The Murder of Natalee Holloway

In the early evening of October 19, 1970, police and firefighters were called to the Santa Cruz County home of Dr. Victor Ohta, a well-respected ophthalmologist, for a report of a house fire. Intending to siphon water from the pool out back, firefighters ran a hose from the truck ...  Show more

On the afternoon of July 18, 1984, James Huberty left his apartment in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, and drove one block over to the nearby McDonalds. After walking through the door of the restaurant, Huberty raised his Uzi semi-automatic 9mm and began ind ...  Show more

In May of 2005, a large group of Alabama high school students headed off to Aruba for an unofficial graduation trip. The day before they were all set to leave, an 18-year-old girl from the group went off with young men from a bar and wasn't seen again. When the rest of the stu ...

Teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005 during a post-graduation trip in Aruba. Gerold Dompig, deputy chief of police in Aruba, said they did everything in their power to crack the case. But Natalee's mom, Beth Holloway Twitty, disagreed, and accused Aruban authorit ...  Show more

Joran van der Sloot will soon be on his way to the U.S. to face extortion and wire fraud charges after demanding Natalee Holloway's family pay him $250,000 in exchange for the location of Holloway's body.

Van der Sloot, who is serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for the ...

It’s a murder mystery that has divided America, pitted armchair sleuths against seasoned detectives and turned a spotlight on how the media treats victims of crime.

The case of 22-year-old tragic blogger Gabby Petito and her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who went missing weeks ...  Show more