Joran van der Sloot eventually confessed to killing Natalee Holloway in 2005 after they met at a bar in Aruba, where the teenager had celebrated her high school graduation with friends.
Van Der Sloot, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Birmingham, Alabama, after pleading guilty to racketeering and wire fraud in a plea deal in which he agreed to reveal what happened to Natalee, who was 18 when she disappeared. case that has captured the country’s attention for twenty years.
The Dutch national admitted to beating Natalee to death on a beach after she rejected his advances and placed her body in the Caribbean.
Five years after the murder, an FBI operation recorded the extortion attempt in which Van der Sloot asked Beth Holloway for $250,000 to reveal the location of her daughter’s remains. He agreed to accept $25,000 to reveal the location, and asked for the remaining $225,000 once the remains were recovered.
In an interview by his lawyer, the killer, who had always denied killing Natalee, gave details of the last moments of the teenager’s life.
The Dutchman was extradited for sentencing in the US from Peru, where he is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores, whom he smothered to death in a hotel room in 2010. He is sent back to Lima and his sentences run concurrently.
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Joran van der Sloot eventually confessed to killing Natalee Holloway in 2005 after they met in a bar in Aruba
The Dutch national admitted to beating Natalee to death on a beach after she rejected his advances and placed her body in the Caribbean
Five years after the murder, an FBI sting recorded the extortion attempt in which Van der Sloot asked Beth Holloway for $250,000 to reveal the location of her daughter’s remains.
Natalee celebrated her high school graduation in Aruba