What They Said
The spokesperson continued by adding, “The documentary series was developed by a production company in close collaboration with Dave Holloway and his longtime private investigator. The show followed his continued search to find answers about his daughter Natalee from a lead he had received. We had hoped, along with Mr. Holloway, that the information was going to provide closure.”
Ratings
It seemed like the producers were able to notice that the “missing white woman” trope could be lucrative. According to Matthew Felling from the Center for Media and Public Affairs, it is “now an established genre of news, much the way that the O. J. Simpson case enshrined the celebrity murder case as a whole genre.” He added, “I don’t think that’s likely to change anytime soon.”