In May 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, an honors student from Mountain Brook, Alabama, vanished during a high school graduation trip to Aruba, sparking one of the most infamous missing-person cases in modern history.
Natalee, a University of Alabama scholarship recipient and National Honor Society member, was last seen leaving a local bar with Dutch student Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers. She never returned to her hotel, and when she missed her flight home, her family rushed to Aruba to search for her.
Despite extensive searches of beaches, ponds, and landfills, authorities found no conclusive evidence. Suspicions centered on van der Sloot, whose accounts of the night repeatedly changed. Over the years, false leads, hoaxes, and conflicting stories have kept the case unsolved, leaving Natalee’s fate a haunting mystery even two decades later.
