Dutch Suspect in Student Natalee Holloway’s Disappearance to Be Extradited to US From Peru

Beth Holloway participates in the launch of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center in Washington on June 8, 2010. Natalee Holloway disappeared in Aruba in 2005. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

The prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway during a school trip to the Dutch Caribbean Island of Aruba is set to be extradited to the United States.

Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, announced on May 10 that Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot will be extradited.