The mother of murdered high school student Natalee Holloway has revealed details of a bizarre meeting with the parents of her daughter’s killer where they bragged about their son’s wild sex life.
Shortly after her daughter’s disappearance in 2005, Beth Holloway traveled to Joran Van der Sloot’s parental home in Aruba.
The Dutch killer initially denied his involvement, telling investigators that he had been with Natalee the night she went missing but had dropped her off at her hotel room.
This week he finally admitted to beating the 17-year-old to death after she rejected his sexual advances as part of a plea deal for a sweetheart.
Now her mother has spoken about an awkward meeting with Van der Sloot’s parents in the early days of the search for Natalee, saying they “raised a killer” as she reflected on the meeting.
Beth Holloway, mother of slain Natalee Holloway, shared details of a meeting with the parents of her daughter’s killers where they bragged about his sex life and admitted he was taking anger management classes.
Holloway traveled to the family’s home News Max‘s Greta Van Susteren, who would deal with the case extensively for the next 18 years. She called the encounter the “most erratic” of her life.
As they recounted the experience, the women recalled how Van der Sloot’s mother Anita “sobbed uncontrollably” and told them graphic details about alleged sexual encounters between her son and Natalee, which he had told her about.
Van Susteren described what she was like: ‘Sobbing and telling the most moving things about things she said Joran did sexually with Natalee-things, I mean, terribly moving.’
Holloway also recalled how Van der Sloot’s father Paulus sweated so profusely that his wife had to use a tea towel to mop up puddles on the floor.
Holloway said: “He was sweating so much, I was trying not to gag. The sweat formed in these pools and all the pools came together to form one big lake. I felt nauseous.’
Van Susteren said that in retrospect the reason he was sweating so much was probably because he knew his son had done something wrong and that he was suffering from a guilty conscience.
Holloway agreed, saying, “Well, he raised a killer,” and about his mother, she added, “she helped him in every way she could.”
During the course of the meeting it also emerged that Van der Sloot was taking anger management classes, which his mother told Holloway were going ‘so well’. Holloway also gave both parents “Hope for Natalee” bracelets made by the teen’s friends.
Natalee Holloway, 17, was beaten to death by Joran Van der Sloot during a trip to Aruba in 2005
Van der Sloot only admitted to killing Natalee as part of a plea deal for wire fraud and extortion, after attempting to defraud his victim’s mother of $250,000 for information about the location of her remains.
Paulus Van der Sloot and his wife Anita, pictured here with Joran, met Beth Holloway during her search for answers about her daughter’s disappearance
Van der Sloot confessed to his crimes as part of a plea deal that saw him convicted for trying to extort money from his victim’s family to reveal the whereabouts of her body.
He faces no jail time for the murder, but was legally required to release full details of the killing as part of the deal.
Chilling audio of his confession released this week revealed Van der Sloot calmly discussing how he plunged a cinder block into Natalee’s face after she rejected his advances.
The two had met at a bar where Natalee was celebrating her high school graduation the night before she was scheduled to return to the US on May 30, 2005.
He described how the two kissed on the beach when he tried to continue and Natalee refused and kicked him in the groin when he couldn’t stop.
In retaliation, he kicked her ‘extremely hard’ in the face, knocking her unconscious, before picking up the ‘huge’ block and ‘smacking’ her face. He then dumped her body in the Caribbean Sea and it was never found.
His confession came nearly two decades after he was first arrested and released as a suspect in Natalee’s disappearance and after he attempted to extort $250,000 from her family in exchange for information about her remains.
Holloway said: “If I had known then that Greta, when we were in the Van der Sloot house, that it would take me eighteen years to see him chained in an American federal courthouse, I would have slit my wrists.
Five years after the murder, an FBI sting recorded the extortion attempt that ultimately led to Van der Sloot’s confession to murder, although he will serve no time for the murder itself.
Holloway said Anita Van der Sloot ‘made possible’ everything her son did and that his parents ‘raised a murderer’
Natalee, pictured left, was celebrating her high school graduation in Aruba when she met Van der Sloot at a bar
‘I couldn’t have done it, it would have been too much, it would have been infinite. For a parent you just feel like there is no reason to live anymore, it’s too long.
‘In retrospect, it’s a good thing I didn’t know what to expect. Because you would stop, you would stop sooner. It would be too intimidating.”
She also described the moment she turned to face her daughter’s killer in court, saying he “looked like hell.”
Holloway added: “It was nice to have him under control.” But she said, ‘He’s not going to make it. Get him out of our United States. He needs to go back to his rat hole, he’s in a rat cage, everything will be fine.’
She was also stunned to learn that the house where she met the killer’s parents was listed on Airbnb. Holloway said: ‘You can book a double murderer’s Airbnb, wow.’
Van der Sloot has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fraud and extortion, which he will serve in Peru, where he is currently serving 28 years for the murder of another woman.
In 2010, he suffocated 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel room after they got into an argument when Flores learned he was linked to Natalee’s disappearance.
The murder took place exactly five years to the day that Van der Sloot murdered Natalee.
After her murder, Anita Van der Sloot – who had steadfastly supported her son during Natalee’s disappearance – admitted that he may have been involved in Flores’ murder.
She told De Telegraaf that her son is ‘sick in the head’. She was not present in court for her son’s sentencing.
Van der Sloot’s father, a prominent lawyer, died of a heart attack the same year Flores was murdered. Holloway attributed this to the ‘stress’ of trying to protect Van der Sloot from conviction.