Natalee Holloway's Killer Confesses!

In order to avoid LIFE in the U.S., this monster confessed to killing Natalee Holloway.

While pleading guilty to criminal charges in the United States, Joran van der Sloot admits he was responsible for the murder of Natalee Holloway. The young teen's disappearance sparked international coverage and the phrase Missing White Woman Syndrome.

The young teen from Alabama went to Aruba for a class vacation and never returned home.

The Aruban government failed to prosecute Van der Sloot because they lacked evidence.

He ended up murdering a Peruvian woman while living in Chile. His victim Stephany Flores Ramirez did not receive the amount of attention. He confessed to murdering Holloway.

In 2010, the U.S. District Court of Northern Alabama charged Van der Sloot with extortion and wire fraud. U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance issued an arrest warrant through Interpol to have him prosecuted in the United States. On 4 June, at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, Dutch authorities raided and confiscated items from two homes in the Netherlands, one of them belonging to reporter Jaap Amesz, who had previously interviewed Van der Sloot, and who claimed knowledge of his criminal activities.

Aruban investigators used information gathered from the extortion case to launch a new search at a beach, but no new evidence was found. Aruba's Solicitor-General's office stated they would not seek Van der Sloot's extradition to Aruba. On 30 June, a U.S.federal grand jury formally indicted Van der Sloot on the two charges. The indictment, filed with the U.S. District Court, sought the forfeiture of the $25,100 that had been paid to Van der Sloot.

In an interview published by De Telegraaf on 6 September 2010, Van der Sloot admitted to the extortion plot, stating: "I wanted to get back at Natalee's family. Her parents have been making my life tough for five years." His attorney said that his client was not paid for the interview, and suggested instead that "maybe there were some mistakes in the translation."

In March 2014, the Peruvian government announced that Van der Sloot would face extradition to the U.S. in the year 2038 to face charges of extortion and wire fraud, after completion of his 28-year sentence in Peru for the murder of Flores Ramírez.

In February 2016, an undercover reporter filmed Van der Sloot confessing to Natalee Holloway's murder. The film shows Van der Sloot, in Dutch, laughing over how he never told the truth about the whole event and that he did in fact kill Holloway. His Peruvian wife is also present during this conversation.

Killer confessed to killing Natalee Holloway.

Van der Sloot, 36, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal charges of attempting to extort money from Beth Holloway in 2010 in exchange for information about the location of her daughter’s body. The plea agreement included an unusual provision for van der Sloot to “provide all information and evidence” about what happened to Natalee Holloway and to let her family hear him in “real time” give his account to federal investigators.

He said Natalee Holloway was physically fighting his sexual advances and that he kicked her “extremely hard” in the face while she was still lying down. Van der Sloot said the teen was already unconscious, or even dead, when he picked up a nearby cinderblock and brought it down on her face.

“I smash her head in with it completely,” van der Sloot said, according to an Oct. 3 transcript of the meeting.

He then said he dragged her body until he was knee-deep in the waves and pushed her out to sea.

“It’s just blistering to your soul, and it hurts so deeply,” Beth Holloway said of hearing the details. “But you know that you’re there in a functionality role because this is the moment where I’ve been searching for for 18 years. Even as hard as it is to hear, it still not as torturous as the not knowing. It was time for me to know.”

Beth Holloway said she recognized her feisty daughter in van der Sloot’s description of her kneeing him between legs when he refused to stop his sexual advances.

Van der Sloot was convicted of drug trafficking while serving his sentence in Challapalca Prison in Juliaca. He had set up a cocaine trafficking operation inside the prison, where a family member of a fellow detainee used sugar beets to smuggle cocaine into the prison in August 2020. Van der Sloot proceeded to deal the cocaine inside the prison, as well as setting up a trafficking network by forwarding packages of cocaine from the prison to other destinations abroad. He was eventually found out by prison officials.

Stephany Flores Ramirez was murdered after briefly meeting that monster.

Van der Sloot had an additional 18 years added to his original sentence. He is scheduled for release in 2045, because of a Peruvian law prohibiting prison sentences from exceeding a maximum of 35 years when the prisoner has not been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Leidy Figueroa married van der Sloot while he was serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru. The couple were allowed conjugal visits, and she gave birth to a daughter, Dusha Trudie van der Sloot, in 2014.

But now, Figueroa wants nothing more to do with her ex-husband, who served her divorce papers last year. She is planning on getting his daughter's name changed.

Peru agreed to temporarily extradite van der Sloot to the U.S. to face proceedings on the extortion charge. He is expected to be returned to Peru in the coming days after the settlement of the U.S. criminal case.

His 20-year sentence for extortion will run concurrently with prison time he’s serving for another killing in Peru.

Beth Halloway finally confronted Natalee's killer.

Van der Sloot’s guilty plea in a crowded courtroom, a few miles from where Natalee Holloway attended high school, came three days before what would have been her 37th birthday. She had planned to go to medical school, her mother said.

“I fully believe now, today, she would be a doctor, married, children,” Beth Holloway said.

She said she is undecided how she will spend her daughter’s birthday but that she feels like now the “never-ending nightmare” is over.

“We’ve been searching so desperately for those answers,” Beth Holloway said. “It’s hard to hear what he did, but it’s very victorious to finally be at the end of this nightmare.”