What is Happening With the Natalee Holloway Investigation?

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The prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, Joran van der Sloot is free and has even left the country. He is currently in Holland.

The authorities had botched the investigation since day 1. To make matters worst, the authorities also gave permission for van der Sloot to leave the country. What kind of an investigation would allow a prime suspect to leave the country under such circumstances? It appears to me the authorities there were playing favortism in support of van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers.

I for one will never vacation in Aruba. The country is on my black list. I really feel for the family of Natalee. My prayers go out to her entire family.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-09-14-holloway-suspects-free_x.htm


Aruba court: Holloway suspects can remain free

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) — A court ruled Wednesday that three suspects in the disappearance of a U.S. teenager can remain free without conditions — overturning an earlier decision that restricted their travel.

A court ruled that the three young men held in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway can remain free, overturning the previous verdict.

The appeals court ruled there was a "lack of sufficient grounds and serious suspicions" to keep the restrictions on Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, the Aruban prosecutor's office said.

The three young men remain suspects in the May 30 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Holloway, 18, vanished on the final night of a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island. Extensive searches have failed to find any trace of her in Aruba.

Van der Sloot, 18, and the Kalpoe brothers — the last people seen in public with the American — were released from jail on Sept. 3 on the condition they remain available for questioning.

Van der Sloot, who is Dutch, has since left for college in Holland, where he traveled with the court's permission. The Kalpoe brothers were barred from leaving Aruba.

Prosecutors filed an appeal seeking to have all three returned to jail, but the court rejected the request and removed the restrictions, said David Kock, a lawyer for 18-year-old Satish Kalpoe.

"They are totally free," Kock said.

Vinda de Sousa, a lawyer for the Holloway family, expressed disappointment with the ruling.

"Of course, it's not what we were hoping for, but I'm convinced that this is not the end of the investigation," de Sousa said.

The Aruban prosecutor's office did not comment beyond the brief statement.

 

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Natalee Holloway's remains finally found?
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
First posted: Thursday, August 17, 2017 03:44 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 17, 2017 03:49 PM EDT
It was the trip of a lifetime.
Natalee Holloway — a pretty 18-year-old from Alabama — and pals from her high school descended on the Caribbean island of Aruba for sun and fun.
And then the blond vanished off the face of the earth, her disappearance mired in police corruption and political influence.
Now, her parents’ 12 year journey may be at an end.
Aruban cops discovered human remains behind a house on the Dutch island and they are currently being tested for DNA.
“I know there’s a possibility this could be someone else, and I’m just trying to wait and see,” her dad, Dave Holloway, said on Today. “It would finally be the end.”
Five years ago, a judge granted the heartbroken father’s request to have his daughter declared dead.
The prime suspect in her disappearance has been from the start, Joran van der Sloot, 30, a well-connected Dutch resident of the islands. His late father was a judge who was suspected of pulling strings to put his troubled son in the clear.
Holloway was last seen outside an island bar with van der Sloot.
He’s currently serving a 28-year jolt in a Peruvian prison for murdering business student Stephany Flores. That slaying was five years to the day of Natalee’s disappearance.
Dave Holloway told the morning gabfest that an 18-month probe led them to a fink who was pals with van der Sloot, named Gabriel.
He pointed them in the direction of the remains.
“(He) had information that took us to a spot where remains were found. And we took those remains and had those remains tested,” Holloway said. “We’ve chased a lot of leads and this one is by far the most credible lead I’ve seen in the last 12 years.”
The DNA tests will take several months.
bhunter@postmedia.com
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New heartache for Natalee Holloway’s family
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 04:23 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 05:14 PM EDT
The family of missing American teenager Natalee Holloway have been hammered by heartache again.
According to the New York Post, bone fragments discovered on the Caribbean island of Aruba are not a match for the teen who vanished on a class trip in 2005.
“Out of the four individual bone samples, only one was found to be human. The mitochodrial DNA bone sample was not a match to [mother] Beth Holloway, and so it was ruled out as being Natalee Holloway,” Dr. Jason Kolowski told Oxygen.com
Acting on new information, her dad, Dave Holloway and private eye T.J. Ward, have been working the case for the past 18 months.
A stool pigeon named “Gabriel” led the two men to the remains.
Holloway told reporters that it was the most credible lead to Natalee’s disappearance in more than a decade.
Convicted killer Joran van der Sloot has long been eyed as Natalee’s suspected killer. He is serving a long prison sentence for murder in Peru.
The son of a powerful judge who allegedly wielded his influence so his son could skate on Holloway’s disappearance, van der Sloot was the last person seen with Natalee.
John Ludwick — a friend of the Dutchman — claimed he was paid $1,500 in 2010 to help dig up Natalee’s bones and crush them into dust, then cremate them with dog bones to cover up the crime.
During the whole horrific ordeal, van der Sloot has played on the Holloway family’s desperate heartache.
He extorted $25,000 from the family in 2010, claiming he could lead them to her remains.
Nothing was found and he was indicted on wire fraud and extortion charges.
New heartache for Natalee Holloway

 

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No one cares.

 

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John Christopher Ludwick, man who claimed he buried Natalee Holloway, fatally stabbed during foiled kidnapping
Brad Hunter, Postmedia Network
Published:
March 15, 2018
Updated:
March 15, 2018 1:32 PM EDT
John Christopher Ludwick once claimed he buried Natalee Holloway.
Natalee Holloway died alone on a beach in the Caribbean.
She was murdered.
But the wheels of justice grind slowly, and they finally caught up with John Christopher Ludwick.
Ludwick had confessed in a 2017 TV series on the slaying that he helped burn and bury Holloway’s remains in Aruba in 2005 after his pal, Dutch creep Joran Van der Sloot, murdered her.
But on Wednesday, the grim reaper paid Ludwick a call.
Cops say Ludwick was stabbed to death with his own knife in St. Petersburg, Fla. when his kidnapping victim turned the tables on him.
The woman had just exited her vehicle in her driveway when the thug tried to grab her. Detectives say the pair knew each other.
“They were roommates, at one point. He apparently became kind of infatuated with her. She was doing everything in her power to distance herself from him,” police spokesman Josh Taylor said.
But the object of Ludwick’s ardour fought back and shanked him with his own weapon. She later told cops he was stalking her.
He died in hospital.
Ludwick had emerged from the circus surrounding his friend Van der Sloot — the prime suspect in Holloway’s disappearance.
He claimed Van der Sloot paid him $1,500 to dig up her body in 2010, five years after the 18-year-old Alabama woman vanished on the Dutch Caribbean island.
“The idea was to crush everything to the point where it wasn’t recognizable as her bones or skull or anything like that,” Ludwick said on the show.
He claimed that Holloway’s skull was burned to eliminate any remaining hair fibres, adding: “It was doused in gasoline in a fire pit in a cave.”
Van der Sloot is currently serving a 30-year sentence for beating a young Peruvian woman to death.
Ludwick defended Van der Sloot until the end.
“He seemed like he’d be a cool guy, he’s a good person and a good friend,” Ludwick told Nancy Grace.
Ludwick said the Peruvian victim his pal was convicted of killing, Stephany Flores, likely brought it on herself.
“If she hadn’t been nosy and confronted him like that, she wouldn’t have died.”
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Suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway to be temporarily extradited to U.S.
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Regina Garcia Cano and Franklin Briceno
Published May 10, 2023 • Last updated 11 hours ago • 3 minute read

LIMA, Peru — Peru’s government will allow the extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean Island of Aruba, bringing her family hope there will be justice in the case.


Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot will be sent to the U.S., Peru announced Wednesday, to face trial on extortion and wire fraud charges, stemming from an accusation that he tried to extort the Holloway family after their daughter’s disappearance.


Holloway, who lived in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she was last seen during a trip with classmates to Aruba. She vanished after a night with friends at a nightclub, leaving a mystery that sparked years of news coverage and countless true-crime podcasts. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, then 18 years old.

Van der Sloot was identified as a suspect and detained, along with two Surinamese brothers, weeks later. Holloway’s body was never found, and no charges were filed in the case. A judge later declared Holloway dead.


Years later, van der Sloot was arrested in Peru for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was killed five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance. Prosecutors accused van der Sloot of killing Flores, a business student from a prominent family, to rob her after learning she had won money at the casino where the two met. They said he killed her with “ferocity” and “cruelty,” beating then strangling her in his hotel room. He pleaded guilty in 2012, and is serving 28 years in prison for the murder.

But his extradition to the U.S. stems from an alleged attempt to profit from his connection to the Holloway case. A grand jury in Alabama in 2010 indicted van der Sloot on wire fraud and extortion charges, accusing him of trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Holloways.


Prosecutors in the U.S. allege van der Sloot accepted $25,000 in cash from Holloway’s family in exchange for a promise to lead them to her body in early 2010, just before he went to Peru.

An FBI agent wrote in an affidavit that van der Sloot reached out to Holloway’s mother and wanted to be paid $25,000 to disclose the location and then another $225,000 when the remains were recovered. During a recorded sting operation, van der Sloot pointed to a house where he said Holloway was buried but in later emails admitted to lying about the location, the agent said.

Peru’s Minister of Justice Daniel Maurate said in a statement Wednesday the government decided to “accept the request” from U.S. authorities “for the temporary transfer” of van der Sloot to be prosecuted on extortion and fraud charges. In Peru, all extraditions must be approved by the president.


“We will continue to collaborate on legal issues with allies such as the United States, and many others with which we have extradition treaties,” said Edgar Alfredo Rebaza, director of Peru’s Office of International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the National Prosecutor’s Office.

A 2001 treaty between Peru and the U.S. allows a suspect to be temporarily extradited to face trial in the other country. It requires that the prisoner “be returned” after judicial proceedings are concluded “against that person, in accordance with conditions to be determined by” both countries.

In a statement, the young woman’s mother, Beth Holloway, said she was blessed to have Natalee in her life for 18 years.

“She would be 36 years old now. It has been a very long and painful journey, but the persistence of many is going to pay off. Together, we are finally getting justice for Natalee,” Beth Holloway said.


Attorney Maximo Altez, who represents van der Sloot, told the AP he will fight the decision once he is properly notified by the Peruvian government.

“I am going to challenge that resolution,” Altez said. “I am going to oppose it since he has the right to a defence.”

Van der Sloot could not immediately be reached for comment on Wednesday. More than a decade ago, he told a Peruvian judge that he would fight efforts to be extradited to the U.S.

Van der Sloot married a Peruvian woman in July 2014 in a ceremony at a maximum-security prison.

— Associated Press journalist Regina Garcia Cano reported from Mexico City. Associated Press journalist Kimberly Chandler contributed reporting from Montgomery, Alabama.

Suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway to be temporarily extradited to U.S.

Peru's government issued an executive order Wednesday allowing the temporary extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.

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Some innovative procedure from the Peruvians much to their credit.

 

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Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance to be extradited from Peru to U.S. this week
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Published Jun 05, 2023 • 2 minute read

LIMA, Peru — The Peruvian government on Monday said the main suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway will be extradited this week to the United States.


The head of the Peru’s prison system, Javier Llaque, told The Associated Press that custody of Joran van der Sloot will be handed over to Interpol “first thing in the morning” Thursday, after which the Dutchman will be taken to an airport in the capital, Lima, to board an airplane to the U.S.


Van der Sloot arrived Saturday to a corrections facility in Lima after a long ground trip under strict security measures from a prison in the Andes, where he was serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of a Peruvian woman.


Defence attorney Maximo Altez last month said his client explained in a letter he did not plan to challenge the extradition.

The government of Peru announced May 10 that it would temporarily transfer custody of Van der Sloot to authorities in the U.S. to face trial on extortion and wire fraud charges.


Holloway, who lived in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she was last seen during a trip with classmates to the Caribbean island of Aruba. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, who was a student at an international school on the island.

Van der Sloot was identified as a suspect and detained weeks later, along with two Surinamese brothers. Holloway’s body was never found, and no charges were filed in the case. A judge later declared Holloway dead.

The federal charges filed in Alabama against van der Sloot stem from an accusation that he tried to extort the Holloway family in 2010, promising to lead them to her body in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars. A grand jury indicted him that year on one count each of wire fraud and extortion.


Also in 2010, van der Sloot was arrested in Peru for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, a business student from a prominent family who was killed five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance. Van der Sloot pleaded guilty in Flores’ case in 2012.

A 2001 treaty between Peru and the U.S. allows a suspect to be temporarily extradited to face trial in the other country. The time that van der Sloot ends up spending in the U.S. “will be extended until the conclusion of the criminal proceedings,” including the appeal process should there be one, according to a resolution published in the South American country’s federal register. The resolution also states that U.S. authorities agreed to return the suspect to the custody of Peru afterward.

The young woman’s mother, Beth Holloway, in a statement released after Peruvian authorities agreed to the extradition last month said the family is “finally getting justice for Natalee.”

“It has been a very long and painful journey, but the persistence of many is going to pay off,” Beth Holloway said.

Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance to be extradited from Peru to U.S. this week

The Peruvian government said the main suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway will be extradited this week to the United States.

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Suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway arrives in U.S. from Peru
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Regina Garcia Cano and Franklin Briceno
Published Jun 08, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, arrived in the United States on Thursday to face charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing woman’s mother.


Van der Sloot was extradited to the United States from Peru where he has been serving a 28-year sentence for the slaying of a Peruvian woman. He is wanted in the U.S. on one count each of extortion and wire fraud — the only charges to have ever linked the Dutch citizen to Holloway’s disappearance on the Caribbean island of Aruba. He was handed over in Peru to U.S. custody on Thursday, roughly a month after both countries agreed on his extradition.


Van der Sloot will face trial in Holloway’s home state of Alabama on charges that he tried to extort $250,000 from Holloway’s mother in 2010 to disclose the location of the young woman’s body.

Eighteen-year-old Holloway was on a high school graduation trip with classmates to the Caribbean island of Aruba when she vanished. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot in 2005. Van der Sloot was questioned in Holloway’s disappearance, but never charged. U.S. prosecutors said in 2010 van der Sloot reached out to Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, seeking the money to disclose the location of the young woman’s body.


Holloway’s body has never been found.

Video and photos released by Peruvian authorities Thursday show him wearing jeans and a black puffer jacket, shaking his shoulders and grimacing as officers adjust his handcuffs and remove an Interpol-marked vest. Footage and images also show van der Sloot in a conference room with law enforcement officers from Peru, the FBI and Interpol, and a health care professional.


The federal charges filed in Alabama against van der Sloot stem from an accusation that he tried to extort the Holloway family in 2010, promising to lead them to her body in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars. A grand jury indicted him that year on one count each of wire fraud and extortion.

Holloway’s mysterious disappearance sparked years of news coverage and countless true-crime podcasts.


Van der Sloot in 2012 pleaded guilty in Peru to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, a business student from a prominent Peruvian family. She was killed in 2010 five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance.

A 2001 treaty between Peru and the U.S. allows a suspect to be temporarily extradited to face trial in the other country. Van der Sloot’s attorney, Maximo Altez, initially indicated his client would not challenge his extradition but that changed Monday when he filed a writ of habeas corpus. A judge ruled against van der Sloot the following day.

The time that van der Sloot ends up spending in the U.S. “will be extended until the conclusion of the criminal proceedings,” including the appeal process, should there be one, according to a resolution published in Peru’s federal register. The resolution also states that U.S. authorities agree to return van der Sloot to the custody of Peru afterward.


Van der Sloot married a Peruvian woman in July 2014 in a ceremony at a maximum-security prison. He was transferred among Peruvian prisons in response to reports that he enjoyed privileges such as television, internet access and a cellphone, and accusations that he had threatened to kill a warden.

Joyce Vance, a federal prosecutor in Alabama when van der Sloot was charged, said his arrival in the southern U.S. state is a long-awaited opportunity for justice.

“We always say that justice delayed is justice denied, and there’s a certain simple truth to that,” said Vance, the former U.S. attorney for the northern district of Alabama, which includes Birmingham. “But this case makes me think sometimes justice delayed is actually worth it. It’s not optimal. It’s not what anybody would have wanted at the outset, but justice delayed is better than justice never delivered.”

Suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway arrives in U.S. from Peru

Joran van der Sloot was handed over to U.S. custody and departed Peru on a flight to the United States on Thursday,

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Chief suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance pleads not guilty to extortion charges
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Kim Chandler
Published Jun 09, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that he tried to extort money from the missing teen’s mother in exchange for revealing the location of her body.


Van der Sloot, 35, was extradited to the United States on Thursday from Peru, where he is serving a 28-year prison sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman. He was arraigned in Birmingham, not far from the suburb where Holloway grew up, in his first court appearance in the case.


Natalee’s mother, Beth Holloway, watched the brief proceeding from the third row of the courtroom. She stared occasionally at van der Sloot but showed no obvious emotion.

“For 18 years, I have lived with the unbearable pain of Natalee’s loss,” she said in a statement Thursday. “Each day has been filled with unanswered questions and a longing for justice that has eluded us at every turn. But today … I am hopeful that some small semblance of justice may finally be realized.”


Afterward, she hugged friends who had come to offer their support along with Natalee’s father and brother. She declined to comment to reporters outside the courthouse.

Shackled and wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, van der Sloot declined to use a Dutch interpreter offered to him at Friday’s arraignment. He sat beside his court-appointed attorney, Kevin Butler, who entered the not guilty pleas on his behalf.

Van der Sloot is charged with one count each of extortion and wire fraud — the only charges to have ever linked the Dutch citizen to Holloway’s disappearance on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Natalee Holloway, 18, was on a high school graduation trip with classmates in Aruba when she vanished in 2005. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, who was a student at an international school on the island. Van der Sloot was identified as a main suspect and detained weeks later for questioning, along with two Surinamese brothers, but no charges were filed in the case.


A judge declared Holloway dead, but her body has never been found.

The mysterious disappearance sparked years of news coverage and countless true-crime podcasts.

U.S. prosecutors say that in 2010, van der Sloot reached out to Beth Holloway, seeking $250,000 to lead her to the young woman’s body and reveal the circumstances of her death. A grand jury indicted him that year.

In 2012, van der Sloot pleaded guilty in Peru to killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores, a business student from a prominent Peruvian family. She was killed in 2010 — five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance.

Van der Sloot married a Peruvian woman in July 2014 in a ceremony at a maximum-security prison. He was shuffled between prisons in response to reports he enjoyed privileges like television, internet access and a cellphone, and accusations he threatened to kill a warden.


A 2001 treaty between Peru and the U.S. allows a suspect to be temporarily extradited to face trial in the other country. Van der Sloot’s attorney, Maximo Altez, initially indicated his client would not challenge his extradition but that changed Monday when he filed a writ of habeas corpus. A judge ruled against van der Sloot the following day.

Peru has agreed to let van der Sloot remain in U.S. custody until the Alabama case is concluded, including any appeal if he is convicted, according to a resolution published in Peru’s federal register. U.S. authorities agree to return him to Peru’s custody after that, the resolution states.

Van der Sloot’s arrival at the Birmingham courthouse, about 16 kilometres from Mountain Brook High School, was something of a day of reckoning for a state and a city that blames him for Holloway’s disappearance.

“It made me sick. I gasped, but I’m so grateful that he’s here,” said Cindy Rysedorph, a friend of the Holloway family, as she described her first glimpse of van der Sloot in the courtroom.

“We’re not trying him for murder — which we know he committed,” she said. “We’re trying him for the extortion. But yeah, it’s progress.”

Chief suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance pleads not guilty to extortion charges

Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges.

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Prime suspect admits to Natalee Holloway’s 2005 murder in Aruba, gets plea deal in extortion case
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Kim Chandler and Sudhin Thanawala
Published Oct 18, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Natalee Holloway was beaten to death on a beach in Aruba and her body pushed out to sea after refusing the advances of the chief suspect in the 2005 killing, who admitted to the murder before pleading guilty Wednesday to extorting money from the missing teen’s mother.


Although Joran van der Sloot isn’t charged in Holloway’s death, his confession may finally resolve a case that has captivated the public’s attention for nearly two decades, spawning extensive news coverage, books, movies and podcasts.


“As far as I’m concerned, it’s over,” Beth Holloway, Natalee’s mother, told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Alabama. “Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect and my daughter’s murder. He is a killer.”


Natalee Holloway went missing during a high school graduation trip with classmates. She was last seen on May 30, 2005, leaving a bar with van der Sloot, a Dutch citizen and student at an international school on the Caribbean island where he grew up. He was questioned in the disappearance but never prosecuted. A judge declared Holloway dead, but her body was never found.


Van der Sloot, now 36, pleaded guilty to the extortion and fraud charges in exchange for a 20-year sentence. That prison term will run concurrently with a 28-year sentence he’s serving in Peru for killing Stephany Flores in 2010.

U.S. Judge Anna Manasco said the details of his confession factored into her sentencing decision.

“You have brutally murdered — in separate instances years apart — two young women who refused your sexual advances,” she said.

Shackled and wearing an orange jail uniform, van der Sloot told the crowded courtroom he hoped the confession provides closure.

“I would like the chance to apologize to the Holloway family, my own family,” he said, later adding, “I am no longer the person I was back then.”


The judge said the plea deal required van der Sloot to provide all the information he knew about Natalie Holloway’s disappearance, allow her parents to hear in “real time” his discussion with law enforcement, and take a polygraph test.

After the hearing, Beth Holloway told reporters she was “absolutely confident” that they finally got the truth from van der Sloot after years of lies.

Court documents offer a transcript of his confession.

In an interview conducted by his attorney, he says he and Holloway were lying on the beach kissing. She started to resist, but he kept touching her, so she kneed him between the legs. He stood up and kicked her “extremely hard” in the face while she was still lying down.

At that point, he said, she was “unconscious, possibly even uh, even dead, but definitely unconscious.” He said he picked up a nearby cinderblock and brought it down on her face.


Frightened and unsure what to do, he said he dragged her body until he was knee-deep in the waves, then pushed her out to sea.

The Holloway family has long sought answers about the disappearance, and van der Sloot has given different accounts over the years, at one point saying Holloway was buried in gravel under the foundation of a house but later admitting that was untrue.

Five years after the killing, an FBI sting recorded the extortion attempt in which van der Sloot asked for $250,000 from Beth Holloway to reveal the location of her daughter’s remains. He agreed to accept $25,000 to disclose the location, and asked for the other $225,000 once the remains were recovered.

Van der Sloot chose “greed over Beth Holloway’s grief,” prosecutor Lloyd Peeples told the judge Wednesday.

Van der Sloot moved from Aruba to Peru before he could be arrested in the extortion case. The government of Peru agreed to temporarily extradite him to face trial on the extortion charge, and he will return to Peruvian custody after his case is concluded.

While giving her impact statement Wednesday, Beth Holloway turned to stare directly at her daughter’s killer, sitting just a few feet away in court.

“You look like hell, Joran,” she said.

Prime suspect admits to Natalee Holloway’s 2005 murder in Aruba, gets plea deal in extortion case

The chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance in Aruba admitted he killed her and disposed of her remains.

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Prime suspect admits to Natalee Holloway’s 2005 murder in Aruba, gets plea deal in extortion case
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Kim Chandler and Sudhin Thanawala
Published Oct 18, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read


Van der Sloot, now 36, pleaded guilty to the extortion and fraud charges in exchange for a 20-year sentence. That prison term will run concurrently with a 28-year sentence he’s serving in Peru for killing Stephany Flores in 2010.

So basically, for killing Natalee Holloway, he gets. . . nothing.

This is probably the best reason to go to extreme lengths to cover up a murder. If you can stretch it out 20 years or so, the criminal justice system loses interest.