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She is missed.

May 10, 2023
By Phil Helsel and Lindsey Pipia


A Dutch man (click here) who was suspected in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway is being extradited to the United States in connection with a fraud case, Peruvian officials said Wednesday.

Joran van der Sloot is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman.

He was arrested but never convicted in the disappearance of Holloway, who vanished in Aruba in 2005.

Holloway has never been found. The 18-year-old from Alabama went on a high school graduation trip and never returned. A judge later declared her dead.

Van der Sloot was arrested and released in that case and was never charged.

The extradition is the latest twist in a case that generated countless news stories when Holloway disappeared and multiple fictionalized movies and documentaries, some even more than a decade later....