A documentary on an 18-year-old Alabama high school graduate , Natalee Holloway , is streaming on Netflix. ‘ Taken: Natalee Holloway ’ features new interviews with Holloway’s mother, Beth, as well as her friends, FBI agents who worked on the case, and the Aruban police chief at the time.
Van der Sloot, who was attending college in the Netherlands at the time, was brought back to Aruba. However, judges ruled that the new evidence was not enough to keep them in custody. Van der Sloot and the Kalpoes were arrested and released in 2005 in connection with the case. They were arrested a second time in 2007 after Aruba’s then-chief prosecutor Hans Mos said he had received new evidence in the case. In October 2023, Van der Sloot admitted that he bludgeoned Holloway to death.
He appeared in an Alabama court, where prosecutors said that he confessed that he killed Holloway for refusing his sexual advances.
“In 2005, Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba. As the show streams, here’s a look at the Natalee Holloway case.
This true-crime series traces the years-long search that led her mother face-to-face with the alleged killer,” Netflix says of the documentary.
