Beth Holloway files Dutch murder complaint against Joran van der Sloot
The gist
Natalee Holloway's mother Beth Holloway is pursuing a murder complaint against Joran van der Sloot in the Netherlands.
Van der Sloot confessed in 2023 but has never been charged in her death.
How it unfolded
- May 30, 2005Natalee Holloway, 18, is last seen leaving Carlos'n Charlie's bar in Oranjestad, Aruba, getting into a car with Dutch student Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.
- Jun 9, 2005Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers are taken into custody; van der Sloot says he walked Holloway home, and is released that September for lack of evidence.
- Jun 2010Beth Holloway's attorneys, cooperating with the FBI, pay van der Sloot $25,100 in a sting after he offered to reveal the location of her daughter for $250,000; he is indicted that June.