Who was Natalee Holloway? Who was she really? A pretty blond Alabama teenager who just graduated high school, who was planning for her future, planning to be a doctor. She was a careful and poised young lady who had no reason in the world not to trust anyone. Her mother warned her, as mothers often do, on the dangers that could be out there, that she could encounter if she was not careful. Teenagers take that talk with a grain of salt. Of course there are creepy old guys driving around in vans, lurking predators, sick distrbed people, but we all know to stay away from that type of person. What happens though when its the least likely person, another teen your age just looking for a good time? Whats the harm Natalee said as she downed another shot that Joran Van Der Sloot ordered for her, she never took risks at home, and this was her last night of freedom in Aruba, on her senior trip.
"Nat?! What are you doing?! Get out of that car!"
MAY 30TH, 2005 - It turned into a pure full out media frenzy when 18 year old Natalee Holloway vanished on her senior trip. Americans where outraged at Aruba officials for giving Beth Holloway, Natalee's mother, the run around. Where was she last seen? Who was she last seen with? Why wasn't she with her friends? Why hadn't Natalee made it on to the plane for her return trip with the rest of her class mates? No one had answers. The police assured her mother that this kind of thing happens often, tourists sometimes are not ready to leave the island and go back to every day life, or maybe she had to much to drink and was sleeping it off somewhere. People don't just vanish here in Aruba.
Natalee had run into Joran for the first time at the hotel casino that the class were staying at, she thought he was handsome, so when she spotted him again at Carlos and Charlies the next day, she approached him and her and her friends partied with him and his friends. Its no secret that Natalee had had a lot to drink this night, more then she had probably ever drank, and surely Joran thought it an easy target for sex. I believe, among others, that he slipped her the date rape drug.
There are so many stories that have been giving, first Joran and his friends swear they dropped her off and they dont know anything else, then all of a sudden his two friends left him and Natalee on the beach he claims Natalee was pushing herself on him and wanted to go see the beach, saying that she begged not to go back to the hotel yet. He tried to have sex with her but she had passed out from being so drunk and he left her there, called his friend back to come get him. Later on he says he sold her to a man asking for a blond girl. Another time he says what happened was they all went back to his house and where doing coke and she started dancing on his balcony, climbed up on the railing and fell to her death. He says he disposed her body afried he would get in trouble. What really happened thought again in my own opinion was exactly what he says in his hidden camera confession, they did go to the beach, he did try to have sex with her, she started to pass out and could not hold her head up, and started to shake, probably seizure. He panicked when she became unresponsive and called an unknown person ( I believe his father who was a powerful judge in Aruba) and together they took her still breathing body out on the water in a boat, and threw her over. And no, he could not be sure she was definitely dead.
Van Der Sloot later recanted saying that he was only trying to impress his new friend (view clip).
He was arrested and let go twice in the Natalee case, another time a few years later for trying to get a few girls involved in sex trafficking, and of course 5 years to the day of Natalee Holloways presumed murder, he brutally killed Stephany Flores in a Peru motel room after she asked his involvement in Natalee's case after she realized who he was. He is currently in jail for her murder and is now trying to extort Natalee's mother for money in jail on the truth about what happened to her daughter.
So what this tells you is Aruba messed up in the handling of this case and people there started to protect Joran (to be fair the whole Aruban government gave all the workers on the island the day off to help comb the island for Natalee the day after she went missing). It tells you that no maybe we do not know the whole story, but you can bet that Joran Van der Sloot is solely responsible for her disappearance. It also tells you that predators don't always drive in creepy vans, and to really be aware of your surroundings.
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