van der sloot who fled to chile the day after the murder. under interrogation in peru, joran told investigators that he knows the location of natalee s body. but wouldn t say what happened to her that night. beth holloway hears the news and immediately heads to peru. van der sloot had been e-mailing her in march. the fbi monitored the entire exchange. his original message, for $250,000, i ll tell you what happened to her. and because he s playing on their emotions and saying, i ll give you this if you give me money, basically an extortion. finally after five long years, beth holloway would sit face to face with the man she believes knows what happened to her daughter. it s too late for natalee, it s too late for stephany. it s too late for me. but it s not too late for you, joran. you can make some choices here, and you can make the right decision. if it was an accident, tell me.
every day, hung out together. in 2005, this is where 18-year-old natalee holloway and more than 100 of her fellow graduates went for one last hoorah. our grade is really close and everyone hung out together the entire time. but on the morning of may 30th, the day the group was supposed to leave the island we immediately knew something was wrong because she was the first one to wake up. the students woke up to find natalee s packed bags, her passport and money all in her room, but no natalee. we went straight to the chaperones. with us tonight, natalee s mother, beth twitty, is with us, her stepdad, jud twitty natalee s parents shared their story with hln s nancy grace. we received a phone call that natalee had not showed at the
the students woke up to find natalee s packed bags, her passport and money all in her room, but no natalee. we went straight to the chaperones. with us tonight, natalee s mother, beth twitty, is with us, her stepdad, jud twitty natalee s parents shared their story with hln s nancy grace. we received a phone call that natalee had not showed at the group. i knew immediately that natalee would never be late for anything, never. they left immediately for aruba to search for their daughter. the first thing that i wanted to do with eric williams, the d.e.a., was establish natalee s character so they would see this is not someone who just decided not to show up. at the time, however, locals were not overly concerned with natalee s disappearance. julie renfro is editor of the newspaper aruba today. she was an adult.
an honor student. he seemed to be a good kid, as you would say, raised by good family. what do we know really about him? we know that he had a very serious problem with his anger, with the rage that was within him once he lost control of himself. van der sloot s former attorney disputes that assertion saying joran didn t have a documented anger problem, insisting that van der sloot had a really good reputation. natalee spent the night partying with her friends here at this once popular night spot, carlos n charlie s. she was last seen around 1:00 in the morning getting into a car with joran van der sloot and two of his friends. she never returned to her hotel. coming up, an agonizing mystery in the caribbean and a mother s desperate pleas for help. natalee, you can reach me on
natalee holloway was simply a teenager, an 18-year-old growing up in a quiet suburb. she was happy and certainly her mother s daughter. there wasn t anything that natalee couldn t come to me and tell me or ask me. nothing. just sitting in the back, cruising over to my place. her mother divorced her father when natalee was a little girl. when beth remarried, she moved the family to mountain brook, alabama, a wealthy suburb of birmingham, a town that knew few strangers. so everybody, if you don t know everybody, you know somebody that knows somebody. growing up, natalee dedicated herself to pursuing her real passion dance. she began in the eighth grade really becoming focused on getting on a dance team. but her mother, ever concerned, worried only the most popular girls made the team. as a new girl, there was a risk natalee wouldn t make it.