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Vacations turned into nightmares for these women aft they went connected a travel they ne'er returned from.
These existent crime cases person go nan taxable of documentaries and podcasts, diving into nan specifications of nan disappearances. The families of these individuals spent galore years searching for answers. In nan lawsuit of Amy Lynn Bradley, answers are still being sought, arsenic nan lawsuit is unsolved to this day.
These are 3 stories of women who vanished connected vacation and wherever their cases guidelines now.
Joran van der Sloot murdered Natalee Holloway while she was connected picnic successful Aruba. (Shelby County Jail, AP)
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- Natalee Holloway
- Brittanee Drexel
- Amy Lynn Bradley
1. Natalee Holloway
Natalee Holloway vanished from her picnic successful Aruba successful 2005.
She was 18 years aged astatine nan clip of her disappearance and was walking to nan tropical destination to observe precocious schoolhouse graduation pinch her friends.
On nan past nighttime of their trip, nan friends went to section bars, wherever Holloway was past spotted pinch 3 men.
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Holloway's disappearance quickly became world news and was investigated up until recently.
In October 2023, Joran van der Sloot, a superior fishy successful nan case, confessed to her murder arsenic portion of a plea woody connected charges of extorting money from her family.
According to nan transcript of his confession, van der Sloot gave gruesome specifications of Holloway's past moments, including that he crushed her caput pinch a cinder artifact aft she refused his intersexual advances.
Beth Holloway, mother of Natalee Holloway, spent galore years trying to unveil nan truth astir what happened to her teenage daughter. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
He is besides responsible for nan decease of Stephany Flores, who was killed precisely 5 years to nan time earlier Holloway successful Peru. He pleaded blameworthy to her execution successful Peruvian tribunal successful January 2012.
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Van der Sloot is presently successful situation successful Peru, wherever he will service his 20-year U.S. sentence. He was besides ordered to salary $25,100 successful restitution to nan Holloway family.
"After 18 years, Natalee’s lawsuit has been solved," Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, told reporters pursuing nan hearing. "Joran van der Sloot is nan killer."
Holloway's communicative was nan taxable of a azygous play documentary called "The Disappearance of: Natalee Holloway," successful 2017. There was a documentary released successful 2024 astir van der Sloot titled "Pathological: The Lies of Joran van der Sloot."
2. Brittanee Drexel
Brittanee Drexel was 17 years aged erstwhile she took a trip, without her parents' knowledge, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for outpouring break from Rochester, New York. She told her mom that she was spending a mates of days pinch a friend successful Rochester, according to ABC News, but was really headed to Myrtle Beach.
On April 25, 2009, Drexel went missing. She was past seen leaving nan edifice lobby. Her fellow backmost location became concerned erstwhile she stopped answering his matter messages.
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Drexel remained a missing personification for galore years pursuing her disappearance.
It was not until 13 years aft her disappearance that Drexel's remains were recovered successful May 2022. Her remains were discovered 35 miles from wherever she was past seen.
In October 2022, Raymond Moody, pleaded blameworthy to kidnapping, raping and murdering Drexel and was sentenced to life successful prison.
Brittanee Drexel was murdered during a outpouring break travel successful Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Myrtle Beach PD)
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3. Amy Lynn Bradley
Amy Lynn Bradley embarked connected a Caribbean cruise pinch her family successful March 1998 erstwhile she was 23 years old. The alloy departed for San Juan, Puerto Rico connected March 21 and was en way to Aruba, nan ship's first larboard of call, according to FBI.gov.
Following nan extremity successful Aruba, nan vessel group sail for Curaçao. On March 24, Bradley went missing.
After a nighttime retired connected nan vessel pinch her relative Brad, nan siblings went backmost to their room. The computerized door-lock strategy connected nan vessel showed Brad arriving backmost to nan room astatine 3:35 successful nan morning, according to ABC News, while Amy followed soon behind.
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When they returned to nan room, Brad said they spent clip talking earlier he went to furniture for nan night, according to nan outlet. He past saw her sitting connected nan chair retired connected nan balcony.
When nan family woke nan adjacent morning, Amy was obscurity to beryllium found. A hunt of nan boat, onshore and nan water were unsuccessful successful uncovering nan missing woman.
What happened to Amy still remains a enigma to this day.
Ashlyn Messier is simply a writer for Fox News Digital.
