Natalee Holloway, 18, disappeared in 2005 after she left a bar during a trip to Aruba with friends.
Holloway, 18, disappeared in 2005 after she left a bar during a trip to Aruba with friends. Van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen, was on the island studying at an international school. Holloway was seen leaving the bar with van der Sloot, who was considered a suspect. Two Surinamese brothers were also called suspects.
Van der Sloot and the two brothers were arrested and released in 2005 and 2007 in connection with Holloway’s disappearance but in December 2007, prosecutors in Aruba said that they would not be charged and the investigation was dropped saying there was not enough evidence,Holloway was never found and a judge eventually declared her dead, but no charges have ever been filed in her disappearance or death.
The charges that van der Sloot faces are connected to accusations that he tried to extort money from Holloway’s family in 2010. He told them that he knew where her body was and would tell them if they would pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Beth Holloway, Natalee’s mother, sent $15,000 to a Netherlands bank account owned by van der Sloot and, through an attorney, gave him another $10,000 in person. Van der Sloot took attorney John Kelly to a spot he said the teen’s body was hidden, but the location was false,
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