September 3, 2005
May 30, 2005
June 9, 2005
May 30, 2010
A judge releases van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers for lack of evidence pertaining to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old honors graduate from Mountain Brook High School in Alabama, fails to appear for the flight back to the US after a high school graduation party. It was said that she was least seen in a car with three men: Joran van der Sloot, Satish Kalpoe, and Deepak Kalpoe.
Police arrest Joran van der Sloot, Deepak Kalpoe, and Satish Kalpoe under strong suspicion of involvement with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old Peruvian woman, is found murdered in a hotel room in Lima, Peru.
June 3, 2010
Joran van der Sloot is arrested by police in Chile. He later confessed that he did kill her, and he did so because she found information on his laptop regarding the Natalee Holloway case.
June 2, 2010
January 12, 2012
December 18, 2007
Joran van der Sloot is declared a prime suspect in the homocide of Stephany Flores.
Natalee Holloway is declared to be officially dead.
Aruban police officials close the investigation.
June 6, 2005
Hundreds of volunteers, soldiers,the FBI, and Aruban police search for Natalee Holloway across the entire island of Aruba and the surrounding waters. Natalee was not found, nor was any evidence that would indicate her location.