Natalee Holloway

Man who said he disposed of Natalee Holloway's remains is killed by a woman he tried to kidnap

Last year, John Ludwick claimed in a documentary that he helped dispose of the remains of Natalee Ann Holloway, an American teen whose 2005 disappearance in the Caribbean had become the subject of a made-for-TV movie and breathtaking headlines here and abroad.

Ludwick said in an Oxygen Network documentary series that he and Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in Holloway's disappearance, had crushed the young woman's bones until they were no longer recognizable as human remains. To get rid of her hair fibers, they burned her skull, dousing it in gasoline "in a fire pit in a cave," he claimed.

Ludwick was never charged, and the remains did not belong to Holloway,...