Where Natalee Holloway’s parents are now and their lives today, over 21 years after she vanished

It’s been 21 years since Natalee Holloway went missing, but even now her parents still live without answers. Joran van der Sloot confessed to killing her in 2023, but he hasn’t been prosecuted, and her body has never been found. 

Natalee travelled to Aruba with 124 other students as part of a graduation trip, in May 2005. She vanished on the final day of the trip. Natalee’s mother Beth Holloway took part in the three-part Netflix series, and explained her daughter’s case. She also explained how her fight for justice isn’t over. 

Natalee’s parents Beth and Dave are divorced, and Beth took full custody of Natalee after the divorce, which happened in 1993. Natalee was seven years old at the time, and maintained a relationship with her father.

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Where are Natalee Holloways’s parents Beth and Dave now? 

Beth Holloway was vocal in the Netflix documentary, and is still fighting. In 2026, she filed a complaint in the Netherlands against Joran van der Sloot for his involvement in the death of her daughter. “I’ve been working busy behind the scenes, got the murder complaint [against van der Sloot],” she told Tudum. “And now we’re working on, hopefully, murder charges. So I’ve been busy, but one step at a time.”

Beth is now back working in the classroom. She is a longtime public school speech pathologist, and stepped away from her work for nearly a decade while searching for her daughter. She has since returned to teaching. “I think it’s good for the body to stay in motion and keep busy,” she said. “And no idle time here, none.”

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She also works with families of other missing people. “Since so many people had reached out to help me, being a teacher, I found myself wanting to give back and share what I’ve learned with others since they had given so much to me,” she said. “Sometimes I’m just there to facilitate communication with law enforcement. Maybe they need help facilitating search and rescue resources, personnel, guidance.”

Beth appeared at AdvocacyCon 2025, a crime conference that is dedicated to bringing together families and friends of missing and murdered people seeking justice. She has also participated in a number of interviews and projects about her daughter’s case.

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Natalee’s father Dave didn’t take part in the Netflix documentary, but he was still heavily involved in the search for his daughter. He travelled to Aruba when she went missing, and was there for three to four months, assisting with the investigation. 

In 1995, Dave went on to marry his second wife, Robin, and they have two daughters together, named Brooke and Kaitlyn. In his 2006 memoir, Dave said he and his wife “maintained a close, loving relationship with Natalee throughout her childhood and teenage years”. 

Dave Holloway now works as an insurance agent for a company called State Farm in Meridian, Mississippi, which provides car, home, life, health, and business insurance to people across the state. He’s still married to Robin Holloway, and his daughters graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2020 and 2026. 

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