Joran van der Sloot, main suspect of the Natalee Holloway murder, finally confessed after almost 18 years of denying it. After being convicted for another killing in 2010, five years after the killing of Holloway, Van Der Sloot then pleaded guilty to Stephany Flores Ramirez murder on January 11th, 2012 and was then sentenced to 28 years in prison.
Peruvian officials shift course and announce that they have consented to van der Sloot’s “request for temporary surrender” to the United States to face extortion and wire fraud charges stemming from his 2010 indictment.
Van der Sloot then appeared at federal court to plead guilty to extortion and wire fraud in connection with Holloways case. One day after arriving in Birmingham, Alabama. Van der Sloot pleads not guilty and is transferred to Shelby county jail after his arrangement. When later returned to the US district court to enter a plea deal, he turned himself in and pleaded guilty to extortion and wire fraud in exchange for sharing the information he promised her family; what happened to Natalie Holloway.
Van der Sloot stated in his plea deal that he was on a beach in Aruba when Holloway rejected his sexual attempts. She then kneed him in the crotch before he started kicking her “extremely hard” in the face.
Van der Sloot admitted that he found a cinder block nearby and used it to “completely smash her head in with it.” He then carried her body to the water, jumped in knee-deep, and pushed the teen’s body into the ocean.
Based on my information on NBC news, Natalee Holloway was an 18-year-old girl who went on vacation on May 26th, 2005, with a group of her classmates to celebrate their graduation.
Holloway encountered van der Sloot on her final evening of vacation on May 29th. He met Holloway and her friends at a pub, expressed romantic interest in her, and danced with her for most of the night.
She then was last seen leaving the bar at 1 am with Van Der Sloot and his 2 friends, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe entering van der Sloot’s car. The next morning, Holloway then failed to show up for her on May 30th and her classmates to depart back home, even though all of her belongings were still in her hotel room untouched. Classmates then contacted Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, to inform her of the disappearance of her daughter.
Van der Sloot was taken to the police station and given numerous opportunities to confess to the murder, but each time he was investigated, he told a different narrative. They ultimately freed him and gave up after the third time. Holloway was then declared dead January 12th of 2012 due to the confusion of where her body might be.
After Holloway’s killing, van der Sloot didn’t stop there. Five years later, he brutally murdered Peruvian woman, Stephany Flores Ramirez in his hotel room. He had then been caught and pleaded guilty for her murder on January 11th of 2012. He was then sentenced to 28 years in prison.
According to NBC News, Beth Holloway said she’s satisfied with the confession from Van Der Sloot.
“As far as I’m concerned it’s over, it’s over,” Beth Holloway told reporters outside of the courthouse. “Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter’s murder. He is the killer.”
Van der Sloot’s confession was backed up by his polygraph test.
“Even with this confession, though, he can’t be tried here for Natalee’s murder,” she said. “But I am satisfied knowing that he did it, he did it alone and he disposed of her alone.”
Based on NBC news, van der Sloot shares, “I would like to apologize to the Holloway family, I am no longer that person back then than I am today. I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, he helped me through all of this.”
The apology did not please Beth Holloway, as it says on NBC news. “You are a killer and I want you to remember that every time that jail cell door slams.”
Beth Holloway asked van der Sloot how he’d feel if the victim were his daughter, bludgeoned to death by a killer who then had plainly gone “home and gotten off on a porn site.”
The court documents that described van der Sloot’s conduct that night left out what he did after the crime. Beth Holloway shortly after van der Sloot’s sentencing, alleged in an interview that she was allowed to see the prosecution’s interview with van der Sloot, in which he acknowledged watching pornography and checking soccer scores shortly after murdering Natalee Holloway.
“OK, how could he have murdered her and then he goes home and checks the soccer scores, gets on a porn site and gets up and takes a shower and goes to school?” she asked.
According to NBC News, near the end of her courtroom remarks, Beth Holloway turned to face van der Sloot, who seemed to have put on weight since coming to the United States in June.
“You look like hell, Joran, I don’t see how you’re going to make it.”
The allegations he has acknowledged are only loosely connected to the murder and disappearance of Natalee Holloway. In 2010, van der Sloot was charged with a single count of wire fraud and extortion by a federal grand jury.
Van der Sloot agreed to pay Beth Holloway $25,000 to learn the location of the body before settling the remaining $225,000 after the remains were discovered.
According to the plea deal, Van der Sloot told the mother and her lawyer that Natalee Holloway’s body was “placed under the foundation of a building near the Aruba Racquet Club” that was under construction at the time of her disappearance.
However, building documents and satellite photographs of that neighborhood proved that no development was taking place at the time, according to the court document on NBC news. Later, Van der Sloot admitted that the information he provided was “worthless.”
On NBC news, Anna Manasco, U.S. The District Judge said “I have considered the factual statements about extortion and wire fraud but also considered your confession to the brutal murder of Natalee Holloway,” before sentencing him.
Van der Sloot is presently serving time in Peru for his 2010 and 2005 murders, and his 28-year term has begun. He is allowed to tell practically anything regarding the slaying because the 12-year statute of limitations for murder in Aruba has long since expired.
