tell us where she is. come on. >> bringing them to a spot where he says natalee's body is. >> what happened to natalee? that's the big question. >> kissed her good-bye, said i love you, have a great time. never could i have imagined that would be the last time. >> natalee holloway. >> natalee holloway. >> disappeared. >> the media came in and they stayed. people couldn't get enough. >> it is now that i ask the world to help me. >> we thought it would be over in one day.

everybody would be happy, they would go back home. >> the last that everybody remembers, natalee was seen driving off in a vehicle with a young man. >> he was such a [ bleep ]. what do you want me to do about it? i thought, you're it. >> he called the media, said, listen, i'll tell you my story. >> he contacted me. >> he says, if you give me $250,000, i'll give you information on the whereabouts of natalee holloway. >> it's behind-blowing. >> he will strike again. what the [ bleep ] is he doing in peru? >> another young woman five years to the day after the disappearance of natalee holloway. >> is that just a coincidence, or is he that evil? >> i was going to hang on to him until my last breath. ♪

>> it's may, 2010, and a 21-year-old young peruvian woman named stephany flores doesn't come home one night. she goes missing. >> the daughter of a former peruvian presidential candidate. >> she was last seen in the early morning hours of sunday. >> as a parent, this is the thing you worry about the most. this is the stuff of nightmares. >> the family went crazy since the day she had disappeared. >> there's no evidence, there's no trail to follow. >> you cling to every ounce of hope, but you fear the worst. >> and because she's from a wealthy family, it's believed that stephany has been kidnapped. >> but as the hours tick by, and one day turns into two days, and the ransom call doesn't come in, well, everybody kind of has the same idea. this isn't good. maybe this isn't a kidnapping. >> stephany's family is desperate. they'd do anything to try to

track down on her last steps. who was she with? where did she go? anything, and then they get a break. >> tuesday, somebody tell us that stephany went to the casino. >> the flores family knows the people at the casino. so the casino folks allow them to look at the surveillance video. >> on the security video that is later released to the media, the family actually spots stephany. >> tape by tape, camera by camera, they're able to follow her through the casino. >> she takes a seat. next to what appears to be a young man. the two have some sort of a conversation. >> then they see them leave together. >> so now they have what they believe to be an actual image of this man. >> they say, "we've got a name for this kid."

>> i went to the internet and i put the name in google. >> she types in joran van der sloot, and what comes up is actually shocking. hundreds and hundreds of articles. >> articles about this man. >> he's the playboy suspect. >> 17-year-old joran van der sloot. >> implicated in the disappearance of an american woman. >> the search for missing american teen natalee holloway. >> the disappearance of natalee holloway. >> from the island of aruba exactly five years earlier. >> and now a name that made headlines five years ago is back in the news. >> joran van der sloot. >> joran van der sloot. >> joran van der sloot. >> joran van der sloot. >> it was memorial day in 2005, and my phone rang from a number that i didn't recognize. they tell me that my daughter natalee is missing and that no one has seen her.

>> natalee and her class were doing a senior trip to aruba. of course as a parent you worry, sending your child out into the world for the first time alone. but they were promised chaperones, so you expect that your child is going to be watched. >> it was a way to celebrate the fact that they'd made it through high school, and had their lives in front of them. >> aruba is considered to be a very safe, beautiful caribbean island. >> for a lot of americans, aruba does not feel that foreign, and that's part of its appeal. when you go down the strip there's a carlos 'n charlie's. there's a marriott. there's a holiday inn. i mean, blink and you can really feel like you are in ft. lauderdale. >> she mentioned that they were planning a senior graduation trip to aruba. i've never heard of aruba. you're only gonna be gone four days. okay.

i remember that last day well. she came to wake me up so i could drive her to a friend's house for a ride to the airport. i helped her get her bag out of the car, and just kissed her good-bye, said, "i love you. have a great time." and then she entered the door, and the door closed. never could i have imagined that would be the last time. >> she got the call, and she knew natalee was in trouble. >> snap, you know, it's instant. something is terribly wrong. i had to get to aruba now. >> beth immediately set off to get on a plane to aruba.

>> some family men that i've -- i've known for a long time, and the woman that called me about that natalee was missing, decided to come on the plane, too. we landed in aruba on the same day i got the call. in my little, simple mind, i was flying into an island with a few tiki torches and maybe some huts. and i was like, "wow." it was just -- seemed vast. >> beth has come down with a bunch of people from alabama and they arrange for the local arubians that they meet at the airport to be their guides. >> and they explained to us that this is a case of a missing person. so they said, "we're going to hire you guys. we want people that we can trust, that we've met, that can be with us the whole nine yards." we thought it was something to be just for a few hours. >> beth is fielding calls from various people who were on the trip, and she's piecing together a timeline, where natalee was last seen, who she was with. >> we all pile into this van,

and we went to the last place that she was seen, carlos 'n charlie's. >> carlos 'n charlie's was like any other club, that you can go in there, you can dance, and you have shots. they have shows. you see everybody in carlos 'n charlie's. that was the club. >> the night that natalee disappeared, i was at carlos 'n charlie's with a group of friends. these kids were all like 16, 17, 18 years old and they were just jumping and singing and playing this "sweet home alabama" over and over. ♪ sweet home alabama >> the last anybody remembers, natalee was seen driving off in a vehicle with a young man. he seemed like a tourist. he seemed harmless. everybody assumed that she was going to make it back to the holiday inn fine that night. and she just never showed up again. >> i knew something was terribly wrong.

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i don't think i've ever felt afraid to go back in to aruba because my daughter is there. that's the last place that i know that she has been.

>> it's been close to 15 years since beth holloway first set foot on the island of aruba looking for her daughter natalee. this past summer, we brought her back with us. >> it feels good to come back in this frame of mind where i'm not searching for anything that the aruban officials or people have to give me. the island of aruba is not natalee's life. this is where natalee's life ended, but this was not her life. natalee was born in memphis, tennessee, october the 21st, 1986. not too long after, matt, her brother, he was born in memphis as well. >> when natalee was just 6, her parents beth and dave divorced.

>> then i met jug and married jug in 2000 and moved to mountain brook, alabama. it's a beautiful community. >> these were people who were comfortable. there were mercedes, there were bmws, there were corporate executives. they were wealthier than most of us. >> and natalee was entering into junior high school. >> she made friends right away and fit in right away. >> natalee was a beautiful girl, involved in the church. always had a smile on her face, always so happy and energetic and outgoing. >> they called her hootie. >> there's hootie. >> so hootie-hoo holloway. >> who's our special guest today? >> it's hootie. >> hootie-hoo holloway.t sitting in the back, cruising over to my place. the beach was a blast. i had the best time of my life. >> natalee was so remarkable.

if she set a goal, she did it. i guess it was the ninth grade year that these girls start trying out for this dance team. it's called dorians. she continued to make that dance team. ♪ >> no kid is perfect, but on paper natalee certainly appeared to be. you know, she's heading to university of alabama in the fall, straight "a"s, probably going to be a doctor. >> it was all i could do to hang on to her. all of her dreams and all of her goals. >> by the time beth makes her way to aruba back in 2005, her daughter natalee has been missing for almost 24 hours. beth tries to retrace her

daughter's last steps and she figures out that the guy she was last seen with is joran van der sloot. >> joran was born in the netherlands in 1987. three years later his parents moved to aruba, so he really considers himself a local. >> coincidentally joran had been spending a lot of time at the casino that was attached to natalee's hotel. >> at some point they looked at the surveillance tape, because they knew that she had been at the casino. and the casino manager actually found the tape. and beth, for the first time, was able to lay her eyes on joran van der sloot. >> if natalee holloway was someone who spent saturday nights maybe with her mom and made cookies, joran van der sloot was not someone who was making cookies with his mom and dad, if you know what i mean. joran van der sloot was in the casinos. joran van der sloot was at carlos 'n charlie's hitting on the american girls.

>> in the video of joran's 15th birthday, which was two years before natalee disappeared, he is having a great time dancing with all the girls. >> he struck you as the type of kid who would hit on ten women, knowing that one would say yes. and the nine who said no, he didn't much care about. >> it's pretty clear that this is a guy who is not lacking in confidence. >> okay, this poem is about some of the few memories i have from when i was still young. >> joran van der sloot was a headstrong, free-willed young man who was accustomed to getting what he wanted. >> what i saw on the footage from the excelsior casino was natalee was seated at this blackjack table. in just kind of her own little space.

and then joran. once i saw him i was like, we've got it, let's go. it's time to go to the police now. we finally get two aruban police officials to accompany us to the van der sloot home. i remember the police turning on their siren. >> now you've got an aruban police car coming up to the van der sloot home along with two vanloads of very angry young alabama parents. joran's father comes out, he starts to talk quietly with a couple of the aruban officers, while the alabama people, the contingent stands out by the vans in the street. >> the gray honda that natalee was last seen getting into is parked outside the van der sloot residence. and deepak kalpoe and joran van der sloot are standing out in the driveway. >> deepak kalpoe was a friend of joran's.

he and his brother satish were actually seen leaving with joran and natalee that night. in fact it was their car that they all left in. >> and joran says, "yeah, okay, i was with her. you know, we fooled around a little. i dropped her back at the holiday inn. that's all we know." >> and then he describes -- i don't even wanna get -- but he graphically describes the sexual activity that he engaged in with her, okay? and that was just, like, over the top. the men that i was travelling with, they were all fathers. and you can imagine the tempers. >> they started yelling, "tell us where she is. come on, tell us where she is." >> bickering and yelling. we were telling them, "stop," you know, "just talk like normal people. this threatening and stuff like that, we're not used to that." >> finally joran said, "i'll show you. i'll show you where i dropped her off." >> so joran agrees to take the

whole group back to natalee's hotel, where he says he dropped her off. >> he says that she got out of the car, and that she stumbled, and that she hit her head, and two security guards help natalee up. and he says those are the last two people that he left natalee with. >> little does beth know that the story that she just heard from joran van der sloot is the first of many that he is going to tell over the years about what really happened to her daughter natalee. >> he was just hitting his chest and, "what do you want me to do about it? this is where i brought her." at that moment, that's when i thought, "you're it." did i know what was to come? no. but i knew that i was gonna hang

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press start to organize search parties looking for anything, a piece of clothing. >> we all had to take turns to go to aruba. you signed up for a shift literally because there was so much. there was so much going on. >> you know, everybody wanted to help. everybody. >> early on, the government let every government employee off work. could you imagine a whole country was out searching for her. >> but right from the start, the pace of the investigation was extremely frustrating. >> i don't think the aruban authorities took this seriously enough, quickly enough. >> i assure you that every, every, every lead is being worked out. >> the alabama group would go to all the dutch bars. they would go to the casinos. they were just out looking to find joran. they just wanted to hassle him. >> we had to do something, 'cause it seemed like nothin' was bein' done. >> it's necessary that you let us do our work. >> the aruba chief of police walks up to us and says, "i don't want any cowboy stuff goin' on down here."

"we're the police, we'll handle it." they didn't like us. we didn't like them. it was a marriage made in heaven. >> hundreds and hundreds of leads were coming in. >> every blond that was seen on aruba, it seemed, got phoned in. >> we always felt like with every lead, with every tip, it was always as if we were about to get her. >> early thursday morning, police had the security tapes ready from the lobby entrance where joran said that he dropped natalee off. >> and as we watched the tape, and the night turned into daylight on the screen, natalee never appeared. >> the story that joran told them wasn't true. >> so i thought, now, okay, this is it. they can go get these men and arrest them. it didn't happen. >> natalee, you can reach me on your cell phone. >> when beth felt like the police weren't getting anywhere -- >> and i will stay here until i find you, natalee.

>> -- she used the weapon that she had, which was the media. >> deborah roberts has just arrived to the island's capital. >> i was on the island and began broadcasting around day six and by that time there was a full media frenzy. >> the case of the 18-year-old who vanished. >> a few days after i got there, i was able to convince beth to sit down for her first television interview. >> missing in paradise. the alabama teen at the heart of a massive search. >> she was absolutely determined to find her daughter and to find her daughter alive. >> i know in my heart that we are going to find natalee. >> will you even let your mind entertain the possibility that you might not find her?

>> no. there again, that's not an option. >> i also interviewed natalee's father dave. by then, he had joined the search and was also trying to help find his daughter. >> why do you still feel that every day you've got to go out there? >> you know, i just can't sit in a hotel room. you'll drive yourself crazy, pacing the floor. and i just feel like i have to be out there looking. you look at the map of aruba and you think this couldn't be that hard. you know, it's five miles long, 20 or 25, 30 miles long. i'll find her, easy. >> it's any parent's worst nightmare, deborah. there is no other worse nightmare. >> beth was so approachable and she was every mom, and i think the way that beth was talking from her heart. >> please keep looking for her, okay? i appreciate it so much. >> people wanted to help her. >> what surprised me was just the level to which beth seemed to be keeping it together.

>> please help bring her home. >> thank you. >> but then there was a point in time where she kind of broke down. >> i went back to natalee's hotel room and i had no more human strength left. i thought, you know, i've got to get out of here. i've got to go find a place to pray. so i found this taxi. he took me to the other side of the island. there was a small, beautiful little chapel, alto vista chapel, that was sitting on the hillside overlooking the sea. and i walked up to the cross and -- and just fell to my knees. i was just crying and praying and just begging god to give her back.

this is the only place on the island where i could come to feel close to natalee. yes, you lay your burdens at the cross. but there was a hell of a lot of work that needed to be done and i got busy. >> after days of little to no progress, this morning there is a potential break in this case. the three young men originally questioned by police have been arrested. >> are you guilty? >> they had ten days to lawyer up, ten days to corroborate their stories, and ten days to clean up their mess of whatever that was. >> innocent people most commonly tell a consistent story, and theirs began to change. >> joran and his two friends are confronted with the fact that they lied, that they had never dropped off natalee at the hotel. >> a different story has emerged. the guys say that the kalpoe brothers dropped joran and

natalee off at the beach where they fooled around. >> then they just laid there and watched the stars until natalee was apparently going in and out of sleep and then joran said he wanted to go home, and he left her sleeping there on the beach. >> the story keeps changing and the truth is getting further and further away. >> throughout these first weeks, beth holloway was desperately trying to meet with joran van der sloot's parents. >> joran's father was an attorney. he was training to be a judge. and there were allegations that joran was being protected because of his father's relationships. >> greta van susteren, live on island. >> i covered the story and i made waves covering the story. i said, "let's go over to the van der sloot home. let's get some answers." hello? is anybody home? i'm natalee's mom and i just want to give you a prayer card.

>> paulus van der sloot, the father of joran van der sloot, came out to the gate. >> come in, please. please, stop the cameras, okay? >> we sit down at the dining room table. >> i wanted to be that close to paulus van der sloot. and i wanted to make him feel in some way how i was feeling. >> beth was stern and direct. anita, joran's mother, was crying, sobbing. paulus, who was sitting next to me, was perspiring like something i have never seen in my life. i thought, "this man is the most pathetic human being i've ever seen, because he knows what happened." he knew. >> now there seems to be a shift, a little bit of a backlash against beth. >> you could feel the tide turn. they were done with me. they were done with the media. they were done with everyone. >> what is wrong with you?

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in aruba the search for new details in the case of natalee holloway -- >> natalee holloway's mother -- >> alabama teenager natalee holloway -- >> in this story, the media came in, and they stayed. >> people couldn't get enough of the natalee holloway story. >> beth holloway seems to realize that the only way she's going to keep the pressure on and maybe find her daughter is to just keep talking. >> sit and talk, i mean, that's all you could do. >> beth, thanks for being with us again. >> seven hits in the morning or something like that. >> beth, it's diane. >> hi, diane. >> good morning. >> and seven hits at night. three hours later, up, do it again, up, do it again, up, do it again. >> the natalee holloway story just dominated. it was a sensation. it was also one in a string of

stories that were grabbing headlines about missing attractive young women, women who all happened to be white. >> chandra levy was last seen on april 30th. >> 27-year-old laci peterson -- >> every night there were shows looking at what we called, you know, "the missing white female," because they were almost always stories of missing or murdered young white women. >> it was apparent to a lot of people that there was this obsession almost to the exclusion of anyone else who might also have been missing. >> these shows were bringing in huge ratings. by far the largest was the story of natalee holloway. >> the police would say that the media got in their way, and that we were trying to force their hand into doing certain things. >> one month into this investigation, there is intense scrutiny and joran and his two buddies are all in jail. but there's a problem. >> there was not enough evidence. there was no body. there's no, let's say, blood

trail found or something. it was just a big suspicion. >> and then a major blow to beth holloway. >> in aruba, two of three young men held in the disappearance of natalee holloway are now free. >> deepak k. and satish k. will be immediately released. >> the day the kalpoes were released, it just crushed another level. >> it is now that i ask the world to help me. two suspects were released yesterday who were involved in a violent crime against my daughter. help me by not allowing these two to get away with this crime. >> she did her press conference and, blah, blah. and i think we got in trouble for calling the kalpoes criminals or something. but so what. >> the aruban legal system was being criticized for not holding some of the suspects longer. >> there are still many things we have to clarify, to investigate, to ask questions.

so there is a lot of work to do. >> they released them because they weren't charged. >> the authorities now say that the cases against the kalpoe brothers are completely dismissed. >> calling them criminals when in fact they had just been released and there were no charges really turned public sentiment against her. >> we are here to support the police, whose authority has been questioned. people out there that are putting arubians down, "go home. if you don't like it, go home!" >> the entire dynamics of the island turned on me. all the people that were helping, all the people that i felt we were working together. you could feel the shift. you could feel the tide turn. it was not okay for me to call their citizens criminals. >> you have overstayed your bloody welcome on our island! >> the people on the island

ultimately wanted beth to go home. >> in the perception of most people, aruba was doing everything to solve the case, and that's why some people turned against her. >> this is an abc news special report. >> finally something did break the news cycle of natalee. >> hurricane katrina is now a category five hurricane. massive. >> we are dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history. >> it was no surprise that everyone in the media went to katrina. katrina was a catastrophic storm here in the united states. so naturally everybody did leave. >> so many people affected by this storm. the destruction is just incredible. >> and as soon as that happened, it was over. >> the story fizzled off for the media, but not for beth.

beth still doesn't know where her daughter is. >> while the cameras are trained on new orleans, joran van der sloot is being released from jail. >> are you guilty? >> they do have rules in aruba about how long you can detain a suspect without a charge. they didn't feel that they were able to charge joran with anything. >> i know that he was responsible for the demise of natalee. he's a monster. >> there was nothing that could tie him to natalee's disappearance. and most of all there was no body. >> i knew at that point it was time to take it up at the home front because the suspects were all out. and i made a pledge that i will share everything that i have learned. so that's what i did. first stop, "dr. phil." >> and then dr. phil went on tv, and everybody's attitude changed. >> we need to tell these people we will never set foot on aruban

soil again until you stand up and do what you have to do for this young woman. >> they were asking to boycott aruba. >> there's 270 million people over here that are going to forget you people exist as a destination. and see how that works for you. >> people here were like, "what? boycott aruba?" it was terrible to hear that. >> our sole bread and butter is tourism. a lot of flights start to cancel. of course, the tourism went down. >> she was going to do whatever it took to punish them. and if it meant taking aruba down, she's going to take aruba down. >> i was trying to destroy an island and joran, so i was on a mission. they destroyed me, and i thought, "well, i'm going after them." >> joran van der sloot, his guilt or innocence doesn't matter. he's now an international celebrity of notoriety. >> so he decided that he was gonna start talking about it. >> once joran agrees to come to new york for an interview, beth's attorney realizes this is

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a major development this morning in the natalee holloway case. a judge in aruba is releasing prime suspect joran van der sloot from jail. >> joran van der sloot is back in the netherlands after being released from custody in aruba. >> after joran got released from jail in the late summer of 2005 he was in holland going to school. >> i think joran missed the media attention and missed being the focus, even though the focus was not in a way most people would want. and he decided to fly to new york to do an interview with abc news. >> have a seat. let them take a look at you. they are gonna put some powder on you just so you don't shine, it's not makeup. i'm not a judge, i'm asking you the questions. this is your opportunity, so don't let me drive.

you drive it. how do you think you've been portrayed in all this? >> i think i've been portrayed unfairly. i think it's about time that people get to see the other side of the story. >> are you ready to tell the truth? >> yeah. i tried to convince her to go back to her hotel. i even jokingly picked her up in my arms to try and -- and take her to the hotel and she said, just put me down. >> seems a little odd, though, doesn't it, that she's fallen asleep but she doesn't want to go back to her hotel. >> no, she didn't want to go back to her hotel. she wanted me to stay with her there. but i wanted to go home. >> do you believe she was in a vulnerable position the way you left her? >> yes. >> do you remember the last time you saw her? >> yeah. the last time i saw her she was sitting in the -- on the sand by the ocean. >> did is it seem like a wrong thing to do, leaving a girl on the beach like that? >> at that moment in time, for me it wasn't the wrong thing. but it's definitely the wrong thing to do. i mean, it's not something a real man would do. it's not normal. it's the not right at all. >> did you kill natalee holloway?

>> no. >> did you harm natalee holloway? >> no. >> and why should you be believed after all the lying that you've done in this situation? >> there's absolutely no reason to believe me. >> when beth's attorney finds out that joran is going to be in new york, on u.s. soil, he realizes this is his opportunity to serve joran with that wrongful death lawsuit. >> i had gotten a heads-up, one day's notice that joran and his dad were going to be coming in to new york. we placed a private investigator on joran's flight. when it landed in jfk, he not only served joran, but he took a photo of joran coming down the aisle towards him before he served him. >> the judge rules that new york doesn't have jurisdiction over this case. >> tonight, on a special edition

of "20/20," natalee holloway, joran van der sloot. an explosive new account. >> in 2008, an unbelievable development. >> all eyes are on aruba tonight to see what happens next after the explosive broadcast last night in holland of a tape that has blown open the case of natalee holloway. >> dutch journalist peter de vries sets up hidden cameras in a car where joran van der sloot is going to be riding. de vries says those cameras catch van der sloot actually admitting to being involved in natalee's death. >> peter de vries, over in the netherlands, orchestrated individuals to befriend joran and record a confession out of joran in a confidential moment. >> i just think that i'm incredibly lucky that she's never been found. because if they'd find that girl, i'm in deep [ bleep ]. we walked along the beach, i was kissing her and stuff, but she doesn't look too good, you know.

but she wanted it. she really wanted it. and all of sudden patrick -- >> to watch joran discuss the events that unfolded and how natalee, you know, sort of convulsed, how she suffered, was really stunning. >> but, no, i don't think she'll ever be found. >> that video did seem like joran uncovered. like, this is the real joran. >> will this tape become the evidence that prosecutors so desperately desire? >> we saw those tapes too and we consider it serious information. we are determined to solve this case. >> so it was very surprising when nothing happened to joran. >> the authorities on aruba have said that they could not corroborate any of the statements that joran made during that confession. >> after the recording was released, joran's lawyer argued that whatever was said on it was

irrelevant. >> the evidence, not joran, the evidence says he is not responsible for natalee's death. >> joran leaves college and he winds up in bangkok. he's going to school there, but he's also running this coffee shop, having seemingly a great life as a playboy. >> he'd get broke. he needed money. he'd call the media. he'd say, "listen, i know you can't pay me for my story, but i got some photos that you could license and in addition to licensing the photos i'll tell you my story." $10,000 to $25,000 seems to be his going rate. >> i went to thailand chasing joran van der sloot. and he met me in thailand. maybe i should ask you, what do you ultimately want out of all of this? >> i guess i just for this all to be over, yes, that's it, for me to be able to get on with my life and feel okay, that's what i ultimately want out of it. >> what happened to natalee? i mean, that's the big question. joran told me that in february

of 2005 he was gambling. and he ran into this guy who said, "find me an american blond, and i'll give you $10,000." >> and then he said to meet him at the beach by the marriott if i ever got a girl and that he would give me $10,000. >> three months later, he meets natalee and he wants money because he's low on money for gambling. >> went to the beach with her. then i saw a guy and came and he just handed me a bag, grabbed the girl by the arm and he went to the boat that he had in the water. >> he said that he had actually sold natalee into sexual slavery. >> whether that's a plausible story or not, who knows. if joran's lips are moving he's lying. >> i was at the airport in thailand, waiting to board my 15-hour flight back to the united states. joran called me at the airport and told me that he'd made it all up. he is a pathological liar. but, you know, even pathological liars can sometimes tell you the

right story. and that's the problem, which one do you -- which one do you believe? >> february 10th, 2010, his father paulus drops dead at the aruba racquet club playing tennis. >> joran goes back for the funeral and he stays and he's idle. so he does what joran did before, he starts to gamble. >> and joran decides that he needs money to continue living the lifestyle that he's leading. >> joran contacted me. >> he says, if you give me $250,000, i will give you information on the whereabouts of natalee holloway. >> i'm in the marriott waiting for him when the knock on the door comes. >> the fbi's monitoring him. it seems like it's a done deal. >> so how does he slip out of aruba to peru with my 25 grand? how does he do that? >> he will strike again. (paul) switch to sprint and get the new iphones

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the murder was five years to the day of the disappearance of natalee holloway. >> joran killed bringing her coffee when she's dead in the room? what a monster. >> this is where natalee lost her life, on this island. >> you have overstayed your bloody welcome. >> people couldn't get enough of the natalee holloway story. >> just crying and begging god to get her back. >> joran has long been a suspect, the suspect. >> he is a pathological liar. why isn't he arrested?

>> the local newspapers are calling him a serial assassin. >> tell me what happened, and let me take her home. what >> in 2010, people have presumed that natalee holloway has died, and that we'll probably never know how or where. >> beth never gave up, but she had absolutely no idea what happened to her daughter. it was a mystery shrouded in a small island, far away from home. >> nearly five years after natalee's disappeared, joran reaches out. >> joran contacted me the first time on march 29th, 2010. pseudonym and when he contacts

them out of the blue, it's mind-blowing. >> we engaged in a series of emails. >> joh "if you give me $250,000, i will give you information on the whereabouts of natalee holloway. >> $25,000 up front, he'll take me to where natalee is and tell me how she died once and for all. >> to actually have the audacity to offer beth holloway this information in exchange for money is almost, like, beyond what you can fathom. >> joran's a gambler and that's probably the most t him. everything in life is a game to him. >> john kelly says, "joran wants $25,000 up front, and he'll tell you where natalee is." >> he wanted money, i wanted information. >> joran provides a bank account

number, and that's where they should wire the rest of the money. and then he'll have time to leave the island. >> i went down to aruba and met with him on easter sunday, 2010. beth did not know. i'm in the marriott waiting for him when the knock on the door comes. we proceed into the room. he started talking about how she was nearby. i started asking a little bit, how i know he was telling the truth. he just kept saying, "you've got to pay to play." and i said, "what if beth doesn't want to play?" and he just said, "she can wait five more years. i don't care." >> joran thinks only about joran. >> it wasn't about natalee. it wasn't about families. joran and i were now engaged in a game. after joran left, i felt it was time to let beth know i was in aruba. >> i thought, "okay, so he wants $250,000 trying to sell me her remains," as sick and cruel as

that sounds. what can we do with this? >> a couple days pass and beth holloway is not gonna let this go. >> i thought, "yeah, right. this is really his bank account," and i thought, "we will see." so i gave it a test to see if it was real. >> they get a call from a local regions bank down in birmingham, alabama, that beth holloway had sent international wire for $100 to joran van der sloot. >> i've always wanted to see if there's a chance he's ever telling the truth. well, that time it was, because it involved money. >> so when bankers see this transactopm between beth and him, they become concerned that she's possibly being extorted. >> and that call from the bank officials in birmingham gives john q. kelly an idea. maybe we can get joran on wire fraud charges, on blackmail. >> i was like, "if we can ever get him to talk about this again, he's committing a federal crime. so we'll have jurisdiction."

i called beth. i said, "beth, i've got a plan." >> working with the fbi, they orchestrate a sting operation. >> joran has long been a suspect, the suspect, and if the fbi can get joran on charges in the united states, that would be a big step. >> joran van der sloot wouldn't be charged with murder, but he could potentially be charged with wire fraud and extortion. >> it was going to be a win-win situation. either, "a," i would find natalee's remains, or, "b," he'd spend the rest of his life in an alabama prison. and i kind of like that. >> so i send joran a one-line email saying that we're ready to do business with you. it was like a fish hitting bait. he couldn't get the response off fast enough. i get the $10,000 cash from beth to take down to aruba. she has the $15,000 for the wire

transfer. the fbi is heading down to aruba ahead of time to set up the hotel to record it. i get down here. they wire me up. i gave him a call to come over, and i take the 10,000 bucks out of the safe, and put it on the table in front of him, and it was, you know, like christmas. he was so excited to see that money. >> i wired the 15 grand to the bank account of joran's choice. >> we weren't just handing the money over stupidly. it was for a federal charge. it carried 20 years. we leave the hotel and he directs me to a location very close by. so we pull in there. we pull in as far as we can. >> joran tells john a chilling story and says, "i took natalee here. we were messing around, and i wanted to go home. she wanted to go somewhere else." >> so he physically picks her up and she's screaming, saying, "let me down.

put me down." he says he then throws her down. >> she hit her head on one of the big rocks, smashing her head, and he knew instantly she was dead. >> john kelly says that joran takes john to a spot where he says natalee's body is. >> we go to the aruba racquet club. he gets out and walks up along this wall and finally stops and points over the wall at the house. he points there and says this is where natalee was buried in the foundation of that house, by my father. >> it was a stunning moment. joran van der sloot is actually implicating his own father, who by now is dead, in natalee holloway's disappearance. >> joran has taken the money, seems it's a done deal. >> everyone's excited, saying, "finally we might be able to get joran van der sloot to the u.s. and charged with this crime."

>> so not long after the money exchange, joran sends john kelly an email saying i lied to you. nothing was the truth. >> i send that to the fbi too, and i'm like, "would you please go pick him up. this is all you need." >> with all eyes on joran van der sloot, somehow he manages to get away. and he turns up in a place that no one would ever expect. >> i thought, "what the [ bleep ] is he doing in peru?"

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beth holloway thought she finally had joran van der sloot on those charges of wire fraud and extortion. but then he slips away from aruba to peru. >> i expected joran was going to be arrested. there was no reason not to

arrest him. none. >> the fbi really pushed back on the idea that they let joran slip away. they stated that they just didn't have enough evidence to issue a warrant for joran's arrest. >> i don't even know which reporter it was that called me and said, "do you have any comment about joran being the object of an international manhunt?" i was like, "what?" >> joran van der sloot, once suspected in the disappearance of natalee holloway in aruba, is being sought as a suspect in the death of a woman in peru. >> police say he murdered 21-year-old stephany flores in a rage. >> tonight, he's the subject of an international manhunt. >> the news is stunning to hear that joran van der sloot may have killed another young woman five years to the day after the disappearance of natalee holloway.

>> stephany flores was the only daughter in a family of boys. and she was truly her father's pride and joy. >> ricardo flores is a well-known figure in peru. he is a former race car driver. >> he had been a politician. >> stephany and her father had a very tight bond. she wanted to be a businesswoman and an entrepreneur like her father, and he fostered that. >> they were cut from the same cloth. and everybody in the family knew that. >> on june 2nd, 2010, stephany flores has been missing for three days. her distraught family has been searching everywhere. and then, sadly, she is found dead by an employee in the hotel tac. >> there are seven floors in the hotel tac. all of them have video cameras. >> the hotel surveillance video

released by the peruvian government actually shows joran van der sloot had rented the room. >> from the moment joran walked into the hotel with stephany, they're captured on video. >> you could tell that there were two people that went in that room and only one of them came out alive. >> when they initially went into the room, nobody had been in the room in days. a stench of death filled the air. >> when we got to the crime scene, we found a woman lying with her knees pressed to her chest. >> the violence of the scene made us think that this victim tried to defend herself. >> initially they thought she had been stabbed to death, because there was so much blood in that hotel room. but an autopsy later shows that she was beaten to death.

>> this guy destroyed her face. she was totally disfigured. >> all clues point to joran as the killer. >> his fingerprints are everywhere. there are cigarette butts, there are soda bottles, coffee cups, all presumably containing dna. >> investigators initially presume that she was killed because he wanted to rob her. >> going back and looking at the surveillance footage, it was discovered that stephany and joran had had several encounters at the casino. and joran would have been well aware that stephanie had won some fairly big jackpots. >> so there's a reason that the suspect that he wanted that cash, and that he targeted her, and that's why authorities think he took her to his hotel room, to rob her. >> police say after he killed

her, joran set about trying to cover his tracks. >> he tries to open the door to the possibility that maybe someone else has killed stephany. >> he makes this, i call it "the bogus coffee run." he goes to a place called holly's coffee. he gets two cups of coffee, he goes back to the room. and just within minutes he comes back out of the room and pretends he's locked himself out. he needs somebody from the front desk to come and open the door. so the person who opens the door, joran is hoping is going to walk into the room and discover stephanie's body. but they just open it a little crack. >> he wanted to build an alibi, to create this illusion that someone else or other people forced their way into his room and killed stephany flores. >> 15 minutes later, he walks out. he's got a bag. and drives off into the night.

>> the murder of stephany flores was five years to the day from natalee holloway's disappearance. is that just a coincidence? or is he that evil? >> it is so eerie that we have images of stephany at this poker table with joran when just five years earlier he was at a poker table with natalee holloway. >> some people have said, well, you know, beth, if you hadn't have sent him that 25 grand, he probably wouldn't have had the money to go to peru and then kill stephany. well, hell, no. i did everything i knew to do. and whoever was responsible for letting joran leave that island, aruba, they are the ones that have to sleep at night over stephany flores's death. not me. >> now joran van der sloot, a name that is known all over the world, is the most wanted man in peru.

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>> he walks up to this driver, a taxi driver, and he asks if he can give him a ride to a town called nazca. >> it was around 9:00 p.m. when he says to me, "i'll pay for the whole car. can you take me?" and i said, "it would cost $100." he said, "no problem, i will pay, but let's go now, i am in a rush." so i left from the station with him on the way to nazca. on the road, we were talking. i started asking him questions. he said he was from holland, that he came here to visit some friends, and that he wanted to go to nazca because he was going to meet his friends there. it takes two hours to drive from ica to nazca. >> the taxi driver, willie, drops him off in nazca at the bus station. >> he paid for the ride. everything was normal so far.

>> about 20 minutes later joran reappears. joran says, "i need another ride." >> for some reason, joran changes his mind about taking the bus. >> i asked, "what happened?" and he told me, "my friends left me, i have to keep going to tacna." >> tacna's near the chilean border. it's a full ten-hour drive. >> willie has a brother who also drives a taxi. and the two of them confer and they agree that they will drive joran down to tacna, for a price. >> joran has offered them something like 500 u.s. dollars to make this drive, which is a pile of money to these guys. >> joran was offering them basically a month's salary for a one-day drive. that would be incentive enough to agree to this journey. >> they get into oswaldo's minivan. and they embark on this ten-hour drive to a town near the chilean border.

>> it was around 1:00 a.m. when we started driving, and then the sun was coming up, and we were still driving. he would always ask, "where are we, how long do we have left?" joran smoked a lot. he would lower the window and smoke. >> i even asked him, "why do you smoke so much?" and he said it was his vice, smoking cigarettes. >> because he was in a hurry, he didn't want us to stop. he just wanted to buy the newspaper. >> clearly he's wanting to see, is he in the news yet? he's anticipating a border crossing and it's best if nobody knows his identity. >> we got to tacna. it was around 10:00 a.m. or so. >> he went to a bank and he said that there was no way to take his money out. >> he holds up a bank card and says, "this bank card will only work at machines on the other side of the border. if you can drive me to chile i'll make sure you get paid. i promise you."

>> one can only imagine what joran must have been going through when he gets to the border crossing. it's an actual border. it's a modern facility. the border personnel are inspecting his documents. his heart must have been racing. this is the moment where he's either going to be captured by the peruvians or he's going through the border. >> joran believed that police could not reach him once he was in another country. >> they stamp his passport and he's able to drive into chile. >> he crosses the border, he's gone. >> police say van der sloot is now on the run. dutch police say interpol has issued an international arrest warrant. >> when police discover that joran has left the country, that he's now in chile, they let the flores family know. >> ricardo flores is angry, and he holds a press conference where he shows joran's picture, saying, "this is my daughter's killer."

he wants to shine as bright a light as he possibly can on his daughter's murder. >> i'm not going to sleep until this man is in peru. once the authorities have him then i can rest. >> stephany's father can sadly sympathize with beth's pain. >> if you don't have your daughter's body, if you don't know where your daughter is, if you don't know that her killer has been sentenced, you can't ibonal scene..teanneral s an >> her four brothers carrying

her casket, her mother clinging to a stuffed animal that was clearly beloved by stephany. >> stephany's mother was inconsolable. somewhere in the middle of all this pain and all this grief comes word that joran has been captured in chile. >> we do begin this morning with a top story, joran van der sloot now in custody in peru, being transported to the capital of lima. >> while he's on the run, a toll booth operator actually recognizes van der sloot's face and knows he's wanted for murder. calls in a tip, and that gives police the opening they've been looking for to capture him. >> joran was flown to the border between chile and peru where he was examined by doctors. next stop, the capital of lima. >> right now, a long line of police vehicles is winding its way up the highway, lights flashing, sirens blaring.

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joran is captured in chile. they quickly bring him back to peru and charge him with murder. on the same day joran's arrested the u.s. attorney and fbi have a joint news conference down in birmingham. >> this morning my office obtained an arrest warrant for joran van der sloot based upon a complaint charging him with extortion and wire fraud. i want to stress at the outset that our case is not related in any way to the ongoing murder investigation in peru. >> they want him extradited to american soil. the peruvian authorities say, "no way.

he murdered one of our own. we're going to put him on trial here and perhaps after he serves his time in a peruvian prison, then maybe we'll extradite him to the u.s." >> joran! joran! >> murder trumps wire fraud and extortion. no question about it. >> unlike in aruba, where there was absolutely nothing to tie him to natalee's disappearance, the police in peru now had a treasure trove of evidence and all of it linked joran directly to this crime. >> the detective loosens him up, you know, offers him a cigarette. >> we were expecting joran to deny everything. >> callan says, "joran, i understand you're a pretty good gambler. i like to gamble too. let me show you my cards." he starts laying crime scene photographs out on the desk. fingerprints. dna. blood evidence. stills from the surveillance camera.

"this is my hand." >> he admitted everything he did. how he went to the room, how he started hitting her, how he took all the money and how he fled with her belongings. joran, he narrated every detail of how he killed her. >> joran makes one last-ditch effort to make it seem as though it was self-defense in some way. >> he says that stephany started poking around on his computer. and he had gotten a message on facebook about this case back in aruba where this girl went missing and she got really upset. and joran says at that point she elbows him in the face. he flew into a rage. >> he, out of anger and rage, reacted and murdered her. >> breaking news overnight, the prime suspect in the natalee holloway case confesses to murdering that young woman he took to his hotel room in peru.

>> it's huge news. the international press has descended on lima, peru, and we're sent down to peru to cover it. so joran, we're with abc news in the u.s. joran, you have anything to say to us? joran? >> they sent him to a place called castro castro. and it's just on the outskirts of lima. and it was pretty horrifying. >> it's a very dangerous prison. you had to pay for your own security. the stench is horrible. there are sewers running freely. it was hard to just stand outside the prison walls, much less go inside. we talked our way into the prison and to my surprise, they allowed me to see the exact cell where joran was being held. joran is being held in an isolated block of cells. there are about five of them here. this is his room, about 6 feet by 10 feet. his bed, a bunk, a mattress over concrete.

this is his sink and a toilet. these are joran's clothes. his neighbor, an assassin for hire from colombia. >> a few months after joran is arrested, beth holloway goes down to peru with peter de vries, this dutch journalist. >> i wanted to go to peru to meet with stephany's family. the flores family and i, we share this -- this same bond. would you please, you know, just share with your mother that it's hard for me to say it without crying, so just tell her that i know that her heart is shattered. and that -- that i'm just thinking about you and praying for your family, okay? it's not a bond you want but it's a bond that exists. >> while she's in peru, beth and the dutch journalist peter de vries come up with a plan for her to finally confront joran van der sloot while he's behind

bars. >> i walked through by myself with all the girlfriends and mothers and lovers who were standing in line for that visitation day. one of the wardens there took me in his office. and then we set up the meeting with joran. you don't need to lose your life here in prison and be sitting her when you're 60 years of age and insisting to me that you don't know what happened. tell me what happened and let me take her home. >> that's always been my problem. i never listened. i've had a lot of time here also now to think. and i really do, i really do want to write you. i need some time to think about what i want to say. >> that was the first time i'd seen joran since that night at the holiday inn hotel. when he came up to the car. and i thought, "wow. this is where i'm leaving joran." that he was now where i wanted him to have been five years ago. it was so glorious.

>> nearly two years after joran was arrested in chile he appears in court. >> right up until the very end, i think that he somehow felt that he could negotiate something for himself. >> as an attorney i can say that there was a pretty solid case against joran. and our mission as the defense was to work to get what was best for him. >> everybody was gathered outside of the courthouse, the media. joran was in the courtroom. >> joran surprises everyone. he pleads guilty. >> joran has been lying so much. you would presume he was gonna fight it and challenge it, but he accepts a deal and gets 28 years in prison. >> according to his lawyers, he's surprised by this. he's very unhappy, but there's nothing he can do.

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joran van der sloot, the man suspected in the disappearance of natalee holloway in aruba nearly seven years ago, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. >> his life in prison isn't what anybody would expect. >> he told me at one time that he could play online gambling. he had a cell phone for a while. he called me. >> joran not only survived, but thrived. and shockingly he ended up getting married. >> she was an accountant visiting a relative at the prison. he charms her, they start dating, if you will, within the prison walls. and before you know it, she's pregnant.

>> he just fell in love. there were many people who said that joran was marrying to avoid extradition to the u.s. that's not true. he simply fell in love with leydi. >> it's almost kind of obscene to imagine that this killer manages to get married, impregnate this woman, have a daughter while still in prison. >> by now natalee holloway has been missing for close to 12 years, but her mom beth says her emotional roller coaster has never let up. >> in the summer of 2017, oxygen aired a six-part series called "the disappearance of natalee holloway," which followed dave holloway around as he tried to solve the mystery of his daughter's disappearance. >> but that series would lead to beth's filing a lawsuit for $35 million against oxygen and against the producers of the show.

while they were making the show beth's ex-husband dave asks her for a sample of her dna. >> all of a sudden i get a phone call. they found human female remains. >> she alleges that dave told her that human female remains had been discovered in aruba. >> i'm thinking, "wow, this is -- this is real." i remember just running to swab my cheek to give them my dna. >> beth says she didn't know this was for a tv show at that point. >> i don't feel right now against just this combined bone profile that it's a match. comfortably, this is still inconclusive. >> the mother of natalee holloway, suing over that tv series, calling the series fake and saying it was bogus from the start. >> beth is suing for fraud and says what the show actually found wasn't female human remains at all, but the top of a pig skull. oxygen and the producers deny all of beth's claims and asked for the case to be dismissed. a judge in alabama rejected that. >> a lawyer for oxygen and the

producers sent us a statement saying, in part, "neither oxygen nor bg media intended to defraud beth holloway in any way. we are confident that the facts will demonstrate that the lawsuit is meritless." >> to find out it was just a cruel hoax, an [ bleep ] entertainment show at my expense, my life that i had rebuilt was destroyed once again. and i thought, "wow." so where do you begin from here? people can cope for so long, but a person can only take so much. how can i begin to heal once again emotionally? and it led me to the red barn. i began reading about the work that they do with disabilities and post-traumatic stress. and i thought, that's what i'm gonna do. i'm gonna start service to heal

my soul. to come here and to be with the horses and to be with the children and see the benefits of the equine therapy. that's why i wanted to do this and go back to aruba again, because i feel like i couldn't have done this any earlier. i couldn't have done this even a year ago. aruba has become a lot less significant to me. it's interesting how all these landmarks that were such a driving force in our search for natalee are just -- i mean, they are gone. carlos 'n charlie's is gone. i mean, this whole area is gone. i have come to the terms that this island doesn't hold anything over me anymore. >> while she's in aruba, beth decides to go back to joran's

house just to see if his mom anita might talk to her again. >> i met with anita early on in 2005. i knew she had expressed to me they had had difficulty with joran and maybe some anger and behavior management issues. i just wondered what her take on him is now. >> beth holloway's is a face that everybody in aruba knows, so it doesn't take long before police show up. >> just trying to find out, just kind of circling back. well, i'll just respect that. >> it turns out anita isn't even home, so beth leaves her a note. and as of tonight she says she's heard nothing back. >> as long as joran van der sloot is sitting in prison in peru, then i can be at peace with justice being served. >> there's the speculation that

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i still get emails from the prison from joran van der sloot, because, frankly, i haven't given up on the story. >> in the surplus of lies he tells, there is a shred of truth, and he knows what happened to her and how it happened. as it stands right now, joran is serving a 28-year sentence. once his sentence is completed in peru he cannot be released. he has to be transferred into u.s. custody and extradited to the u.s. >> so he'll be there till he comes to alabama. that sounded good to me. >> the fact is, hanging over his head is his extradition. so it's a cloud that you can imagine he worries about. >> so 14 years later, aruba has become a lot less significant to me in how it really held me captive in all of my hurt and pain. >> alta vista was a church that

kind of served as a place of peace and hope and serenity in all the chaos that was going on at the time. >> i visited every morning and every night. it was my place to recenter and to try to regroup and to refocus. >> it was the place that beth told us that she came to peace that natalee was in heaven. >> it was when i got to about the sixth cross, that's when i knew natalee was gone. i knew that natalee was with god, and he cared for her through whatever ordeal she encountered that night. every time i looked out at the ocean, i couldn't handle it. it just disturbed me greatly, because it made me feel as if i was never going to get an answer

as to what happened to natalee. but i feel like i have accomplished a huge feat, 'cause i can come back now to aruba. i can get in the water. it feels good. it feels great. this is where natalie lost her life. yes, on this island. you're never going to get over the loss of losing your loved one. it's not going to happen. but life does move on. natalee would want us to enjoy what life we have left. >> natalee holloway would have been 33 years old this year. >> wow. it's hard to believe. and the core mystery still remains. they've never found her body.

and her mother still doesn't know what actually happened. that's "20/20" for tonight. i'm david muir. >> and i'm amy robach. from everyone at "20/20" and abc news, good night.

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