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Beth Holloway participates in the launch of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center on June 8, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

It's been 20 years since the disappearance of Alabama 18-year-old Natalee Holloway during her class trip to Aruba.

On June 9, 2005, the first arrest related to the case was that of Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch national, who was the main suspect.

Who was Natalee Holloway?

The backstory:

Holloway, 18, went missing during a high school graduation trip to Aruba with classmates.

She was last seen on May 30, 2005, leaving a bar with van der Sloot.

Holloway’s disappearance quickly became an international sensation, filling evening newscasts with live reports from the island and photos of her smiling face. Her disappearance also s

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