Beth Holloway was after one thing for 18 years: answers about what happened to her missing daughter. She got them Wednesday, October 18, 2023, when Joran van der Sloot, long considered the chief suspect in her daughter’s 2005 disappearance in Aruba, admitted in submitted court filings to bludgeoning Natalee Holloway to death on a beach and dragging her body out to sea.