Twenty years ago, what was meant to be a joyful graduation trip turned into one of the most heartbreaking mysteries of our time. In May 2005,
18-year-old Natalee Holloway from Alabama traveled to Aruba with her classmates to celebrate finishing high school. She was bright, kind, and full of plans for the future — but she never made it home.
On the final night of the trip, Natalee was last seen leaving a local bar with Joran van der Sloot and two brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. When she didn’t show up for her flight home the next morning
, her friends and family knew something was terribly wrong. Her parents flew to Aruba immediately, beginning a desperate search that captured the world’s attention. READ MORE BELOW