7 People Who Mysteriously Disappeared on Vacation
| June 11, 2015
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Robyn Gardner
Six years after Natalee Holloway vanished, another American woman went missing from the same small Dutch town in Aruba. A 35-year-old Maryland woman named Robyn Gardner told her boyfriend she was going on a “family trip,” but instead went on a romantic getaway with Gary Giordano, also of Maryland.
Giordino claims that the pair was snorkeling in a secluded area when Gardner was swept away by a current and presumably drowned. Her body was never recovered. Investigators didn’t believe him and Giordino was held in an Arubian prison for four months before being let go due to lack of evidence. Giordino has since suggested that perhaps somehow Gardner was a victim of “human trafficking.”
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