disappearance while on a 2005 graduation trip in aruba. 18-year-old natalie holloway was last seen driving in a car with a group of young men, including van der sloot, then just 17 years old. i think we have just hung on to this possibility since july 4th. i have not given up hope that the men would be rearrested. reporter: an alabama federal grand jury indicted the dutch national in 2010 for allegedly attempting to extort a quarter million dollars from the holloway family. declared legally dead by an alabama judge in 2012, natalee holloway s body has never been found, and van der sloot has maintained his innocence. and no one has ever been charged in her death. van der sloot did not fight his transfer, according to his attorney, who received a letter from his client last week, where he wrote, i want to go to the u.s. advantage
graduation trip, left from birmingham to aruba in 2005. police say he was with her the night she vanished. he was never charged with her murder. natalie holloway has been missing for more than five weeks now. holloway has never been found. there was never a body, it was not possible to charge the murder. that s joyce vance, the former u.s. attorney who signed an indictment in 2010. it s those charges he faces on the federal lover nil. accused of trying to extort a quarter of 1 million dollars from her mother, beth holloway, in exchange for the whereabouts of natalie s remains. charges has proven lawyer denies. we felt very fortunate to be able to charge the extortion and wire fraud case. hoping that in some way that would help natalie s family find closure. for the hallway family, closure maybe closing in. marissa parra, nbc news. and thank you to marissa parra for that. coming, up a georgia gun shop owner makes a bold decision, closing down shop rather than selling anoth
daughter natalee holloway left birmingham for aruba to attend her high school graduation trip. she was never seen again. almost 18 years later her perpetrator jordan van der sloot has been extradited to birmingham to answer for his crimes. why is this allegedly extortion? because jordan van der sloot sent an e-mail after he took that representative to that home in aruba, and he said, guess what, it s all a lie. nothing i told you was the truth. and he is serving time now in p peru murder of stephany flores. just such a sad story and imagine the questions that that poor family has. jean casarez, thanks so much. now to other headlines that we are watching this hour. a michigan public school system banning backpacks after a fourth handgun was confiscated from students this year. the recent firearm was found in a third grate grader s school bag. the district says the ban will be in effect until further
pete: griff jenkins will do his entire report in a boston accent. if you are flying from the skies this weekend you better bring your patients because summer air travel is already mess and 10 million americans expected to fly this weekend, let s get to the flight aware update where there are 6303d lays, 405 canceled flights today. yesterday, you were not alone, look at those numbers, 7598 delays, 586 canceled, let s go to the misery map, flight aware s real-time tracker and you can see the most misery on routes out of new york city, things not looking too good at the airports. yesterday people were justifiably frustrated. we were supposed to be on our way to our graduation trip.