Natalie Holloway Body Found
Natalie Holloway’s Body Believed Found in Aruba
UPDATE: It’s been nearly nine months now and I have not seen any new updates. I noticed that a Natalie Holloway movie is being shown on Lifetime and I wonder exactly where this case stands. Will we ever find Natalie? Will we ever know what really happened?
According to multiple sources, a cadaver dog has been flown to Aruba today as authorities believe they have found the body of Natalie Holloway.
Holloway was last seen in May 2005 leaving a bar with Joran Van der Sloot on the final night of a high school graduation trip to the island.
I’ll reserve judgment and chalk this up to rumor until I have seen confirmation.
From Fox News:
If confirmed and her body indeed is located, it would end an exhaustive four-year search on the Caribbean island where the 18-year-old disappeared while on a graduation trip with friends.
A flight attendant for American Airlines told the New Times, an alternative weekly, that the specially trained dog was aboard a plane originating in Miami and bound for Aruba.
The officer accompanying the dog reportedly told the airline employee that they were going to retrieve what was believed to be Holloway’s remains.
“They think they’ve found where Natalee Holloway’s remains are, and they’re taking the dog down there to confirm that,” the flight attendant told the paper. “They’re not telling anybody because Aruba’s trying to keep this quiet.”
No trace of Holloway has ever been found, despite extensive searches involving hundreds of volunteers, soldiers, FBI agents and even Dutch F-16 jets with special equipment.
Aruban investigators reopened the case last year based on the hidden-camera recordings made by Dutch television crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.
But judges rejected an attempt to re-arrest Van der Sloot for statements he made on the Dutch TV show. The hidden-camera recordings showed Van der Sloot saying he was with Holloway when she died on the Dutch Caribbean island and that he had a friend dump her body at sea.
