Natalee Holloway Murder Investigations

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Has one ever wondered why some schools do not feel comfortable taking class trips? This is mainly because of the safety of the students and other people who are attending. Natalee Holloway was just a normal high school senior when she was murdered on her class trip in Aruba. After researching this murder mystery, it was clear that she was murdered by Joran Van Der Sloot after attending a bar to gamble during the trip. Student and murder victim Natalee Holloway was born on October 21, 1986, in Clinton, Mississippi, to parents David Edward Holloway and Elizabeth Ann Holloway. Holloway and her younger brother, Matthew, were raised primarily by their mother after her parents' divorce in 1993. Holloway graduated with honors from Mountain Brook High …show more content…

After Holloway didn't arrive at her hotel the next morning, police began an island-wide search for the teen. A week later after collecting their initial evidence, police arrested Joran, Deepak and Satish as suspects in Holloway's disappearance. The boys' testimonies initially coincided, saying that they all went to the beach with Holloway and then dropped her back off at her hotel (Biography). This story soon dissolved, however, when video surveillance tape of the hotel revealed that the Kalpoe brothers' car never dropped Holloway back home. Armed with a new confession, Deepak and Satish told investigators that they left van der Sloot and Holloway at a fisherman's hut on a nearby beach, at Holloway's insistence. The brothers said they didn't hear from either teen for the rest of the evening. Van der Sloot told a different story to the police (Biography). He said that after he and Natalee were dropped off, they walked down the shoreline and became intimate. But Holloway didn't want to go back to the hotel. Tired, van der Sloot left Holloway on the beach and called the Kalpoes to pick him up. Later evidence, including text messages and Internet chat logs, reveal that van der Sloot's testimony was inaccurate (Biography). As Joran's story became suspicious, police made van der Sloot their prime suspect. They also arrested van der Sloot's father, believing that he may have helped his son hide the body and had aided in the

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