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Natalee Holloway leaves a nightclub with three men at 1:30 a.m.; the Alabama teen does not come back

Her passport and packed bags sit in her Holiday Inn room. The 18-year-old honor graduate had been in Aruba five days on a trip with 124 classmates.

Around 1:30 a.m. on May 30, 2005, eighteen-year-old Natalee Holloway — a Mountain Brook, Alabama honors graduate bound for the University of Alabama on a full scholarship — left the Oranjestad nightclub Carlos'n Charlie's with three young men and was never seen again. She had been in Aruba five days, part of an unofficial graduation trip with 124 classmates. Her packed luggage and passport remained in her Holiday Inn room. Her body has never been found…

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