Natalee Ann Holloway (born October 21, 1986) was an American woman who disappeared on May 30, 2005, while on a high school graduation trip to
Aruba, a Dutch island in the
Caribbean. Holloway lived in
Mountain Brook, Alabama, at the time of her disappearance, and graduated from
Mountain Brook High School on May 24, 2005, shortly before the trip. Her disappearance caused a
media sensation in the United States and remains unsolved.