I wonder if he worries that someone may do to his daughter one day what did to someone's daughter? I also wonder if it terrifies him, or intrigues him to think about it...
I wonder if he worries that someone may do to his daughter one day what did to someone's daughter? I also wonder if it terrifies him, or intrigues him to think about it...
Twelve years after Natalee Holloway's disappearance on a graduation trip to Aruba, her father is hoping a recent discovery will yield a major break in the case of what happened to his daughter.
Dave Holloway and private investigator T.J. Ward announced on TODAY Wednesday that an 18-month investigation has led them to discover human remains that are being DNA tested to confirm if they are Natalee's.
"When we determined these remains were human, I was shocked,'' Holloway told Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie. "I know there's a possibility this could be someone else, and I'm just trying to wait and see."
In May 2005, Holloway vanished on a trip with friends following her graduation from an Alabama high school in a disappearance that remains an unsolved mystery. No one has ever been charged in her disappearance.
The Dutch man Natalee was last seen with outside a popular tourist bar, Joran van der Sloot, is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for killing business student Stephany Flores. She died on the fifth anniversary of Holloway's disappearance in 2010.
An informant known as "Gabriel" put Ward and Holloway in contact with a man they claim had direct knowledge of Natalee's disappearance.
"We have a person who states he was directly involved with Joran van der Sloot in disposing of Natalee's remains,'' Holloway said. "I thought, you know, there may be something to this."
Ward and Holloway are featured in a new Oxygen series premiering on Saturday night called "The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway," which follows their search to find out what happened.
"We've chased a lot of leads and this one is by far the most credible lead I've seen in the last 12 years,'' Holloway said.
The men have been back and forth to an unspecified location behind a house in Aruba that was provided to them by the informant, ultimately digging up remains that were found to be human after they were tested. The DNA test will take several weeks to a month to determine if they are Natalee's remains, Holloway said.
A year after Natalee's mother said on TODAY that "justice has not been served" in Natalee's death, her father is hoping for some closure if the remains are determined to be his daughter.
"It would finally be the end,'' he said.
Human remains discovered in Aruba, where Natalee Holloway vanished 12 years ago, are those of a female of Eastern European descent, tests showed.
The remains will be tested further to determine if they are those of Holloway and the results were expected within the next two weeks, the Daily Mailreported.
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The Daily Mail said her family had Eastern European heritage.
The discovery of the remains that may be those of Holloway was to be revealed in the docu-series “The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.” The Oxygen series follows Holloway’s father, Dave, and private investigator T.J. Ward in their quest to find Natalee on the tropical island.
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The Daily Mail reported that Holloway’s mother, Beth, gave a saliva sample to help with the testing.
"So far all the indicators are that these bone fragments are the human remains of a young female, consistent with someone of eastern European descent,” an unidentified source told the Daily Mail.
“It will be agonizing if Dave and Beth are told this is their daughter, but after 12 years of searching for answers it will be a huge deal for them - it might finally bring them closure,' the source continued.
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Holloway and Ward discovered the information through an informant named Gabriel who was roommates with John Ludwick, Van der Sloot’s best friend.
Gabriel said Van der Sloot tried to kiss Natalee after her drink was spiked with the date rape drug GHB but the teen started to foam at the mouth. Natalee choked to death on her vomit and Van der Sloot panicked and allegedly put her body in a burlap sack and buried her in an Aruban park, using a cactus plant to cover his tracks.
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“They lived together for several months and during those months, Joran shared a lot of information with him that is not public knowledge. … And that’s one of the reasons we pursued this,” David Holloway said.
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Gabriel also said that Van der Sloot was assisted by his father, Paulus, a judge in Aruba, in disposing of Natalee’s body, according to the Daily Mail.
Aruba Public Prosecutor Dorean Kardol disputed Holloway’s claims that human remains were found on the island.
“During an investigation by police in an area indicated by Mr. Holloway, we found remains, but they were found to be from animals,” Kardol said.
The prime suspect in the disappearance of American teen Natalee Holloway is abandoning the wife he married while in prison for murder in favor of a “prettier and younger” girlfriend suspected of smuggling him drugs behind bars, his lawyer said this week.
Joran van der Sloot, 35, asked his wife, Leidy Figueroa, for a divorce about a year ago, his lawyer Maximo Altez told the Daily Mail.
The Dutch native is now in a relationship with Eva Pacohuanaco, a “prettier and younger” girlfriend who was once accused of smuggling him drugs, the attorney explained to the outlet.
Van der Sloot and Figueroa, 33, famously married at Peru’s Piedras Gordas prison in July 2014 — four years after he was sentenced to 28 years behind bars for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores.
They reportedly met when Figueroa was selling concessions to inmates at Miguel Castro Castro Prison in Lima.
The couple’s daughter, Dusha Trudie Van der Sloot, was born about two months after the private jailhouse ceremony.
Shortly after tying the knot, Figueroa boasted to the Daily Mail that her new husband was “gentle, sensitive, kind” and “no monster.”
In one gushing love letter the convicted killer wrote from his cell, he even promised to buy his bride “your own house, better say our house.”
Younger and PRETTIER?
The suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in Aruba, Joran van der Sloot, has been "severely beaten" in a prison in Peru, his lawyer Maximo Altez told CBS News.
"It was a fight between prisoners. I don't know who assaulted Joran," Altez said, without providing any further detail on his client's condition.
Peru's Ambassador to the U.S., Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, said he hoped Van der Sloot's temporary extradition to face charges in the United States would "enable a process that will help to bring peace to Mrs. Holloway and to her family, who are grieving in the same way that the Flores family in Peru is grieving for the loss of their daughter, Stephany."
They're just tools.Exactly what I thought, but neither one look to be the blonde bimbo type either, so I think he had some ulterior motive for both of them.
I'm surprised it's taken this long.Natalee Holloway murder suspect "severely beaten" in Peru prison
Joran van der Sloot, in prison for another murder and awaiting temporary extradition to the U.S., was involved in "a fight between prisoners," his lawyer tells CBS News.news.yahoo.com
Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, is expected to take a plea deal after being charged in an extortion plot involving the Holloway family.
Natalee Holloway was 18 years old when she took a senior trip to Aruba in May 2005 with Mountain Brook High School.
Natalee Holloway was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, but she was never found.
In January 2012, a judge legally declared Natalee Holloway dead after a request from her father.
Van der Sloot is facing charges of extortion and wire fraud in the US after allegedly attempting to sell Beth Holloway, Natalee’s mother, information about the location of her daughter’s body.
Beth Holloway’s lawyer, John Q. Kelly, now tells Fox News Digital that van der Sloot is expected to take a plea deal, which is conditioned on him releasing details on how Natalee Holloway died and what happened to her body.
Joran van der Sloot today admitted bludgeoning Natalee Holloway to death on a beach and then dumping her body in the water - 18 years after she went missing.
Van Der Sloot, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for extortion and wire fraud as part of a plea deal in which he agreed to come clean about how he killed the recent high school graduate on the Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005.
The confession came after he put Natalee's parents through torment by sending them chilling emails in which he offered to tell them the whereabouts of their daughter's body in exchange for $250,000.
The case has captivated the public's attention for nearly two decades, spawning books, movies and podcasts. A heavy media presence assembled outside the federal courthouse nearly three hours before the hearing.
Addressing her daughter's killer in court, Natalee's mother Beth looked him in the eyes and said: 'You look like hell, Joran. I do not see how you're gonna make it ... You are a killer and I want you to remember that every time that jail door slams.'
The Dutch national was extradited for sentencing in the US from Peru where he is currently serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores who he smothered to death in a hotel room in 2010. His US sentence will run concurrently.