Natalee Holloway, Missing in Aruba -1

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Chapter: one

Mountain Brook teens minus Natalee

Thus after several days of fun in the sun, these Mountain Brook teens were expected that May 31st morning to appear in the lobby of the Holiday Inn by 10:30 A.M. to prepare for their journey home. One young blond face, of a supposedly shy girl named Natalee Holloway never did join her group, that morning. What became of her? And why if this was a crime is there no evidence?

Natalee, Lee, Madison and Ruth

It was assumed at first that she had merely stayed the night in another room with other friends. Her roommates apparently gathered up her belongings of luggage, purse, cell phone and passport and brought it down to the lobby in preparation for the journey home. The buses were loading and questions were beginning, where was Natalee and why was she not with her group? Her friends said she had last been seen leaving Carlos 'n Charlies with a local boy.

Still not believing anything could really be amiss the students and most of the chaperones would go off to the airport, so not to miss their flight back home. Since several of the chaperones had been on this trip before without any incidents, they continued with their normal routine. The other remaining chaperones gathered Natalee's belongings and returned them to her room, in case she came back to the hotel.

Many questions were going through the minds at this time. Perhaps Natalee had just overslept somewhere else. Maybe she was embarrassed by a wrong choice of youth and not ready to return. No one can really speculate as to what thoughts had to be going through the minds of those worried chaperones and friends as they kept waiting for their girl to return. Because her friends immediately returned home to Alabama it would be months before they gave FBI 302 statements. Still there seemed to be some who refused to even give statements and many would question why. Even four years later Natalee is still missing and no one has any answers it would seem.