In May 2005, eighteen-year-old girl Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba and became the center of a media storm that spiraled far beyond the island. Beneath the headlines was a family desperate for answers and a suspect whose shifting stories kept the truth just out of reach. This December we return to the beginning: the night out, the investigation, the media frenzy, and the forces that turned one family’s nightmare into one of the most controversial true crime cases of the last two decades.

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