More than 4 years after her disappearance, Natalee Holloway has been added to the Alabama Department of Public Safety list of missing children.
 
Special agent Judy Orihuela, FBI’s spokeswoman in Miami, declared to the Birmingham news this weekend, that it was Natalee Holloway’s family who asked to put her on this website.
 
The girl, who was eighteen at the time, and would be 23 today, disappeared May 30 2005, hours before she would return from Aruba to her home in Alabama with her classmates from Mountain Brook High School. Orihuela doesn’t know why the family right now, all of the sudden, wants to have her picture next to thirteen other missed teenagers in Alabama.
 
Documentary maker Renée Gielen on Curaçao, who investigated this case from the beginning, on being asked by Antilliaans Dagblad, points out that in the past 4,5 years mother Beth claims in every possible way that her daughter ‘was kidnapped, raped and murdered on Aruba’. “Also in her lectures, she still mentions this”. Gielen knows that Beth declared to a notary in May 2007, that her daughter cannot be other than dead, based upon all that happened.
“Don’t forget that with this new poster she in fact exonerates Joran van der Sloot from kidnap and murder”. The mother told Peter R. de Vries after van der Sloot’s ‘confessions’ that she could find peace with it.
 
“Where is Peter’s ‘case solved’ now, in Beth Holloway’s opinion?" Gielen does not exclude that Beth by now seriously takes into account that the truth will come out. The timing of this action, after 4,5 years, makes this likely to her.