Who Are Natalee Holloway’s Siblings? Her Brother Remembers His Sister

At the time of Natalee’s disappearance, she only had one sibling: a younger brother named Matt, who was only a high school sophomore then. Matt has publicly admitted that it’s sometimes hard to talk about his sister and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. 

When Joran van der Sloot, one of the last people Natalee was seen with before she went missing, was finally put behind bars for the death of another woman, Matt talked about what he believed happened to his sister.

Van der Sloot has given different versions of what actually happened to Natalee, but none of them have held up to law enforcement’s scrutiny. According to People, the theory Matt believes is most likely is his 2008 confession that Natalee had a seizure and, in a panic, he and a friend dumped her body in the ocean.

“I feel like that was the truth,” Matt told People in 2010. “It’s hard to talk about it, but I think he put her in the ocean. That would make the most sense to me. All that stuff where he says she’s buried in a swamp or under a house being built, that’s not true.”

“We’ve already come to terms that she is gone, that I’ll never see her again,” he continued. “I just hope nobody ever has to deal with that again, and go through that whole tragedy of missing a loved one.”