Natalee Holloway disappeared during a post-graduation trip to Aruba with her high school classmates. The 18-year-old honor student was last seen on May 30, 2005, leaving Carlos ’n Charlie’s bar in downtown Oranjestad with 17-year-old Joran van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.

Her body was never found, and it took nearly 20 years for van der Sloot to confess to her murder. In that time, her mother, Beth Holloway, never stopped searching for answers. Now, a new Netflix documentary series, Taken: Natalee Holloway , revisits Natalee’s death and Beth’s years-long search for her daughter.

Here’s what to know about Beth, her unrelenting search for Natalee, and her involvement in catching her daughter’s killer.

Beth Holloway is a former speech pathologist for children with special needs. She married her first husband, Dave Holloway, shortly after graduating college, and the pair soon welcomed Natalee and their son, Matthew.…