Solved case: The truth finally comes to light about the murder of a young woman who disappeared in Aruba in 2005. A Dutchman, serving a 28-year prison sentence for the murder of a Peruvian woman recorded in 2010, admitted his responsibility.

On Wednesday, October 19, 2023, Joran Van Der Sloot admitted his responsibility in an American court for the murder of American student Natalee Holloway in Aruba. In this way, says EFE, a mystery that has intrigued for the past 18 years is solved.

But the confession did not come about alone. This came out as “part of Van der Sloot’s guilty plea in a trial of extortion and fraud against the mother of Natalee Holloway, from whom he asked for money to reveal the whereabouts of the remains of the student, who was reported missing to make.” .

The amount of this extortion amounted to more than $250,000 in 2010, according to a report by Univision.

What happened between the Dutchman and Natalee Holloway in Aruba

Natalee Holloway, 21, had traveled to the Caribbean island. The young woman was studying in Alabama and was already in her senior year. Other students arrived on the island with her.

They saw the young woman and Van Der Sloot leaving a café. She was reported missing on May 30, 2005. From that moment on, a veil of mystery surrounded the case.

Dutchman Van Der Sloot “was never charged for the student’s death due to the lack of evidence,” according to EFE.

Eighteen years and five months later, the man spoke. The shocking moment was described as follows in the Spanish agency:

Van der Sloot confessed to ‘crushing’ 18-year-old Holloway’s head with a rock because she rejected his sexual advances and throwing her into the sea when they were on a beach in Aruba.

Natalee’s case is solved. Joran Van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in the murder of my daughter. He’s the killer.

Mother of the murdered young woman

The turbulent life of the Dutchman who was arrested for murder in Peru

The crime of the Peruvian woman who pays the Dutchman

The individual had been a suspect in the Alabama student’s case for five years when he was arrested for the murder of a woman in Peru, identified as Stephany Flores.

In 2010, El Universo published information from the AP agency, stating that Joran van der Sloot “had a reputation as a murderous playboy, an incurable liar and a cheating player.”

They added that he went from a “quiet” life in “Aruba, where he was a tennis and football star,” to a cell.

He met Stephany Flores at a casino and later took her to his hotel room, where he strangled her to rob her, the EFE agency reported.

After the crime, he fled to Chile, “a country from which he was expelled, and returned to Peru, where he pleaded guilty in 2012.”

Prisoner in Peru accused of femicide was extradited to the United States to answer for the disappearance of another woman in Aruba

In June 2010, Peruvian police labeled him a psychopath, according to the AP.

Four months ago, El Universo reported that the suspect had been extradited from Peru to the United States to answer for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.

Last June, the head of Interpol Peru, Colonel Carlos López, who handed Van der Sloot over to the FBI, stated: “He is in perfect condition, he is calm, serene, it is a temporary transfer to be tried in the United States. . As soon as his legal proceedings in the United States are completed, he must return,” the same newspaper wrote.

Bo Dietl, a New York detective who worked with the Holloways, considered him “a homicidal maniac” a few years ago.

The Dutchman even said about himself in a YouTube profile, according to what was reported in El Universo: “If I could describe myself as an animal, I’d say I’m a snake (…)”.

(JO)