– In 2007, the case was closed without charging anyone with a crime, but it was reopened in 2008 after new evidence surfaced.
– Joran van der Sloot made contradictory statements about Holloway's fate, including claiming he sold her into sexual slavery.
– In 2012, Holloway was declared legally dead, and on October 18, 2023, Van der Sloot pled guilty to extortion charges and confessed to killing her with blunt force trauma after she rejected his advances.