Developments around the 2005 disappearance of high school teen Natalee Holloway, which led to a media frenzy captivating families across the globe, remained stagnant for more than a decade. Despite the family officially declaring the Alabama teen dead in 2012, her disappearance fueled the cultural canon with true-crime TV programming, a Lifetime movie, and more books on Amazon than you care to count.
But it wasn’t until Joran van der Sloot, the primary suspect in her death, was extradited from Peru on extortion charges in 2023 and confessed to Holloway’s killing,...
But it wasn’t until Joran van der Sloot, the primary suspect in her death, was extradited from Peru on extortion charges in 2023 and confessed to Holloway’s killing,...
- 3/1/2024
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
Joran van der Sloot changed his plea to guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud tied to the 2005 disappearance of Alabama high schooler Natalee Holloway on Wednesday, according to CNN.
John Q. Kelly, the lawyer for Holloway’s family, told NBC’s Today that a condition of the plea deal would include van der Sloot revealing how the teen died and what happened to her body. “There won’t be any further investigation or search … for Natalee’s remains,” the attorney said. Holloway’s mother, Beth, will hold a...
John Q. Kelly, the lawyer for Holloway’s family, told NBC’s Today that a condition of the plea deal would include van der Sloot revealing how the teen died and what happened to her body. “There won’t be any further investigation or search … for Natalee’s remains,” the attorney said. Holloway’s mother, Beth, will hold a...
- 10/18/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A missing Alabama teen’s dug-up skeletal remains were mixed with those of a dead dog in an effort to disguise their origin, then taken to a crematory where a man paid $200 to burn them so the ashes could be scattered off the coast of Aruba, according to the Oxygen series The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
The third installment of the six-part series, which aired Saturday, offers that detail along with still another twist in the mystery as Dave Holloway draws closer to learning what happened to his daughter, who went missing on the island in 2005.
Joran van der Sloot,...
The third installment of the six-part series, which aired Saturday, offers that detail along with still another twist in the mystery as Dave Holloway draws closer to learning what happened to his daughter, who went missing on the island in 2005.
Joran van der Sloot,...
- 9/3/2017
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Has the confirmation of human bone fragments found in Aruba pushed the 12-year-old Natalee Holloway mystery closer to resolution?
A forensic scientist on Thursday confirmed the statement last week by Natalee’s father, Dave Holloway, that bone fragments Holloway discovered on the island where the Alabama teen vanished on a 2005 high school graduation trip “are human, and they are of Caucasian, European descent,” according to Oxygen, which is following Dave’s search for answers in its current true-crime series The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
But while Natalee is also Caucasian and of European descent, the pathologist, Dr. Jason Kolowski, dismissed...
A forensic scientist on Thursday confirmed the statement last week by Natalee’s father, Dave Holloway, that bone fragments Holloway discovered on the island where the Alabama teen vanished on a 2005 high school graduation trip “are human, and they are of Caucasian, European descent,” according to Oxygen, which is following Dave’s search for answers in its current true-crime series The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
But while Natalee is also Caucasian and of European descent, the pathologist, Dr. Jason Kolowski, dismissed...
- 8/25/2017
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
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