Joran van der Sloot‘s confession about Natalee Holloway‘s gruesome murder came eighteen years after she mysteriously disappeared in 2005. The Alabama teen went missing while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba. She was never found.
On Wednesday, October 18, Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting and defrauding Holloway’s family. The 36-year-old Dutchman was accused of attempting to sell information about the location of his victim’s remains to her mother, Beth Holloway. In exchange, he asked her family for $250,000, according to a CNN report.
The outlet reported that Aruban authorities had previously arrested Sloot multiple times in connection with Holloway’s murder. However, they eventually released him due to a lack of direct evidence. He only admitted to the crime as part of a plea deal. The killer was earlier convicted of the murder of Stephany Flores, a Peruvian woman, in 2010.
Joran van der Sloot’s confession reveals horrific details about Natalee Holloway’s murder
According to People Magazine, Joran van der Sloot confessed that he murdered 18-year-old Natalee Holloway in Aruba after she rejected his sexual advances. In the recorded confession, he claimed that “we lay down together – in the sand and, uh, we start kissing each other.” The killer then said that he tried to escalate the sexual encounter when “she tells me ‘no.’ She tells me she doesn’t want me to — to feel her up. Uh, I insist. I keep feeling her up either way.”
When Sloot proceeded to force his way on Holloway, unable to push him off, she kneed him in the crotch. Following this, he claimed to have kicked the Alabama teen “extremely hard” in the face. The impact knocked her “unconscious, possibly even uh, even dead, but definitely unconscious.”
The outlet reported that Sloot then claimed he saw a huge cinder block lying in the sand nearby. “I take this and uh, yeah, I– I– I smash her head in with it completely. Uh, yeah, her face basically, you know, uh collapses in,” said the killer.
Recollecting memories of the horrific killing, Sloot stated that afterwards, he grabbed the victim’s body and “half pull and half walk with her into the ocean.” Then, he pushed “her off into– into the– into the– into the sea” before walking back home.
The People report also confirmed that the incident occurred on May 30, 2005. Holloway, who was celebrating her high school graduation on a class trip to Aruba, was last seen leaving an island bar with Sloot earlier that day.
Joran van der Sloot today: Where will the killer serve his sentence?
Despite his confession, Joran van der Sloot will likely not be prosecuted for the murder of Natalee Holloway. She was officially declared dead in 2012, but her body has never been found. However, the killer did plead guilty to one count each of extortion and wire fraud for attempting to defraud Holloway’s family. A judge sentenced him to 20 years in federal prison for financial crimes.
Sloot has been serving time in prison in Peru for the 2010 murder of Stephany Flores Ramírez. He previously received a 28-year sentence for the 21-year-old student’s death. He was 22 when he committed Ramírez’s murder and eventually admitted to beating, choking, and smothering her to death.
CNN reported that Peruvian authorities granted the killer temporary release in June to Alabama in the US. He is expected to return to Peru to complete the murder sentence. The federal one is expected to run concurrently. However, if he is granted early release, the now 36-year-old will be expected to return to the US to finish the remainder of his sentence.
