Natalee Holloway case has been marked for 20 years as private investigators reveal new questions
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Natale Holloway, Alabama, has been missing for two decades since 18-year-old Natale Holloway, Alabama, disappeared with high school friends, but private investigators for Holloway's family say there are still many unresolved issues in the case.
In 2023, National Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the disappearance and murder of Holloway, admitted that after rejecting his progress, he blew up the teenager's head with bricks and dumped her body into the ocean.
“I totally smashed her in the head with it,” Van der Sloot said in an interview with federal authorities on October 3, 2023. “Her face basically, you know, collapsed. Even when it gets dark, I can see her face slumped.”
TJ Ward, a private investigator hired by the Holloway family in 2005 and again hired in 2010, does not think he acts alone.
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Joran van der Sloot and Natalee Holloway (Shelby County Jail | AP)
“Twenty years, do you believe it?” he told Fox News Digital in an interview this week, two decades since the 18-year-old graduate student disappeared from a restaurant and nightclub in Aruba Oranjestad. “Her future has a bright future. She received a scholarship to go to college – UbeLiveable.”
Ward does work for a voice analysis company based in Israel that paid private investigators to travel to Aruba after the disappearance of Holloway. There, he met with her parents as well as the FBI and Aruba authorities. Ward said he used the voice analysis technology of Van de Sloot's existing interviews at the time and determined that he lied to authorities and the public.
Beth Holloway
Natalee Holloway lived for the last time in Aruba. (FBI)
“We knew it many times during the investigation [and] “In the past few years, Joran van der Sloot has not told the truth. Since then, we have started to find witnesses, talk about and find the information that happened with Natalee Holloway disappearing, and we know that a lot of the information conveyed by van der Sloot is incorrect.”
Holloway saw Van der Sloot and two other men, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, on May 30, as of Friday as of Friday, with Carlos'n Charlie and two others, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe. In this case, these three people are considered early suspects.
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Dutch National Joran van der Sloot held a hearing at Lurigancho Prison in Lima, Peru on January 11, 2011. (Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images)
Police arrested Van der Sloot, but eventually released him due to lack of evidence. Authorities discovered “new facts” but once again stared at the same suspect in 2007 Release them again.
Holloway's body was never found.
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Before Natalee Holloway disappeared in 2005, the Holiday Inn Resort in Noord, Aruba was the residence of Natalee Holloway. (Fox News Digital Giant)
Five years after Holloway's disappearance, Van Der Sloot killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores, a business student in a wealthy Peruvian family who crossed the road with the killer on May 30, 2010.
Van der Sloot, after learning that he was involved in Holloway's disappearance, frankly, he killed her in anger. They met earlier at her father's casino in Lima, and he beat her up the next morning in his hotel room.
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Natalee Holloway, 18, showed her date at a senior dance party in Mountain Brook, Alabama on May 13, 2005. (Contributed by Beth Twitterty/Zuma Press)
In June 2010, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Northern Alabama announced allegations of ransomware and wire fraud that sold information about his body's whereabouts to his family.
“Joran contacted Natalie's mother and Natalie's attorney John Q. Kelly in New York and said that for $250,000, he would tell Beth what happened to his daughter to his daughter,” Ward said. “So, John Q. Kelly, with the FBI, arranged to set up a room with the Aruba authorities at the Marriott Hotel…and Joran van der Sloot came in and began telling Beth and John Q. Natalie's mother.”
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Natalee Holloway and her mother Beth Twitter (Contributed by Beth Twitterty/Zuma Press)
He then left the United States and later told Beth Holloway and Kelly.
Van der Sloot is currently serving his sentence for Flores' murder in Peru. He is expected to be released in 2036 and Peruvian authorities will extradite him to the United States for a sentence of 20 years in prison for Holloway's murder.
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“In different incidents, you brutally murdered two young women who rejected your sexual assault in different incidents,” Judge Anna Manasco told Van der Sloot in court in 2023.
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Center Natalee Hollway disappeared during a 2005 spring break trip and was never found. (FBI)
Manasco called the allegations of extortion and fraud “outrageous” because the killer knew the information he sold was a lie to make a profit. But as part of the deal, she said federal prosecutors have agreed not to plead guilty to him for any other purpose.
“Natalee's case was resolved,” Beth Holloway said after Beth Holloway's 2023 death in Holloway said. “Joran van der Sloot was the killer.”
“You're a killer, and I want you to remember whenever the prison door slams.”
During the hearing, Holloway's mother tore Van der Sloot apart, saying he laughed at her family and caused indescribable pain before turning to him and saying, “You look like hell.”
Beth Holloway (Mark Wilson/Getty Image)
Ward told Fox News numbers this week that Beth Holloway felt “satisfied with the fact that he was in prison, and now he has been sentenced to jail in the United States and will have to charge in federal prison at the same time in the United States in 20 years of Peruvian charges.”
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The private investigator added that he has been in contact with Dave Holloway and to this day, they have not reached the “finals of what happened.”
On May 10, 2023, the Peruvian government issued an executive order allowing the temporary extradition of Natalee Holloway's unresolved main suspect to the United States Joran Van der Sloot. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
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“Even if Joran van der Sloot admitted in 2023, we are not sure about his love affair with Natalee Halloway alone,” Ward said. “But again, Dave Holloway and I are still searching for and trying to collect information as of today, we believe there are others who are related to Joran van der Sloot when she was on the beach on May 30, 2005.”
Ward said he doesn't think Van der Sloot is acting alone and he is still working to determine if others are involved.
Fox News' Michael Ruiz and Adam Sabes contributed to the report.
