Natalee Holloway

Natalee Holloway (born October 21, 1986) is a U.S. teenager from Mountain Brook, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, whose disappearance on May 30, 2005 during a post-graduation trip in Aruba caused citizen concern in Aruba along with a media sensation in the United States.

Disappearance

Holloway and 124 fellow graduates of Mountain Brook High School were visiting Aruba on an unofficial senior class graduation trip. She was last seen leaving Carlos?n Charlie?s, a popular tourist-oriented bar and grill, early in the morning with Dutch-born Joran van der Sloot, the then 17-year-old son of an ex-judicial official trainee, and two companions, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, Surinamese-born brothers of East Indian origin, in Deepak's car.

Related Topics:
Mountain Brook High School - Senior - Carlos?n Charlie?s - Tourist - Joran van der Sloot - Surinamese - East Indian

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Natalee Holloway did not appear for her return flight the next morning, nor did she appear in any security camera footage of the hotel lobby in the course of the night. Her passport, packed bags, and cellular phone were found in her hotel room. Searches of the island began immediately, but have been fruitless to date.

Related Topics:
Passport - Bags - Cellular phone

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Holloway was, according to her parents, to have started her undergraduate studies on a full scholarship at the University of Alabama in August 2005.

Related Topics:
University of Alabama - August - 2005

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