The Disappearance Of Natalee Holloway Updated:10/18/2023 Joran Van Der Sloot confesses

Updated: 1018/2023- Joran van der Sloot pled guilty for extorting Natalee's mom as part of a plea agreement that required him to reveal details into Natalee's murder. He admitted to killing her with a cinder block on an Aruban beach after she rejected his sexual advances. Natalee then kneed him in the crotch after he tried “feeling her up,” and he responded by kicking her in the face, bludgeoning her with the cinder block and then pushing her in the ocean.

Joran was currently serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores with an addition 18 years he accumulated while in prison for trafficking cocaine in 2001.

Joran will return to Peru to serve out his time along with the 20 years that he will serve concurrently for extorting Natalee's mother.

Natalee Holloway

American teenager whose disappearance made international news after she vanished on May 30, 2005, while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba in the Caribbean.

Natalee was involved in her church. She always had a smile on her face and always seemed so happy. She was energetic and outgoing. Her nickname was "Hootie."

Born October 21, 1986 in Clinton, Mississippi.

The first of two children born to Dave and Elizabeth "Beth" Holloway.

Her parents divorced in 1993, and she and her younger brother Matthew were raised by their mother.

In 2000, Beth married George "Jug" Twitty, a prominent Alabama businessman; and the family moved to Mountain Brook, Alabama.

Holloway graduated with honors from Mountain Brook High School.

She was a member of the National Honor Society and the school dance squad.

Holloway was scheduled to attend the University of Alabama on a full scholarship, where she planned to pursue pre-med.

Holloway and fellow graduates of Mountain Brook High School arrived in Aruba for a five-day, unofficial graduation trip on Thursday, May 26, 2005.

Gerold Dompig, Police Commissioner, who headed the investigation from mid-2005 until 2006, stated that the Mountain Brook students engaged in "wild partying, a lot of drinking, lots of room switching every night.

She was last seen by her classmates around 1:30 a.m. on Monday, May 30, as she was leaving the bar and nightclub Carlos'n Charlie's with  Joran van der Sloot.

She allegedly got into his car and the Kalpoe brothers.

Natalee was scheduled to fly home later that day, but she didn't appear for her return flight.

Her packed luggage and her passport were found in her Holiday Inn room.

Following Holloway's missed flight, Jug, Beth and friends flew to Aruba by private jet.

Within four hours of landing on the island, the Twittys presented the Aruban police with the name and address of Van der Sloot as the person with whom Holloway left the nightclub.

Van der Sloot's full name was given to her by the night manager at the Holiday Inn, who supposedly recognized him on a videotape.

With two Aruban policemen, the Twittys and their friends went to the Van der Sloot home, to look for Natalee.

Van der Sloot initially denied knowing Natalee's name.

He then said that they drove Holloway to the California Lighthouse area of Arashi Beach because she wanted to see sharks; they later dropped Holloway off at her hotel at around 2:00 a.m.

Van der Sloot then said that Natalee fell down as she exited the car but refused his help.
He stated that as he was driving away, Natalee was approached by a dark man in a black shirt similar to those worn by security guards.

Nick John and Abraham Jones, former security guards from the nearby Allegro Hotel, were detained by Aruban police on June 5th.

Reports also indicated that they were known for cruising hotels to pick up women, and at least one of them had a prior incident with law enforcement.

They were released on June 13 without being charged.

June 17, a disc jockey Steve Gregory Croes was also arrested.

Aruban police detained Joran's father Paulus van der Sloot for questioning on June 22.

Both Paulus van der Sloot and Croes were ordered to be released on June 26.

Reports indicated that she did not appear on any nighttime surveillance camera footage of her hotel's lobby.

According to Twitty, in an April 19, 2006, statement , the video cameras at the Holiday Inn were not functioning the night Holloway vanished.
Twitty has made other statements indicating that they were working.

Aruban authorities initiated searches for Holloway throughout the island and surrounding waters but did not find her.

After further investigation by authorities, Van der Sloot was arrested twice on suspicion of involvement in her disappearance and the Kalpoes were each arrested three times.

When Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were questioned, they said that they dropped off Holloway at her hotel .

The three suspects change their stories several times.
Following hearings before a judge, the two men were released on Monday, July 4; but Van der Sloot was detained for an additional sixty days.

Geoffrey von Cromvoirt was arrested by Aruban authorities on April 15, 2006 on suspicion of criminal offenses related to dealing in narcotics which, according to the prosecutor, might have been related to the disappearance of Holloway.

His detention was extended by eight days at his first court appearance. He was on April 25.

Another individual with initials "A.B." was arrested on April 22, but was released the same day.

Guido Wever (the son of a former Aruban politician) was detained on may 17, 2006 in the

Netherlands on suspicion of assisting in the abducting, battering, and killing of Natalee.

He was questioned for 6 days and then released by agreement between the prosecutor and Wever's attorney.

A combined Aruban–Dutch team began pursuing the investigation in Aruba on September 2007.

Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were rearrested November 21, 2007, on suspicion of involvement in "manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Natalee after new evidence came out.

Vander Sloot was incarcerated.

Dave Holloway announced a new search in November 2007.

The search was abandoned due to lack of funds at the end of February 2008, when nothing of significance was found.

A judge ordered the release of Satish and Deepak Kalpoe on November 30, 2007.

December 7, 2007, due to lack of evidence implicating him as well as a lack of evidence that Holloway died as the result of a violent crime, Van der Sloot was released without charge.

Aruban prosecutors announced that the case would be closed without any charges made on December 18,2007.
The prosecution alleged that one of the three, in a chat room message, had stated that Holloway was dead.

Prosecutor's office reopened the case on February 1, 2008, after receiving video footage of Van der Sloot, under the influence of marijuana, saying that Holloway died on the morning of her disappearance, and that a friend had disposed of her body.
Van der Sloot later denied that what he had said was true.

In an interview said that he had sold Holloway into sexual slavery.
Later he retracted his comments.

On March 29, 2010, Van der Sloot contacted Twitty's legal representative with an offer to reveal the location of Holloway's body and the circumstances surrounding her death, if he were given advance of US$25,000.

On May 10, Van der Sloot had a $15,000 wire transferred to his account in the Netherlands.
Authorities stated that the information that he provided in return was false.

Van der Sloot was charged in the U.S. District Court of Northern Alabama with extortion and wire fraud on June 3.

On June 30, Van der Sloot was indicted on the charges.

Alabama judge Alan King declared Holloway legally dead in absentia on January 12, 2012 at the request of her father.

In 2012, he was convicted of the May 30, 2010, murder of Stephany Flores Ramírez and was sentenced to 28 years in prison.

In 2016 Natalee’s father, hired a private investigator, to go through all evidence and information related to the disappearance once more.

This led to an informant, who claims to have been a roommate of one of Van der Sloot's closest friends, Ludwick in 2005.

The informant claims Ludwick was told what happened to Natalee.

He gave a detailed description of what happened on the night of Natalee’s disappearance.

Using the information, the investigator had found what appeared to be human bones.

On October 3, 2017, DNA testing concluded that one piece of bone was human but did not belong to Natalee.

Natalee's father announced that he and a private investigator had recently discovered human remains on August 16, 2017. That they were being DNA-tested to determine whether they belonged to his daughter.

Final results revealed that the human remains did not belong to Natalee.

March 2018, Ludwick was stabbed to death by a woman he tried to kidnap.

Natalee's disappearance has remained unsolved.

The book "The Holloway Files" has wonderful new information and leads to the case. The authors had full access to the case.

This video is a documentary made from information from the book.

It talks about the Van der Sloot would lure girls to hotel rooms and film them in sexual acts. 

That allegedly his father might be the owner of a porn franchise. 

In the video there is a lady named Tracey Allen gives an interview about her almost rape/abduction on the same beach where Natalee went missing only nine days before.

And how the local  authorities accidently let him go. 

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

An American abolitionist and political activist. She was born into slavery, in 1822.

Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends.

She used the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

Harriet earned the nickname "Moses" after the prophet Moses in the Bible who led his people to freedom.

She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry.

She served as an armed scout and spy for the United States Army durring the Civil War.

Harriet had one daughter, Gertie, whom she and her second husband (Nelson Davis) adopted after the Civil war.

When Harriet was a teenager she suffered a head injury when an overseer threw a heavy metal at a runaway slave and instead hit her in the head.

Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross.

She was nicknamed “Minty” by her mother.

She cured dysentery.

As a result of the injury she suffered narcolepsy. It gave her visions and dreams that she considered signs from God. Religion faith was the reason she risked her life guiding slaves to freedom.
Unable to sleep, Tubman underwent brain surgery in Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. She refused anesthesia, instead she insisted to chew a bullet just like soldiers did when they had their legs amputated.

Slave owners later placed a bounty for her capture with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, raising the stakes even higher for her indispensable work.

Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women's suffrage in ther later years.

Just before Harriet's death in 1913 she told friends and family, "I go to prepare a place for you."

Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia on March 10, 1913. She was about 93 years old.

She was buried with military honors in Fort Hill Cemetery in New York.

The US Maritime Commission named its first Liberty Ship after her.

Oscar the Grouch

A character on the television program Sesame Street.
He has a green body, no visible nose, and lives in a trash can.
His favorite thing is trash.

The term "Grouch", not only applies to his attitude, but  it also refers to his species.
His birthday is June 1st.
Oscars real first name which he revealed at least twice and once in a song is "Sid?"

He is preformed by Caroll Spinney, since the show's first episode.

Eric Jacobson has been the understudy for the character since 2015.

He inittially was yellow. He was then changed to orange, which he remained for the first season.

Oscar can become mobile with the help of his friend Bruno the Trashman, who carries Oscar around in his trash can.

Oscar's legs can poke from the bottom of his trash can to allow him to walk around.

The only person he has ever liked on-camera was Maria, which he would never admit.

Oscar tries to keep secret his Canadian identity, but admitted that he is Canadian due to his parents being from Canada.

He was born in Minto, New Brunswick.
His father was born in Saint David's Ridge, New Brunswick.
His mother grew up in Nova Scotia.
His favorite dessert is spinach sardine chocolate fudge sundaes.
His second favorite dessert is mashed bananas with ice cubes and cold beef gravy.

 He owns a car called "The Sloppy Jalopy".

Oscar's trash can is actually bigger on the inside, than the outside would suggest.
Oscar has noted through the years that it boasts such amenities as a farm, swimming pool, ice-rink, bowling alley, and a piano.

Oscar's pet worm is named Slimey, who has a baby sister named Sloppy.

Oscar's pet elephant named Fluffy.
Oscar made what he called "a very brief cameo" in the 1981 Jim Henson movie The Great Muppet Caper.
He also appeared in the Jim Henson holiday special, A Muppet Family Christmas.

He was on an episode of Scrubs.
Oscar is one of numerous PBS personalities chasing after Homer Simpson for not being able to pay a pledge in a Simpsons season 11 episode, "Missionary: Impossible".

He also appears in "Trash of the Titans" in a The Simpsons season 9 episode.
Oscar first appeared on the January 11, 2008 episode of the television game show 1 vs. 100 as a member of the mob.
Oscar has made appearances on Canadian public broadcasting advertising "childhood diabetes awareness days" at the Montreal Canadiens hockey games.
Oscar became the mascot for Waste Reduction Week in Canada, an environmental campaign, in 2008.

Oscar has an appearance in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.

On November 12, 2009, Oscar appeared on CNN to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Oscar reveals that he would still be orange if he bathed; his green exterior is apparently moss.
On an episode of Cake Boss, Buddy and his bakers visited Sesame Street, and Danny could be seen inside Oscar's Trash Can.

Oscar also made appearances in episodes of the Cartoon Network show MAD.

TV's Roseanne

Roseanne

An American actress, comedian, writer, and television producer. She was born in Salt Lake City on November 3, 1952. She was born to a working-class Jewish family.

When Barr was three years old, she got Bell's palsy on the left side of her face.

When she was 16, she was hit by a car; the incident left her with a traumatic brain injury. Her behavior changed so radically that she was institutionalized for eight months. While institutionalized she had a baby, Brandi Ann Brownwhich, she put up for adoption. They were later reunited.

When she was 18 years old, she moved out by informing her parents she was going to visit a friend in Colorado for two weeks, but never returned.

On February 4, 1974, Roseanne married Bill Pentland, a motel clerk she met while in Colorado. They had three children: Jessica, Jennifer, and Jake. They divorced on January 16, 1990.

January 20, 1990, Barr married fellow comedian Tom Arnold and became known as Roseanne Arnold during the marriage.

Roseanne was offered the role of Peg Bundy in Married... with Children but turned it down.

Her show, "Roseanne", premiered on October 18, 1988, and was watched by 21.4 million households, making it the highest-rated debut of that season.

Her sister,Geraldine Barr, her brother, Ben Barr, both of whom inspired her to introduce gay characters into her sitcom. She stated she supports gay marriage.

Roseanne ran for nine seasons from 1988 to 1997.

Barr won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Kids Choice Award, and three American Comedy Awards for her part in the show.

For the final two seasons, Barr earned $40 million, making her the second-highest-paid woman in show business at the time, after Oprah Winfrey.

On July 25, 1990, Barr performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" off-key. She claimed she was initially having trouble hearing herself over the public-address system, so she was singing as loudly as possible. Following her rendition, she mimicked the often-seen actions of players by spitting and grabbing her crotch as if adjusting a protective cup. Barr claimed she had been encouraged by baseball officials to "bring humor to the song".

She appeared on September 19, 2011, at the Occupy Wall Street protests and spoke in support of the protestors.

In 2014, the parents of George Zimmerman, known for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin but was later acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter, filed a lawsuit against Barr for tweeting their home address and phone number.

She allegedly tweeted "At first I thought it was good to let ppl know that no one can hide anymore ... If Zimmerman isn't arrested I'll rt his address again – maybe go 2 his house myself."

 On May 16, 2017, ABC picked up the revival for mid-season 2018.

On May 29, 2018, the series was cancelled by ABC in the aftermath of a racist joke Barr made on Twitter earlier that day.

Consisting of conspiracy theories and false statements surrounding George Soros, such as claiming Chelsea Clinton was married to one of his nephews, and accusing him of being a Nazi during his youth.

Barr also posted a tweet critical of Valerie Jarrett, a Senior Advisor to former U.S. president Barack Obama, reading:"muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj"

She later deleted the "ape" tweet and posted an apology, stating she was "truly sorry for making a bad joke about Jarrett'spolitics  and looks".