This is a sourced timeline of all case-related info, from before Natalee left for Aruba, through the morning of May 31, 2005. Will edit/update as necessary. Photo maps thanks to Klaasend and Sunfreak2 on SM, Debbie and gagirl on BFN.
October 21, 1986: Natalee Ann Holloway is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
August 6, 1987: Joran Van Der Sloot is born in Holland.
1993: Natalee's parents, Beth and Dave, get divorced.
1995: Dave Holloway remarries.
2000: Beth marries George “Jug” Twitty and moves from Clinton, Mississippi to Mountain Brook, Alabama. Natalee and younger brother Matt move with her.
2000: Dave and wife Robin move from Clinton to Meridian, Mississippi, where Natalee's two half-sisters are born.
2000: Deepak Kalpoe moves to Aruba from Suriname (J 6/10)
2000-5/30/05: Natalee is one of Nancy Watson's best friends, and “probably the least experienced with boys of all her friends" (Watson 302)
2002: Satish Kalpoe moves to Aruba from Suriname (J 6/10)
2002 or 2003: At age 15, Joran moves into his own separate apartment on the Van Der Sloot property (BN/De Stem 3/30/06)
2002 or 2003: At age 16, Natalee travels with Beth on a trip to Austria
2004-2005: At age 17, Joran has a 12 year old girlfriend. They only kiss and do not have sex. Her parents force her to break off the relationship (J 6/24)
Joran receives counseling because he stole money from his parents and broke his brother's phone. Joran later tells Greta Van Susteren he has never received any counseling for anger issues (J 6/10, OTR 3/1/06).
Joran falls into a boy by a glass showcase at the cinema, according to Joran it is an accident. Possibly this is the origin of rumors about Joran pushing someone into or through a window (SG 6/16)
Joran drives his mother's car on at least one occasion, because her foot is hurting (D 6/13)
Joran obtains a VIP pass to Carlos & Charlie's bar, and goes there 1-3 times a week (J 6/9)
Joran and friends pick up American tourists “probably 20 times" without anything going wrong (OTR 3/1/06)
Sometime before the trip to Aruba, Natalee tells a friend, who later posts on an Internet message board as "Dash", that she plans to save herself for marriage (6/15/05 "Dash" posting)
2005
Jan: Joran meets Deepak and Satish thru his friend Koen Gottenbos (J 6/10, D 6/10)
2/3-2/8: Sometime during Carnivale, Joran throws a drug addict off a bridge into the water, after he tries to start a fight with Satish. Presumably this is the incident involving a "choller" that Joran mentioned in the secretly recorded polis car conversation (SG 6/16)
2/3-2/8: Sometime during Carnivale, Joran has his second of three sexual encounters with Karen Martina, aka Jane Doe, the first having occured on the beach near the Havana Nightclub. He meets Karen at CnCs, and they go for a walk to the pier. They do not have sex there because he does not have a condom. Afterwords Joran, Karen, Freddy, and another one of Joran's friends all go to Joran's apartment in his friend's car. On the way, Karen performs the same sexual act on Joran that, according to C. Croes, was Joran's original version of Natalee's sexual activity with him in Deepak's car. At Joran's apartment his friend asks if Karen is willing to have sex with both him and Joran, and Karen says no. Joran and Karen drink alcohol and have sex. After Natalee's disappearance, Karen allegedly tells an attorney that Joran raped her, altho she denies having made such an accusation (J 6/24)
Joran goes out to nightclubs with Deepak and Satish about once a week. They also go to casinos. When Joran goes out with them they take Deepak's car. Sometimes they also go out with Joran's friends Freddy Zedan, Koen, and Jaime. When they go to CnCs they often pick up tourist girls after closing time and give them a ride back to their hotel. When Deepak is with Joran picking up tourist girls, nothing happens except dancing and kissing (J 6/10, D 6/10, S 6/24)
Joran never sees Deepak or Satish in the company of a girl (J 6/10)
On at least one occasion Joran, Deepak, and an unspecified person, probably either Freddy or Satish, all have sex in one room. However Deepak tells polis that the three have never all had sex with the same girl (D 6/10)
April: An 18 year old blond American female is with two of her friends at CnCs when they are approached by Joran, who offers to purchase them shots of 151. Joran points out Deepak and Satish and tells the girls they are his gambling friends. Another Joran friend approaches the girls, and tells them what a great athlete Joran is. When the bar closes Joran follows the girls trying very hard to convince them to come with him and continue partying at another bar, but the girls decline. One of the girls has her photo taken with Joran (BT on MSNBC 8/4/05, OTR 8/4/05).
April-May: Joran has his third sexual encounter with Karen Martina, at his apt. He tells his mother karen is spending the night (J 6/24)
May 24 or 25: Anita VDSloot leaves for the Netherlands (P 6/23)
May 24: Natalee graduates from Mountain Brook High School, with a 4.15 GPA. She is a National Honors Society member who ranks 25th in a highly competitive class of 293 students. She is scheduled to attend the University of Alabama on academic scholarships, and to major in pre-med studies. Last time Dave sees Natalee.
THURSDAY, MAY 26- MONDAY, MAY 30
Natalee travels to Aruba for a class graduation trip, along with 124 other MB kids and seven chaperones. While in Aruba the MB group stays at the Sunspree Holiday Inn. Natalee stays in room 7114, with three roommates: Lee Broughton, Ruth McVay, and Katherine "Madison" Whatley.
Natalee shares a bed with Ruth. Every morning when Ruth wakes up she sees Natalee beside her in bed, except for Monday (NY Post 7/17/05)
The only medication that Natalee is taking, is a z-pac for a sinus infection (RH on MSNBC 3/23/06)
Lee and Natalee's daily routine is to get a drink and go to the ocean at 10:00 am, return to their room for naps at 5:00 pm, get ready for dinner at 6:00 pm, and then after dinner go out to bars together (Broughton 302 screen capture).
Natalee's phone did not have international calling (BT on MSNBC 4/18/06)
During the trip, no males stay in Natalee's room, and Madison does not see any males use Natalee's toothbrush (Whatley 302).
Nancy Watson observes that Natalee is a very good dancer who often attracts men because of her dancing (Watson 302)
On an unspecified day a weird message is left on the phone in their hotel room, by a woman saying that “Rosemary” is scheduled for a massage off the hotel property (Whatley 302)
On an unspecified day, Nataleee and her roomates are taking an afternoon nap when someone tries to open the sliding glass door to their room. When Ruth looks out the door, she sees someone in a dark uniform go around a corner (Whatley 302)
THURSDAY. MAY 26
4:00 am: Beth drives Natalee to the home of a friend, whose mother drives Natalee and several other MB kids to the airport. Last time Beth sees Natalee. According to Beth, last time she speaks to Natalee (Vanity Fair).
After arriving in Aruba, Madison eats dinner and stays at the HI, while other MB kids go to CnCs (Whatley 302).
Madison stays in the same room as her boyfriend Trey Merrill, does not know where Natalee is that night (Whatley 302).
FRIDAY, MAY 27
Liz Cain does not see Natalee at breakfast (Cain 302)
During the day Madison is with Natalee by the hotel pool (Whatley 302)
3:00-3:15 pm: Liz sees Natalee at the pool (Cain 302)
3:45-5:00 pm: Liz sees Natalee at the beach (Cain 302)
Madison, Natalee, and others, go to CnCs by bus (Whatley 302)
8:30 pm: Liz sees Natalee at CnCs (Cain 302)
At CnCs, Natalee confronts someone after he gropes her, and he then allegedly strikes her, causing a scuffle involving some MB kids. When this incident is first reported in the media weeks later, the individual who allegedly struck her is said to have been Joran. In April 2006 Dave Holloway states that individual has been identified as 4/15/06 arrestee GVC, although GVC denies he ever met Natalee (MSNBC 7/13/05).
Brian Reynolds breaks up a scuffle at CnCs, which may be the same scuffle involved in the groping incident. Reynolds is later quoted as saying the scuffle involved Joran (Birmingham Post-Herald 6/10/05)
An Aruban cab driver takes an intoxicated girl, whom the driver later identifies as Natalee, back to her hotel. During the ride the driver hears the girl telling her friends she is in love with a blond Dutch boy. According to ABC, Natalee's friends later verify the cab driver's account when questioned by polis, as well as giving them a description of the boy Natalee said she loved, and an initial, "G" (ABC News 4/24/06)
SATURDAY, MAY 28
Madison leaves CnCs by taxi, doesn't know when Natalee left (Whatley 302) .
1:30 am: Liz leaves CnCs, Natalee had already left (Cain 302) .
Natalee's friend "Dash" is missing for an unspecified period of time on Saturday, weeks later when describing the incident she says that "everyone just about had a heart attack" (6/13/05 "Dash" posting)
Allie Anderson, Lizzy Cezayrili and Stephanie Karagas go on Tattoo Cruise (Watson 302)
1:00-5:00 pm: Natalee goes on a snorkeling trip to sunken boat with Liz, Madison. Nancy, other MB kids, and 2 chapareones. No one else goes on the trip except for the two employees on the boat (Cain, Whatley, Watson 302s).
After the snorkeling trip, Liz goes to the pool area at the HI, where she sees Natalee, and shortly thereafter she sees Natalee at dinner in the open pavilion area (Cain 302)
Liz sees Natalee from a distance at the HI indoor bar, talking to a local man for about 30 minutes (Cain 302).
In the evening, Brian Riser sees a tall, sunburned young man talking to Frances Ellen Byrd and Lee Broughton, whom he believes to be Joran (Riser 302) .
Madison doesn’t leave the HI that night, doesn't know if Natalee did (Whatley 302).
"Dash" walks from the HI to the Marriott that night (6/26/05 "Dash" posting)
Natalee becomes very intoxicated and is escorted back to her room by Kevin Broday (Broughton 302 screen capture)
Joran, Deepak, and Satish go to CnCs, do not see Natalee there (S 6/10)
SUNDAY, MAY 29
In the morning Natalee starts drinking mixed drinks called “Red Fires”, which contain Diet Coke and Bicardi 151. Natalee becomes intoxicated and her friends tell her to slow down. Lee and Natalee continue drinking throughout the day (Broughton 302 screen capture)
According to what Lee allegedly said in her FBI interview, Natalee meets Joran on the beach. However Lee later says she knows for a fact Natalee never met Joran before Sunday night (Broughton 302 screen capture, AMW 6/3/06)
Nancy is with Natalee on the beach most of the day. While on the beach, Allie Anderson, Lizzy Cezayrili and Stephanie Karagas wave at a group of individuals at an adjacent resort, whom they had met the previous day on the Tatoo cruise. Natalee is intrigued by what her classmates reported about the cruise, and Nancy later tells the FBI she would not be surprised if Natalee had met the individuals from the adjacent resort sometime that afternoon (Watson 302)
11:00 am: Koen's younger brother Sander calls Joran to ask if he wants to go out on his father's speedboat. Joran declines because he is going to play poker at the HI. Joran has never been on the boat (SG 6/14)
1:30 pm: Satish drops Deepak off at work at Cyberzone (S 6/10)
2:00-11:00 pm: Deepak at work at Cyberzone
4:00-5:00 pm: Natalee and Nancy leave the beach and go to the hotel pool, where Nancy takes photos of Natalee and other students, which are later requested by the FBI. Natalee and other classmates are drinking on and off throughout this time (Watson 302).
4:00 pm: Joran and his father Paulus attend a free poker tournament at the HI's Excelsior casino. Halfway through Paulus leaves to look after Joran's youngest brother, and Joran takes his place (J 6/9).
Joran plays poker with Jug Twitty's nephew, Thomas. The next day, after Natalee disappears, Thomas recalls Joran's first name (Vanity Fair).
Joran comes in third in the tournament and wins $150, which he exchanges for 500 guilders (P 6/18)
4:30 pm: Liz sees Natalee at the HI pool (Cain 302)
5:00 pm: Liz sees Natalee at the hot tub in the HI (Cain 302)
7:00 pm: Last time Natalee's key card to her room is used (Dave's book)
7:00 pm: Natalee, Lee, Madison and others go to dinner at a restaurant next to the HI (Broughton 302 screen capture, Whatley 302)
Natalee has a couple drinks at dinner. During girl talk at dinner Madison recalls that Natalee had been flirting with Kevin Broday (Whatley 302 screen capture)
7:51 pm: Joran on tape entering HI casino (PTL)
After dinner, Natalee, Lee, Madison and others go to the HI casino, where Joran is already present (Whatley 302).
8:00-10:00 pm: Nancy goes to HI casino and sees Joran standing near blackjack table with Madison and Ruth. She uses a slot machine for a few minutes then returns to the blackjack table and sees Joran playing blackjack with Thornton Ratliff. Nancy does not see Natalee at the table (Watson 302)
8:15 pm: Joran and group of MB girls including Natalee on tape together at same blackjack table in HI casino, along with an unidentified man that Natalee converses with. The girl sitting next to Joran on his left is Ruth. On the tape it appears Natalee may be talking on a cell phone (PTL)
In the casino video Natalee is on a friend's cell phone, the girls had made a call to a friend and were passing it around to say hi (message board report from Pelham meeting)
Joran tells the MB girls he is 19 and plays soccer at a school in Holland (OTR 8/1/05)
Natalee watches her classmates gamble but does not gamble herself. Joran helps Ruth try to win $100. Ruth and Madison tell Joran they are going to CnCs, Joran tells them CnCs sucks on a Sunday night. They tell Joran it is the MB kids' last night in Aruba. Joran leaves the table after losing about $250 (Whatley 302)
MB girl sitting next to Joran says she'd lost $100 of her father's money and wants to win it back, he helps her do so. MB girls tell him it is their last night and ask him if he wants to go to CnCs. He is interested in the girl sitting next to him on his left, whose name he later recalls in his OTR interview as “Kathleen”. After “Kathleen” wins back about $100, the MB girls leave to cash in their chips. In the days after Natalee's disappearance, Joran allegedly claims that the girl whose money he helped win back was the same girl who left the bar with him, Natalee (J 6/9, OTR 3/1/06. OTR 5/30/05, SG 6/16).
Natalee briefly introduces herself to Joran and then walks off (OTR 6/21/05)
8:58 pm: Natalee on tape re-entering casino (PTL)
9:00 pm: Liz sees Natalee at HI Pavilion, Natalee says she is going to the casino in the hotel.
9:00-10:00 pm: Nancy sees Natalee coming out of the bathroom in HI lobby area. Nancy compliments Natalee on her shirt and has a conversation with her. Natalee appears to be getting ready to leave the hotel, she does not appear intoxicated.
9:00-10:00 pm: Joran leaves HI casino, goes to little bar behind the casino, sees MB girls there. They tell him not to forget to go out tonight, He tells them Sunday, isn't a good night to go out, but they suggest it again and he decides he will go to CnCs, hoping to meet up with “Kathleen". Joran has a girlfriend at this time, who dumps him days later over what happened with Natalee (OTR 3/1/05, J 6/10)
Ruth tells Joran she will take a shower and meet him later at CnCs (J 6/9)
9:45 pm: Satish leaves to pick up Deepak from work (D 6/11)
Natalee, Lee, and others go to the “hotel by the pool”. Approximately five minutes later when Joran is leaving, Natalee asks if Joran is planning to meet them later at CnCs (Broughton 302 screen capture).
Joran asks his friend Andre, who is at the casino, if he will accompany him to CnCs. Andre says he cannot because he has an exam the next day (DS 6/20)
Joran walks outside, calls Paulus and asks for a ride home. Paulus says he will pick him up at McDonalds. Joran then calls his friend Jaimie and asks if he will accompany him to CnCs, but Jaime says he cannot because he has to work the next day. On the way to McDonalds Joran calls Deepak (OTR 3/1/05, J 6/9)
9:50 pm: Joran tells Deepak he met girls in the casino who would be going to CnCs, and asks Deepak if he wants to accompany him. Deepak says yes, he will go home for a short while and then pick Joran up at his place (D 6/11)
Joran calls his friend Florencia and asks her if she wants to accompany him to CnCs, but she says her father won't allow her to go (J 6/9)
10-20 minutes after Joran leaves the HI, Paulus picks him up at McDonalds, drives him home (Greta).
Satish and Deepak go to Taco Bell. Afterwords, as they are returning to Kalpoe home in Hooiberg, Deepak is bitten by ants in the car. Deepak tells Satish they should clean the car because any girls in the car may be bitten by ants. At home, Deepak and Satish vaccuum/clean car. In his 6/10 interview, Deepak says they vaccumed the car the day before his 5/31 interview at Bubali, because Joran had almost fallen in the water, and then sat down in the car with sand on his shorts and legs. However Deepak may have been mistaken about the date and was referring to the vacuuming that he says occured on 5/29 (D 6/10, D 6/11)
10:33 pm: Joran checks his e-mail on the VDSloot computer (computer record document)
11:00 pm: Liz sees Natalee at CnCs (Cain 302)
11:00 pm: One of the chaperones, Mr. McGovern, is at CnCs that night with the MB kids (Watson 302)
11:10 pm: Joran calls Deepak again to make sure he is coming (D 6/11)
MONDAY, MAY 30
12:00 am: Deepak and Satish arrive at Joran's home. Joran is printing a school assignment (D 6/11)
12:00 am: HI security guard sees a group of American students swimming in the ocean off the HI beach, they appear to be skinny-dipping. Not clear if they are MB students (SR 7/8)
12:15 am: The trio leave Joran's home for CnCs (D 6/11)
Deepak drives them from Joran's house to CnCs (J 6/9, S 6/11)
Satish drives them from Joran's house to Cncs, although Deepak originally tells polis that he did (D 6/11)
12:30 am: They park the car behind CnCs and old Ritz building, then walk into CnCs together. Deepak observes that there are about 60 people in CnCs (D 5/31, 6/11, S 6/11)
One of Natalee's friends greets Joran when he walks in (TR 3/1/06)
Joran does not speak to Ruth at CnCs and is not certain if he even saw her there. However, Joran initially tells polis that when he entered CnCs, Ruth greeted him and told him that he should go dance with Natalee because she fancied him (OTR 3/1/06, J 6/9)
Madison sees Joran while standing on platform looking for friends, does not see Natalee with him. Madison and Ruth leave CnCs before Natalee, Ruth goes back inside to tell Natalee they are leaving (Whatley 302)
Ruth is tired so she returns to the HI and goes to bed (NY Post 7/17/05)
Natalee screams at Joran to come dance with her. Satish observes the girl gesturing at Joran. Joran declines to dance with Natalee, and goes to the bar with Kalpoes to buy drinks (S 6/11, OTR 3/1/06)
The trio walk over to the stage area, Natalee gestures for Joran to dance with her, he declines. Deepak observes that Natalee dances "beautifully" and does not appear unsteady on her feet when she steps off the stage, although he initially tells polis he could tell she was drunk from how she was dancing and that she swayed on her feet when she walked. She walks up to Joran and Deepak hears her say "Hi, how's it going? Why didn't you dance with me?" Deepak hears Joran laugh hard but can't hear his answer, Natalee again asks him to dance and Joran declines. Deepak then sees Natalee walk over to some of her friends, three girls and two boys. Deepak speaks to a friend for 5-10 minutes, then can't find Satish and Joran so he goes outside to wait in the car (D 5/31, 6/9, 6/11)
Ed Kissel sees Joran dancing with Natalee (Fox 6/16/05)
12:30-12:45 am: Nancy is standing at the bar with Bruce Rawls and Allie Anderson. Natalee tries to get Allie to come meet a couple of guys she has met, Allie declines, Natalee walks away toward the dance floor. Only two or three more songs play before CnCs closes (Watson 302)
12:32 am: Low tide
Natalee takes Joran by the hand and lead him to other bar, telling him on the way that he has to do a jelly shot off of her. When they arrive at the bar Natalee asks for a jelly shot and then lies down on the bar so Joran can drink it from her belly button (J 6/9)
Satish has never seen this before and asks Joran what she is doing (S 6/11)
When Natalee gets on the bar Joran thinks that she is drunk, he can clearly tell that she had been drinking from the smell of alcohol on her breath (J 6/9)
Natalee had paid for the jelly/body shot (S 6/11)
After Joran does the jelly shot off Natalee, she says she also wants to drink a jelly shot, but the bartender tells Joran the bar is closed. They go back to the bar on the other side and Joran buys Natalee a shot of Bacardi 151. Natalee drinks Joran's whiskey Coke as a chaser before drinking her shot in two goes (J 6/9)
Natalee agrees to leave with Joran, then goes to speak to some of her friends and returns (OTR 3/1/06, PTL).
Satish is standing beside Joran the entire time he is talking to Natalee (J 6/9)
12:55 am: Nancy is standing and chatting with Natalee, sees her go to the dance floor to dance. Possible this is same incident described in Watson 302 (Watson affidavit).
Deepak sits outside car because Satish has keys. Deepak is out of minutes so sends Satish "missed call", Satish comes out and gives him keys, goes back inside to get Joran (D 6/11)
Satish recieves “missed call” from Deepak, calls him back, tells him they are still inside CnCs and will come out to the car. Joran tells Satish they are leaving and Natalee is coming with them, the three of them leave CnCs together (S 6/11)
From inside the bar, Ed Kissel sees Natalee leave with Joran (Fox 6/16/05)
1:00 am: CnCs closes.
1:00 am: Lee returns to her hotel room at closing and goes to bed, does not know Natalee had left with Joran (AMW, 6/3/06)
1:00 am: Nancy leaves CnCs with Bruce Rawls (Watson 302)
1:00 am: Haley Uncapher leaves CnCs and walks to Choose a Name bar, does not see Natalee as she is walking (Uncapher 302).
1:00 am: Joran and Natalee walk with Satish to where Deepak is waiting in the car behind CnCs (OTR 3/1/06)
Outside CnCs an American tourist asks Joran if he can have his cup, Joran gives it to him (J 6/9)
Between CnCs and the car Joran asks Natalee if she wants to go back to her hotel. Natalee asks Joran if he has a big house, Joran asks her if she wants to see it and she says yes (OTR 3/1/06)
Joran, Satish, and Natalee are all walking together when Natalee asks Joran if she can go home with him, although Satish does not mention this when he describes the walk to the car in his 6/11 statement (J 6/9)
Natalee tells her friends that she will meet up with them later at the HI (J 6/9)
Three MB kids including "Dash" leave to look for stragglers at another bar. Outside they encounter Natalee as she is walking with Joran, a short distance behind another MB group that is going to catch taxis back to the HI. "Dash" asks Natalee if she is okay and Natalee says yes, although her eyes look heavy. Before they part, Natalee points to the other MB group and says she is going with them (Fox News 6/16/05, 6/12/05 "Dash" posting)
A male MB kid sees Natalee go back inside bar, emerge 15 minutes later with Deepak holding her by the arm, then walk with him down an alley (Dave's book)
Natalee gets in the right side of the car and sits behind Deepak (D 6/9, S 6/11)
Natalee gets into the car behind Satish. Joran gets in behind Deepak (J 6/9)
Deepak greets Natalee when she gets in the car, she greets him back and introduces herself (D 6/9)
Natalee does not introduce herself to either Satish or Deepak (S 6/11)
Natalee asks Joran if Deepak and Satish are rich people because she is impressed by their car. She tells Deepak that he has a beautiful car and she wants to drive around. Joran tells Deepak in Papiamento to drive around (J 6/9, D 5/31, 6/9)
Security video at Diamonds International jewelry store, later shown on Opsporing Verzocht, captures Deepak's vehicle leaving CnCs. The timestamp on the video is not publicly known. It is also not publicly known whether the vehicle is captured passing the camera more than once, as would be expected if suspect statements about circling the block are accurate.
They pass Natalee's friends on the main road, standing between Royal Plaza mall and the bus stop (J 6/9)
They circle around, passing CnCs again (J 6/9, D 6/9, S 6/9)
Natalee sees her friends standing at intersection west of Royal Plaza, Satish observes there are about 60 people at the Plaza intersection on both sides of the road. Joran says to turn right because Natalee wants to speak to her friends (S 6/9)
Instead of passing CnCs again, Deepak turns left toward Choose a Name because he sees polis standing at the corner and he is not wearing a seatbelt (D 6/9)
Natalee shouts "Aruba" to her friends (J 6/9)
Natalee calls a boy's name, which Deepak can't remember (D 5/31)
A young man walks up to the car and shouts at her "Are you crazy, get out of the car". She answers that she will hook up with them later at the hotel and will go with the trio. The young man doesn't say anything more and Deepak drives off (J 6/9, D 6/9, S 6/11)
Deepak stops the car past the crosswalk and tells Natalee she should go with her friends, she again says that his car is beautiful and she wants to drive around. Joran asks if she is sure she wants to drive around with them and she says yes. Deepak drives on. although he tells Joran he doesn't think it's good that Natalee remains with them, because she is drunk and he doesn't want any problems (D 5/31, 6/9).
After passing Choose a Name, Deepak circles around, returns to main road and turns right heading toward the Royal Plaza. Deepak intends to leave Natalee with her friends (J 6/9, D 6/9, S 6/9).
1:20 am: They pass back thru the Plaza intersection, Natalee's friends are no longer there (J 6/9, D 6/9, S 6/11).
1:26 am: Keycard for Natalee's room used (OTR 4/4/06)
1:30-4:40 am: Nancy and Bruce sit by the pool talking. They observe many classmates walking back to their rooms but not Natalee (Watson 302).
According to Joran, after leaving CnCs they take Natalee to his house, although the Kalpoes say they never went there, and Joran originally says the same (J&S 6/18, J 6/9)
Natalee says she wants go to the lighthouse to see sharks. Joran tells Deepak to drive to the lighthouse (D 6/11, S 6/11)
When they reach La Cabana, Satish puts in a DVD with a nude scene, Natalee says “Oh my God, what is that”. Deepak says "Now she'll think we're perverts". After a few minutes Joran tells Satish “Turn that thing off, she has had enough of it” (D 6/11)
Joran initiates kissing with Natalee (PTL)
At some point before they reach the Marriott, Natalee tells Joran that her mother is "Hitler's sister", asks if the Kalpoes are his slaves, and says that in Alabama we consider black people slaves. Satish hears Natalee make the "Hitler's sister" comment, and also hears her say that her parents own a plantation in Alabama with slaves working on it. The Kalpoes do not hear Natalee ask Joran if they are are his slaves, Joran tells them about that later (OTR 3/1/06, S 6/11)
1:40 am: They arrive at Joran's house (J 6/14)
Joran decides not to take her inside because his father and brother are sleeping. Then Natalee says she wants to go to the lighthouse to see sharks. Joran tells Deepak to drive to the lighthouse. Joran asks Natalee if she wants to go back to her hotel, she declines, because she wants to see sharks. Joran decides to take her to the beach north of her hotel (PTL, OTR 3/1/06)
During the drive a white rental car drives alongside Deepak's car for about five seconds and Deepak asks, what is up with these men. At that moment Satish looks in back and sees that Joran and Natalee are kissing. The other vehicle turns into the direction of the HI as Deepak keeps driving straight (J 6/9, S 6/11, S 6/24)
According to Joran, they do not go to the lighthouse, although the Kalpoes say that they did, and Joran originally says the same (OTR 3/1/06, J 6/9)
At Arashi beach, Deepak stops the car and gets out to relieve himself, then drives on to the lighthouse. Everyone in the car is awake when he gets out (D 6/11, 6/30)
Natalee falls asleep before they arrive at the lighthouse (S 6/24)
A security guard at the lighthouse does not see a car going to the lighthouse (OTL 3/1/06)
At the lighthouse, Deepak sees that Joran and Natalee are kissing, and gives Satish a look asking, what should I do. Satish tells him in Dutch he should keep driving. Deepak sees two vehicles parked at the lighthouse, a green jeep and white car (D 6/9, D 6/11)
At the lighthouse, Satish sees that Natalee is lying asleep on Joran's lap, altho originally he says that Joran and and Natalee were kissing at the lighthouse. Deepak asks if Natalee wants to see the lighthouse, Joran says he doesn't think so. Joran wakes up Natalee and askes her if she is staying at the HI. She says yes, and Joran tells Deepak he should drive to the the HI to drop her off (S 5/31, 6/11, 6/24).
At they are leaving the lighthouse Joran says that Natalee has fallen asleep. Deepak asks how that is possible, and tells Joran to wake her up to ask her where she is staying, so he can take her back to her hotel. 1-2 minutes later Joran tells Deepak she is staying at the HI (D 6/9, 6/11)
During the nighttime hours three fishermen are on the beach north of the Marriott hotel and do not see Joran and Natalee there, nor do they see Deepak's car in the vicinity of the hotel. Their exact location on the beach is unclear (S 7/3)
1:50 am: Deepak turns left onto the side road just north of the Marriott hotel, drives to the end of the road and stops (J 6/14, OTR 3/1/06)
1:50 am: In the vicinity of the Marriott, Joran tells Deepak to let him out. Deepak turns right onto the side road just north of the Marriott hotel, and drives to the end of the road, where Joran tells him to stop (D 6/11, S 6/13)
Deepak does not see anyone else around. Joran and Natalee both get out of the car on the right side. Joran tells the Kalpoes he will find a way to get home, and will walk Natalee back to the HI. Joran and Natalee hug and walk off in the direction of the beach, holding each other. Deepak drives off, stopping briefly in front of Marriott hotel while Satish throws their drink containers out the window (D 6/11, D 6/13, D 6/30, S/6/11)
Joran tells Deepak he will call him later when he's ready to be picked up, and Deepak says "OK" (OTR 6/1/03)
There are other couples on the beach by the Marriott. Joran takes off his shoes, walks up to the water with Natalee and sits down with her (OTR 3/1/06, J 6/14)
They talk and kiss by the Marriott for about five minutes before standing up, hand in hand (J 6/14)
Joran asks her if she wants to walk back to her hotel, and she says no, she wants to go the other way, toward the lighthouse. As they are walking in that direction they pass one other couple. Joran leaves his shoes by the Marriott, because he thought they would walk back there (OTR 3/1/06)
Joran tells Natalee that the stars are beautiful, Natalee tells him that there are no stars. Natalee asks how far they are from the North Coast, Joran says they aren't going to walk there because it is too far away (J 6/14)
2:00 am: Cloudcover over Aruba is 30%.
2:00 am: Kathryn Laylor or Katherine Blum walks by the pool toward the beach with an American-looking guy, about 15 minutes later they return and the girl walks up toward the rooms by herself (Watson 302)
Kalpoes return home, Satish goes to bed. Deepak turns on his computer and chats on MSN with a friend, John Croes. He tells Croes that he had dropped Joran off on the street with a girl, and that he is waiting for Joran to call and say everything is fine. After chatting with Croes, Deepak watches TV (D 6/11).
Joran and Natalee engage in sexual activity on the beach for more than 15 minutes, but do not actually have sex because although Natalee is willing, Joran does not have a condom (J 6/14, OTR 3/1/06)
Afterwords Natalee wants Joran to stay and look at the stars but he tells her he has to go home because he has school. Joran picks her up to carry her back to her hotel but she demands that he put her down (OTR 3/1/06, ACA)
Joran walks to the Fisherman's Huts to call Deepak, because the beach is windy (OTR 3/1/06)
2:26 am: Joran calls Deepak from his cell phone. The time of this call is stated as 2:26 am by Tacopina, and as about 2:30 am by Deepak's lawyer David Kock (CTV 5/10/06, CNN 2/23/06)
Joran tells Deepak he is walking home and is in the vicinity of the McDonalds on Palm Beach. Joran is breathing heavily during the call. He says he is walking home barefoot because he took his shoes off to go in the water with Natalee and could not find them again. He also says he left Natalee "passed out" on the beach. Deepak curses at him and says he is sick for doing that to the girl. There is a lot of disturbance during the call and at times Deepak cannot hear Joran. At one point it is so bad that Joran says he will talk to Deepak online when he gets home. The call lasts about 5 minutes (D 6/11, 6/16)
