![]() In the weeks between his extortion and indictment, van der Sloot killed Flores on May 30, 2010, in his hotel room in Peru.ĬNN’s Julian Cummings, Jean Casarez, Kara Nelson and Michelle Watson contributed to this report.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. He was indicted in June 2010 on charges of extortion and wire fraud. While US officials don’t have jurisdiction over the criminal investigation in Aruba, a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted van der Sloot for an alleged plot to sell information about Holloway’s remains to her family.Īccording to the indictment, van der Sloot’s scheme took place between March and May 2010. They were rearrested and charged in 2007 for “involvement in the voluntary manslaughter of Natalee Holloway or causing serious bodily harm to Natalee Holloway, resulting in her death,” Aruban prosecutors said at the time.īut a few weeks later, an Aruban judge ordered van der Sloot’s release, citing a lack of direct evidence that Holloway died from a violent crime or that van der Sloot was involved in such a crime. The three men were arrested in 2005 but were released due to insufficient evidence. The 18-year-old was last seen leaving a nightclub with van der Sloot and two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe. In 2012, a judge signed an order declaring her legally dead.įive years after Holloway’s death, van der Sloot killed a Peruvian woman, 21-year-old Stephany Flores, in 2010. He then decided to “push her off” into the ocean, according to the interview transcript. Van der Sloot said Holloway kneed him in the crotch after he tried “feeling her up,” and he responded by kicking her in the face and bludgeoning her with the cinder block. Van der Sloot admitted to killing the teen with a cinder block on an Aruban beach after she rejected his sexual advances, according to a transcript of an interview with his attorney. In a proffer, a defendant offers information they know about a crime, often as part of a plea deal. “He gave a proffer in which he finally confessed to killing Natalee.” “After 18 years, Natalee’s case is solved,” she said. Joran Van der Sloot leaving the Challapalca prison in Tacna, Peru, on June 2, bound for another prison in Lima.įBI agents arrive in Peru for transfer of Joran van der Sloot, suspect in Natalee Holloway case He is the killer,” Beth Holloway said Wednesday. Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter’s murder. Van der Sloot was sentenced to 20 years for the financial crimes, which will run simultaneously with his ongoing prison sentence in Peru – where he was convicted of killing another woman and trafficking cocaine.Īnd while the US does not have jurisdiction over Holloway’s homicide case in Aruba, her parents now have certainty as to who killed their daughter. The plea deal appeared to benefit both van der Sloot and the Holloway family. He was accused of trying to sell information about the location of Holloway’s remains to her mother, Beth Holloway, in exchange for $250,000. Van der Sloot’s confession was publicized shortly after he pleaded guilty in an Alabama federal court Wednesday to extorting and defrauding Holloway’s family. How the search for answers has unfolded since Natalee Holloway vanished in 2005 Mountain Brook High School/Holloway family Natalee Holloway is seen in her senior year portrait from the Mountain Brook High School yearbook.
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