Holloway and her classmates spent the following week partying at a Holiday Inn at the north end of the island, soaking up the sunshine by day and drinking and clubbing by night.īut, on 30 May, the day Holloway was due to fly home, she completely vanished, her luggage found packed but untouched alongside her passport in her room.
She was thereafter set to attend the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on a full scholarship that autumn and planned to become a doctor. Holloway, a Wizard of Oz and Lynyrd Skynyrd obsessive, was a member of the National Honor Society during her time at Mountain Brook High School and was in the school’s dance squad, graduating on, after which she, 124 classmates and seven chaperones set out for the Caribbean island of Aruba to celebrate the milestone. The couple separated when Natalee was seven and she and her brother Matthew subsequently lived with their mother and her new husband George Twitty in Mountain Brook, Alabama, an affluent suburb of Birmingham. The missing girl was born on 21 October 1986 to Dave and Beth Holloway, an insurance salesman and speech pathologist respectively, and was raised in Clinton, Mississippi.
