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Natalee Holloway is an 18-year-old Mountain Brook, Alabama student who went missing in Aruba in the early hours of May 30, 2005. Holloway and 140 of her fellow graduates from Moutain Brook High School were on a senior class trip.

The night she disappeared, Holloway ate and danced at Carlos’ n Charlie’s bar and restaurant. She did not show up for her flight hours later, and police found her passport in her hotel room with her packed bags.

It was not clear if Holloway had been drinking the night of her disappearance, though her relatives say she does not party much and is a straight-A student who had earned a full scholarship at the University of Alabama.

Police quickly detained two men — former security guards at a hotel near the one where Holloway was staying. Police identified the two suspects only as Aruban residents aged 28 and 30. They were security guards at the vacant Allegro Hotel. A security guard from the casino attached to the hotel identified one of the detainees as Nick John of Grenada, and the other as Abraham Jones from Bonaire. Neither man has been formally charged.

It was reported by different news agencies that Holloway was seen at bars in Aruba and she in fact met the three Aruban men, two Surinamese born brothers, Satish Kalpoe and Deepak Kalpoe, and a 17-year-old Dutch born, Joran Van Der Sloot, son of a high-ranking island judicial official appeared Saturday, June 11, 2005 before a judge, who was deciding whether police have sufficient grounds to continue holding them. Authorities have refused to say on what grounds they were being held.

Authorities said they talked to the three men who left with her. The men said they took Holloway to Arashi Beach before leaving her at her hotel about 2 a.m., authorities said.

The Diario a local daily newspaper, had reporting that a human blood sample found in a car at the residence of Joran Van Der Sloot had been sent to the U.S. and will be tested for a possible match to Natalee, whose mother gave a blood sample to investigators.

CNN and other national American television networks devoted much air time to her search. The Aruba government and local tourism organizations have offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to Holloway’s rescue, her family and benefactors in Alabama have offered an additional $30,000, and Carlos’ n Charlie’s donated another $5,000 for a total of $55,000.

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