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Where Are Natalee Holloway's Parents Now? A Look at Their Lives 20 Years After Their Daughter's Murder
Natalee Holloway disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005 Her parents, Beth and Dave Holloway, stopped at nothing to get justice for their daughter In October 2023, Joran van der Sloot confessed to killing NataleeNatalee Holloway's parents, Beth and Dave Holloway, have been coping with the disappearance and death of their daughter for 20 years. Natalee was taking a high school graduation trip with friends in Aruba when she went missing on May 30, 2005. Both of her parents led the search for Natalee for 18 years, but her case remained cold until October 2023, when Joran van der Sloot, who was the last person seen with her, confessed to killing her. Since Natalee's disappearance, both Beth and Dave have tried to move on while also continuing to talk about and honor their daughter. The two first met in college and got married shortly after graduating. In addition to Natalee, they also share a son, Matthew. The former couple divorced in 1993, and Beth raised their children in Alabama. Dave has since remarried, while Beth was married to George "Jug" Twitty from 2000 to 2006, per Fox News. Here's where Natalee Holloway's parents, Beth Holloway and Dave Holloway, are now, 20 years after her disappearance. Beth turned her daughter's disappearance into a larger message by advocating for personal safety and helping families who have gone through similar challenges. In March 2025, Beth used her experience to speak at AdvocacyCon 2025, a crime conference dedicated to bringing together families and friends of missing and murdered people fighting for justice. "In 2005, my daughter Natalee disappeared during her graduation trip to Aruba. It was a moment in time that turned my world upside down, and it's the reason why I'm here talking with you today," she said in an Instagram video message ahead of her speech. "Since that tragic event occurred in my family's life, I've made it my mission to deliver my message of hope and personal safety to people all across the United States." In October 2007, Beth released her best-selling autobiography, Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith. In it, she wrote about Natalee's life before her trip to Aruba, her disappearance and the investigation up to that point. In addition to their daughter Natalee, Beth and Dave also share a son. Matt, who was 16 at the time of his sister's disappearance, "had to become a man" after Natalee didn't return home, Beth told PEOPLE in 2023. Matt welcomed his first child, Rylee, in December 2014, making Beth and Dave grandparents. "I had no idea the love I could have for a grandchild," Beth told B-Metro in 2015, per Bustle. "It was beautiful." Meanwhile, Dave said that his grandchild helped him heal. "I have three other children and now a grandchild and time has a way of healing," he told the Daily Mail in 2015. "The first three years were pretty tough as people came up with one theory after another." In the midst of her daughter's disappearance, Beth struck up a friendship with John Ramsey, the father of the late murdered child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. 'They share common interests and concerns related to their children, particularly with respect to the actions of law enforcement and the media in response to those tragic losses,' Ramsey's attorney, Lin Wood, told the Daily News in 2007. Ramsey later echoed that sentiment and told Denver's Channel 9 in 2007, "I have great respect for Beth and how she's handled her terrible situation. We've developed a friendship of respect and admiration.' Beth later claimed that they "were dating" for a period but decided they were better off as friends. "He is a dear friend of mine, he is. We were dating, I would say. But now I think we really just support each other," she told Oprah Winfrey in 2008. "I feel as if he has a lot of miles on me, as far as into his journey. I feel like he was a really good source of support and strength." Two years after Dave and Beth divorced, he married his second wife, Robin, in 1995. The couple moved to Meridian, Miss., and welcomed two daughters, Brooke and Kaitlyn. Before Natalee disappeared, both she and Matt were living in Mountain Brook, Ala., with Beth, but they'd visit Dave and Robin. "Prior to Natalee's sixteenth birthday and obtaining her driver's license, she and Matt had been coming to our home every other weekend and more frequently during their summer vacations from school," he wrote in his memoir, Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise, per ABC . He continued, "But, during Natalee's senior year in high school, her visits were a bit less frequent due to her many extracurricular activities. So Robin and I made it our business to visit her and watch her dance at football games with her dance team, the Dorians." Dave and Robin's daughters have since grown up, and Kaitlyn — who was 2 years old at the time of her sister's disappearance — was present when van der Sloot faced the Holloway family in October 2023 in an Alabama court. 'He is a monster and even laying eyes on him made me feel sick inside,' Kaitlyn told the New York Post. "He did apologize and he said something along the lines that he gave himself to God and that he's a Christian — that he's a changed man." She added, "I really don't think that's true. I don't think it was a sincere apology considering all the damage he has done. I think it was some BS.' In the 18 years after Natalee's disappearance in Aruba, both Beth and Dave stopped at nothing to try and find their daughter, working with the FBI and Aruban police and spending months at a time on the island. "The first year Natalee went missing, I was there three or four months off and on. And then I would go there several times a year in the following years as new leads would come up,' Dave told The Meridian Star in 2015. When van der Sloot finally confessed to Natalee's murder in October 2023, both Dave and Beth were present for his day in court and gave victim impact statements. "Extreme emotional loss and pain really can't be comprehended by those who haven't lived a devastating tragedy like ours, and I have also suffered great professional and financial loss," Beth said. "When you killed Natalee, I lived in Aruba trying to find her and lost my teaching license and my tenure, I had to go back to school to get my license reinstated, and then had to work harder to get my tenure back." Shortly after Natalee's family finally learned what happened to their daughter, Beth spoke to PEOPLE about how she felt like van der Sloot's confession was a "huge victory." "My never-ending nightmare is over,' Beth told PEOPLE in October 2023. 'All those never-ending swirling theories and scammers and informants — no, it's over. Everyone has their own wishes and desires: mine was answers. I've been desperately seeking those answers for so long. It was a huge victory to finally have them.' Beth — who was persistent throughout the investigation that van der Sloot was the murderer — explained that he previously "had this power over me, because he had all the answers, and I had none.' 'Even though knowing the answer from such a brutal confession can just blister and burn your soul, I needed to know what happened,' Beth shared. 'The not knowing is more tortuous than knowing.' 'Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in Natalee's murder, Joran van der Sloot is her killer,' Beth concluded. 'That is the answer that I needed. I am now able to begin to move my life forward.' Read the original article on People
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16-04-2025
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Texas oil executive pleads guilty on charges related to death of worker
AUSTIN, Texas — A West Texas oil executive will go to prison for violating laws meant to protect workers — actions that led to the deaths of a worker and his wife in 2019. Trent Day, vice president at Odessa, Texas-based Aghorn Energy, pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Clean Air Act and OSHA regulations, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. It's a rare criminal verdict in an industry where dozens of workers per year die on the job, and more than a thousand Texans die crossing oilfield roads. Day admitted to failure to control the release of hydrogen sulfide gas, a potentially deadly accompaniment of oil and gas extraction. 'Through these guilty pleas, the defendants accept responsibility for allowing hazards that should have been prevented,' Adam Gustafson, the acting head of the Justice Department's environmental enforcement arm said in a statement. 'The Justice Department can't stand by when employers put workers at such risk.' By doing so, 'he placed others in imminent danger of death,' the Justice Department found. In 2019, Jacob Dean, an Aghorn employee, was called to check on a faulty injection well — a device that pumps used fracking fluid back underground. In the pump house, 'he encountered deadly hydrogen sulfide gas, was overcome, and died,' the Justice Department found. After he failed to respond, his wife Natalee loaded their children into the car and went looking for him. She found him in the pumphouse, where, the Justice Department concluded, 'she was also overcome while looking for Jacob and died.' If Aghorn and its contractors 'had done what the law requires, Jacob and Natalee [Dean] might still be with us today,' Gustafson said. Day admitted to federal prosecutors that he could, and should, have controlled hydrogen sulfide emissions, but had not done so. Kodiak Roustabout, a contractor licensed to inspect Aghorn injection wells also admitted to sending fraudulent well data to Texas regulators. In those reports, federal prosecutors found, the company 'claiming they were tests for specific wells when Kodiak knew they were not actual records of tests of those wells.' Day will face 5 months in prison, and Aghorn will pay a $1 milllion fine. Kodiak will pay another $400,000. 'Energy production is vital, but it must be done competently and lawfully,' Jeffrey Hall, acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement division, said in a statement. 'Operators who gravely endanger and kill others and those who lie to the government will be held accountable for their criminal conduct,' Hall added. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
16-04-2025
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Texas oil executive pleads guilty on charges related to death of worker
AUSTIN, Texas — A West Texas oil executive will go to prison for violating laws meant to protect workers — actions that led to the deaths of a worker and his wife in 2019. Trent Day, vice president at Odessa, Texas-based Aghorn Energy, pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Clean Air Act and OSHA regulations, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. It's a rare criminal verdict in an industry where dozens of workers per year die on the job, and more than a thousand Texans die crossing oilfield roads. Day admitted to failure to control the release of hydrogen sulfide gas, a potentially deadly accompaniment of oil and gas extraction. 'Through these guilty pleas, the defendants accept responsibility for allowing hazards that should have been prevented,' Adam Gustafson, the acting head of the Justice Department's environmental enforcement arm said in a statement. 'The Justice Department can't stand by when employers put workers at such risk.' By doing so, 'he placed others in imminent danger of death,' the Justice Department found. In 2019, Jacob Dean, an Aghorn employee, was called to check on a faulty injection well — a device that pumps used fracking fluid back underground. In the pump house, 'he encountered deadly hydrogen sulfide gas, was overcome, and died,' the Justice Department found. After he failed to respond, his wife Natalee loaded their children into the car and went looking for him. She found him in the pumphouse, where, the Justice Department concluded, 'she was also overcome while looking for Jacob and died.' If Aghorn and its contractors 'had done what the law requires, Jacob and Natalee [Dean] might still be with us today,' Gustafson said. Day admitted to federal prosecutors that he could, and should, have controlled hydrogen sulfide emissions, but had not done so. Kodiak Roustabout, a contractor licensed to inspect Aghorn injection wells also admitted to sending fraudulent well data to Texas regulators. In those reports, federal prosecutors found, the company 'claiming they were tests for specific wells when Kodiak knew they were not actual records of tests of those wells.' Day will face 5 months in prison, and Aghorn will pay a $1 milllion fine. Kodiak will pay another $400,000. 'Energy production is vital, but it must be done competently and lawfully,' Jeffrey Hall, acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement division, said in a statement. 'Operators who gravely endanger and kill others and those who lie to the government will be held accountable for their criminal conduct,' Hall added.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
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Natalee Holloway's Mom Addresses Difference in Sudiksha Konanki Case
Originally appeared on E! Online Natalee Holloway's mother is sharing her thoughts following the disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki. Following the disappearance of the University of Pittsburgh student during a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic, Beth Holloway, detailed the similarities between the current case and what her family went through after Natalee went missing in 2005 amid a graduation trip to Aruba. "The family is so fortunate to have an American embassy there to work with," Beth told Fox News in a statement March 11. "I did not have that in Aruba." In the days since Sudiksha, 20, was reported missing from Punta Cana, where she was staying with friends, on March 6—after traveling to the Dominican Republic with a group of friends for spring break—an investigation in the Dominican Republic has been underway, prompting a search of air, land, and sea from officials on the island with the FBI and the liaison of the U.S. Embassy assisting officials on the island. More from E! Online Man Allegedly Stabs 18-Year-Old Man to Death After Finding Him In Bed With His Wife Christina Haack Celebrates Her Special 12-Year Milestone With Boyfriend Christopher Larocca Khloe Kardashian Once Hid Under Mom Kris Jenner's Bed While She Was Having Sex Surveillance footage, shared by Dominican authorities, showed Sudiksha and the five friends who traveled with her to the RIU hotel in Punta Cana—as well as two unidentified men—going the beach area of the resort around 4:15 a.m. However, Sudiksha's friends later returned to the resort without her 40 minutes later. The surveillance also showed a man who was walking with Sudiksha returning to the resort the same day without her. Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader said in a March 10 press conference that one of the last people to have contact with the biology student told authorities, 'That a wave hit them while they were on the beach and caused some kind of situation," according to NBC News. Two days later, a spokesperson for the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office in Virginia—where Sudiksha and her family live—told NBC News that a person on interest has been named in the U.S. investigation. But as Loudoun County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Thomas Julia emphasized, 'This is not the same thing as a suspect as this is not a criminal matter. It is still a missing person case.' Amid the investigation into Sudiksha'a disappearance, the situation has drawn many similarities to Natalee's case—nearly two decades later. Natalee was 18 years old when she went missing May 30, 2005—sparking nationwide attention. Natalee was last seen with a group of men, including Joran van der Sloot leaving a club in Aruba.. In 2023, 18 years after he was initially named a person of interest in her disappearance, Joran confessed to killing the Alabama native after she refused his sexual advances. He is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence for a fraud case involving Natalee's parents, which is running concurrently with the 28-year prison sentence he is serving in Peru for the 2010 murder of college student Stephany Flores. Natalee, whose remains have never been found, was declared legally dead in 2012. For everything to know about Konanki's disappearance, keep reading… Where Did Sudiksha Konanki Travel to for Spring Break?Who Did Sudiksha Konanki Travel With?Where Was Sudiksha Konanki Staying?When Was Sudiksha Konanki Reported Missing?When Did Search and Rescue Efforts Begin for Sudiksha Konanki?What Do Officials Believe May Have Happened to Sudiksha Konanki?What Has Sudiksha Konanki's Family Said About the Case?
