00:00The only thing going through my mind was, find this guy, get Natalie, bring her home. That was it.
00:07I don't know what parts of that are true, but I knew that he knew what happened to her,
00:14and I decided right then and there, tag, you're it.
00:19Call it mother's intuition. Natalie Holloway's mom, Beth, said she knew in her gut from the
00:23moment she met her daughter's killer that he was guilty. It's one of the many revelations
00:27in Netflix's chilling new docu-series, Taken, Natalie Holloway. It was a media firestorm for
00:33years after Natalie, an 18-year-old high school graduate from Alabama, vanished on a Caribbean
00:38vacation. She was last seen on May 30, 2005, getting into a car with then-17-year-old Joran
00:45Vandersloot and two other men. But it would take nearly two more decades for him to confess to the
00:50gruesome crime. In the new doc, Natalie's mom revealed that she rushed to Aruba as soon as
00:54her little girl went missing and confronted the teen killer at his home with his father present.
01:00His story about dropping her back off at the hotel didn't hold up.
01:03Could Natalie be in that trunk? Could she be in that Vandersloot home? I'm clutching her picture,
01:12and I just said, give her back now. And he said, what do you want me to do? And he
01:17kept hitting his
01:18chest. What do you want me to do?
01:20In another surprising turn, we learned why it took so long to arrest Vandersloot,
01:2410 days after Natalie went missing. Police say he changed his story 40 times when questioned.
01:29The police chief at the time said normally underage suspects break under pressure, but not Joran.
01:35He liked being the dominant one, the center of attention. Adding to the complications was the
01:39media frenzy, and Vandersloot's father, Paul, an attorney on the path to becoming a judge
01:44in the island country. Paul allegedly told his son, if there's no body, there's no crime.
01:50On September 3rd, 2005, Joran was released due to lack of evidence.
01:54So how did they eventually catch him? Well, Beth Holloway never stopped fighting for her daughter.
01:59In fact, it was an extortion and wire fraud case that brought him to justice.
02:03In 2010, Vandersloot sent Beth's lawyer an email alleging he could bring them to Natalie
02:08in exchange for $250,000. They played along, and eventually the FBI extradited him from Peru to
02:15Alabama, where he was convicted of murdering another young woman, Peruvian business student
02:21Stephanie Flores Ramirez. She was 21. Natalie's friend Madison Greer was furious that there was
02:26another victim. I remember being angry. This could have been prevented, she said.
02:31In 2023, Vandersloot finally confessed under a polygraph to bludgeoning Natalie to death on a beach in
02:37Aruba. Her body was washed out to sea and never found. In exchange for the information,
02:42Vandersloot's plea deal allowed him to serve concurrent sentences. He's currently behind bars
02:47in Peru. Take In, Natalie Holloway is now streaming on Netflix.
