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A class photo of Natalee Holloway, 18, of Mountain Brook, Ala. Holloway vanished May 30, 2005, while on a graduation trip to Aruba with more than 100 classmates. The night she disappeared, Holloway went to a concert and then ate and danced at a local establishment. It was not clear if she had been drinking the night of her disappearance, though her relatives say she does not party much, is achievement-oriented and a straight-A student who had earned a full scholarship to the University of Alabama.
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Natalee Holloway, left, poses with friends Lee Broughton, Madison Whatley, and Ruth McVay, left to right, in a photograph taken with Natalee's disposable camera on the beach in Aruba, May 29, 2005, hours before she disappeared.
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Natalee Holloway, left, stands with her mother, Beth Twitty, at her home before her high school graduation ceremony, in Mountain Brook, Ala., May 24, 2005.
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Natalee Holloway, left, stands with her father, Dave Holloway, on her graduation day from Mountain Brook High School in Mountain Brook, Ala., May 24, 2005.
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Natalee Holloway stands with her senior prom date, Henry Ennis, at her home in Mountain Brook, Ala., on prom night, May 13, 2005.
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Natalee Holloway, in front, rides a motorcycle with her best friend, Liz Cain, in Birmingham, Ala., in early May 2005.
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Dutch marines stationed on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba conduct a search for Natalee Holloway, June 2, 2005. Aruba police and the Dutch military are leading the search with assistance from an unspecified number of FBI agents.
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Mashelle Zeolla, President of International Friends of Aruba, hands out flyers seeking information about Natalee Holloway, June 3, 2005, in the lobby of the Holiday Inn in Oranjestad, Aruba.
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Beth Holloway Twitty, Natalee's mother, leaves a press conference at the Holiday Inn in Oranjestad, Aruba, June 4, 2005. Others in photo are unidentified.
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Aruban police officers and prosecutors, including police superintendent Jan van der Straaten, left, wait by the home of a suspect in connection with the case, in the southwestern town of San Nicolas, Aruba, June 5, 2005.
Two suspects were arrested at their homes in San Nicolas, and were held for eight days before being released. The suspects worked as security guards at a hotel near Holloway's until a day before her disappearance, sources said.
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Tourists and locals attend a prayer vigil for Natalee Holloway at a lighthouse on Aruba's gusty northwest point, June 5, 2005. The lighthouse overlooks a dive site and one of the beaches Holloway reportedly visited the night she was last seen.
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Tourists Adam Wisler, 23, and Jennifer Gilmore, 24, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Donny Fernandez, 33, and Madi Gower, 23, of Aruba, from left to right, attend a prayer vigil for Natalee Holloway, June 5, 2005, at a lighthouse in Aruba.
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Marcia Twitty, aunt of Natalee Holloway, holds up a photo of Natalee and her mother, Beth Holloway Twitty, in Mountain Brook, Ala., June 6, 2005. "These people belong together. This is a mom and daughter team that go together," Twitty said. "She's missing and we've got to find her."
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A car decorated in support of missing teen Natalee Holloway is parked in Mountain Brook, Ala., June 6, 2005.
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A yellow bow is tied on the mailbox of Natalee Holloway's home in Mountain Brook, Ala., June 6, 2005.
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Dutch marines coordinate a search party with civilians, background, to look for Natalee Holloway along the southeastern shore of Aruba, June 6, 2005. Aruba's government let 4,000 civil servants off work early, and about 700 volunteers joined police, soldiers and FBI agents in an unprecedented search for Holloway. Search parties found numerous items including T-shirts and sunglasses, but none had been tied to the missing teenager, authorities said.
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American tourists sit near a sign posted in the search for Natalee Holloway, on a dock in Palm Beach, Aruba, June 7, 2005.
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Deepak Kalpoe, 21, is transferred from court to the police station in the capital city of Oranjestad, Aruba, June 17, 2005. Kalope, his brother Satish, 18, and Joran van der Sloot, 17, initially said they took Natalee Holloway to a beach on the night she disappeared, then dropped her off at her Holiday Inn, where they claim she was approached by a security guard. The three friends were held as suspects along with a fourth man, Steve Gregory Croes, a party boat disc jockey. Croes was released on June 26; The Kalope brothers were freed July 4.
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Joran van der Sloot, a 17-year-old Dutch teen detained in connection with Natalee Holloway's disappearance, is transferred from the police station to court in the capital city of Oranjestad, Aruba, June 11, 2005. In their initial police testimony, the Kalpoe brothers told police they and van der Sloot took Holloway to a beach, and the Dutch youth and the young woman were kissing in the back of the car.
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Authorities with a search dog leave the home of Joran van der Sloot in Noord, Aruba, June 15, 2005. The suspect's father, Paul van der Sloot, a judge-in-training on the island, later underwent several hours of questioning by police.
