating them in Natalie's disappearance which prompted a
revised statement from Deepak he said that when they reached the lighthouse Euron and Natalie were busy making out
so he kept driving they reached LJ Smith Boulevard near the Marriott hotel at around 1:45 a.m. and
Huron asked to be led out saying he would walk Natale back to the Holiday Inn via the beach and to then find his
own way home both hotels were on the same beachfront approximately 0.6 miles apart and to the
walk between the two only took around 10 to 15 minutes sometime between 2:45 and
3:15 a.m. urine called the Deepak to let him know he was on his way home this was something the friends always
did to make sure everyone was safe Euron said he and Natalie had gone for a swim
but she then fell asleep on the beach so he decided to leave her there and to walk home alone he had left his
sneakers on the beach and was annoyed because he was barefoot after they entered that phone call Euron sent
deepak a text message to say he would go online to chat as soon as he got home a
little while later deepak received an online message from Euron thanking him for waiting up and the two agreed to
meet again the following evening deepak said he had the text message to prove Euron was lying about the brothers
dropping him home before taking nathalie to the hotel he also retracted his previous statement
about Natalie being highly intoxicated and said she seemed to quote reasonably with it he denied that Natalie had made
any racist comments to the brothers but that Euron had told them of her alleged remarks days later deepak said he
thought urine had allied to detract attention from himself and to cover up the fact that he had raped Natalie
Satish also made a new statement in which he back to Deepak's updated a version of offence including that
Natalie hadn't seen too very drunk when they dropped her and urine at the beach there was only one discrepancy between
the brothers statements deepak said that at one point he had pulled over to urinate on the side of the road near a
Rashi beach while Satish had no recollection of this ever happening the police questioned Iran's best friend
and a neighbor Freddy's our dad he said that on Monday May 30 the day after Nathalie disappeared your
aunt told him that he had picked up an American woman and taken her to the lighthouse before dropping her back at
the Holiday Inn this was of significance to the police as natalee's disappearance
wasn't known at this time so Euron had a no valid reason to lie to his friend unless he was already
attempting to cover his tracks the following day of Tuesday May 31 your aunt told Freddie that natalie was
missing and had admitted the story about dropping her at the hotel was a lie he said that he and the kaupo brothers
had taken her to a beach near the Marriott hotel but she had been so drunk that she fell asleep they decided to
leave her there because they didn't know what else to do urine also mentioned that he had left a
pair of sneakers on the beach that he would need to replace urine had purchased the trendy k-swiss brand pair
of blue and white shoes from the United States and they were coveted amongst teenagers in Aruba if he had simply left
them on the sand near the Marriott hotel it would have been an easy task for him
to retrieve them he should have been motivated to do so as the walk home would take him 45 minutes across rough
terrain he also lied to police about his shoe size saying the sneakers were a size 14 when he actually wore a size 10
this led some to theorized that Euron had disposed of his shoes because they were stained with Natalie's blood and
had then fabricated the story about forgetting them on the beach to explain why they were no longer in his
possession it would also come in handy if matching shoe prints were later found in an
incriminating location however the story also worked against him if he hadn't mentioned leaving his shoes on the beach
the police would never have known that a pair of his sneakers were missing by interviewing several of Euron's other
friends and former girlfriends the police learned that he had a history of treating females poorly they were told
that urine derived pleasure from using girls for sex and to then boasting about what he had done after having sex with
one girlfriend he allegedly gave her a change for the bus and then chased her out of his home at the time of Natalie's
disappearance he had a girlfriend as well as another girl he was saying whom one friend said he treated like a
doormat he also had violent tendencies and was easily aggravated often getting into physical fights especially when he
was under the influence of alcohol over the past few years he had gotten into trouble at school and home and was
constantly lying to and stealing from his parents they had become so concerned that they sent him to see a psychologist
though it did a little to curb his behavior on Monday June 13 the Allegro hotel security guards Abraham Jones and
Antonius John were released from custody after their alibis checked out fearing that the kelpo brothers were
incriminating him further Joran van der Sloot elaborated on his previous statement he admitted that the
calpro brothers had dropped him into natalie at the beach and that his intention was to have sex with her along
the walker back to the Holiday Inn his shoes had sand in them so he took them off near the Marriott hotel hey Internet
Ollie then lay down neither fisherman's hearts a ten minute walk from the Holiday Inn and started making her urine
didn't have a condom so Natalie refused to have sex with him they engaged in other sexual activity
and at around 3:00 a.m. your aren't alternately it was time to go home but she wanted to stay on the beach when she
refused to leave he tried to carry her she wouldn't let him and eventually fell asleep on the sand
Euron then called the deepak to come and pick him up and he arrived shortly after
with two dogs in tow when he saw that Natalie was asleep Deepak allegedly said don't [ __ ] with that [ __ ] and told
Euron that someone would take care of her the next day Euron told the police he believed that
after Deepak dropped him home he must have returned to rape Natalie and had probably buried her body next to the
fisherman hearts up until this point only Deepak and Satish had spoken of Natalie falling asleep on the beach now
that you're on had repeated the same story this possibility gained credibility however no other witnesses
had reported seeing Deepak with two dogs on the beach nor did Deepak ever mention this detail
in addition the police had already thoroughly searched that area including draining a nearby
mangrove swamp and found nothing these factors indicated urine still wasn't telling the whole truth Deepak continued
to insist that he and Satish went straight home after dropping urine and nataly at the beach as his car was
fitted with the dual exhausts he said the loud noise would have no doubt woken his mother who could vouch for their
return home the Capo's mother was questioned but said she was a heavy sleeper and hadn't stirred at any point
throughout the evening that Natalie went missing mobile phone records confirmed that at 2:26 a.m. on the night of
Natalie's disappearance Euron had placed an 8 minute phone call to Deepak shortly
after Deepak sent your honor a text message which read I'll wait until you get home and - then I'll go to sleep
give me a missed call when you arrive ok Deepak's computer records confirmed he logged into an online chatroom around
this time at 3:13 a.m. your on message to Deepak to say hey thanks may trust all is well I'm home the location the
suspects were in when this phone activity occurred was unable to be determined but the records corroborated
Deepak's version of events and further proved that Euron was lying he had claimed to Deepak had come to pick him
up after Natalie fell asleep on the beach if that were true it didn't make sense why he would then send a Deepak a
text message to say he was home safe when confronted with this discrepancy Euron was unable to provide an
explanation the next day he said he had made a mistake and it was Satish who had
picked him up not Deepak the last confirmed sighting of Natalie occurred around 1:15 a.m.
phone and computer records proved Euron was home by 3:15 regardless of who was telling the truth that only left the
two-hour window where the trio could have harmed Natalie and to raised all evidence of a crime
given this was such a short timeframe the police considered the possibility that more people were involved in
Natalie's disappearance [Music] one such person was Steve crows a DJ who worked on a party boat called the tattoo
the boat was moored at the Holiday Inn and took young tourists here to see at sunset where they could drink and dance
until the early hours Steve was a regular customer at the internet cafe where Deepak worked early
in the investigation he had voluntarily gone to the police station and validated the trio's claims
telling the police he had seen a great vehicle drop a blonde intoxicated woman at the Holiday Inn in the early hours of
May 30 when police asked if someone had coerced him to make this statement Steve
insisted it was the truth given police already knew this story was a lie there was no valid reason why
Steve would have made such a claim unless he was helping your aunt and the capo Brothers create a false alibi for
other witnesses had also placed Steve crows in Carlos and Charlie's at the same time Natalie and other Mountain
Brook High students were there celebrating their final night on the island he therefore became a person of
interest and was taken into police custody for further questioning on Saturday June 18 Steve crows admitted
he had lied about witnessing the Holiday Inn incident for no reason other than he
had overheard a Deepak story at the internet cafe and a belief that was true he said he didn't even know Deepak's
name and had never met your own or Satish before he denied having anything to do with Natalie's disappearance and
claimed to have been at work on the night she went missing this was disproved by his employer who told
police the tattoo party boat didn't operate on Sunday nights two days later Steve provided another
statement calling his boss a liar he said he had picked his friend Jeremy up at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday May 29 and
two the two had taken a motorized fibreglass dinghy out to the tattoo to check on things the two men had only
stayed on the boat for ten minutes before returning to shore and spending the next few hours bar hopping but he
couldn't recall if they went to Carlos and Charlie's after the bars closed at 1:00 a.m. he and Jeremy went back onto
the tattoo and stayed there until 4:30 a.m. the staff at Carlos and Charlie's who knew Steve from his workers at DJ
told police he had arrived at the bar alone at around 10:30 p.m. not after 11:30 with the Jeremy as he
recalled additionally neither he nor Jeremy could be accounted for between the hours of
1:00 and 4:30 a.m. this left a three and a half hour window where Steve claimed they were out on the tattoo party boat
which wasn't in operation at the time this led police that theorized that Steve either alone or with the help of
his friend had met Natalie on the beach and used the dinghy to take her out to the tattoo where they could have killed
her and thrown her body into the sea forensic investigators searched the dinghy and the tattoo but nothing of
interest was uncovered Steve was held in custody for 10 days before the magistrate deemed there wasn't enough
evidence to hold him any longer he was released and subsequently fired from the tattoo which went out of business
shortly after urines father palace van der Sloot was also considered a person of interest
Natalie's family had been suspicious of him from the start knowing that his position as a lawyer
and judge in training meant he had expert knowledge of the Aruban legal system he was also well connected with
authorities and could use these relationships to his advantage furthermore when Natalie's mother Beth
arrived in Aruba 24 hours after her daughter vanished she visited the Ventus flight residence to question Euron
palace answered the door and allegedly told her that he had peeked to Natalie and Euron up from MacDonald's the night
before and dropped her safely to her hotel later on once Palaces wife Anita had returned from her trip to Holland
Beth had sat down with the couple to ask them more questions she noted Palace had
sweated profusely despite the room being quite cool at the time she had given him a hope for
Natalie bracelet which were being worn in support of her daughter and saw that his hands were shaking as he accepted it
when police initially began surveilling neurons phone calls they recorded a conversation On June 6 in which Paulus
encouraged his son to stick with the story about dropping Natalie off at the Holiday Inn and quote nothing more prior
to the arrest of his son and at the kaupo brothers palace had explained to them exactly how Criminal Investigations
work and had provided a level of legal advice that went beyond the role of parental counsel this led to the opinion
that he had likely played a part in helping the trio create their false statements and had therefore interfered
with the investigation Paulus admitted to the police that Euron was a bad liar but that it was out of character for his
son to leave a young girl alone on the beach he also denied ever telling Natalie's
family that he had dropped her at the Holiday Inn clarifying that his comment related to when he picked a urine up
from McDonald's earlier in the evening the police agreed this may have been a misunderstanding on Wednesday June 15
the ventas loads home was searched and two vehicles belonging to Euron's parents were confiscated and processed
for forensic evidence nothing was found but by this point had it been six days since their son's arrest and two weeks
since Natalie went missing on Thursday June 23 Pallas vendor slowed was arrested on suspicion of complicity in
murder manslaughter and kidnapping resulting in death chief prosecutor Karen Hanson described his actions as
disturbing and obstructive his wife Anita held a press conference in the van der Sloot's back yard calling her
husband's arrest ridiculous she accused the American media of hijacking the Aruban justice system saying this is not
about Natalie anymore it's about enormous pressure from the states and to the media I believe in my husband I
believe in my son Pallas was released from custody two days later due to a lack of evidence
justifying holding him any longer he released the statement calling his arrest utterly ridiculous and absurd but many
continued to view him with suspicion [Music] three fishermen came forward to confirm
they had been on Palm Beach in the early morning hours of Monday May 30 they didn't notice a great hunter civic in
the area nor had they seen Natalie your are the cowpoke brothers or anyone else on the beach the only vehicle they
witnessed all night was a Suzuki Jeep which pulled in around 1:45 a.m. and stayed for approximately 45 minutes the
fishermen heard the voices of a male and female coming from the Jeep both of whom
spoke with English accents but neither sounded like they were in trouble or distress of any kind the beach front was
narrow and it had been a calm quiet night with good visibility the fishermen had remained there until 4:30 a.m. and
stated it would have been impossible for them not to see Natalie and Euron if the
pair had been on the shore one stated if someone says that he came there with the
girl he's telling lies all three fishermen recalled that the weather was still contradicting your own
statement that it had been difficult to hear deepak on the phone because it had been a windy night
Euron also hadn't mentioned seeing a Suzuki Jeep in the area at any point on Thursday June 30
Joran Deepak and Satish were transferred between police stations together in the
same vehicle granting them contact for the first time since their arrests almost three weeks earlier a covert
audio device recorded their conversation during which Euron confronted Deepak with several questions including why are
you saying that we drove to the lighthouse while we absolutely did not do that deepak responded that they did go to the
lighthouse Euron also brought up an instance in which deepak had allegedly told him that
he wanted to rape a girl deepak responded who's going to believe you now you lie so much investigators remained
convinced that the trio were covering up something but on Monday July 4 2005 the
kaupo brothers were released after a magistrate determined there were no serious justifications to hold them any
longer Euron was ordered to be held for an additional 60 days no travel restrictions were given to the
kaupo brothers prompting Natalie's mother Beth to tell the media my greatest fear is that they will leave a
rubra these criminals are now free to walk among the tourists of Aruba well I have not seen my beautiful daughter in
36 days I am asking all nations not to offer them a safe haven she openly criticized the decision to release
Deepak and Satish remarking two suspects were released yesterday who were involved in a violent crime against my
daughter as the brothers hadn't been charged with any crime and that there was no
conclusive proof that they were involved in Natalie's disappearance Beth's comments spurred backlash against
her family a Reubens accused her of disrespecting local laws while statesas lawyer called her remarks prejudicial
inflammatory libelous and totally outrageous and threatened to take the legal action on behalf of his client
while local support had been strong in the early stages of Natalie's disappearance things were starting to
turn on Tuesday July 5 over 200 locals gathered outside the courthouse in support of the Aruban judiciary system
with some holding signs saying innocent until proven guilty and respect our laws
or go home an angry businessman later told a journalist for Vanity Fair magazine this
is just a concerted attack on Aruba a terrorist attack why blame the whole island a whole country for something
that is out of our control Beth Twitty attacks our justice system what about yours Jon Benet was that ever solved
Michael Jackson he gets off Oh Jay that's American justice enter the woman is criticizing us three days later Beth
released a statement apologizing for her comments saying I would like to apologize to the Aruban people and to
the Aruban authorities if I or my family offended you in any way I realized that
the Aruban legal system abides by the presumption of innocence and I want to reassure everyone that I do respect the
Aruban legal system in mid-july a park ranger searching on the northeast coast of Aruba came across a piece of duct
tape with several blonde hairs attached the tape was sent to the Netherlands for
forensic testing but it was determined the hairs didn't belong to Natalie then on Monday July 18 divers found a barrel
in the ocean near the Marriott hotel speculation arose that it could contain Natalie's body but it turned out to be
full of concrete a homeless man came forward claiming he had been at the dump three days after Natalie went missing
and had witnessed someone bury an object that looked like a human body he was able to describe the exact location the
item had been buried banaz several weeks had passed by the time he made his report a significant amount of garbage
had been piled on the alleged site police officers cadaver dogs FBI agents and a volunteer search team came to the
landfill using backhoes and machinery the cadaver dogs reacted to several specific areas but they had only
identified medical waste after a week of searching in unpleasant conditions the search was called off with no trace of
Natalie found a fisherman also came forward to report that on the night of Natalie's disappearance the fisherman
hearts had been robbed and a knife and a lobster cage had been stolen he didn't think to report the theft at the time
but now wondered whether it could be linked to the Holloway investigation as the cage was large enough to fit a human
body according to Dave Holloway's book he received an anonymous email claiming that Natalie's body had been put in the
cage and dumped two miles offshore investigators ultimately ruled out the lead as other witness statements had
failed to place Natalie or Euron on the beach near the fisherman huts in the first place
on Friday July 22 a handyman and a gardener named Carlos Pineda came forward to police to provide a statement
in the early hours of Monday May 30 Carlos was unable to sleep as it was hot and his apartment didn't have
air-conditioning he decided to drive to his boss's house where it was cooler and sometime between
2:30 and 3:00 a.m. he took a shortcut down a dirt road near the Marriott hotel and came across a grey Honda Civic with
a large pile of dirt nearby his headlights lit up the car and he saw the faces of your own vendor slowed and a
d-pad capo in the front seat and satish capo in the back Carlos refused to sign his statement
saying he wanted nothing more to do with the case and to then left Aruba to go on
a sailing holiday upon his return to the island in early August Carlos Pineda spoke to the police again
explaining that he hadn't come forward sooner with these information as he was nervous he was aware of the two innocent
security guards who had been taken into custody in relation to the investigation
and was hesitant to draw any attention to himself his employer had also advised him to wait before speaking with
authorities due to the amount of media attention the case was getting when it initially broke based on Carlos's
assertions a large-scale search of the area surrounding the Marriott Hotel was carried out infrared technology detected
a heat source in a pond near the ocean but it turned out to be a decomposing shellfish on Monday August a beth twitty
confronted deepak capo in the internet cafe where he worked she was accompanied by a film crew from American cable
channel MSNBC she stood over him silently for several minutes before asking him a string of
questions including whether he was involved in Natalie's disappearance or if he had tried to help her
Beth offered him a choice between the reward money or life in prison Deepak responded that his lawyer had
advised him to remain silent police suspected that Euron's best friend and neighbor Freddie Zidane knew
more than he was letting on it had been brought to their attention that Freddie had allegedly taken explicit photographs
of an underage teenager which he had then posted to his website where he referred to himself as the loco man pimp
on Friday August 26 police arrested Freddie on suspicion of committing a sex offense in the hopes
that would compel him to reveal more information about what happened to Natalie freddie denied knowing any
further details and his lawyer argued the images on his website were nothing more than a teenager wearing a bikini
Freddie's charges were dropped and he was released the same day also on August 26 the police took a risk by reeling
deeper concertation capo Huron had claimed that Natalie had passed out several times while he was touching her
an act that could be considered sex without consent the police tried to scare the capo brothers into talking by
threatening that they could be considered accessories to this crime by virtue of being in the same car but
neither of them revealed any new information and were free to go on Saturday September 3 a magistrate
determined there wasn't enough evidence to hold your own van der Sloot for a further 30 days and he was released
two days later he left the rubra and relocated to his hometown of Arnhem in the Netherlands where he moved in with a
relative and enrolled in college to study international business management he's gambling have it increased and to
support his addiction he accepted payment from various media outlets to speak about the Holloway case when
reflecting on his involvement to Dutch television news program her current affairs
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was in the wrong place at the wrong time maybe even with the wrong people and I just hope that the truth comes out that
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been missing for three months and not a single piece of physical evidence had emerged to indicate her whereabouts had
her body been dumped at sea it would have likely washed up on shore by now or been discovered during one of the
various searches even if her remains had been destroyed by marine life some items
or scraps of clothing would have likely surfaced despite investigators holding great fears for the missing 18 year old
there still wasn't a shred of evidence to indicate that a crime had occurred the reward for information was increased
to 1 million dollars with a separate reward of $100,000 available for the recovery of Natalie's remains the
American media continued to follow Natalie's case making it the most reported news event in the United States
in 2005 an article in Vanity Fair titled missing white female claimed natalee's disappearance received at the same
amount of media coverage as the Iraq war it was also critical of the attention as
it detracted from other missing person cases especially those with less public appeal the article stated quote
Natalie's story has all the elements the Justice shows adore an innocent victim missing or murdered avenging loved ones
and a handsome white male suspect throwing a gaggle of luckless cops and colorful minor characters said it all in
an island paradise and you have the kind of a real-life mystery that keeps Americans glued to their seats
Dave Holloway later said in his book though some might view Natalie as just another blond white American girl to
whom the media tends to pay more attention than minorities people of every race and religion have come
forward to extend to us compassion and Dundas the ending the media allowed her into
everyone's home and everyone's hearts this tragedy could have happened to anyone's child black-white rich-poor
Christian Jewish Muslim whatever there are no lines to be drawn when it comes to a parent losing a child
hopefully the media has brought that home to the world after four months in Aruba searching for her daughter Beth
Twitty returned to the United States she told reporters that was idealistic to expect that Americans would receive the
same kind of justice overseas that they did at home stating when Americans leave
the United States we should be prepared to leave behind to all of those expectations in early October Beth
preceived a voicemail on her phone from a private number the message contained a
female voice saying mum help me the FBI analyzed the voicemail against the genuine recordings of Natalie's
voice and ultimately ruled it out as a hoax accusations that the Aruban police force was purposely thwarting the
investigation as part of some kind of cover-up ran rife in the u.s. in response a Reuben officials accused
Natalie's family of hindering their efforts claiming the pressure they put upon law enforcement to prematurely
arrest Joran van der Sloot and to the kaupo brothers ruined their chances of gathering the evidence required to find
their daughter a Reuben deputy police chief Gerald Adan peak told the media they
brought out their big guns on the very first day and they started shooting they didn't understand to the way things are
done in our system they didn't want to understand they acted like they came from a world where you can just crush
people it was very harmful to our investigation feeling let down by a Rubin law enforcement and to the locals who no
longer supported her bethe called for Americans to boycott the island she believed it would encourage anyone who
had information but was too scared to speak to come forward Beth appeared on various major
television networks to promote the boycott alleging that a Reuben police weren't doing their jobs and that they
refused to hand over a single piece of information regarding the case to the FBI a spokesperson for the FBI disputed
this claim telling television news channels CNN that the Aruban police had supplied them with all relevant
information and the prime minister had fully supported American authorities participation in the investigation
Beth's husband - junk Twitty was well connected with the American Republican Party and - they used his connections to
get various politicians involved Beth told Vanity Fair that she intended to strike against the rubra and on Tuesday
November 8 the Governor of Alabama Bob Riley held a press conference to urge all Americans to boycott Aruba and
called for all other states to follow his lead quote until their lack of law enforcement practices can be evaluated
and until they offer some resolution in Natalie's case tourists are not safe in Aruba or any Dutch territories
a Reuben Prime Minister Nelson odor bear called the boycott preposterous and irresponsible telling the media a Reuben
investigators have done that best to solve the mystery and to the entire island doesn't deserve to be punished
we are not gorillas we are not terrorists a few other American states including Georgia and Arkansas called
for a boycott but they received no support from the federal government in response members of aruba's tourism
hospitality and public relations industries formed a task force to speak out against the negative portrayals of
the island Natalie's father Dave was against the boycott although he was disappointed with many elements of the
investigation he didn't want the actions of a small group of officials to negatively impact the whole island
yet local support for Natalie's family in Aruba had sensed the wind or exacerbated by reports that the Mountain
Brook hire students were poorly behaved throughout their visit in May as a result the Holiday Inn had told the
school that their senior class was not welcome to return the following year Anna Rubin businessman who had
previously been an ally for Natalie's family told Vanity Fair their killing of rubra that girl Natalie I wish she'd
stayed home I hope she's found a life there the kid is just not worth all this trouble this
heartache is Natalie worth it is she American psychologist turned television host dr. Phil McGraw had been outspoken
in his support of Natalee Holloway's family having sent his own investigative team to search a robot and speak to
witnesses he advocated for the boycott of the island and on Wednesday November 2 appeared on American late-night talk
show The Tonight Show with the Jay Leno where he stated he had reason to believe
Natalie was still alive and being held as a sex slave after the segment aired Dave Holloway received a phone call from
a woman who claimed she had been across the street from the Holiday Inn on the night Natalie went missing she saw two
men whom she believed to be some kind of royalty trying to coerce a young blond-haired woman to join them the
witness didn't think anything of it at the time and to left the rubra the following morning she then put the dots
together after seeing dr. Phil's the late-night interview a Saudi prince was on the island the night Natalie
disappeared but nothing further came from the lead a private investigator and polygraph expert named Jamie Cedars was
hired by dr. Phil to travel to Aruba using a hidden camera he interviewed Deepak kaupo who called Natalie a [ __ ]
based on the way she dressed spoke and because she chose to go driving with three strange men quote and her mother
claiming her to be the goody two-shoes enough witness B s already portions of the hidden camera interview were aired
on the dr. Phil show with the footage showing Deepak respond to the question as to whether Natalie had sex with Joran
Satish and himself by saying she did you'd be surprised how simple it was he was also shown saying if I knew where
the body is I would tell them a long time ago let them start the trial and get this over with I don't care
after the snippets of the interview aired a Reuben officials accused the dr. Phil's producers of editing the footage
to fit their agenda in support of this claim they released an uncut version of the tape which showed Deepak shaking his
head and saying no when asked if Natalie had sex with your aunt Satish and himself the answer Deepak a Gabe saying
you'd be surprised how simple it was was actually in response to another question
in December 2005 the Kalpa brothers sued the dr. Phil show for defamation with the lawsuit alleging that the interview
was altered to create false statements incriminating them in Natalie's disappearance lawyers for dr. Phil and
CBS the television network that aired the show disputed the allegations the case was ultimately dismissed after a
long legal battle also in December of 2005 an American woman named Tracy Ellen contacted Natalie's family as she had
been holidaying in Aruba in May 2005 nine days before Natalee went missing Tracy took a morning stroll at 6:30
along a quiet stretch of beach near the Marriott hotel as she approached the fishermen hearts a man who was naked
from the waist down ran out and launched an attack he threatened Tracy with a stone grabbed her by the arm and
attempted to pull her into his vehicle which was waiting nearby with the engine running
Tracy resisted and yelled out for help attracting the attention of some local fishermen and prompting the attacker to
flee she had reported the incident to a Reuben police at the time but nothing further came of it she now wondered
whether the same person who attacked her could have something to do with Natalie's disappearance
Tracy provided an official statement to the FBI and worked with a police sketch artist to create a composite image of
her attacker she described him as being around 25 years old with a dark complexion Roundhead almond-shaped eyes
dark hair a mustache and wearing octagonal metal framed glasses the suspect sketch was circulated
throughout Aruba but no identifications were made a few weeks later the FBI presented Tracy with a photographic
lineup she identified her assailant immediately saying she was 100% positive that was the right man in a bizarre
coincidence at the time Tracy identified him the suspect was already being held in custody in Aruba for an expired visa
the police who were holding him were unaware of his alleged involvement in the attack on Tracy Allen and that he
was a potential person of interest in the Natalie Holloway investigation before US authorities could question him
the suspect was released and he immediately fled to Colombia [Music] the theory that Nathalie had been solved
into the sex trade was a popular one with many suspecting Euron and of the calper brothers or an unidentified
kidnapper had facilitated the transaction there were stories of similar-looking women who had been
drugged in Aruba and sold to traffickers who transported them to Colombia Venezuela and surrounding Caribbean
islands to work in brothels this theory was bolstered by a report released by the u.s. Department of State the claimed
Aruba was commonly used to traffic women and children for sexual exploitation according to the report approximately
500 foreign women some of whom had been unwillingly trafficked were currently engaged in sex work in Aruba and the
nearby island of Curacao Anna Rubin woman reported she was talking on the phone one night when her lion became
crossed with a conversation between two men one of the men allegedly told the other
he had seen a woman resembling Natalie Holloway at a brothel in the Colombian capital city of Bogota he wanted to
report the sighting to the FBI but couldn't interfere his Bentley would find out he had visited a brothel
the call itself could not be verified another theory was that Natalie had been recruited or trafficked into the
pornography industry investigators cast their suspicions on Paul be an American expert who operated
a sex tourism business in Aruba under the pseudonym mr. pink Paul be offered erotic tours in which he would take
foreign visitors to the red-light district to find a woman who fit their personal preferences his website touted
prostitution is 100 percent legal in Aruba and from personal experience I can tell you that you will find the safest
and most passionate women in the world here we ensure that you will get unbelievable sex
Paul Bea also ran a photography studio in Aruba and had been seeking models to pose for him by running ads asking women
to quote join the party it was also discovered that he had returned to the United States shortly after Natalee
Holloway's disappearance Paul B's Aruban businesses were registered to a post office box in
Florida so the FBI obtained his phone records and kept a close eye on him with no new leads or breakthroughs
Natalee Holloway's slowly faded from the headlines and her case eventually went cold a year later in December of 2006
Beth then jug Twiggy filed for divorce after six years of marriage resulting in Natalie's untouched a bedroom being
packed up and cleared out decorated in shades of purple and green the room was adorned with photos of Natalie and her
friends certificates of her achievements and a collection of memorabilia from her
favorite movie The Wizard of Oz her graduation robe and several new outfits she had bought to take to college still
hung in the closet as Beth described in her book loving Natalie a mother's testament of hope and faith
Natalie loved it in here it was her place to work and her place of Solace it's where she giggled with friends and
studied for tests that's where she dressed for the prom that's Natalie's own space and
everything in it represents her she was a hard-working young lady full of life smart
gutsy determined and very dependable she had always been that way in 2007 Dutch investigators reopened the
case and forensic analysts who examined computers that had been confiscated from
your own Deepak and Satish following their initial arrest on June 9 2005 advances in forensic technology now
allowed investigators to recover their online chat history revealing some disturbing habits amongst the suspects
and their circle of friends the group appeared to have an obsession with picking up girls and taking them
back to hotel rooms to photograph or video them engaging in sexual acts in their online interactions the young men
encouraged each other to commit lewd acts while referring to themselves as pimps and to their group as the pimp
ology Cru a rumor had also circulated around Hurons high school that he had spiked Natalie's drink and she had died
of an accidental overdose based on this new information investigators believed that the three suspects did not take in
utterly to the beach as they alleged if they intended to film their encounter with the young woman for the pimp ology
crew the beach wouldn't have provided adequate privacy or lighting it seemed much more likely that Nathalie had been
taken back to Euron's the touch department at the rear of his family's home as his parents sometimes allowed
him to have girls over computer analysis also revealed that when your own returned home on the night of Natalie's
disappearance he had visited various pornographic websites that specialized in women having sex with men in the
backseat of cars and buses he had also downloaded two pornographic films from a website called nasty
dollars.com which was owned by an American production company called reality kings reality Kings was
registered to an office in Florida near the post office box belonging to sex tourism operator Paul B aka mr. pink
investigators considered the possibility that Paul B had been supplying videos to
reality kings some of which may have featured Natalie but there was no evidence to support this theory
Paul B was ultimately ruled out as a suspect he was later interviewed by Dutch investigators for the book the Holloway
files during which he explained that while he aimed to be a Content producer he had never actually produced the
single pornography video he blamed his sudden departure from Aruba on the negative impact the Holloway case had on
tourism the pornography link was ultimately ruled out but based on their online chat history it still seemed
plausible that your own and to the kaupo brothers had intended to capture footage
of Natalie she may have been killed by accident or died from a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol on
Wednesday November 21 2007 urine was reeling in the Netherlands and two transported to Aruba this time on
suspicion of manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm deepak and Satish cowpoke were also
arrested for the same offences prosecutors put forward that V online chat transcripts provided a new evidence
against the trio but lawyers for the accused argued there was nothing amongst them to confirm that Natalie Holloway
had died or that their clients were involved an attorney for the kaupo brothers said it's like trying to say
the Loch Ness monster exists a judge agreed there wasn't enough evidence to hold the suspects in custody
Deepak and Satish were released on November 30 while Euron was held for an additional week before he was let go on
December 7 almost three years after Natalie disappeared her case hit headlines once
again when Dutch crime reporter Peter DeVries claimed he had a video of your own van
der Sloot confessing to her murder and would soon be broadcasting it on Dutch television a preview for the
segment showed Dutch prosecutors reading a transcript of the alleged confession and remarking this is very impressive we
have thought to ourselves that this was a very probable chain of events but until now we lacked submission evidence
clearly it's the first time that he's confessed to somebody this is his coming out the footage aired on Sunday February
3 2008 7 million Dutch citizens almost half the population tuned in to watch it featured a sting that had been
orchestrated by the race and a friend of your aunt's named Patrick van Durham Patrick had contacted the reporter
months earlier to say he didn't believe your own story about what happened to Natalie and agreed to take part in a
sting operation in exchange for $35,000 the Rees installed three hidden cameras in Patrick's car and captured 20 hours
of footage over a five day period as he and Gerard drove around chatting and smoking cannabis the conversation
eventually turned to the subject of Natalie Holloway you're on confessed that he and Natalie
had been having sex on the beach when she suddenly had a seizure and died he had used the pay phone to call a friend
named Dori who had a boat and helped him take Natalie's body out to sea afterwards he walked home alone your
aunt told Patrick she's dead of course I think I'll never get caught for this I had absolutely no bad feelings about it
I have not lost the one night of sleep over it I think that I am incredibly lucky that she has never been found
because if she had been found I would be in deep [ __ ] after the footage aired you are on told
the Dutch reporters that he had been lying to Patrick in a bid to impress him Patrick was a former criminal turned
successful businessman who had served time in prison for dealing drugs and Euron claimed he thought the story was
what Patrick wanted to hear Euron did have a friend named a dory who was tracked down but he denied having
anything to do with Natalie's death telling investigators he wasn't even in Aruba at the time a Reuben prosecutors
attempted to use the video confession to have urine ray arrested but the request
was denied by a judge on account of Euron alleging it made the whole story up regardless Natalie's mother who had
since reverted to her first married name of Beth Holloway was of the opinion that
the alleged confession was likely true she believed the person who had helped dispose of her daughter's body was not
Dory but Euron's father Pallas van der slow Beth also stated that if the story was true Natalie might have still been
alive if your own had sought help once again Euron was facing intense public scrutiny he told his parents he
needed a fresh start when nobody knew his name so he flew to Australia according to the book portrait of a
monster by Lisa Pulitzer and Col Thompson he was refused entry and decided to meet a friend in Thailand
instead he enrolled in a university roughly 20 miles north of the bustling capital of Bangkok
in November of 2008 urine reached out to American journalist to Greta Van Susteren who had covered Natalie's case
extensively over the years for her Fox News Current Affair show on the record Euron said that for the price of $25,000
he was ready to confess the truth and had evidence to prove his claims Greta and her production crew were dubious but
they paid him in installment and traveled to Bangkok to conduct an interview when the cameras were rolling
Joran stated that he sold Natalie Holloway into sex slavery and had finally decided to come clean because
there was a chance she could still be alive according to your own he was in an Aruban casino in February 2005 when a
man aged in his 30s offered him $10,000 to supply him a blonde woman the man didn't specify what he wanted the woman
for and Iran didn't give it much more thought until three months later when he met Natalie he told the man he had found
a suitable girl and was ordered to bring her to the beach outside the Marriott hotel later that night and to call him
once they arrived your unclaimed that he did not intend to go through with the plan until Natalie started hitting on
him that Carlos and Charlie's at 1:00 a.m. in front of Natalie he called the buyer and spoke in Dutch to tell him to
meet them on the beach in one hour you aren't old Natalie they were going to the beach so he could take her out for a
boat ride when the boat arrived it wasn't until she was onboard that she realized he wouldn't be joining her and
to begin to panic the boat's bed away with Natalie on it and urine then called the Deepak to come and pick him up
Deepak was busy chatting with his girlfriend online so he sent Satish instead Euron then gave each of the COPO
brothers $1,000 for their assistance Euron claimed his father later found out about the sale and said that Natalie had
been shipped to Venezuela he insisted that he had a wire transfer receipt proving the $10,000 transaction took
place in addition to a second identical payment which the buyer wired to him to encourage his silence he also had three
audio tapes implicating his father and two Aruban police officers in the cover-up he provided these items to the
production team who passed them on to relevant experts but their authenticity was unable to be verified
soon after beyond the record team returned to the United States Euron sent greta van susteren a text
message saying that everything he had told her was a lie he had fabricated the entire story for the money and to get
back at her for relentlessly pursuing him during the 2005 investigation regardless the interview was aired four
months later garnering high ratings Iran's American attorney Jota Kapena appeared on the show and
accused the journalist of exploiting his client for her own gains quote if you offered you around ten thousand dollars
tomorrow and asked him to tell a fifth story he would do it clearly he's a sick kid no one expects anyone to believe
anything this kid has to say anymore quite frankly he's on the verge of sociopaths
Dutch crime reporter Peter de frase received reports that the real recent Euron had moved to Thailand was that a
friend had told him there was the potential to earn lots of money by trafficking Thai women to the
Netherlands to work in the sex trade according to news website The Daily Beast urine spent his evenings posing as
a modeling agent named Murphy Jenkins who was looking for exotic dancers to work in high-end strip clubs in Holland
going so far as having a fake business card created in reality upon their arrival to Europe the unsuspecting women
would be forced into sex work after his first few weeks in Bangkok Joran allegedly came out friends back
home and des bragged that he had already recruited a dozen women earning him a finder's fee of $13,000 for each one he
invested his money in a local coffee shop that became a popular hangout for students providing an easy hunting
ground for him to find new recruits Peter Davis and his team traveled to Bangkok and set up a hidden camera
inside a hotel room capturing urine telling a group of underage women they could earn fifteen thousand dollars a
day in the Netherlands to quote shake your ass the women handed over one thousand euros to secure the required
travel documentation in November 2000 a diverse aired the footage but this time the journalist was
accused of hiring the women featured to pose as potential recruits to set up your own and to the footage was deemed
as tabloid ism it is being reported that Dutch authorities launched an investigation
into your own for human trafficking but did not uncover enough evidence to place
any charges in 2009 Euron continued to spend his time traveling throughout Asia to compete in various poker tournaments
struggling for money he agreed to an interview with the yar Perez a Dutch reality TV star turned host of the shock
value television show terror yacht he agreed to undergo a polygraph test during which he claimed to have taken
Nathalie to a friend's house where they snorted cocaine she had fallen to her death from a balcony and urine then
disposed of her body in a swamp the polygraph test indicated he was lying prompting urine to storm dramatically
off the stage in February 2010 Euron's father Palace bandhas load was playing tennis when he
suffered a fatal heart attack and died Euron sold his Bangkok cafe and returned to Aruba to support his mother
I'm not flattered in March 2010 Beth Holloway's lawyer John Kelly received an email from the now 22 year old Joran van
der slowed claiming his family had run into financial difficulty following his father's death and he was ready to come
clean about what happened to Natalie for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Euron said he would disclose the
location of Natalie's remains and provide specific details about how she died he requested an initial payment of
twenty five thousand dollars with the remainder to be paid after he had provided the information recognizing it
as an opportunity to have Euron arrested for wire fraud and extortion Kelly contacted the FBI who helped set
up a sting on Monday May 10 an undercover agent arranged to meet your are in Aruba where a hidden video camera
captured him handing over ten thousand dollars in cash the remaining fifteen thousand dollars was wired to a bank
account in Euron's name with the payment in his possession Euron took Kelly to a single-story house
approximately five miles from the Marriott hotel he claimed to their house had been under construction in May 2005
and his father had buried initally underneath the Foundation's this information lacked any credibility as
the house you're on was referencing was just a vacant block of land in May 2005 Euron sent Kelly another email admitting
everything he had said was a lie he later told Dutch newspaper The Telegraph I wanted to get back at Natalie's family
her parents have been making my life tough for five years when they offered to pay for the girls location I thought
why not four days later while the FBI are prepared to charge your arm with extortion
he used the $25,000 extortion money to flee the country he left his mother a note saying he had been invited to
participate in a poker tournament in Peru on Sunday May 31 2010 58 year-old ricardo flores awoke in his home in
choco rio an affluent neighborhood in the surco district of lima peru as a prominent businessman racecar driver
and former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club Ricardo's family enjoyed a comfortable
upper-class lifestyle in a country where much of the population was impacted by poverty he had been able to put all five
of his children through private school take them on overseas vacations and provide them with money and anything
else they needed as reported in the book portrait of a monster Ricardo's 21 year old daughter Stephanie
Flores had recently asked for $1,000 to buy a new laptop which she needed for the Business Administration degree she
was studying at the University of Alima Ricardo had obliged even though he had growing concerns that Stephanie was
developing a problematic a gambling habit and would used the money at the casino
the Flores family had always enjoyed playing poker against one another but Stephanie had started frequenting
various casinos throughout Lima and expressing a desire to become a professional poker player although she
was incredibly smart and excelled at most things ricardo believed gambling was dangerous as his daughter had a very
competitive side and couldn't stand to lose stephanie had spent the previous night out
with new friends from college and when ricardo looked into her bedroom he was shocked to see she wasn't there
he called her mobile phone several times but it went straight to voicemail by mid-morning he and his wife Maria Elena
were panic-stricken and called everyone they knew but no one had seen their daughter by the afternoon they reported
Stephanie to be missing as they didn't know many of her friends they were unable to ascertain who she had spent
the night with or her last known whereabouts Stephanie was close with her family and two lived a happy life making
it unlikely that she had run away kidnapping for ransom was common in Peru with tourists and affluent families
often targeted at 1:00 p.m. on Monday afternoon a police officer located Stephanie's black Jeep in a poor
crime-ridden neighborhood the only obvious thing missing was a Nintendo Wii video game console that Stephanie had
with her when she left her house on Saturday but there were no signs of foul play
Stephanie's phone provider next hour was unable to provide GPS activity from her
phone but they were able to provide a list of the most recent outgoing calls Ricardo Flores called these numbers and
got hold of Stephanie's friend Corolla who confirmed she had spent the day and night of Saturday with Stephanie the two
had a lunch at a restaurant visited a carnival played video games and too then went out to a bar with another female
friend from college Stephanie had dropped each of the women home at around 2 am sending Corolla a text message
around an hour later to let her know she had arrived home safely Corolla said that Stephanie had been in
possession of a large sum of money which she claimed two of one at the casino days prior
stephanie was known to frequent the Atlantic casino in Miraflores an upscale casino owned by a friend of the Flores
family the casinos surveillance tapes were reviewed revealing she hadn't actually returned home after her night
out with France but instead headed straight to the poker table the footage captured her in the presence of a tall
Caucasian man whom she appeared to be somewhat familiar with at 5:15 a.m. on the morning of Sunday May 31
surveillance cameras in the parking lot captured the pair driving off together in Stephanie's Jeep Casino staff
confirmed the young man seen with Stephanie had won a small prize in a raffle draw entered entered his name and
passport number on the winning ticket they retrieved the receipt revealing him to be 22-year old
Joran van der Sloot the immediate concerns of local authorities were that Euron had been
kidnapped along with Stephanie and was also a missing person the Natalie Holloway case had never made headlines
in Peru and as he had never been charged for any crime authorities and customs officials were unaware of his history
but when Peruvian investigators googled Euron's name they were shocked to discover he was linked to the
disappearance of another young woman whom he had also met in a casino what's more the day he was last seen
with Stephanie not the 5-year anniversary of natalee's disappearance a hunt commenced to find Euron and to the
police prepared to release his image to the media meanwhile a call came in from the hotel tak a budget hotel on the
outskirts of mira flores her receptionist hadn't seen the occupant of room 309 in several days and his bill
was two days overdue she remembered - you're on Vanda slope clearly as his fair complexion and tall
stature stood out amongst the other Peruvian travelers using a spare key she entered his room and was hit with a foul
stench the room was in disarray with items scattered throughout and the TV blaring
a tennis racket was tangled amongst the bedsheets which were bundled up on the floor to the right of the bed played the
blood soaked and too badly decomposed body of Stephanie Flores her wallet sat beside her empty of its credit cards and
cash news of Stephanie's murder hit the media and an international manhunt for euro and vendor slowed ensued
immigration documents were checked and it was soon revealed that urine had crossed over the border into Chile along
with two Peruvian nationals the Peruvians were tracked down and today claimed Iran had offered them five
hundred US dollars to drive him from Iike a Peruvian town 150 miles south of Lima to arica a small Chilean town just
across the border the drive took approximately 15 hours once they had crossed into Chile Euron claimed the
ATMs wouldn't accept his international debit card and only provided his driver's with a portion of the promised
payment to compensate he handed his escorts several personal items including his
watch cellphone digital camera a bottle of cologne a polo shirt and foot powder urines image was distributed by the
chilean media and citizens were told to be on high alert on Thursday June 3 2010
a toll booth attendant outside of the sapota tunnel west of the city of Karaka he saw a tall Caucasian man attempting
to look inconspicuous in the backseat of a taxi although he had slightly different hair than the image of your
aunt circulating in the press the attendant recognized the Dutchman and to notified the police
within minutes several police cars descended on the highway and placed him under arrest without incident he had
since shaped his head and dyed his remaining hair orange urine was taken to a police station in downtown Santiago
where he made no comment than to look too calm as he was ushered into the station as gathering hordes of press
yelled his name Euron initially told the police that two armed men posing as policemen had broken into his hotel room
demanding cash fearing for his life he had escaped leaving Stephanie behind he drove her car away from the scene dumped
it a few blocks away from the hotel and - then fled the country he claimed he only learned about
Stephanie's death upon his arrival in Chile when he saw an article about it in the news he soon admitted that he had
met Stephanie at the Atlantic casino a few days before her death after she won close to ten thousand dollars in a poker
tournament on May 30 she told Euron she wasn't interested in men but asked him to help hone her poker
skills urine was intoxicated having consumed approximately 10 alcoholic beverages and smoked cannabis when he
and Stephanie decided to go back to his hotel room to play online poker while Stephanie was playing on Euron's
computer a Facebook message popped up that read I'm going to kill you you little [ __ ] your unexplained the
threat was in relation to the disappearance of Natalie Holloway Stephanie googled - Natalie Holloway and
- then panicked and started lashing out earlier on allegedly punching him on the
left side of his head you're on retaliated telling the police I did not want to do it the girl
intruded in my private life she had no right she was frightened we argued and she wanted to get away I grabbed her by
the neck and hit her Euron said he struck Stephanie in the face with his right elbow rendering her semi
unconscious there was blood everywhere which caused him to panic and to lose control he
grabbed Stephanie by the neck and started strangling her before removing his blood-soaked t-shirt and using it to
suffocate her until she stopped the breathing Euron quote I lost control of my actions I remember what I was doing
but not the motive it was an impulsive act after receiving a blow to the head after I responded with hitting her I
feared that she would go to the police I think I wanted to kill her because I wasn't thinking following the murder
Euron left the hotel room to purchase coffee and cake he returned to his room where he ate his meal while Stephanie's
lifeless body lay on the floor afterwards he took his laptop and some cash and fled to Chile
Euron tried to barter a deal with investigators offering to speak truthfully about the Natalie Holloway
case in exchange for being extradited back to Aruba an autopsy of Stephanie's body revealed that much of Euron's
confession was a lie a coroner found her injuries were consistent with having been beaten to death while the
toxicology report confirmed that urine had not taken any drugs at the time of the vicious attack he's claimed that he
was high on cannabis was viewed as strategic as perpetrators of serious crimes in Peru a given leniency if they
committed the act while under the influence of drugs Joran van der Sloot was held in lemurs
Miguel Castro prison to await trial on Friday November 12 2010 an American couple vacationing in Aruba
while walking along the beach near the Phoenix hotel approximately one mile south from the Holiday Inn when they
found what appeared to be a human jawbone with a single tooth attached the bone was determined to have originated
from a young female it was sent to the Netherlands for further analysis when the attached tooth was identified as a
wisdom tooth Natalee Holloway's dental records confirmed she had already had all of her
wisdom teeth removed ruling out the possibility that the jawbone belonged to her it was checked against the Ruby's
other missing person records but exposure to harsh elements made it impossible to determine the owners
identity given that an intense hurricane season had stirred up the surrounding oceans it was speculated that the bone
could have washed up from Curacao or Venezuela in June 2011 Dave Holloway filed a petition to have his daughter
declared illegally dead in order to settle her estate Dave told the judge he believed Natalie was no longer alive and
wanted to stop payments on her medical insurance and use her $2,000 College Fund to help her younger brother
Beth Holloway initially opposed the petition citing a lack of evidence to indicate Natalie was deceased but
changed her mind once she understood Dave's intend a probate judge signed the order officially declaring Natalie
Holloway legally dead Beth released the statement explaining that Dave wanted to see the order
through but she would quote always hope and pray for Natalie's safe return Dave told reporters
hopefully this meeting today will provide some closure we've still got a long way to go to get justice in
mid-september 2011 Beth Holloway and Dutch journalist Peter DeVries flew to Peru to visit Euron van der Sloot in
prison it was the first time Beth and Euron had met face to face since the day after Natalie's disappearance but he
remained tight-lipped saying that any requests for a meeting must go through his lawyer
Beth and a vase were accused of trying to film the interaction for television which Beth's lawyer John Kelly denied
explaining I just think she wanted him to know she wasn't going away this had nothing to do with the case there was a
mother trying to bring her daughter home the president of Peru Alan Garcia Perez stated that Euron
would have to stand trial in Peru before any requests for extradition would be considered in an attempt to delay legal
proceedings Euron tried to enter a plea of temporary insanity but On January 11 2012 he
eventually pleaded guilty to Stephanie Flores murder his lawyer requested a lenient sentence on the grounds that his
client had been under a significant amount of stress on the day the murder occurred as it marked the five-year
anniversary of Natalee Holloway's disappearance quote he was pointed out and persecuted the
world had been against him for five years two days later on Friday January 13 Euron van der Sloot was sentenced to
serve 28 years in a maximum-security prison north of Lima and ordered to pay approximately 74 thousand US dollars to
the Flores family a lawyer for the family who had chosen not to speak to the media throughout their ordeal told
the press this individual is a psychopath and a psychopath cannot be freed Peruvian authorities agreed to extradite
your on to the United States to face charges for extortion and wire fraud but not until his 28-year sentence was
complete prior to his conviction Euron's mother Anita Van der slowed told Dutch reporters I believe in karma I believe
that if you do things that you shouldn't do that a lot of [ __ ] happens to you he
didn't want to listen to his parents he didn't listen to me this the last time I
tried to do my best I don't think I could have done more while in prison Joran van der Sloot
began a relationship with 24 year old trainee accountant lady Figueroa whom he met while she was visiting an
incarcerated relative in July 2014 the two were married and a lady soon gave birth to that first child when he
allegedly threatened to kill the prison warden Euron was transferred to the notoriously
rough and unsanitary Cherlapally prison high in the Andes Lady Figueroa spoke to the Daily Mail newspaper about
the conditions he was forced to endure adding that Euron had since found God and was seeking forgiveness for the evil
he had committed in the past in 2016 dave holloway hired a private investigator named TJ Ward to go over
all the evidence relating to his daughter's disappearance during which a new lead emerged a man
named Gabriel told Ward that he's former roommate an American named John Ludwick
had been a close friend of your aunt's in 2005 and claimed to know what happened to Natalie Gabriel agreed to
participate in hidden-camera conversations with Ludwick capturing him confessing to helping dispose of
Natalie's body Ludwick was then interviewed by a ward during which he claimed that on the night of Natalie's
disappearance Euron laced her drink with the GHB a dangerous party drug that produces feelings of euphoria and
relaxation as well as increased social and sexual urges according to Ludwick Natalie had
subsequently overdosed and choked to death on her own vomit urine had called his father who helped him bury Natalie's
body behind a house near the Holiday Inn Ludwick claimed that in 2010 Joran feared that investigators were closing
in on him and offered him $1500 to move the body hey and Euron dugout nataly's remains
and attempted to crush her bones to the point that they would be unrecognizable they also set her skull on fire in a bid
to destroy any hair fibers Ludwick then combined her remains with those of a deceased dog and took them to
a crematorium where he told the worker they belonged to his beloved pet and offered two hundred dollars to let him
cremate the body afterwards he and Euron borrowed a boat and headed out to sea where they scattered the ashes in
collaboration with Dave Holloway and TJ Ward a production company decided to document the saga for a six-part
miniseries titled the disappearance of Natalie Holloway an excavation of the alleged burial site was permissioned
during which all bone fragments were recovered the bones were sent for forensic analysis with Beth agreeing to
provide a saliva sample to assist with the DNA testing although she wasn't informed that the process was being
filmed for television the series aired on the oxygen Channel on Friday August 19 2016 forensic scientist dr. Jason
Cole ASCII appeared on the show to present his findings concluding that only one of the four bone samples tested
positive for human mitochondrial DNA meaning it was the only one that was human yet it wasn't a match for Natalie
dr. Coletti explained we don't know how old that person is we don't know how long that person has been dead it was
later revealed that Jon Ludwick had knowingly obtained to all four bones from the remains of a wild boar
the bone that tested positive for human mitochondrial DNA had a likely done so because it had been handled by Ludwick
the producers of the show allegedly knew the bones weren't human before the segment was filmed but never relayed the
truth - Beth Holloway in February of 2018 Beth filed a federal lawsuit against the producers of the show
alleging that the disappearance of Natalie Holloway was a fake scripted documentary that subjected her to weeks
of agony and uncertainty as she waited for the results of the bone testing she alleged the show was a quote pre-planned
fast calculated to give the impression of real time events and that many of its participants including John Ludwig were
paid for their involvement she saw 20 million dollars in compensator e damages and 30 million dollars in punitive
damages for their actions which the lawsuit claimed completely and utterly destroyed her the case is scheduled for
trial in September 2020 one month after Beth's lawsuit was filed John Ludwick attempted to kidnap a
female former roommate for whom he had unreciprocated romantic feelings 23 year-old Emily was getting out of her
car just before 7 a.m. when Ludwig appeared held a knife to her throat and ordered her into her vehicle a struggle
ensued and Emily managed to grab the knife and stabbed Ludwick several times in self-defense bleeding profusely he
fled the scene on foot but later died from his wounds a spokesperson for the North Point Police Department said Emily
wouldn't face any charges explaining she was a victim in this case this gentleman
had some ill intentions she wasn't going quietly and it ended very bad for him on Monday April 16
Emily appeared on the dr. Phil show claiming that Ludwig had previously told her that Natalie Holloway died on the
beach after having a seizure and that Palace inventor slate had helped his son Joran dispose of her body
Ludwig claimed he later retrieved and to burnt Natalie's remains so her body could never be found
as far as the Aruban Public Prosecutor's Office is concerned the Natalie Holloway
case has never been closed and will continue to be reinvestigated anytime new information surfaces prosecutor Hans
clava told ABC news that the cases against the urine vendor slowed and the kaupo brothers have been dismissed and
that quote only new facts and circumstances unknown at the moment of the dismissal can lead to reopening
their cases to this day Natalie's unsolved two disappearance maintains an ongoing level of public interest her
story has been covered in several books and movies with both of her parents releasing their own accounts of the
experience in Dave Holloway's book he writes I cannot tell you how much it hurts to lose a child there are no words
to describe the feelings that choked a parent who outlived a daughter it is never supposed to happen this way
I was never prepared for this kind of pain this type of emptiness my heart has an insurmountable void that used to be
filled with Natalie's presence over the years Beth Holloway has helped fund several nonprofit organizations
including the Natalie Holloway Resource Center which provide support for the families of missing persons and the safe
travels foundation which provides education services for young travelers her 2007 book loving Natalie a mother's
testament of hope and faith made it to the New York Times bestseller list and provided the inspiration for two
subsequent films on the Lifetime movie network Beth's ongoing commitment to exposing
the truth about what happened to her daughter in addition to her advocacy for other missing persons earned her a
position as the host of a lifetime show called vanished with Beth Holloway which
focused on empathetically telling the true stories of abductions disappearances and other crimes the show
ran for one season and covered Natalie's story as well as others previously covered by case file including case 59
amy Lynn Bradley and case three Laura Bible and Ashley Freeman in loving Natalie Beth wrote that the main
question people ask her is how she manages to keep going on her journey to find her daughter
she explained my answer is always hope at one time or another we've all experienced hope that inexplicable
empowerment that enables us to move successfully from challenge to resolution with courage the guarantee
that there's light at the end of whatever tunnel we're trying to find our way through that's more than just a
feeling more than wishful thinking but let me tell you that's easy to lose faith when you're faced with bitter
tragedy that's easy to give in to pain and to let go of hope I learned this firsthand when Natalie disappeared I've
learned a lot of things about Hope since then you [Music] you

Case 141: Natalee Holloway

Thursday, May 26, 2005, was an exciting day for 124 of the 300 senior students from Mountain Brook High School...

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Narration – Anonymous Host Research and writing – Elsha McGill Creative direction – Milly Raso Production, scoring – Mike Migas and Andrew Joslyn

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Brief Summary

Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba in 2005; suspects include Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpo brothers, with ongoing investigations and media coverage.

Key points

Natalie Holloway's Anticipated Trip. Eighteen-year-old Natalie Holloway looked forward to her senior trip to Aruba, a rite of passage.
A Mother's Desperate Search. Beth Twitty rushes to Aruba after learning her daughter is missing, seeking answers.
Family's Desperate Plea. Natalie's family distributes posters and offers a reward for information.
Search Efforts Intensify. As pressure mounts, thousands join the search for Natalie, including police and volunteers.
Euron's Confession. Euron admits to being with Natalie at the beach, raising suspicions about his intentions.
Backlash Against Beth Twitty. Beth's comments about the Aruban justice system spark backlash from locals.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

You leave your light on and wait until your child comes home.

Beth Twitty's hope for her daughter Natalie.

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Tension

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