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Graduation Trip Gone Wrong: Natalee Holloway’s Disappearance in Aruba

Karma is a B****!

After his conviction, Joran’s mom, Anita, stated that she believed her son could have killed Stephany, and she will not be visiting him in prison. She told Dutch TV: “I believe in karma, I believe that very strongly. I believe that if you do things that you shouldn’t do, that a lot of shit happens to you…”

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Joran Van der Sloot with his parents. Source: ABC News

It doesn’t come as a surprise that the year Natalee went missing, Aruban tourism declined. The amount of American’s vacationing there fell 7% in 2005, which resulted in a financial effect. It also had an emotional impact on locals. A taxi driver defended his island: “The truth is, Aruba is safe. We don’t have people begging. There’s no bad neighborhood where a tourist feels he could be in trouble. We are all shocked when whatever happened to this girl happened.”