They didn't put together a taste, but it wasn't that they couldn't have, it's the fact that his father protected him, his father was a judge.

They basically allowed him to get away with murder.

I think this little sniveling coward would have immediately reached out for help, and who would have helped him his father.

Hello, and welcome to the best case worst case. This is Jim Clemente Retired at bad profile a former New York City prosecutor to write a producer of

Criminal Minds and with me today is Hi, everybody. It's francey hates former state and federal prosecutor and executive producer and writer of audible's next level featuring Brian branch.

Jim, you're back. Our listeners are going to be so excited. I think at this point they thought maybe I murdered you and buried you in the basement.

Well, I know you've been fantasizing about that for years now, but not yet, not yet. Although I do feel a little bit under the weather. I don't know if you poison me.

But I think our listeners might detect a slight deepening of my vocal chords because I do I am getting over COVID yet again.

Well, I just want to say in my defense, if I poisoned you Jim, if I did, it was only because of my jealousy because of your recent global travels that are listeners.

If they become Patreon subscribers can hear and see all about if you guys will tune in to our Patreon channel where you can see Jim and I on video and we talk before each episode.

We show photographs and Jim has recently revealed some very exciting things about his recent global travels after which I tried to murder him because I'm so jealous, but we'll just leave that for another episode.

Maybe shall we James? We shall thank you. So today, Francie, there has been another round of important developments in a case that we've been talking about and thinking about for many years.

And that is the disappearance and murder of Natalie Holloway in Aruba.

Yeah, you know, Jim, we've talked about this case more than once and I just want to remind our listeners of some of the facts of that case, which actually Natalie, who was barely 18 years old, a beautiful young girl from Alabama was on a graduation trip to the gorgeous island of Aruba with some of her friends.

And this was 18 years ago now, Jim. I mean, it seems, I mean, just I can't believe how much time has passed. It seems so recent, but 18 years ago, we started to hear that this young recent high school graduate had disappeared one night in Aruba with her friends.

And after that, things got very confusing and it's now been 18 long years that her family has been waiting to hear what happened to her.

And Jim, just as we're recording just yesterday in a courtroom in a state next door to me, right in Alabama and federal court, the man who was long suspected of having something to do with Natalie's disappearance.

You're in Vanderslute, pled guilty, not to murdering Natalie Holloway, but trying to extort Natalie's grieving mother, Beth Holloway, by tricking her into believing that he was going to disclose to her what happened to Natalie and where she could be located in return for $250,000.

And the FBI was involved in that as a sting, they put up the 25k that they gave him as a down payment. And then he was supposed to reveal everything. And of course, he did nothing.

And another little side note is that I was hired in a case in a civil case by none of it been Dr. Phil and his lawyers to be an expert witness in this case to analyze all the facts in the case and try to make a determination as to the involvement of Vanderslute and to have his friends who he had in the car with him.

When he picked up Natalie Holloway and left the club in Aruba that night.

Yeah. And just for those of you who don't remember that there is some surveillance video from this club in Aruba that showed Natalie Holloway at different moments, you know, they're enjoying things and having fun with her friends.

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