Oran van der Sloot admits fatal beating of Natalee Holloway as part of guilty plea in wire fraud case
Birmingham, Ala. – Joran van der Sloot beat Natalee Holloway to death on an Aruban beach and pushed her body into the water, in a stunning confession that solved this nearly two-decade mystery, court records revealed Wednesday. .
Holloway’s 2005 disappearance had long been linked to Van der Sloot, who appeared in federal court to plead guilty to extortion and wire fraud in the case of the Alabama teen.
Van der Sloot had pleaded not guilty to all charges ahead of Wednesday’s legal hearing.
“I have considered the factual statements about extortion and wire fraud, but also your confession about the brutal murder of Natalee Holloway,” U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco said before sentencing him to 20 years in prison. Is.”
In his plea agreement, Van der Sloot said he was on a beach in Aruba when Holloway rejected his sexual advances.
He told prosecutors that Holloway kneed him before kicking him “extremely hard” in the face. Van der Sloot admitted that she was unconscious when he found a cinderblock nearby and used it to “completely crush her head”.
He then took her body near the water, waded into the water up to his knees and pushed the teen’s body into the sea.
“After that, I, I walk out,” he said. “I walk home.”
The teen’s mother, Beth Holloway, said she was satisfied with the confession.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s over, it’s over,” Holloway told reporters outside court. “Joran van der Sloot is no longer a suspect in my daughter’s murder. He is a murderer.”
According to the mother, Van der Sloot’s confession was supported by his polygraph test.
However, even with this confession, he cannot be prosecuted here for Natalie’s murder,” Holloway said. “But I am satisfied to know that he did it, he did it alone and he disposed of her alone ”
Van der Sloot’s term will coincide with his time in Peru, where he is serving time for the murder of 21-year-old college student Stephanie Flores.
If Van der Sloot ends his 28-year prison sentence in Peru early, he will be sent back to the United States to serve his sentence for extortion and wire fraud, the judge said.
“I have what I need,” Holloway said. “His case has been resolved.”
After Manesco pleaded guilty, Van der Sloot told the court that he had converted to Christianity and said he was a different person than he was nearly two decades ago.
“I want to apologize to the Holloway family,” said Van der Sloot, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit over a white T-shirt. “I’m not the same person I was today. I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, He helped me through it all.”
Beth Holloway was not impressed by the apology.
“You are a murderer and I want you to remember that every time the prison cell door closes,” Holloway told the courtroom.
Holloway rhetorically asked Van der Sloot how he would feel if the victim were his daughter, killed by a killer who then simply “went home and got on a porn site”.
Court documents describing Van der Sloot’s actions that night did not include what he did after the crime.
In an interview later Wednesday, Holloway said he was allowed to watch the prosecution’s interview with Van der Sloot, in which he described watching pornography and checking football scores shortly after killing Natalee Holloway. The matter was accepted.
“Well, how can he murder her and then he goes home and looks at the football scores, goes to a porn site and gets up and takes a shower and goes to school?” He asked.
At the end of her court remarks, Beth Holloway confronted Van der Sloot, who appears to have gained weight since coming to the US in June, and addressed her directly.
“You look great, Joran,” she said. “I don’t understand how you’re going to make it.”
The charges he pleaded guilty to are indirectly linked to Holloway’s disappearance and murder. A federal grand jury indicted Van der Sloot in 2010 on single counts of wire fraud and extortion.
In June he was extradited to the US to face charges that he demanded $250,000 from Holloway’s family in exchange for information about what happened to the 18-year-old boy from Mountain Brook, Alabama, who was Was set to attend the University of Alabama on scholarship.
Van der Sloot made an initial deal to pay Beth Holloway $25,000 for information on the location of the body, before the remaining $225,000 would be settled after the remains were found.
Van der Sloot told the mother and her attorney 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, according to the plea agreement.
But court documents say building records and satellite images of the neighborhood show that