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 your cell phone. i have it, and it s set up for international use now. and i will stay here until i find you. with the capital one venture card we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned a holiday trip to the big apple twice as fast!
police announce he s their prime suspect. the most striking thing to me when i think about natalee holloway and stephany flores, both of them together, they had one common denominator, it was joran van der sloot. stephany flores was with joran van der sloot five years to the day that natalee holloway was last seen. and that was the last time stephany flores is seen. peruvian police track down 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. i don t know. i really have been thinking a lot and just giving me some time to think. i will write you. i owe you at least that. i ve made so many bad decisions and all for the wrong reasons. i hope that you know that i m very addicted to especially to gambling. i mean, that s why i ve told so many lies. nothing would come out of that meeting. then just last month, a new development promises answers. a human jawbone washes up on the beach in aruba.
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. 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.
and stuff like that. everybody was just so excited. we couldn t wait to get down there. natalee s dad, however, was nervous. there were only seven chaperones. and in aruba, the legal drinking age was 18. but natalee had always been responsible, and her mother and stepfather thought she had earned it. this was her reward for working so hard and getting a scholarship to alabama. a reward that promised a tropical paradise, an island full of fun, adventure and partying, lots of partying, with old friends, and new ones. like joran van der sloot, a charming and outgoing young man who called aruba his home. jean casarez is a correspondent with hln s in session. joran van der sloot was a young man that came from a very good family, went to a very prestigious school in aruba. van der sloot seemed to have everything going for him.