On April 16, , a combined Aruban—Dutch team began pursuing the investigation in Aruba. In the book, Van der Sloot gives his perspective of the night Holloway disappeared and the media frenzy that followed. He admits to and apologizes for his initial untruths, but maintains his innocence. On April 27, a new search involving approximately twenty investigators was launched at the Van der Sloot family residence in Aruba.
Dutch authorities searched the yard and surrounding area, using shovels and thin metal rods to penetrate the dirt. Prosecution spokeswoman Van der Biezen stated, "The investigation has never stopped and the Dutch authorities are completely reviewing the case for new indications.
According to Paulus van der Sloot, "nothing suspicious" was found, and all that was seized were diary entries of him and his wife, and his personal computer—which was subsequently returned.
According to Jossy Mansur , managing editor of Aruba's Diario newspaper, investigators were following up on statements made during early suspect interrogations regarding communications between the Kalpoe brothers and Van der Sloot. He also said investigators could be seen examining a laptop at the house.
On May 12, the Kalpoe family residence was searched by the authorities. The two brothers were detained for about an hour upon objecting to the entry by police and Dutch investigators, but were released when the authorities left. According to Kock, the brothers objected to the search because officials did not show them an order justifying the intrusion. A statement from Van der Biezen did not mention what, if anything, officials were searching for, but indicated nothing was removed from the home.
A subsequent statement from Het Openbaar Ministerie van Aruba the Aruban prosecutor's office indicated that the purpose of the visit was to "get a better image of the place or circumstances where an offense may have been committed and to understand the chain of events leading to the offense. Citing what was described as newly discovered evidence, Aruban investigators rearrested Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers on November 21, , on suspicion of involvement in "manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Holloway.
Van der Sloot was returned to Aruba, where he was incarcerated. Soon after, Dave Holloway announced a new search for his daughter that probed the sea beyond the original foot m depths in which earlier searches had taken place. That search involved a vessel called the Persistence and was abandoned due to lack of funds at the end of February , when nothing of significance was found.
On November 30, a judge ordered the release of the Kalpoe brothers. Despite attempts by the prosecution to extend their detention, the brothers were released on the following day. The prosecution appealed their release, which was denied on December 5, with the court writing, "Notwithstanding expensive and lengthy investigations on her disappearance and on people who could be involved, the file against the suspect does not contain direct indications that Natalee passed away due to a violent crime.
The prosecution indicated it would not appeal. On December 18, prosecutor Hans Mos officially declared the case closed, and that no charges would be filed due to lack of evidence. The prosecution indicated a continuing interest in Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers though they legally ceased to be suspects , and alleged that one of the three, in a chat room message, had stated that Holloway was dead.
This was hotly contested by Deepak Kalpoe's attorney, who stated that the prosecution, in translating from Papiamento to Dutch, had misconstrued a reference to a teacher who had drowned as one to Holloway.
Attorney Ronald Wix also stated, "Unless [Mos] finds a body in the bathroom of one of these kids, there's no way in hell they can arrest them anymore. On January 31, , Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries stated that he would tell all on a special television program on Dutch television on February 3. On February 1, the Dutch media reported that Van der Sloot made a confession regarding Holloway's disappearance. Later that day, Van der Sloot stated that he was telling the individual what he wanted to hear, and denied any involvement in her disappearance.
That same day, the Aruba prosecutor's office announced the reopening of the case. The broadcast, aired on February 3, , included excerpts from footage recorded from hidden cameras and microphones in the vehicle of Patrick van der Eem , a Dutch businessman and ex-convict who gained Van der Sloot's confidence. Van der Sloot was seen smoking marijuana and stating that he was with Holloway when she began convulsively shaking, then became unresponsive.
Van der Sloot stated that he attempted to revive her, without success. He said that he called a friend, who told Van der Sloot to go home and who disposed of the body. An individual reputed to be this friend, identified in the broadcast as Daury, has denied Van der Sloot's account, indicating that he was then in Rotterdam at school. The Aruban prosecutor's office attempted to obtain an arrest warrant for Van der Sloot based on the tapes; however, a judge denied the request.
The prosecutor appealed the denial, but the appeal failed on February The appeals court held that the statements on the tape were inconsistent with evidence in the case and were insufficient to hold Van der Sloot.
On February 8, Van der Sloot met with Aruban investigators in the Netherlands and denied that what he said on the tape was true, stating that he was under the influence of marijuana at the time. Van der Sloot indicated that he still maintains that he left Holloway behind on the beach. In March , news reports indicated that Van der Eem was secretly taped after giving an interview for Aruban television. Van der Eem, under the impression that cameras had been turned off, disclosed that he had been a friend of Van der Sloot for years contradicting his statement on De Vries' show that he had met Van der Sloot in , that he expected to become a millionaire through his involvement in the Holloway case, and that he knew the person who supposedly disposed of Holloway's body—and that Van der Sloot had asked him for two thousand euros to buy the man's silence.
According to Dutch news service ANP, Van der Eem, who had already signed a book deal, "was furious" after learning of the taping and "threatened" the interviewer, who sought legal advice. Van der Eem's book Overboord Overboard , co-written with E. Byars, was released in Dutch on June Van der Eem was arrested on December 13 in the Netherlands for allegedly hitting his girlfriend with a crowbar and engaging in risky driving behavior while fleeing police.
The De Vries broadcast was discussed in a seminar by Dutch legal psychologist Willem Albert Wagenaar , who indicated that the statements did not constitute a confession.
Wagenaar criticized De Vries for broadcasting the material, stating that the broadcast made it harder to obtain a conviction, and had De Vries turned over the material to the authorities without broadcasting it, they would have held "all the trumps" in questioning Van der Sloot.
Wagenaar opined that not only was the case not solved, it was not even clear that a crime had been committed. Professor Crisje Brants, in the same seminar, also criticized De Vries' methods. On November 24, Fox News aired an interview with Van der Sloot in which he alleged that he sold Holloway into sexual slavery, receiving money both when Holloway was taken, and later on to keep quiet.
Van der Sloot also alleged that his father paid off two police officers who had learned that Holloway was taken to Venezuela. Van der Sloot later retracted the statements made in the interview. Fox News also aired part of an audio recording provided by Van der Sloot, which he alleged is a phone conversation between him and his father, in which the father displays knowledge of his son's purported involvement in human trafficking.
According to Mos, this voice heard on the recording is not that of Paulus van der Sloot—the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that the "father's" voice is almost certainly that of Joran van der Sloot himself, trying to speak in a lower tone. Paulus died of a heart attack on February 10, On March 20, , Dave Holloway transported a search dog to Aruba to search a small reservoir in the northern part of the island. The reservoir was previously identified by a supposed witness as a possible location of Natalee's remains.
Aruban authorities indicated that they had no new information in the case, but that Holloway had been given permission to conduct the search. On February 23, , it was reported that Van der Sloot had stated in an interview first offered to RTL Group in that he had disposed of Holloway's body in a marsh on Aruba. New chief prosecutor Peter Blanken indicated that authorities had investigated the latest story, and had dismissed it. Blanken stated that the "locations, names, and times he gave just did not make sense.
In March , underwater searches were conducted by Aruban authorities after an American couple reported that they were snorkeling when they photographed what they thought might be human skeletal remains, possibly those of Holloway.
Aruban authorities sent divers to investigate, but no remains were ever recovered. After Kelly notified the FBI, they arranged to proceed with the transaction. Authorities stated that the information that he provided in return was false because the house in which he said Holloway's body was located had not yet been built at the time of her disappearance. On June 3, Van der Sloot was charged in the U. District Court of Northern Alabama with extortion and wire fraud.
Attorney Joyce White Vance obtained an arrest warrant and transmitted it to Interpol. On June 30, Van der Sloot was indicted on the charges. At the request of the U. Justice Department, authorities conducted a June 4 raid and confiscated items from two homes in the Netherlands.
One of the homes belonged to reporter Jaap Amesz , who had previously interviewed Van der Sloot and claimed knowledge of his criminal activities. Aruban investigators used information gathered from the extortion case to launch a new search at a beach, but no new evidence was found.
Dave Holloway returned to Aruba on June 14 to pursue possible new clues. She was found dead three days later in a hotel room registered in Van der Sloot's name.
On June 3, Van der Sloot was arrested in Chile on a murder charge and extradited to Peru the next day. On June 7, Peruvian authorities said that Van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores after he lost his temper because she accessed his laptop without permission and found information linking him to Holloway.
However, Guardia stated that the interrogation was limited to their case in Peru, and that questions about Holloway's disappearance were avoided. In a September interview from the prison, Van der Sloot reportedly admitted to the extortion plot, stating: "I wanted to get back at Natalee's family—her parents have been making my life tough for five years.
In June six years after Natalee's disappearance , Dave Holloway filed a petition with the Alabama courts to have his daughter declared legally dead. The papers were served on his ex-wife Beth Twitty, who announced her intention to oppose the petition. A hearing was held on September 23, , at which time Probate Judge Alan King ruled that Dave Holloway had met the requirements for a legal presumption of death.
On January 12, , a second hearing was held, after which Judge King signed the order declaring Natalee Holloway to be dead. Preliminary examination by a forensic expert determined that the bone was from a young woman. On November 23, , Aruba Solicitor-General Taco Stein announced that based on dental records, the jawbone was not of Holloway, and it was not even possible to determine whether it had come from a man or woman.
In , Dave Holloway hired a private investigator, T. Ward, to once more go through all evidence and information related to the disappearance of his daughter. This led to an informant, Gabriel, who claimed to have been a roommate of one of Van der Sloot's closest friends, American John Ludwick, in Gabriel claimed that Ludwick was told what became of Natalee. In an interview with the Oxygen television channel, Gabriel gave a detailed description of what happened on the night of Natalee's disappearance.
Oxygen created a new documentary series on Natalee's disappearance that aired on August 19, Using Gabriel's information, the investigator had found what appeared to be human bones. On October 3, , DNA testing concluded that one piece of bone was human but did not belong to Natalee. On the show, Ludwick claimed to have helped Van der Sloot dig up, smash and cremate Holloway's bones in In February , Elizabeth Holloway sued the producers, alleging this and other claims are fictional and harmfully lurid, and that she was misled into providing a DNA sample for comparison without being made aware of plans for a show.
In March , Ludwick was stabbed to death by a woman he tried to kidnap. The Twittys and their supporters criticized a perceived lack of progress by Aruban police. The Twittys' own actions in Aruba were also criticized, and the Twittys were accused of actively stifling any evidence that might impugn Holloway's character by asking her fellow students to remain silent about the case and using their access to the media to push their own version of events.
The Twittys denied this. In televised interviews and in a book, Beth Twitty alleged that Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers knew more about Holloway's disappearance than they have told authorities and that at least one of them sexually assaulted or raped her daughter.
On July 5, , following the initial release of the Kalpoes, Twitty alleged, "Two suspects were released yesterday who were involved in a violent crime against my daughter," and referred to the Kalpoes as "criminals".
A demonstration involving about two hundred Arubans took place that evening outside the Oranjestad courthouse. The protesters were angry over Twitty's remarks, with signs reading, "Innocent until proven guilty" and, "Respect our Dutch laws or go home.
What we want is, we want justice. Van der Sloot is apprehended in the Netherlands, where he attends school, while the Kalpoes are held in Aruba after the emergence of what is described as "new incriminating evidence.
The efforts of an American search vessel and a remote-operated vehicle yield pictures of what appears to be a human skull, though this development becomes the latest dead end when divers find nothing relevant in the trap. In a broadcast of hidden-camera footage set up by Dutch reporter Peter R. Made aware that his alleged confession was recorded, van der Sloot insists he was lying at the time.
In an email to Twitty's lawyer John Q. Kelly agrees and relays the information to the FBI. Van der Sloot later admits to Kelly that he had been lying again, and covertly travels to Peru to take part in a poker tournament.
Five years after the disappearance of Holloway, van der Sloot kills year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez in his hotel room in Lima, Peru. Her body is not immediately discovered, however, as her killer had left instructions that forbade hotel staff from entering his room. Sporting a short, dyed-red hairdo, van der Sloot is found in a taxi near the coastal city of Vina Del Mar, Chile.
He is taken back to Lima and held in the high-security Castro Castro prison. June 27, Van der Sloot is indicted in the U. When asked why the suspect wasn't arrested after the wire payment — and before he had the chance to kill Flores — authorities said there wasn't " sufficient evidence " to do so. I feel very bad. At the behest of Holloway's father, and against the wishes of her mother, Holloway is formally declared dead by an Alabama judge.
While Holloway's family remains hopeful that van der Sloot will face additional punishment in the U. The young mother raised suspicions with her behavior after the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, though prosecutors were unable to conclusively tie her to the toddler's death. The world was riveted to the long-running saga of the American exchange student who was accused of killing her roommate.
The Utah teen endured rape and other atrocities by a husband-wife team that held her captive for nine months. Peterson was declared guilty of the crimes in , but in , his death sentence was overturned, setting the stage for a never-ending legal saga. The intelligent, engaging law student murdered at least 20 women in a spree that spanned the country until his arrest in On 26 May , Holloway and graduates from the Mountain Brook High School arrived in Aruba for an end of term celebratory five-day trip.
Holloway had only graduated two days beforehand and she and fellow students were looking forward to letting their hair down after their exams. Due to the amount of people on the trip, the students enjoyed relative freedom but they had been accompanied by seven chaperones to ensure that their welfare was monitored from a distance. On 29th May Holloway was last seen by her classmates leaving the Carlos 'n Charlie's nightclub at around 1.
The next day, the students left on their way to the airport to fly back home to Alabama but Holloway did not show up for the return flight. Her packed luggage and passport were found in her Holiday Inn hotel bedroom but there was no sign of her.
The Aruban authorities were immediately called and soon a missing persons search had begun to try and find the teenager. Following the news that her daughter had seemed to have vanished, her mother Beth and stepfather George 'Jug' Twitty flew straight to Aruba and within four hours presented the police with the name and address of van der Sloot, after quizzing Holloway's friends and the night manager of the Holiday Inn.
Hundreds of people volunteered to help search for Holloway, working alongside the FBI and fifty Dutch soldiers. Divers searched the sea floor and on 2 June Holloway's family issued an undisclosed reward for any information which may lead to her safe return. The Aruban government and local tourism companies also contributed to the reward money. Reports indicate that Holloway failed to appear on any security camera footage from her hotel's lobby during the course of the night.
However, according to initial head of the police investigation, Commissioner Jan van der Straten, she did not have to go via the lobby to return to her room, so it would have proved little help in discovering what may have happened to her.
The American law enforcement were heavily involved in the investigation from the beginning, co-operating with the Aruban authorities in extensive searches including a local landfill and a pond near the beach where it was claimed Holloway had last be seen by van der Sloot.
The Netherlands even deployed aircraft with infrared sensors to compare satellite photographs taken before Holloway's disappearance but all proved fruitless. The three youngsters had been named early on in the hunt for Holloway as they had been identified with her outside the Carlos 'n Charlie's club, the last known sighting of the teenager before she vanished. Police Commissioner Gerold Dompig, who took over from Jan van der Straten following his retirement in mid, stated that the three had been suspects from the start and they had been under police surveillance via telephone wire taps and the monitoring of their emails.
On 17 June , a fourth person, Steve Gregory Croes, was also arrested based on information given by one of the other three detainees and on 22 June police also arrested Paulus van der Sloot, Joran van der Sloot's father.
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