The Natalee Holloway Mystery | Update and Timeline

It was a dream vacation for straight-A student Natalee Holloway and her senior classmates from Alabama’s Mountain Brook High School, who flew to Aruba in late May 2005 to celebrate their graduation.

But the dream soon became a nightmare for Holloway’s family—who learned on the morning she was to return home that Natalee had disappeared.

The primary suspect, a Dutch teenager named Joran van der Sloot, was arrested twice but never charged with any crimes related to Holloway’s disappearance. Now 35, van der Sloot—imprisoned in Peru after confessing to the murder of another woman in 2010—is set to be extradited to the United States to face an indictment that alleges extortion and wire fraud.

Meanwhile, Holloway’s family is still searching for answers about what really happened during her final days in Aruba. Here is a detailed look at the events leading to Natalee’s disappearance and the investigation that followed.

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