Disappearance of Natalee Holloway

Natalee Ann Holloway was an American teenager who disappeared on May 30, 2005, while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, a Dutch island in the Caribbean. Holloway lived in Mountain Brook, Alabama, at the time of her disappearance, and graduated from Mountain Brook High School on May 24, 2005, shortly before the trip. Her disappearance caused a media sensation in the United States and remains unsolved.

Natalee Ann Holloway was the first of two children born to David Edward and Elizabeth Ann Reynolds Holloway in Clinton, Mississippi. Her parents divorced in 1993, and she and her younger brother Matthew were raised by their mother. In 2000, Elizabeth Holloway married George Jug Twitty, a prominent Alabama businessman, and Natalee moved to Mountain Brook, Alabama. Natalee Holloway graduated with honors from Mountain Brook High School. She was a member of the National Honor Society, her school dance squad, and was a participant in other extracurricular activities. Holloway was to attend the University of Alabama on a full scholarship, where she planned to pursue a premed track. At the time of the disappearance, Dave Holloway was an insurance agent for State Farm Insurance in Meridian, Mississippi, while Beth Twitty was employed by the Mountain Brook School System.

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