Human bone fragments found in Aruba that were suspected to be those of Natalee Holloway do not belong to the dead American teenager.
Dr. Jason Kolowski, a forensic scientist leading the testing and interpretation of the results, told Oxygen Monday that tests on the fragments came back negative. The fragments did not belong to Natalee, whose body has never been found.
The network followed Natalee’s father Dave Holloway’s search for answers in its recently completed six-part true-crime series The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Not only were the fragments not hers, all but one piece was not even human.
Dr. Jason Kolowski, a forensic scientist leading the testing and interpretation of the results, told Oxygen Monday that tests on the fragments came back negative. The fragments did not belong to Natalee, whose body has never been found.
The network followed Natalee’s father Dave Holloway’s search for answers in its recently completed six-part true-crime series The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Not only were the fragments not hers, all but one piece was not even human.
- 10/3/2017
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Natalee Holloway’s skull was doused with gasoline and “pummeled” to break it down to fragments and dust by two men, including Joran van der Sloot, who together dug up her buried remains before they were tossed into the ocean off the coast of Aruba, according to an alleged accomplice in the incident.
The startling claim — which for the first time places Van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, on site at the 2010 retrieval of those remains — was made on the fifth episode of the six-part Oxygen series The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway, which aired Saturday.
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The startling claim — which for the first time places Van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, on site at the 2010 retrieval of those remains — was made on the fifth episode of the six-part Oxygen series The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway, which aired Saturday.
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- 9/18/2017
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.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
Natalee Holloway's mother has not stopped seeking justice since her daughter vanished 11 years ago. And she says she knows who's behind the teen's disappearance. During a Monday appearance on the Today show, Beth Holloway said she is sure Joran Van Der Sloot is behind the crime. "I have my answer as to what happened to Natalee, and he's sitting in prison in Peru," Holloway said. Natalee disappeared in May 2005 while on a trip to Aruba with friends following her high school graduation. She was last seen with Van Der Sloot outside a bar. The Dutch man was arrested multiple...
- 8/29/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Natalee Holloway's mother has not stopped seeking justice since her daughter vanished 11 years ago. And she says she knows who's behind the teen's disappearance. During a Monday appearance on the Today show, Beth Holloway said she is sure Joran Van Der Sloot is behind the crime. "I have my answer as to what happened to Natalee, and he's sitting in prison in Peru," Holloway said. Natalee disappeared in May 2005 while on a trip to Aruba with friends following her high school graduation. She was last seen with Van Der Sloot outside a bar. The Dutch man was arrested multiple...
- 8/29/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Joran van der Sloot, the longtime suspect in the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of American teen Natalee Holloway, finally will face U.S. criminal charges in the case - but not until 2038, at least. The expected ruling by Peru - made public and announced Sunday in the government's official gazette - requires van der Sloot to first complete his 28-year prison sentence there for the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman. Only then will Peru extradite him to the United States, where he is accused of extortion for taking $25,000 from Holloway's mother, Beth, in exchange for information about Natalee's fate that proved false.
- 3/10/2014
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
In the months following his daughter JonBenét's brutal murder, John Ramsey contemplated ending it all. "I wanted to escape from the pain," Ramsey - the author of a new memoir, The Other Side of Suffering, which recounts the aftermath of that fateful day in December 1996, when he found the 6-year-old's lifeless body in the basement of his and wife Patsy's Boulder, Colo., home - tells People. Long the targets of the Boulder Police Department's investigation, Ramsey, 68, says he and Patsy, who died of ovarian cancer in 2006, were prepared to go to jail, signing over custody of JonBenét's older brother Burke to a relative.
- 3/18/2012
- by Vickie Bane and Kristen Mascia
- PEOPLE.com
Joran van der Sloot, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino, was sentenced on Friday to 28 years in prison. He was also fined nearly $74,000 by the three-judge panel. While the lengthly list of charges was read in court, van der Sloot, wearing a greet T-shirt and sweating, hung down his head. Earlier, he told the court he was "truly sorry" for the killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores and said that he had initially wanted to "confess sincerely" for his crime. His murder victim, Flores, was killed five years to the...
- 1/13/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman and Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: On the heels of last year’s Pregnancy Pact, Lifetime has greenlighted another original movie based on a true story involving the issue of teen pregnancy. The Pregnancy Project stars Spy Kids alumna Alexa Vega and is based on the true story of 17-year-old Washington state high-school student Gaby Rodriguez who pretended to be pregnant in an effort to explore conventional stereotypes and the treatment of pregnant teens for a senior year school project. The Pregnancy Project was written by Teena Booth who also co-wrote The Pregnancy Pact and penned the network’s Natalee Holloway films and the upcoming Drew Peterson Story. Norman Buckley (Pretty Little Liars) will direct. Barbara Lieberman and Tom Patricia executive produce. Additionally, Buckley executive produces the ABC Family pilot Bunheads, written/executive produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino. He is repped by Paradigm, which also reps Booth, and Rain Management Group.
- 10/11/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
It's been more than six years since teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba, and her father says the time has come to finally confront a grim reality. Dave Holloway is requesting that his daughter be declared legally dead. The request came in papers signed last April, and just now uncovered, seeking a "petition for presumption of death for persons missing for more than five years."Related: Beth Holloway Applauds Joran van der Sloot Murder ChargesFiled in probate court in Alabama, Holloway points to an "exhaustive investigation" in Aruba and abroad, including a $1 million reward, and the fact that authorities have a "primary suspect" identified.
- 9/14/2011
- by Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
With no justice yet for her own daughter, Beth Holloway cautiously cheered yesterday’s decision by authorities in Peru to bring murder charges against Joran van der Sloot - long suspected in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance - for the murder last year of a young woman in Peru. "God bless the Peru authorities for handling this thoroughly and professionally," Holloway tells People exclusively. "They have faced criticism and threats of lawsuits from the defendant's side, but they have stuck to their guns and I say good for them." Van der Sloot, 24, faces 30 years in prison if convicted of killing Stephany Flores,...
- 9/2/2011
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
With her traveling companion in jail and no sign of Robyn Gardner nine days after the Maryland woman went missing in Aruba, authorities there say they are treating her disappearance as "a mysterious death," says the island nation's solicitor general. "I know we don't have a body, so one can argue that she might still be alive," Taco Stein, an officer in the public prosecutor's office, tells People exclusively. "But our position on that is, if that were still the case, she would have come forward and said, 'Here I am, nothing is wrong.' " Related: Robyn Gardner's Boyfriend Recounts Her DisappearanceGary Giordano,...
- 8/12/2011
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Five years after his wife Patsy died of ovarian cancer, John Ramsey, the father of slain Colorado child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, has remarried. Ramsey, 67, tied the knot with Jan Rousseaux, 53, a twice-divorced Las Vegas designer, on July 21 in Charlevoix, Mich., reports the National Enquirer. "I have no doubt she will be smiling," Ramsey tells the Enquirer of JonBenet, who would have turned 21 on Aug. 6. Ramsay met Rousseaux at a mutual friend's wedding in Denver two years ago, though they didn't become romantic until recently. Ramsay previously had a brief romance with Beth Holloway, the mother of Natalee Holloway, that ended four years ago.
- 7/28/2011
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
Lifetime has tapped Rob Lowe (Parks and Recreation) to star as Drew Peterson in an original movie about onetime Chicago-area police sergeant who in May 2009 was charged with the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, after authorities investigated the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy.
Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) will play Stacy, who was 23 years old at the time of her October 2007 vanishing — 30 years Peterson’s junior.
According to sister site Deadline, the TV-movie — tentative titled The Drew Peterson Story aka Ladykiller, and based on the nonfiction book Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Drew Peterson — will...
Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory) will play Stacy, who was 23 years old at the time of her October 2007 vanishing — 30 years Peterson’s junior.
According to sister site Deadline, the TV-movie — tentative titled The Drew Peterson Story aka Ladykiller, and based on the nonfiction book Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Drew Peterson — will...
- 6/15/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: The story of Drew Peterson, charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife, is coming to television, with Rob Lowe playing the charismatic, womanizing Chicago-area police officer. Also cast in the project is The Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco as Peterson's fourth wife, 23-year-old Stacy, who was 30 years his junior. In May 2010, after Stacy's mysterious disappearance, Peterson seemingly basked in the attention from the national media while denying any connection to Stacy's disappearance. But after following up on tips from a neighbor, authorities arrested Peterson and indicted him for the murder of his previous wife, Kathleen. Her 2004 death -- Kathleen was found drowned in an empty bathtub -- had been initially ruled an accident, but upon exhumation and second forensic examination, that was changed to homicide. Peterson is currently in prison awaiting trial. The movie, tentative titled The Drew Peterson Story aka Ladykiller,...
- 6/14/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Filed under: TV News
Rob Lowe and Kaley Cuoco will star in 'The Drew Peterson Story,' a new Lifetime movie.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 'Parks and Recreation' star will play Drew Peterson, a police officer charged with the death of his third wife after the disappearance of his fourth wife. 'Big Bang Theory' star Cuoco is set to star as Stacy, Peterson's fourth wife who mysteriously disappears.
The movie is based on the nonfiction book 'Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Drew Peterson,' and has a notable Lifetime movie pedigree: Judith Verno ('The Craigslist Killer,' and 'Natalee Holloway') will executive produce and Teena Booth ('Natalee Holloway') will write.
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Rob Lowe and Kaley Cuoco will star in 'The Drew Peterson Story,' a new Lifetime movie.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 'Parks and Recreation' star will play Drew Peterson, a police officer charged with the death of his third wife after the disappearance of his fourth wife. 'Big Bang Theory' star Cuoco is set to star as Stacy, Peterson's fourth wife who mysteriously disappears.
The movie is based on the nonfiction book 'Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Drew Peterson,' and has a notable Lifetime movie pedigree: Judith Verno ('The Craigslist Killer,' and 'Natalee Holloway') will executive produce and Teena Booth ('Natalee Holloway') will write.
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- 6/14/2011
- by Chris Harnick
- Aol TV.
Apparently "Stargate: Universe" has their series finale tonight and I know not a damn thing about that show so I can't give it a proper send off at all. According to various sources (coughWikipediacough) the finale will be a cliff hanger that was supposed to be resolved by a movie, but apparently that movie is not happening so the series will just end on a cliff hanger that has no resolution forth coming. I bet those of you who invested your time and attention in this series are absolutely thrilled to hear that. As someone who has loved exactly one show that aired on SyFy and saw the way they treated it, all I can say is that you had to expect it. Here's your Monday night TV:
7:00pm: "NBA Playoffs: Miami at Boston, Game 4" on TNT
8:00pm: "90210" on The CW
"Antiques Roadshow" on PBS
"Chuck" on NBC...
7:00pm: "NBA Playoffs: Miami at Boston, Game 4" on TNT
8:00pm: "90210" on The CW
"Antiques Roadshow" on PBS
"Chuck" on NBC...
- 5/9/2011
- by Intern Rusty
Beth Holloway has lived the torment of a lifetime. Now, she's aiming to help others on Lifetime.
The mother of Natalee Holloway -- the Alabama teen who disappeared in 2005 during a class trip to Aruba -- takes up the cause of other families with missing members in the reality series "Vanished With Beth Holloway." Lifetime debuts the show Monday, May 9, immediately after Tracy Pollan portrays Beth again in the new sequel movie "Justice for Natalee Holloway."
Lifetime also has dramatized, and earned big ratings from, the Italian murder trial of Amanda Knox and the case of the so-called Craigslist Killer lately. As another real-life subject, Beth Holloway says she is comfortable with her relationship with the cable network.
"I have always made myself available," she tells Zap2it, "and have accepted every invitation I've received to re-highlight Natalee's case. I think you just have to understand the nature of the beast.
The mother of Natalee Holloway -- the Alabama teen who disappeared in 2005 during a class trip to Aruba -- takes up the cause of other families with missing members in the reality series "Vanished With Beth Holloway." Lifetime debuts the show Monday, May 9, immediately after Tracy Pollan portrays Beth again in the new sequel movie "Justice for Natalee Holloway."
Lifetime also has dramatized, and earned big ratings from, the Italian murder trial of Amanda Knox and the case of the so-called Craigslist Killer lately. As another real-life subject, Beth Holloway says she is comfortable with her relationship with the cable network.
"I have always made myself available," she tells Zap2it, "and have accepted every invitation I've received to re-highlight Natalee's case. I think you just have to understand the nature of the beast.
- 4/11/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Dr. Phil just lost his bid to block Natalee Holloway 's mom from testifying about what happened behind the scenes when " The Dr. Phil Show " aired an exposé implicating 2 men in Natalee's death. Deepak and Satish Kalpoe are suing Dr. Phil and CBS for defamation, claiming the show "was deceptively clothed as an investigative piece looking into the disappearance of [Natalee]" but was "in reality an abhorrent example of manufactured media sensationalism at its worst." The two brothers,...
- 3/15/2011
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Joran has made headlines for the past six years in connection to the disappearnce of Natalee Holloway. But now he’s admitting guilt in another murder!
Joran Van der Sloot will finally be put behind bars! The Dutch native has never been charged in in the 2005 murder of 18-year-old Alabama high school senior Natalee Holloway in Aruba. But now his lawyer says he is admitting to killing another young woman, in Peru — Stephany Flores Ramirez. Van der Sloot will claim a “violent emotion” defense — and his attorney Maximo Altez is seeking the lowest possible sentence.
If a Peruvian judge accepts this defense, Van der Sloot may only be get three to five years — instead of the usual 15- to -35 year term typical for a first-degree murder conviction.
Stephanie was found dead in her Lima hotel room on May 30, reportedly after she discovered items on Van der Sloot’s laptop...
Joran Van der Sloot will finally be put behind bars! The Dutch native has never been charged in in the 2005 murder of 18-year-old Alabama high school senior Natalee Holloway in Aruba. But now his lawyer says he is admitting to killing another young woman, in Peru — Stephany Flores Ramirez. Van der Sloot will claim a “violent emotion” defense — and his attorney Maximo Altez is seeking the lowest possible sentence.
If a Peruvian judge accepts this defense, Van der Sloot may only be get three to five years — instead of the usual 15- to -35 year term typical for a first-degree murder conviction.
Stephanie was found dead in her Lima hotel room on May 30, reportedly after she discovered items on Van der Sloot’s laptop...
- 3/8/2011
- by Chloe Melas
- HollywoodLife
The Dutchman suspected of murdering two women could be out of prison in just two years-but he could pay for the easy ride with his life, thanks to the price on his head.
The families of Joran van der Sloot's alleged victims breathed a sigh of relief when he was apprehended for murder last June. Now they face the sobering reality that the young Dutchman could be out of prison in a matter of months.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Death Sentence for Arizona Child Killer
Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot could be a free man by next summer if a Peruvian court accepts his insanity plea for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, whose bloodied corpse was found in his Lima hotel room on May 30, 2010. Van der Sloot is also the primary suspect in the presumed murder of American teen Natalee Holloway, who disappeared on May...
The families of Joran van der Sloot's alleged victims breathed a sigh of relief when he was apprehended for murder last June. Now they face the sobering reality that the young Dutchman could be out of prison in a matter of months.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Death Sentence for Arizona Child Killer
Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot could be a free man by next summer if a Peruvian court accepts his insanity plea for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, whose bloodied corpse was found in his Lima hotel room on May 30, 2010. Van der Sloot is also the primary suspect in the presumed murder of American teen Natalee Holloway, who disappeared on May...
- 3/8/2011
- by Barbie Latza Nadeau
- The Daily Beast
Joran van der Sloot will plead guilty to killing a Peruvian student, according to a report. The Associated Press reports that Van der Sloot's lawyer says that the 23-year-old Dutch national will plead guilty to the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores with a temporary insanity stipulation. If the judge accepts the plea, Van der Sloot would be sentenced to three to five years, but could be free in 20 months, the lawyer tells the AP. If convicted of first-degree murder, on the other hand, he faces between 15 and 35 years in prison, according to the AP. Van der Sloot gained international attention when he became a suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, who went missing while on a school trip to Aruba in 2005. Holloway's mother Beth Twitty's lawyer told the AP that she considered Van der Sloot's plans to argue temporary insanity in the 2010 death of Flores, "outrageous...
- 3/8/2011
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
• The polarizing anti-union bill passed in the Wisconsin state assembly this morning following a 60-hour Democratic filibuster. Wisconsin’s Democratic state senators are sill across state lines. [The Associated Press] • Presidential candidate Barack Obama" “If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I’ll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.” Yikes! [Gawker] • Pitchfork gave the new Radiohead album, King of Limbs, a 7.9. For the record, Vanity Fair’s own Marc Spitz didn’t love it either. [Pitchfork] • Lifetime has ordered 10 episodes of Vanished with Beth Holloway, a reality series about victims of crimes with the mother of Natalee Holloway. [Deadline Hollywood Daily]...
- 2/25/2011
- Vanity Fair
Gone are the days of paying standard text message charges and listening to busy signals on the phone for hours on end — American Idol is officially bringing the voting process online!
Fox announced Thursday that starting next week fans can visit AmericanIdol.com to vote for their faves, via a Facebook account. Online voting will begin immediately after the first performance show Tuesday, March 1, and will allot a maximum of 50 votes per person.
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• Although NBC’s Chase is still not officially canceled, Amaury Nolasco has landed one of two leads in the ABC pilot Work It,...
Fox announced Thursday that starting next week fans can visit AmericanIdol.com to vote for their faves, via a Facebook account. Online voting will begin immediately after the first performance show Tuesday, March 1, and will allot a maximum of 50 votes per person.
Ready for more TV news? Well…
• Although NBC’s Chase is still not officially canceled, Amaury Nolasco has landed one of two leads in the ABC pilot Work It,...
- 2/24/2011
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Filed under: TV News
Melinda Clarke is strapping on the leather for a return to 'CSI.' Clarke's fan-favorite character, Lady Heather, will appear in an April episode, according to Entertainment Weekly.
In the episode, the 'CSI' team investigates human pets. Yep, human pets. There's a murder in that subset of the dominatrix world and Lady Heather is called to consult on the case.
'CSI' creator Anthony Zuiker co-wrote the episode.
Lady Heather was last seen in 2008. Clarke is now a regular on The CW's 'Nikita.'
In other TV news ...
o. 'Two and a Half Men' will tape with a live studio audience when Charlie Sheen returns. Despite some conflicting reports about a tropical vacation, Warner Bros. has ordered the show back into production on Tuesday with a taping on Friday. [Los Angeles Times]
o. Chandra Wilson is stepping behind the camera of 'Grey's Anatomy' again. Wilson...
Melinda Clarke is strapping on the leather for a return to 'CSI.' Clarke's fan-favorite character, Lady Heather, will appear in an April episode, according to Entertainment Weekly.
In the episode, the 'CSI' team investigates human pets. Yep, human pets. There's a murder in that subset of the dominatrix world and Lady Heather is called to consult on the case.
'CSI' creator Anthony Zuiker co-wrote the episode.
Lady Heather was last seen in 2008. Clarke is now a regular on The CW's 'Nikita.'
In other TV news ...
o. 'Two and a Half Men' will tape with a live studio audience when Charlie Sheen returns. Despite some conflicting reports about a tropical vacation, Warner Bros. has ordered the show back into production on Tuesday with a taping on Friday. [Los Angeles Times]
o. Chandra Wilson is stepping behind the camera of 'Grey's Anatomy' again. Wilson...
- 2/24/2011
- by Chris Harnick
- Aol TV.
Exclusive: Two years after the Natalee Holloway telefilm set ratings records for Lifetime Movie Network, Lifetime has greenlit a sequel, Justice for Natalee Holloway, and Vanished with Beth Holloway, a 10-episode reality series starring Natalee Holloway's mom, which examines some of America's most disturbing unsolved cases. Both have started filming and will air on the flagship Lifetime channel. Justice for Natalee Holloway picks up several years after the events in the original movie. It chronicles the ongoing mystery of the 2005 disappearance of the Alabama teenager during her senior class trip to Aruba and her suspected killer Joran van der Sloot's series of conflicting (and so far false) clues about her fate. When van der Sloot demands $250,000 from Beth to reveal the location of Natalee's remains, she and her attorney John Kelly partner with the FBI to build a case against him. But before they can, van der Sloot...
- 2/24/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The mystery behind the disappearance of Natalee Holloway continues. Authorities announced today that a jawbone discovered in Aruba -- where she was last seen alive -- does not belong to the missing teen. "Beth accepts the forensic conclusions, is emotionally exhausted from the inexplicably long wait, and deeply disappointed in the time and manner in which she learned of the results," John Q. Kelly, attorney for Natalee's mother Beth Holloway, tells "The Insider." "Apparently Aruban prosecutors were more sensitive to media concerns than the painful vigil of a mother." Joran van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the case who was twice arrested and later released related to Holloway's disappearance in 2005. He is now a murder suspect in Peru related to the death of Stephany Flores Ramirez.
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- 11/23/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
A jawbone found on an Aruban beach earlier this month may belong to a young woman, but her name is not Natalee Holloway, DNA tests show. "It's a Jane Doe," Taco Stein, the Solicitor General told People Tuesday shortly after making information about the jawbone public. The discovery of a jawbone with an intact molar raised hopes yet again that Natalee's parents would have some closure regarding the fate of their daughter who disappeared in 2005 when she was just 18. Natalee's mother, Beth Holloway, "accepts the forensic conclusions, is emotionally exhausted from the inexplicably long wait, and deeply disappointed in the...
- 11/23/2010
- by Siobhan Morrissey
- PEOPLE.com
In the years since she disappeared, the Alabama girl's family has kept her case from going cold-and a startling new discovery suggests it may have just paid off. By Barbie Latza Nadeau
There is no one as desperate as a parent whose child is missing and presumed dead. Every lead, no matter how far-fetched, is clung to. Such is the case with Natalee Holloway, the 18-year-old Alabama high-school student who disappeared on a senior trip to the holiday island of Aruba on May 30, 2005. Frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the Aruban officials, her parents have spent the last five years keeping her story alive and even conducting their own investigation into what happened to their daughter, turning up countless dead-end clues along the way.
Related story on The Daily Beast: David Kenney and Alaska's Bizarre Murder Case
Their perseverance may have just paid off.
Last week, the latest clue...
There is no one as desperate as a parent whose child is missing and presumed dead. Every lead, no matter how far-fetched, is clung to. Such is the case with Natalee Holloway, the 18-year-old Alabama high-school student who disappeared on a senior trip to the holiday island of Aruba on May 30, 2005. Frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the Aruban officials, her parents have spent the last five years keeping her story alive and even conducting their own investigation into what happened to their daughter, turning up countless dead-end clues along the way.
Related story on The Daily Beast: David Kenney and Alaska's Bizarre Murder Case
Their perseverance may have just paid off.
Last week, the latest clue...
- 11/20/2010
- by Barbie Latza Nadeau
- The Daily Beast
Natalee Holloway’s mom Beth Holloway comes face-to-face with Joran van der Sloot for the first time. Will this chilling confrontation solve Natalee’s disappearance? "If it was an accident, tell me," Holloway tells van der Sloot during their on-camera meeting. "I want to know answers and I want to know what happened." "It is the least I owe you," Joran tells her. Watch tonight as "The Insider" goes inside his prison for their one-on-one.
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- 11/5/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
Beth Holloway, mother of missing American teen Natalee Holloway, says she felt compelled to break into a Peru prison to confront Joran van der Sloot, the man suspected in the case of her daughter's 2005 disappearance. Holloway describes being in Peru to visit the family of van der Sloot's alleged murder victim Stephany Flores Ramirez, 21, when a Dutch news crew offered her a chance to confront the suspect for the first time. "You know you can't plan on doing something. That [opportunity] presented itself … and it was something that I felt, 'How could I not do it?' " she tells The Insider...
- 10/29/2010
- by Sara Hammel
- PEOPLE.com
Just this past week would have been Natalee Holloway's 24th birthday. Now, Natalee's mother Beth Holloway tells "The Insider"'s Chris Jacobs about her emotional journey to the Peruvian prison where she confronted Joran van der Sloot, the man she believes holds secrets of her daughter's disappearance. "What I really needed when I was coming into Peru… I really felt like for me to move on, what I wanted to [do was] recover her remains because I was so heavy into this communication with [Joran] about, you know, that he knows where her remains are," Beth tells Chris. Beth says Joran began e-mailing her in March with messages indicating "that he was ready, or wanting, to sell me Natalee's remains for $250,000." She says the e-mails between her and Joran went back and forth for several weeks until she decided to visit the family of Joran's alleged murder victim, Stephany Flores -- that's when,...
- 10/29/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
He’s been locked up in a Peruvian jail ever since being accused of murdering Stephany Flores, and Joran van der Sloot received a surprise visit from one of his other alleged victim’s family members.
Beth Holloway, Natalee Holloway’s mother, had a face-to-face meeting with Joran in his Castro Castro prison cell, though it only lasted for five minutes because van der Sloot’s lawyer wasn’t present.
During the civil conversation, Beth pleaded with Joran to reveal the details of her daughter’s disappearance, and also told him that she had “no hate in her soul” for him.
Ms. Holloway, whose daughter Natalee disappeared in Aruba five years ago, accompanied a Dutch journalist into the jail, said her attorney on the “Today” show this morning.
Beth Holloway, Natalee Holloway’s mother, had a face-to-face meeting with Joran in his Castro Castro prison cell, though it only lasted for five minutes because van der Sloot’s lawyer wasn’t present.
During the civil conversation, Beth pleaded with Joran to reveal the details of her daughter’s disappearance, and also told him that she had “no hate in her soul” for him.
Ms. Holloway, whose daughter Natalee disappeared in Aruba five years ago, accompanied a Dutch journalist into the jail, said her attorney on the “Today” show this morning.
- 9/17/2010
- GossipCenter
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyBeth Holloway, mother of missing American teen Natalee Holloway, broke into a Peru prison to confront Joran van der Sloot - the man suspected in the case of the younger Holloway's 2005 disappearance - Beth Holloway's attorney, John Kelly, confirmed on Friday's Today show. Kelly said it was Beth Holloway's first face-to-face meeting with van der Sloot since the night her daughter went missing. Natalee Holloway was last seen alive with the young Dutchman on the Caribbean resort island of Aruba. He has publicly said several times...
- 9/17/2010
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Initial reports indicated that Anita van der Sloot -- the mother of accused killer Joran van der Sloot -- would visit her son in the prison where he is being held in connection with the death of Stephany Flores Ramirez in Peru. According to reports, Anita now says that she will not visit her son. Should Joran's mother stand by his side and visit him? Give us your comments below, then take our poll to tell us: What side are you on? Joran van der Sloot has reportedly told a Dutch newspaper that it is his own fault that he's in a Peruvian prison, saying that he believes that the FBI lured him to Peru in order to extradite him to the United States on extortion charges. Joran is the main suspect in the killing of 21-year-old Flores in Lima, and is also a person of interest in the 2005 disappearance...
- 6/22/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
Before being charged with the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores and becoming a prime suspect in the murder of Natalee Holloway, two of Joran van der Sloot's high school girlfriends say he was a romantic.
Joran's high school sweetheart told People magazine that they kept a diary together, filled with poems about love and sexual desire, but that their breakup was caused by his "problem with lying."
"Extra" Lifechanger, Dr. Drew Pinsky says that "Joran's...
Joran's high school sweetheart told People magazine that they kept a diary together, filled with poems about love and sexual desire, but that their breakup was caused by his "problem with lying."
"Extra" Lifechanger, Dr. Drew Pinsky says that "Joran's...
- 6/11/2010
- Extra
"The Insider" has obtained an FBI affidavit unsealed Thursday which alleges that Joran van der Sloot extorted $25,000 from the mother of missing woman Natalee Holloway and lied about the location of her body. According to the affidavit, van der Sloot told a cooperating witness -- a person close to Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway Twitty -- that Holloway died after he threw her to the ground "after she had attempted to stop him from leaving her." He claimed she hit her head on a rock and died. The affidavit alleges that van der Sloot went on to say that his father, Paulus van der Sloot, disposed of Holloway's body by burying her "in the gravel under the foundation of [a] single story house." However, according to the document, the afformentioned home wasn't in construction at the time of Holloway's disappearance, and the witness allegedly later received an email from van der Sloot...
- 6/11/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
After apparently breaking her neck and killing Stephany Flores in his hotel room, Joran Van der Sloot consumed a breakfast of coffee and cookies while looking at her battered body and thinking of ways he could dispose of it, according to Peruvian media reports. "I was going to use one of my suitcases to take her out of the hotel, but I didn't do it because I was afraid someone [would] stop me carrying my luggage without paying," said Van der Sloot, who told interrogators he had not paid for his final three nights in a Lima, Peru, hotel, according to...
- 6/9/2010
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
The New York Post is reporting that the F.B.I. supplied preternaturally suspicious Dutchman Joran van der Sloot with money he funneled toward his allegedly lethal trip to Lima, Peru. Let’s back up for a minute: van der Sloot was arrested in 2005 in conjunction with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, an American on vacation in Aruba, where van der Sloot was living at the time. There was not enough evidence to try van der Sloot, and he and two other suspects were released. Cut to March 29 of this year: van der Sloot was arrested after allegedly promising Beth Twitty, Holloway’s mother, that “he would reveal the location of [Holloway’s] body and the circumstances surrounding her death for $25,000 in cash. He asked for $250,000 in total, the document states,” according to CNN.
- 6/9/2010
- Vanity Fair
Beth Holloway spoke out Tuesday, a day after Joran van der Sloot allegedly confessed to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores in Peru. Van der sloot was suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway's teen daughter Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Holloway gave a press conference in Washington, D.C. at the opening of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment, and got emotional as she spoke of the Flores family, saying, "It's been a stressful time for me, and I know it's been a very trying time for you. Again, thank you for your continued support, and please, again, let's all remind ourselves and keep the Flores family in our hearts and in our prayers." "When Natalee went missing in May of 2005, my family desperately needed contact information, law enforcement information, government resources, missing person poster development, [resources on] how to organize foot soldiers and command centers, media engagement...
- 6/8/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
Joran van der Sloot, the primary suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, has reportedly admitted to killing Stephany Flores Ramírez in Peru. According to CNN, Peruvian government authorities said the 22-year-old confessed to the killing after being detained as a suspect. Ramirez died on May 30, 2010, exactly five years after Holloway's disappearance. If convicted, according to reports, Van der Sloot could get up to 35 years in prison. Peru has no life sentence or death penalty. In a twist of fate, his admission comes on the eve of the opening of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center in Washington today. The nonprofit center will provide families of missing persons help with managing their crisis and to give students advice on traveling safely. Natalee's mother, Beth Holloway, is expected to be on hand for the opening. Watch Et tonight to see our video archive footage with Beth as we go in-depth into her...
- 6/8/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
Jordan van der Sloot, the suspect in the murder of a young Peruvian woman and also in the high-profile disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba five years ago, has finally been apprehended in Santiago, Chile, CNN reports.
Peruvian authorities investigating the slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found on Wednesday in a hotel room rented to van der Sloot, were working with officials from Interpol, Chile, Argentina and Colombia to find the Dutch man,...
Peruvian authorities investigating the slaying of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found on Wednesday in a hotel room rented to van der Sloot, were working with officials from Interpol, Chile, Argentina and Colombia to find the Dutch man,...
- 6/3/2010
- Extra
Joran van der Sloot, 22, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba is now wanted by Peruvian cops for allegedly murdering a 21-year-old woman.
Authorities believe van der Sloot brutally stabbed Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, the daughter of a former Peruvian presidential candidate in his Lima, Peru hotel room before hiding her corpse in a blanket and checking out of the hotel on Sunday. Flores’ body was only discovered yesterday. The room was registered under Joran’s name.
Joran was visiting Peru for a poker tournament and appears with Flores in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. The two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees about 5 a.m. and Joran departed alone about four hours later.
Van der Sloot got a head start on the police. He fled Peru on a bus Monday and Chilean authorities confirmed that he...
Authorities believe van der Sloot brutally stabbed Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, the daughter of a former Peruvian presidential candidate in his Lima, Peru hotel room before hiding her corpse in a blanket and checking out of the hotel on Sunday. Flores’ body was only discovered yesterday. The room was registered under Joran’s name.
Joran was visiting Peru for a poker tournament and appears with Flores in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. The two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees about 5 a.m. and Joran departed alone about four hours later.
Van der Sloot got a head start on the police. He fled Peru on a bus Monday and Chilean authorities confirmed that he...
- 6/3/2010
- by willlee
- HollywoodLife
Los Angeles, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- World renowned actress Julia Ormond (Legends of the Fall, Sabrina) headlines the Lifetime Movie Network Original Movie, The Wronged Man, an unforgettable story of one woman's 22-year quest for justice and redemption for a man wrongfully convicted of a crime that shook a small, Southern town. Based on a true story and from Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator franchise, The Incredible Hulk), Director Tom McLoughlin (D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear) and teleplay by Teena Booth (Natalee Holloway), the film follows the unlikely friendship between paralegal Janet "Prissy" Gregory (Ormond) and falsely accused Calvin Willis (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, The 4400) as they fight to overturn his unjust sentence. The Wronged Man reunites Ormond and Ali, who both appeared in the critically acclaimed feature film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Produced by Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures and Sony Pictures Television, The Wronged Man will premiere Sunday,...
- 12/8/2009
DVD Playhouse—November 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday...
By
Allen Gardner
Watchmen—The Ultimate Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday...
- 11/15/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Eric McCormack has lined up two TV projects.
At Lifetime, the Emmy winner will topline an original movie about the con artist known as Clark Rockefeller.
Additionally, McCormack is attached to star in a single-camera comedy written on spec by Alex Barnow and Marc Firek that is expected to be taken out to the networks shortly.
Both projects are produced by Sony Pictures TV.
The Rockefeller tale begins with German con artist Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (McCormack) coming to the U.S. in 1979 as a foreign exchange student. He used a series of aliases, impersonating a talk show host and a Pentagon adviser, among others.
Gerhartsreiter soon became a fixture in Boston high society for more than a decade after he claimed to be Clark Rockefeller, an heir to the famous dynasty. The deception was described as "the longest con in FBI history."
He eventually married Sandra Boss, a millionaire with...
At Lifetime, the Emmy winner will topline an original movie about the con artist known as Clark Rockefeller.
Additionally, McCormack is attached to star in a single-camera comedy written on spec by Alex Barnow and Marc Firek that is expected to be taken out to the networks shortly.
Both projects are produced by Sony Pictures TV.
The Rockefeller tale begins with German con artist Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (McCormack) coming to the U.S. in 1979 as a foreign exchange student. He used a series of aliases, impersonating a talk show host and a Pentagon adviser, among others.
Gerhartsreiter soon became a fixture in Boston high society for more than a decade after he claimed to be Clark Rockefeller, an heir to the famous dynasty. The deception was described as "the longest con in FBI history."
He eventually married Sandra Boss, a millionaire with...
- 9/13/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lifetime Movie Network's "Natalie Holloway" on Sunday became the highest-rated movie in the network's 11-year history with 3.2 million viewers.
The movie starring Tracy Pollan posted big increases vs. the network's previous ratings record holder, Part 2 of the miniseries "Capture of the Green River Killer," including 33% in total viewers.
Based on Beth Holloway's book, "Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith," "Natalee Holloway" chronicles Beth Holloway's search for the truth surrounding her daughter's disappearance.
The movie starring Tracy Pollan posted big increases vs. the network's previous ratings record holder, Part 2 of the miniseries "Capture of the Green River Killer," including 33% in total viewers.
Based on Beth Holloway's book, "Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith," "Natalee Holloway" chronicles Beth Holloway's search for the truth surrounding her daughter's disappearance.
- 4/20/2009
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Neil Flynn has been tapped to star opposite Patricia Heaton in ABC's comedy pilot "The Middle," while up-and-comer Amy Gumenick has been cast in the title role of Lifetime Movie Network's telefilm "The Natalee Holloway Story."
The Wbtv-produced "Middle" revolves around a middle-class couple (Heaton and Flynn) in middle America who cope with the financial and emotional strain of trying to raise three kids.
Flynn, who plays the janitor on ABC's "Scrubs," is repped by Apa.
"Holloway," which will be directed by Mikael Salomon, is based on the book "Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith" by Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, and chronicles Twitty's (Tracy Pollan) efforts to discover the truth about what happened to her daughter (Gumenick), who disappeared in 2005 during a senior class vacation in Aruba.
Gumenick is repped by TalentWorks and Flutie Entertainment.
The Wbtv-produced "Middle" revolves around a middle-class couple (Heaton and Flynn) in middle America who cope with the financial and emotional strain of trying to raise three kids.
Flynn, who plays the janitor on ABC's "Scrubs," is repped by Apa.
"Holloway," which will be directed by Mikael Salomon, is based on the book "Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith" by Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty, and chronicles Twitty's (Tracy Pollan) efforts to discover the truth about what happened to her daughter (Gumenick), who disappeared in 2005 during a senior class vacation in Aruba.
Gumenick is repped by TalentWorks and Flutie Entertainment.
- 1/7/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tracy Pollan has been tapped to star in Lifetime Movie Network's telefilm "The Natalee Holloway Story," about the teenager who disappeared in 2005 during a senior class vacation in Aruba.
Mikael Salomon ("The Andromeda Strain") has come on board to direct the tentatively titled movie, based on the book "Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith," by Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty.
Pollan will play Twitty in the movie, which will spotlight her efforts to discover the truth about what happened to her daughter.
"Holloway," from Sony Pictures Television, was written by Teena Booth. Judith Verno, Frank von Zerneck and Robert M. Sertner are executive producers, and Andrew Golov is a producer. The movie is set to go into production next month for an April premiere.
Pollan is best known for her recurring role as the love interest of now real-life husband Michael J. Fox's character on NBC's '80s comedy "Family Ties.
Mikael Salomon ("The Andromeda Strain") has come on board to direct the tentatively titled movie, based on the book "Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith," by Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty.
Pollan will play Twitty in the movie, which will spotlight her efforts to discover the truth about what happened to her daughter.
"Holloway," from Sony Pictures Television, was written by Teena Booth. Judith Verno, Frank von Zerneck and Robert M. Sertner are executive producers, and Andrew Golov is a producer. The movie is set to go into production next month for an April premiere.
Pollan is best known for her recurring role as the love interest of now real-life husband Michael J. Fox's character on NBC's '80s comedy "Family Ties.
- 12/19/2008
- by By Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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