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title: "What Happened to Natalee Holloway?"
description: "The complete account of Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, her family's two-decade search for answers, and Joran van der Sloot's eventual confession in 2023."
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datePublished: 2026-06-26
dateModified: 2026-06-26
author:
  - name: Dana Ortiz
    url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/author/dana-ortiz
publisher: Casual Criminalist
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The complete account of Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, her family's two-decade search for answers, and Joran van der Sloot's eventual confession in 2023.
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