Holloway's Murder

The Holloway’s wanted their daughter back safe, the reward for her safe return had increased from $200,000 to $1,000,000. If any information given helped in the findings of Natalee they would reward with $100,000. Another suspect came about on August 26, Freddy Arambatzis, 21- year- old Arambatzis was suspected of capturing photographs of underage girls. This ended up having nothing to do with Holloway’s disappearance but it showed the involvement that he had with other girls. It also showed that Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers had involvement in previous encounters. This was a connection, however, officials said it was a tactic to see if any of them would confess to the involvement of Natalee’s disappearance. With many dead ends in …show more content…
In November, Joran van der Sloot, Statish and Deepak Kalpoe were arrested. They were arrested based on suspicion of involvement in manslaughter and causing bodily harm in result to the death of Holloway. This did not result to anything. The Kalpoe brothers were released a few days later. Sloot was released December 7, 2007 due to the lack of evidence. (Wikipedia, n.d.) Her parents didn’t give up on the search for their daughter. In November of 2007 the Holloways extended their search 330-foot. (Wikipedia, n.d.) They used a vessel called the Presistence, which was later abandoned due to monetary hardship. With not having sufficient evidence, the case was closed on December 18, 1007. (Wikipedia, …show more content…
Sloot made a confession in regards to Holloway. In defense he stated he only said what the person wanted to hear. There was a broadcast that took place on February 3, 2008 when a man by the name of Patrick van der Eem, gained Sloot’s trust. The day that he was with Holloway she began convulsively shaking, then became unresponsive. Van der Sloot stated that he attempted to revive her, without success. He then called a friend, who told Van der Sloot to go home and who disposed of the body. An individual reputed to be this friend, identified in the broadcast as Daury, has denied Van der Sloot's account, indicating that he was then in Rotterdam at school. (Wikipedia, n.d.) He denied ever saying this and does state that he was under the influence of marijuana. This was not they only thing that was strange but the fact that he was friends with Van der Eem for years also sounds suspicions. Eventually, this information did not help the